Photographs by art faculty members Ron Binks and Neil Maurer.
Faculty photo exhibit opens new art space at Downtown Campus
(Oct. 4, 2001)--Photographs by UTSA art department faculty members Jim Broderick, Ron Binks and Neil Maurer are the opening exhibit for the new Downtown Campus art exhibit location in the Durango Building. Ron Boling, curator, compiled a series of photographs taken by UTSA professors, celebrating the opening of the new art space in room 1.122.
Jim Broderick’s Objects/Faces series is featured. Taken from 1993 to the present, the large 20" x 24" color photographic prints highlight a magnified primary focus. Attention is given to a small object as seen in front of an individual's enlarged and softly focused facial features. If you look closely, some faces in the background should look familiar--they are UTSA's very own professors. These works benefit from collaborative insights and intentions by both Broderick and the individuals posing with their revered items.
Ron Binks traveled to a number of sites including Oybin, where the photograph series titled On The Trail of Casper David Friedrich was taken. Most of the images in the group are of a fortress/cloister, which was erected on a huge stone outcropping in the thirteenth-century. This group of large format black and white prints explores pictorial motifs in the landscape derived from the themes and representations found in the European Romantic Movement in art and culture that began in the late 18th century, flowered in the early 19th century and has periodically reappeared in succeeding epochs including our post-modern time.
Neil Maurer's photographs are from The Clay Man Project. The objects are small plaster casts that have not been fired. Maurer cut, scraped, and sanded the statues in various ways. The figurines, all in a suit and tie, reminded Maurer of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." The juxtapositions and arrangements have been motivated by current events of the last several years, especially those in the Balkans.
The exhibit hours are 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday-Thursday and 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Friday. For more information, call the Downtown Student Information Desk at (210) 458-2815.
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