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Lani Shapton & Kyle Trowbridge at UM Gallery
With works that explore the relationship of objects to memory and how technology alters the dynamics of relationships, two University of Miami professors, Lani Shapton and Kyle Trowbridge will present two contrasting exhibitions at the UM Gallery in the Wynwood on Saturday October 13th, 2012 from 2 to 9PM.
Both artists are professors in the UM’s Department of Art and Art History, in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Shapton’s work deals with memories and objects that all become subject to the processes of immortalization, memorialization, recollection and loss.
Shapton’s work deals with memories and objects that all become subject to the processes of immortalization, memorialization, recollection and loss.
She feels minds are faulty cameras attempting to preserve our histories, so many people collect objects and photographs as reminders to stave off the loss of memory that occurs as life progresses.
Trowbridge’s newest paintings are at once abstract geometric paintings and functioning Quick Response (QR) codes.
Their appearance, paint handling and palette reference past canons of abstract painting.
Once scanned with the proper application, the paintings also generate text written by the artist. In his paintings, the old and new uncomfortably co-exist.
The UM Gallery is located at 2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4, Miami.
(Source: examiner.com)
