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"Reorder" at Savannah Gallery
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6/21/2005  ATLANTA — The Savannah College of Art and Design presents "Reorder," a mixed media exhibition that explores how artists process information about their environments and the objects, concepts and ideals found within them to create unique works of art, June 21–July 30 at Savannah Gallery, 3096 Roswell Rd. A reception is scheduled for Thursday, June 30, 6–8 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Curators and contributing artists Sarah Walko (M.F.A., painting, 2004) and Fred Jesser (M.F.A., painting, 2002) created the exhibition to answer questions they have as both artists and curators. "What is it that shapes the order in which we are inclined to create?" asked Walko. "To reorder is to rearrange an already existing order and to filter out what we consider to be irrelevant or possibly inefficient. We wanted to know what artists achieve through these rearrangements, and if our compulsion to reorder is simply a quest for comfort." Featured work includes "Ups and Downs," a series of photographs by Natalie Bray (M.F.A., photography, 2004) and Stephen R. Horcha (B.F.A., historic preservation, 2002). The photographs are based on an environment in which the two artists interacted with members of their art community on three seesaws ranging in length and height to create different dynamics between the participants. A camera facing the "guest sitter" was mounted on each seesaw, and the guest was allowed to take four to 16 self-portraits using a long-shutter release cord. Bray and Horcha chose specific images to highlight the resultant tension, ebullience, risk and trust involved in an activity where two people are so mutually dependent on one another to make a seesaw work. "Communities are built upon acts of social reciprocity, and the seesaw is a powerful metaphor for that interaction," explains Bray. "The physicality of soaring up and sinking down is euphoric, though there's always the worry that the other person might hop off and let you crash to the ground. Viewers of our photographs can seesaw along with us by examining the ups and downs of reciprocal interaction." Other artists featured in the exhibition include alumni Michael Brown (M.F.A., painting, 1996), and Clifford Hedin (B.F.A., fibers, 2003); faculty members Avantika Bawa, Sandra Burke and Craig Drennen; and Nathan Abels, Michelle Barczak, Penny Brice, Kim Clement, David Howe, Allison McElroy and Kevin Strickland.
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