Bob Jackson For President issued the following announcement on Feb 5.
The Murray State University Department of Art and University Galleries present Transmogrification, an exhibition of artwork by Colorado-based artist Donald Fodness, on display in the Clara M. Eagle Main Gallery from January 17 through February 17, 2020. The show is curated by Assistant Professor and Director of University Galleries, T. Michael Martin and features recent two-dimensional and three-dimensional works created by Fodness.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
All gallery events are free and open to the public.
ABOUT TRANSMOGRIFICATION
Donald Fodness has an interdisciplinary practice that includes drawing, sculpture, and installation. His artwork explores both the humorous and the grotesque in humanity. Fodness incorporates pop culture elements, working in sculpture, drawing, mixed-media assemblage, and site-specific installation, which often include cartoon-like qualities with conversation bubbles and “moon” eyes. Some of his artworks have titles that use text messaging language—“leetspeak”—that shortens words into letters or acronyms and is common in our post-internet era. His drawings touch more on what can be considered humorously grotesque, often including eyeballs, dripping liquids, and substances that you would not want to touch. About his work, Fodness states: “Like the Internet, and a good soap opera, my art provides the viewer with a multiplicity of accessible inlets and subnarrative paths weaving a tangled cosmos. Crawling over, climbing out, hiding within, defacing and digesting its surroundings; these psychological environments filter culture through a feedback loop of the kitsch and banal to surface a grotesque comedy.”
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Donald Fodness earned a BA in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an MFA in Painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Regionally he has created site-specific installations for the Denver Art Museum, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Gallery of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs, two Biennial of the Americas, and Harmony Hammond's Material Engagements at Redline. His work has been published in New American Paintings, Sculpture Magazine, Found Magazine, The Creators Project, and art LTD.
GALLERY MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The University Galleries at Murray State University, in all of its activities, is to serve the students and scholars of the campus community through the exhibition, interpretation, study, collection, and preservation of art. The University Galleries seeks to be a tool in the advancement of cultural knowledge; a laboratory for creative experimentation and expression; and a forum in which students and scholars may engage in creative and intellectual discourse with regional, national, and international artists of our time. With over 1,200 works of art housed in its permanent collection and 8,200 square feet of exhibition space, The University Galleries at Murray State are a constant source of innovative programming and educational research within the community. The Clara M. Eagle Main Gallery, The Eagle Upper Gallery, and The Mary Ed Mecoy Hall Gallery are located on the 6th and 7th floors of the Price Doyle Fine Arts Building, allowing for a dynamic exhibition space for visitors to learn about the history of art and contemporary new media. For further information about the exhibitions on view, please contact the University Galleries by phone at 270.809.3052, or by email at msu.eaglegallery@murraystate.edu. Please visit us online at http://www.murraystate.edu/artgallery, and follow us on social media.
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