Friday, February 15, 2019
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (MT)
Liberal Arts Building first floor
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College of Arts & Sciences
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https://ems.msubillings.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=17360
‘This Vibrant, Tarnished World’ by Jennifer Eli French
Exhibition runs January 17th - Febuary 21
Thurs., January 17th at 5:00 – 8:00pm in the
Northcutt Steele Gallery
Reception that is free and open to the public
Tues. January 22nd at 6:30pm LA Building Rm 205
Conversation with the Artist that is free and open to the
public
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In a mobile society, the things that we choose to preserve
and carry become sacred. In Station Eleven, these cherished objects represent
memory and longing for lost people, technologies, and ‘the sweetness of life on
Earth’. ‘This Vibrant, Tarnished World’ is a mixed media installation created
by Billings artist Jennifer Eli French in response to the themes of nostalgia
and longing in the book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Incorporating
found objects, wire, polymer clay, acrylic paint, and a carousel slide
projector, French’s ‘relics from the future’ depict objects submerged in the
ocean of time, encrusted with natural growths and detritus of a lost
civilization.
Northcutt Steele Gallery is located on the first floor of
the Liberal Arts on the Montana State University Billings campus and is
supported in part by funds from ASMSUB (Associated Students of MSUB). The
gallery is open Monday – Friday from 8am – 4pm, and by appointment. For more
information please visit: www.msubillings.edu/gallery or
www.facebook.com/northcuttsteelegallery.