Waning Elements

Image:
Clockwise from top left:

Jennifer Halvorson
Perseverance (detail), 2022
pressed glass fused with cast glass, metal, powder coated brackets, 

Jessica Calderwood
A Hard Rain, 2023
glass, enamel, copper, porcelain, milkpaint,

Jacinda Russell
Dahlbreen, Svalbard, 2022
archival pigment print

Brent Cole, 
Blue Skies, 2019
mixed media and manipulated found liquor bottles

Waning Elements
January 29 - May 12, 2024
Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level)

Contemporary society moves at a blistering pace. New technologies replace centuries-old traditions.  Environmental degradation intensifies as society treats finite resources as commodities to be traded and exhausted. Jessica Calderwood, Brent Cole, Jennifer Halvorson, and Jacinda Russell bring these two concepts together in the mediums of sculpture, metal, enamel, glass, and photography. In Waning Elements, they explore and expose the conflicts inherent in their processes as they address issues of labor, social disconnection, loss, and time.

To view the exhibition virtually, go here