2008 Woodie Awards
Exhibit explores relationship between 2-D, 3-D
The visual arts department can put patrons in touch with artists to discuss purchasing pieces
By Adnan S. Kahn
Last update: 5/17/06 at 8:20 AM CST
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A hundred clothes hangers wait at the entrance of the visual arts center to greet everyone who enters the building, but they are not for visitors' coats.
The hangers, protruding from a board, are part of a an art exhibit titled "Drawing and 3-D."
The artwork is based on an attempt to draw a relationship between 2-D and 3-D forms, Professor Joel Knocke said.
Knocke, who is the exhibition director for this semester, said the exhibit is open to everyone and will be on display through March 10 in the visual arts center gallery from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Saturday.
He added the exhibitions are scheduled by an committee a year or two in advance. Fine arts Professor Mark Pritchett explained the relation between 2-D drawings and the 3-D art.
Pritchett, who is fine arts coordinator, said the exhibit is a collection of students' works from ARTS 2323, Drawing 3, ARTS 2311, Design 3, ARTS 2326, Sculpture 1, and ARTS 2327, Sculpture 2. The art pieces collected for the exhibit came from these classes over a period of a year.
The collection is selected from different homework and projects, assigned by the professor of the respective class, and then presented to the exhibition committee, he said.
The exhibition committee designs the exhibit, Pritchett said.
He said the artwork resembles 2-D work in a 3-D form and is set up as a conceptual show placed together with teaching students to better appreciate art.
He pointed out a piece by fine arts sophomore Corbey Bunn, a student in Drawing 3, which is composed of a number of black pipes haphazardly connected to each other and attached to a wall.
A sketch drawing of a skeleton lies next to it.
Pritchett then showed the resemblance of the pipes against the wall to pencil strokes similar to the ones used to create the skeleton picture beside it.
He also pointed to the hangers and explained how they draw a relationship between 2-D and 3-D.
When a person stands in front of them they appear to exist in a 2-D form even though they are 3-D items.
Pritchett said that on occasions a patron or two might express interest in one of these projects and will ask to purchase the artwork.
The fine arts program has come across a number of occasions in which they sold these student-produced artwork.
"We are not an art museum," he said, adding that unlike a museum they would not have anything to do with the purchase of a particular article.
He said any patron interested in any of the displays can call the art department and they will connect the patron and the artist.
Prices are decided strictly between the patron and the student.
For more information, call 733-2989.
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