Session Title
Relocating Surroundings: Absence in Art
Start Date
5-10-2012 1:15 PM
End Date
5-10-2012 2:45 PM
Session Description
This panel of artists will discuss the relationship between human experience and the environment, using their work in drawing, painting, photography, and digital imagery as evidence. The members of the panel each explore unique approaches to the relationships between people and social, computational, psychological, and physical environments. One of the most powerful ways of examining the relationship between human experience and these environments is through the traces, residue and patterns in psychological and experiential spaces. A common theme in the work of the panel artists is the absence of the figure, the decentralized subject that is both an agent in the work and is absent from it. In their creative investigation, the artists engage in explorations of their inner and outer surroundings, and often their artworks can be considered as byproducts of these explorations. The panel will engage in a conversation with the audience about the conceptual similarities between the works and the work’s context in the broader themes and currents in contemporary art.
(Anne Bessac) Winter Sea, 2010, graphite, 20 x 20
s_joglekar-1.jpg (922 kB)
(Shreepad Joglekar) Civilization Clock, 2010, pigment print, 24X30
erinwiersma_curtain.jpg (413 kB)
(Erin Wiersma) 3.11.08 10:50PM – 4.20.08 10PM
McMann-Mike-08_2.jpg (380 kB)
(Mike McMann) The Connection
0000008525-HeuerNo.1.jpg (95 kB)
Relocating Surroundings: Absence in Art
This panel of artists will discuss the relationship between human experience and the environment, using their work in drawing, painting, photography, and digital imagery as evidence. The members of the panel each explore unique approaches to the relationships between people and social, computational, psychological, and physical environments. One of the most powerful ways of examining the relationship between human experience and these environments is through the traces, residue and patterns in psychological and experiential spaces. A common theme in the work of the panel artists is the absence of the figure, the decentralized subject that is both an agent in the work and is absent from it. In their creative investigation, the artists engage in explorations of their inner and outer surroundings, and often their artworks can be considered as byproducts of these explorations. The panel will engage in a conversation with the audience about the conceptual similarities between the works and the work’s context in the broader themes and currents in contemporary art.