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Contemporary Art Installations
Oct. 19, 2006
Contemporary Art Installations at the Martin Museum
The Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University will be the site of two contemporary art installations by artists Victoria Star Varner and Jiyoung Chung. The exhibitions will be presented from October 26-November 21 and November 28-30.
An opening reception, including gallery talks by the artists, will be held on Thursday, October 26, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
The Mysteries Revisited, an installation by Victoria Star Varner, creates a freestanding, open-ended chamber similar to that found in ancient Pompeian temples, in particular the Room of the Mysteries. Varner's paintings address the presumed "mysteries" of contemporary life and are integrated with a real architectural environment. Images of individuals or small groups of people depicted throughout the eight painting panels illustrate the uncertainty of experience in life and urge the viewer to contemplate the significance of human experience.
Varner's paintings, drawings and prints have been seen in over one hundred exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Nelson Gallery - Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; the Flinders Museum of Art, Australia; the Ilam School of Art, New Zealand; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; and the Arlington Museum
of Art, Texas. Varner holds a Master of Arts in painting from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently a Professor of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where she also serves as the Chair of Studio Art and Art History Department.
Jiyoung Chung is a mixed media artist and freelance writer. Her installation, The Story: Relationship, includes two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional space drawings created with nails and string. Chung's work explores the relationships of God, humans, and nature in abstract form. The exhibition will be a one-of-a-kind installation created specifically for the Martin Museum's gallery space.
Chung received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Rhode Island School of Design with honors and the Florence Lief Award in 2002. She also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in print/media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005. Her work has been featured in eleven solo shows in Korea, Finland, and the U.S.A. and she was an Artist-in-Residence at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont and at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chung has taught at many workshops and conferences in the U.S.A., and at art institutes in both Korea and the United States.
The Martin Museum of Art is located in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center on the Baylor University campus. Hours are 10-5 Tuesday through Friday, and 12-5pm on Saturday. The museum is closed during university holidays. Admission is free and all events are open to the public, unless specified. For more information call 254-710-1867 or visit the museum website at www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum.
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