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'Constructed Environments' Opens Sept. 11th

"Constructed Environments: Recent Work by Stephen Heywood, Mihyang Kim, Annie Albagli, Ellie Honl, Sarah Nicole Phillips and Emily Smith” will open in the main gallery of Morehead State University's Claypool-Young Art Building Wednesday, Sept. 11 from 5 – 7 p.m. 

The exhibition features contemporary ceramic and mixed media sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and collage, and closes on Wednesday, Oct. 2. 

Through a national call for submissions, the exhibition "Constructed Environments" was curated to include six artists from near and far whose works revolved around central themes of manipulating, controlling, and constructing structures and landscapes. 

Smith, an artist from Hawthorne, Calif., creates layered two and three dimensionally mixed media artworks where nature and built environments collide. Honl from Tempe, Ariz., utilizes images of storms and fragile structures of shelter in her mixed media screen prints as a metaphor for how humans and society at large cope and survive stress. Integrating archetypal symbols of pyramids and geometric shapes, San Francisco based artist, Albagli works with printmaking and installation to investigate how we construct the world around us. From Brooklyn, N.Y., Phillips takes a material we commonly throw away – security envelopes – to craft camouflaged environments inspired by the growing distrust of large corporations including financial institutions. In her large-scale acrylic paintings, Kim from Los Angeles explores the precarious state of nature and the human environment. 

An artist who incorporates references to architecture in his sculptural work, the ceramicist Heywood from Jacksonville, Fla., will be the visiting artist associated with the exhibition, and will be presenting a lecture on his work, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 12:40-1:40 p.m., in 111 of the Claypool-Young Art Building. 

While on the campus of MSU, Heywood will also be presenting to ceramic students through studio demos and a gallery talk. 

The gallery in Claypool-Young features contemporary art for the MSU community as well as the University’s service region. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. There is no charge for viewing and the public is invited. Parking is available on Main Street during the day, and on the MSU campus after 5 p.m. weekdays, and all day on weekends. 

Additional information is available by calling Jennifer Reis, gallery director, at 606-783-5446 or email j.reis@moreheadstate.edu.

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