Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Artist Adam Davis to deliver diversity lecture
 Artist Adam Davis will deliver a lecture on diversity at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 9, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center, in advance of the opening of an exhibition of his work at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art.Davis is originally from Chicago, Illinois. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In fall 2004 he relocated to Milledgeville, Georgia, where he is now assistant professor of art at Georgia College and State University. His work focuses on issues of identity and body politics. “My simultaneous attraction and repulsion to the clarity/confusion that occurs when contemplating the physical body versus the mental construct fuels my work,” he said in an artist’s statement. “For the last 10 years my artwork has been focused on this phenomenon, and how these conditions have arisen and created our social hierarchy. “This constant meditation on identity drives me to manifest my thoughts as characters and situations symbolic of the state of society. I use the body in real, fabricated, and implied forms, enabling me to objectify and expose it to the viewer in a new light. "The work creates a forum to think critically about our real and perceived differences, stimulating a re-examination of social issues, and initiating a dialogue on the societal problems at hand.” The lecture is sponsored by the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, the USI Multicultural Center, and the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana. The exhibition, “Losing Race,” opens with an artist’s reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, February 11, at the New Harmony Gallery, located at 506 Main Street, in New Harmony, Indiana. The exhibition runs through March 25. Call the gallery at 812/682-3156 or visit www.nhgallery.com for more information. |
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