Rokken Like Dokken
Winston-Salem State University’s (WSSU’s) Diggs Gallery opened its spring season with a dual presentation of artwork created by WSSU seniors and the WSSU Art Faculty.
The presentation entitled Interpretations: Rams Create, the 18th Annual Senior Art Show and Views from Our World: Works by the WSSU Art Faculty, opened with a reception on Friday, March 26. Both exhibitions will remain on view through May 8.
“This year’s student exhibition includes a diverse range of work from students working in both the computer and studio arts,” said Leo Morrissey, assistant professor of Art. “The work ranges from computer animation to traditional drawing, with everything in between. The show also highlights the high-quality work being done by graduating WSSU art students in a wide range of media, and the exhibition includes work that the entire university community can enjoy and be proud of.”
Interpretations: Rams Create features works completed under Morrissey’s guidance by graduating art majors Kristine Beam, Romar Cagler, David Chambers, Lamar Conner, Angela Davis, Ryan Gilliam, Justin Hardy, Justin Jenkins, Shaqueda Johnson, Tarrik Logan, Nichola Lumpkin, Yaphet Malbrough, Whitney Middlebrooks, Jessica Savage, Richard Serge, Gordon Teagle, Travis Thompson and Stanley Williams.
Views from Our World: Works by the WSSU Art Faculty is a biannual exhibition featuring works by faculty members in the university’s Fine Arts program. It offers the perspectives of a diverse group of artists working in a variety of media, all exploring the ways in which they visualize and create the world around them. It provides a glimpse of the different points of view of these 12 contemporary artists.
These “views” include representations of themselves and others as seen in the oil portraits by Juie Rattley and Al Dean. Landscape paintings by Justine Linville and photographs by Alison Fleming and Ginger Williamson provide numerous reflections of how they see the natural world. Paintings by James Huff and Marvette Aldrich, along with drawings by Thomas Tucker, exemplify the manner in which artists interpret and analyze ideas and objects. Prints by Scott Betz and films by Christine Kirouac reveal worlds created by artists with vastly different effects. Images of the KP Urban Art Environment by Tammy Evans detail the efforts to transform vacant property in a blighted area of Detroit into a place for the community to gather, garden and display art works.
Installation pieces by Leo Morrissey, created in collaboration with both his students and musician Tom Judson, reveal how an artist places himself into different environments and responds to outside forces.
