SE to display two exhibits

    Electronic art is making its way to SE Campus’ Art Corridor II with video installations and digital photography in the exhibit again, and a new exhibit of clay sculpture will be in the Art Corridor I.

   Regional artists Traci Tullius, Christine Shank and Denise Davis are featured in again and Paul A. McCoy in Works in Clay.

   “Each artist employs repetition in their work as a means to transform familiar, simple images into intense visual statements that communicate more complex messages,” John Frost, exhibit curator, said.

   Tullius utilizes endlessly looped video images to explore the experience of repeating the same word over and over until it sounds unfamiliar and strange. She believes the same can be done with video using images such as the futility of sweeping fields, sewing one’s fingers together and hitting oneself in the head, Frost said.

   Shank explores standards of beauty and the difficulty of being “you.” She employs video, as well as internal audio monologue and visual projection to give the art a sense of inclusion between the viewer and the work, Frost said.

   Memory and time is the muse of Davis’ work, taking digital photography, sculpture and unique printmaking processes to compare images of past and present. Cotton dishcloths, jelly seals and aged family portraits are used to view time through fading memories, Frost said.

   Both exhibits run until April 26.