Photo+Montage

=the contemporary=

During our group visit (KSU) to the Contemporary Art Center we were greeted by staff members who gave us a tour and answered any art related questions that we had. There were three artist in the process of preparing for an opening exhibition titled "Courting Disaster". These artist were Katherine Taylor, Hillary Wilder and Donna Mintz. //(image on left) //Donna Mintz took time out to describe to us her 3-d installation. Her structure represented man-made disasters such as deliberately flooded landscapes that covered existing burial sites to make a man made lake or resevoir.

Katherine Taylor was in the process of hanging her black and white paintings where the subject was the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Her exhibition consist of over a hundred small 10x10 oil paintings and several large wall size paintings.







We were also given a tour of the individual art studios that are a part of the Art Center complex. Several of the tenants were available to discuss their art projects.

For example we met Shiela Shepree-Bright who is a contemporary photographer. In some of her work she blends plastic societal images such as a Barbie dolls with real human features.

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