The Unsettled @ UD Crane: October 13 – November 27, 2011- 2nd Thursday Receptions: October 13th & November 10th from 6-9pm

October 13 – November 27, 2011
2nd Thursday Receptions: October 13th & November 10th from 6-9pm
Location: University of Delaware Gallery
Hours: Wednesday, 12-4, and Thursday thru Sunday 12 to 6
 
Though the word “grotesque” has in contemporary usage come to refer primarily to the unpleasant or disgusting, The Unsettled instead explores the term as it relates to notions of duality, hybridism, and transformation. The work chosen occupies the physical, mental, and cultural spaces between states of being and emphasizes those unsettling elements that exist just below the civilized veneer of society. It is about those things we attempt to hide from our friends, family, neighbors, and even ourselves, and the transformations that take place as a result of such suppression, It is about the futility of denying our basic natures and examines the mechanisms by which our fears, doubts, and primal instincts – real and imagined – manifest themselves to ourselves and the world around us, on both a personal and societal level. Taken as a whole, The Unsettled suggests that what we think is solid might not be, and dares us as viewers and artists to peek beneath the surface of what we consider normal.

co-currated by Michael Merry and Patrick Koziol, two currentUniveristy of Delaware MFA students

Featuring:

Susan Camp
Erica Eyres
Alex Fogt
Brandon Jones
Patrick Koziol
Michael Merry
Cindy Stockton Moore
Josh Nobiling
Andrew Prayzner
Elaine Quave
Troy Richards
Terri Saulin
Jacob Smiley
Adam Parker Smith
Lindsay Wraga

PRESS: http://theartblog.org/2011/10/unsettled-and-unsettling-at-the-udel-gallery-at-the-crane/