August 10 – September 17
“Not Saying” features a collection of works that without saying speak to the Clemson University 2009 Summer Freshman Reading, The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. The Speed of Dark chronicles the life journey of an autistic savant, Lou Arrendale as he navigates the corporate and social worlds of the normals. “Not Saying” includes four artists utilizing different media and world views. From China, Meng Jin photographs the ceiling lights in corporate board rooms creating eerie, celestial images. From Texas, Nicole Foran’s pierced paper drawings read like brail descriptions of body sensations. Recent Clemson MFA graduate, Clarke Curtis uses printmaking and video to explore contemporary rites of passage illustrated through creatures who inhabit the fringe of the normals. Currently teaching at the University of South Carolina, Sara Schneckloth makes white on black drawings of the mechanics of memory that she describes as dreamy and biological.
Thank you to Kiang Gallery in Atlanta for loaning us the photographs of Meng Jin.
Exhibition Events:
The Speed of Dark Book Signing
August 18
Lee Gallery
9:30 a.m.
The Speed of Dark author, Elizabeth Moon will sign her book. Copies of The Speed of Dark will be available for purchase.
Creation of “Tractus “ with Sara
Schneckloth
September 9 & 10
Lee Gallery
September 9, 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
September 10, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Students and all gallery visitors are invited to contribute their unique marks to the 10’ x 10’ drawing. According to Ms. Schneckloth, “One can think of the drawing as a symphonic movement, with each person's unique gestured mark functioning as an instrument with specific tone and timbre. When unified through the assistance of the 'conductor', the hope is for a coherent abstract composition to emerge, with the parts communing to make the whole. By including the signature marks of multiple student artists, the drawing will serve as an accumulation of bodily gestures and additive materials.”