BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4320450:Event:45145 DTSTAMP:20260425T130736Z SUMMARY:In/Dwelling: Meditations on Built Environments as Cultural Nar rative DESCRIPTION:Opening reception: February 25 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Hi gh Street Gallery\nPre-reception lecture by Brian Tolle: February 25 a t 5:00pm at Westby Hall, Room 111\n\nRowan University Art Gallery at H igh Street explores built environments, both external and internal, as emblems of a cultural past, present, and future with In/Dwelling: Med itations on Built Environments as Cultural Narrative. The exhibit is o n display from February 22 to April 14, with an artist’s lecture and reception on February 25 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.\n \nWe are compelle d to imagine a time when architectural spaces and objects were new rep resentations of manufacturing, design, and aesthetic tastes and trends . The urban / suburban motifs have time and again provided artists wit h the perfect vehicle in which to explore universal topics such as: th e complexity of infrastructure, commerce, demographics, and identity a s inspiration to create new work. In this exhibition the participating artists imbue architectural structures and domestic objects with inte rpretations of historical experiences, social customs, and emotional memories as a cultural narrative. Artists include Louise Bourgeois, Lewis Colburn, Ben Grasso, Kay Healy, Erin Murray, Miriam Singer, Ann Toebbe, and Brian Tolle.\n \nThe catalyst behind the framing of this exhibition concept was the print Femme Maison, 1984, by Louise Bourge ois from the gallery collection.  Femme Maison, which means both “w oman-house” and “house-wife,” is one of Louise Bourgeois’s mos t famous motifs. For the artist, who was raised in France, the home wa s closely connected to female identity. By combining residential archi tecture and the curvaceous female body, Bourgeois portrays a woman who is obscured and entrapped by the domestic realm that she simultaneous ly supports.\n \nThe selected artists for this exhibition approach do mesticity, architecture, and everyday objects from singular and accumu lative perspectives. Brian Tolle creates a cross-wiring of reality and fiction in his sculptures and installations and blurs the border betw een the contemporary and historical with recurring themes of architect ure, site, and technology. Lewis Colburn, of Philadelphia, sees object s as unreliable tour guides. He investigates ways in which we re-inter pret and re-tell the past through the filter of our current experience . Ben Grasso, of Brooklyn, NY, presents a re-imagining of what actuall y exists and recasts these things in new terms creating a re-alignment of logic that makes plastic the anxiety underlying objects in the wor ld through his painting. Miriam Singer, looks perceptually at multiple locations in Philadelphia and expresses the fragmentation of a fictio nal city as a collage of noise, pattern, and density.\n \nBy recounti ng memories of unique, collective, or habitual memories these artists investigate identity and history through interior and exterior experie nces. Kay Healy, a Philadelphia based artist, creates large-scale scre en printed and stuffed fabric furniture based on other people’s desc riptions of their childhood homes and investigates how we relate to ob jects and cope with the fact that there is no way to truly return home . Ann Toebbe, a Chicago based artist, creates meticulous paintings usi ng reconstructed memory and multiple perspectives to depict domestic a nd architectural spaces in cut-out paper doll fashion. Erin Murray, of Philadelphia, relates to buildings and built forms as being understoo d to represent our physical body, our cultural history, our economic r eality, and our long-formed habits. \n\nFor more information visit ht tp://phillytodo.com/events/in-dwelling-meditations-on-built-environmen ts-as-cultural DTSTART:20160222T050000Z DTEND:20160415T035900Z CATEGORIES:exhibition LOCATION:High Street Gallery at Rowan University WEBSITE:http://www.rowan.edu/artgallery URL:http://www.rowan.edu/artgallery CONTACT:8562564520 ORGANIZER:Mary Salvante ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/3054994403?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="mary sal vante":http://phillytodo.com/profile/marysalvante END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR