Art exhibit to open in Battle Ground
>>Print ViewPublication Date: 11/20/2009
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A Purdue graduate art installation opens this weekend as a temporary exhibition in a neighboring town.
The gallery titled “Borrowed Ground” will be open to the public beginning today and will expand the concept of traditional white-walled exhibits. The opening will focus on artwork that incorporates the interior spacing of the buildings that house the works and utilizes classic design elements. The vision is to mold the pieces into the genuine appearance of the building.
Chosen collectively by the exhibiting students, “Borrowed Ground” makes a literary connection between the short time period of the borrowed space at the event and the name of historic Battle Ground, Ind., the location where the opening will commence. Spaces were donated by Battle Ground Lion’s Club, the Old Weigh Station and Gary and Kathleen Carter, who lent a local family barn – all in the small town at the edge of West Lafayette.
The artists using these structures are eleven graduate students, two advanced undergraduate students and one guest artist, Jong un Choi. These artists have created work that incorporates themes of borrowed space using ceramics, electronic time-based media, photography and textiles. Course instructor Charles Gick said the gallery teaches the students to use their talent and practice art in large-scale, volumetric space.
“The work they are creating is thoughtful yet raw and reactionary and done in a short time period under a high degree of pressure, requiring them to think on their feet and be resourceful with materials,” Gick said.
Todd Rush, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts and one of Gick’s students, said to also expect application of multi-media images such as projected images and audio effects.
Even though A&D 614, “Graduate Critique in Studio Arts,” demonstrates reconstruction and fabrication of ignored slots, this course has been a vital aspect of Purdue’s studio arts graduate program that has increased its positive rapport with the local community. To witness the composition of historical and contemporary ideas, the public can view the works from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and the closing from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the three locations in Battle Ground.