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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

UT Dallas presents art exhibition entitled "Object"

The exhibition, Object, curated by John Pomara and Charissa Terranova, will run in the main gallery of the Visual Arts Building at The University of Texas at Dallas from Jan. 12 to Feb. 16. The exhibition is free and open to the public. In this mixed media exhibition, artists create hybrid forms of art that investigate the object's plurality of form in current art practices. Featured artists include Frances Bagley, Candice Briceno, Nancy Brown, Richie Budd, Jeff Hand, Lily Hanson, Teresa O'Conner, Tim Stokes, Jason Villegas and Kathy Webster. Terranova remarks that, though seemingly mundane, “objects have a magical, if not chimerical power." “Objects" in the exhibition include video, textile-paintings, three-dimensional photographs, sculpture and pictures “spilling onto the floor in stuffed-animal splendor." Terranova explains, “The work of Object disregards the partitions between painting, sculpture, and architecture, claiming media contamination its own.

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