Detroit-based printmaker Tyanna Buie, photographer Tara Bogart and works from the Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop collection will be featured in Lawrence University’s Wriston Art Center Galleries’ latest exhibition.
In conjunction with her show, “Irrational in Light of Danger,” Buie will deliver the exhibition’s opening talk Friday, March 31 at 6 p.m. followed by a reception. Both are free and open to the public. The exhibition runs through May 7.
The product of a broken home on Chicago’s south side, much of Buie’s work focuses on her family history and what she calls “the re-creation of memory.” Prior to the exhibition opening, Buie will spend three days (March 28-30) as an artist-in-residence in Associate Professor Ben Rinehart’s Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop in the Wriston Art Center.
The workshop will be open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Buie’s artistic mastery with silk screen will be available for anyone to observe as she creates a unique edition of prints for the workshop’s permanent collection.
Bogart presents “The Burden of my own Immoderation” in the Hoffmaster Gallery, a photographic collection of new work that explores her relationship with vintage items. A native of Milwaukee, Bogart is currently living in Paris. Her work has been exhibited in galleries around the country, including Chicago, Houston, New York and Portland, and is included in the permanent collection of the National Library of France.
“Tyanna and Tara have very different artistic practices and look to different cultural references in their work, but there also is a particular resonance they share,” said Beth Zinsli, director and curator of the Wriston Art Center, who met both artists several years ago at The Pitch Project, a Milwaukee gallery and studio space for artists of diverse cultural perspectives. “It made a lot of sense to show their work in our galleries at the same time to highlight that.”
“In their respective shows in this exhibition, Tyanna and Tara dig deeply into private, internal matters: memory, history, family, and the way our social roles and relationships tie us to each other and to things.”
The Leech Gallery will host “Selections from the Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop Collection.” The brainchild of Rinehart and launched in 2011, the workshop was created to cultivate a deeper understanding of printmaking as an artistic process.
The Wriston Art Center galleries are free and open to the public Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday noon – 4 p.m.; closed Mondays.
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