Selected Works from Rachel Abrams and Meredith Setser Showing at Todd Hall
An After-Hours Opening for Selected Works from Rachel Abrams and Meredith Setser, a two-person exhibition of installation, sculpture, printmaking, agriculture, and textiles will be held Tuesday, October 24, 2017 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The exhibition and opening at Todd Art Gallery in Todd Hall, room 224A are free and open to the public.
Rachel Abrams received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (B.F.A.) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) from Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Of her work Abrams states, “I am interested in the relationships between information and placement, action and consequence, experience and time, ritual and movement, layering and memory, empathy and entropy. …my work develops out of studio experimentation, combining material studies with research focused on science, language, categorization, significance, translation, and orientation.”
Meredith Setser’s Bachelor of Fine Arts was completed at Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN. She earned her Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Referring to her exhibit work, Germinal Rhizome, Setser states, [it’s] a root-like subterranean system in which a main stem…creates both roots below and above the upper surface. This is a basic principle of organization. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari applied this concept to the growth and propagation of human culture and economics in the modern age in …“Capitalism and Schizophrenia”. They describe the phenomenon of the rhizome as defying logical systematic patterns; having no specific beginning or origin, spreading in a rather nomadic system of growth and development by forming connections … like the plant roots from which this system is based. As applied to culture [it] spreads like the surface of a body of water, spreading towards available spaces or trickling downwards towards new spaces through fissures and gaps, eroding what is in its way.”
Selected Works from Rachel Abrams and Meredith Setser will be on display at Todd Art Gallery October 25-November 15, 2017. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday–Friday. For parking, directions, or other questions: 615-898-5532.
