Spring 2016–Fall 2017
A Subjective Archaeology: Recent Works by John O’Connell
Exhibition Dates: November 1 – December 3, 2016 Opening Reception: November 3, 2016, 5:00 – 7:00 PM Artist’s Statement All of the materials I use in my work are new. None of them are found, repurposed or appropriated. I create elaborate surfaces that reference time, use and trauma but none of them have actual histories. All of the complicated and layered stories found in them, I put there, moment-by-moment. These works are both an act of fiction and a kind…
Stranger in These Parts
Recent Paintings by Tracy Stuckey Exhibition Dates: January 31, 2017 – March 4, 2017 Lecture Presentation by the artist: February 2, 2017, 4:00 – 5:00 PM “The American West has always been as much an idea as a reality,” notes George Speer, Director of the NAU Art Museum, “and Tracy Stuckey’s paintings investigate the region as a ‘brand’ shaped by romantic images, as an imaginative territory embodied in iconic figures such as John Wayne and the Marlboro Man.” The American…
Rock, Paper, Binder Clips
Kathryn Martin Assembles Exhibition Dates: March 28 – May 6, 2017 Lecture Presentation by the artist: March 28, 2017, 4:00 – 5:00PM Kathryn E. Martin is a three-dimensional artist living and working in Milwaukee, WI. Her portfolio includes Public Art, private commissions, site-specific installations and Art for hire. With a focus on observing everyday, often overlooked objects, martin concentrates on formal characteristics. Making decisions that are carefully calculated to take advantage of materials, to dissect, interpret, repeat and re-assemble parts…
Shrouded Histories, New Narratives
Photography by Ben Montague Exhibition Dates: September 13 – October 15, 2016 Opening Reception: September 15, 5:00 – 7:00 PM The NAU Art Museum’s exhibition of photographs by Ben Montague comprises three distinct series — Constructs, Insects, and Militainment. The first, Constructs, recombines cast-off industrial materials into anthropomorphic, steam-punk assemblages far removed from our high-tech present. Insects employs shifts in scale to create terrifying images of creatures trapped in amber. Deployed in grids, they suggest scientific taxonomies, but hung in…