: Boise State University Art Department

Ellen Scott Liminal

Exhibition: January 25th-February 19th, 2010 Reception: February 5th, 2010 6-8pm Visual Arts Center Gallery 2 – HWSC Free parking available for reception in the Liberal Arts Parking lot in between the Liberal Arts Building and the Special Events Center.

Ellen Scott Visiting Artist and Scholar Program free lecture: February 4th 6pm SUB Simplot Ballroom BD

The Visual Arts Center presents Liminal, a body of work by visual artist Ellen Scott. Liminal invites you into the borderlands between digital and physical worlds to explore the mystery and reality of who we are. A series of lucid, three-dimensional portraits, prints, and video portray people in between—frozen in time in unique moments from around the world. Their quiet presence and absence testify how technologies of all kinds allow both greater and lesser intimacy with other people and with ourselves. A collaborative work with Boise State University students integrates subjects from the local community in the exhibition. Ellen Scott is a New York-based artist, designer, producer, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, and Executive Director of Smartspaces.org

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Ron Taylor 40 Years Working in Clay- A Retrospective

Exhibition: -January 25^th – February 19^th, 2010 Reception with the artist: February 5^th, 2010 6pm-8pm

Visual Arts Center Gallery One – Liberal Arts Building

Free parking available for opening reception in the Liberal Arts Parking lot in between the Liberal Arts Building and the Special Events Center.

The Visual Arts Center is exhibiting a retrospective exhibition of ceramics and photographs by Art Department Professor Ron Taylor to celebrate his 35 years teaching at Boise State University and showing his work in juried and invitational exhibitions across the nation. Taylor’s work focuses on the interplay of light and shadow and the relationship between forms and textures in vessels, teapots, large-scale wall plates, and photographs. The ceramic pieces and photographs express the skilled techniques of the artist while embodying the elemental relationship of the clay to the earth and forms found in nature.