SAUL BECKER, SHANE EVANS, CECILIA CONDIT
OCTOBER 12 – NOVEMBER 9, 2012
SAUL BECKER received a LIAEP Grant in 2010 to attend a residency in the Arctic Circle aboard a 125’ schooner with 17 other artists and scientists for18 days. The mysterious and eerie landscapes exhibited in this show are a result of his time spent in the Arctic Circle. Becker does not attempt to deliver precise visual accounts of his travels, but instead creates composite landscapes from both photographic and mental imagery.
SHANE EVANS is a Kansas City artist, who received a LIAEP grant in 2008 to travel to Lesotho, South Africa for one month. During his stay in South Africa, Evans visted the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Lesotho. Here he was able to interact and engage with children that were born and exposed to HIV. The works reflected in this exhibition are the illustrations and images that have come out of his travels to South Africa and his experiences since then with children across the world.
CECILIA CONDIT received a LIAEP grant in 2010 in order to attend a residency at the Burren College of Art in Western Ireland for five weeks. During her time at the residency, Condit was able to further explore her method of storytelling through video. Her work in “Within a Stone’s Throw” was filmed in the Burren region of Ireland and discusses the effects of the continuous settlement of the land dating back to the Neolithic period.
