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HEATHER UJIIE: TERRA INCOGNITA

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HEATHER UJIIE: TERRA INCOGNITA

Time: September 13, 2018 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Rowan University Art Gallery
Street: 301 High Street West
City/Town: Glassboro, NJ
Website or Map: https://sites.rowan.edu/artga…
Phone: 856-256-4521
Event Type: gallery, exhibit
Organized By: Mary Salvante
Latest Activity: Jul 21, 2018

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Event Description

Heather Ujiie’s exhibition, Terra Incognita, opens the 2018-2019 season at Rowan University Art Gallery with a reception on Thursday, September 13 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. The artist’s work blends the disciplines of textiles, fashion design, and visual art to create an ethereal, imaginary, and mythological world. The exhibit runs from September 4 – November 17, 2018.

In her work, Ujiie builds upon the imagery found in Hieronymus Bosch’s painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and infuses it with her own vision inspired by botanical studies, living networks, sexual identities, and commonalities between living creatures. Much of what the artist is currently creating has evolved out of re-contextualizing historic printed cloth, and illuminated manuscript paintings from the Moghul Empire, to contemporary symbols of the feminine in global cultures.

Three mythological deities and animal hybrid forms - The Goddess, The Demon, and the Warrior - dominate the world created by the artist. Each of the textile installations and sculptural figures reveals the power of the female voice which can be at once loving and nurturing, while simultaneously conjuring mythologies around the femme fatale. Digitally-printed murals evoke narratives which question the human relationship to the fragile natural world, and the destruction of ecological systems, in our evolving planet.

The gallery is located at 301 High Street West. Free 2-hour public parking is available in the Mick Drive Parking Garage across the street from the gallery. Admission to the gallery, lecture, and reception is free and open to the public. Regular gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Directions can be found on the gallery website. For more information, call 856-256-4521 or visit www.rowan.edu/artgallery.

This exhibition is presented with the generous support of The Coby Foundation and The Joseph Robert Foundation. Support for programming at Rowan University Art Galleries is also made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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