Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College is very excited to announce its second show of the fall season: On Others: Patrick DeGuira, Melody Owen, Greg Pond, Steven Thompson and Jack Dingo Ryan.
The show will run from October 21st through December 7th, 2005. There will be a panel discussion with the artists in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, October 20th. The reception for the show will be held in the gallery from 6 - 8 p.m., Friday October 21.
The On Others exhibition consists of a lashing together of five artists who in turn were previously bound serendipitously by time and circumstance; Patrick DeGuira, Melody Owen, Greg Pond, Jack Dingo Ryan and Steven Thompson. Greg Pond is also the curator of the traveling exhibition. This particular confluence of artists constitutes an experimental investigation of sorts: Can a collection of work by a group of artists whose individual experiences and artistic inclinations intersect more or less whimsically resolve itself into a coherent meditation on the human condition? More broadly, can the very openness of a curatorial position actually allow an exhibition to more readily expose the linkages between its participants? And further, paraphrasing Pond himself, can these exposed commonalities reveal a greater system of collective thought that reflects the world in which they inhabit?
The exhibition will travel from The University Art Gallery at the University of the South in Sewanee before it comes to Rhodes College and will travel to Irongate Studios in Austin, Texas. On Others includes the works of five artists who are exploring the outer reaches of their individual genres, and illuminates the ways their individual expressions interrelate. It also looks at how aspects of the five artists' biographies and experiences contribute to a visual dialogue between them, and how the places they come from affect their work.
Greg Pond is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of the South. His focus is sculpture, video and time-based media. Jack Dingo Ryan is a newly appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Sewanee and has been on the faculty at the School of VIsual Arts in New York since 2004. Often working in 2- D, 3-D and 4-D media Ryan is showing Skull Shelf and a collection of graphite drawings. Melody Owen's collages in this exhibition are from her Lands and Peoples, East/West book series, and comprise fantastic images of cultures and places around the world. Steven Thompson is currently on the art faculty at the University of Georgia, Athens. The installations he brings to this exhibition include a ghost suit he calls The Aegis of the Green and Bold Cooperative which was recently shown at the Armory Show in New York. Memphis College of Art graduate, Patrick DeGuira, will create a small scale installation for the show. DeGuira was featured in a one person show, Age at Onset, at Second Floor Contemporary in the spring of 2004.