Shane Darwent Exhibition Opens With Artist Talk, Reception At Wright Gallery
An exhibition of new works and site-specific interventions by Tulsa-based artist Shane Darwent will be on display Wednesday through April 27 at Wright Gallery on the Texas A&M University campus.
“Light in the Way,” supported by Texas A&M’s Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts, opens with an artist talk Wednesday at 2 p.m. and a reception from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Darwent is a current awardee of both the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Joan Mitchell Fellowship.
Adapting the vernacular of illuminated, commercial storefront awnings into free-standing sculptures, wall friezes and hybrid photographic objects, Darwent conjures uncanny tableaus of shopping center landscapes. Alongside these works, Darwent will create new, photographic interventions while on site in College Station.
Commercial facades, boxwood bushes and roadside architecture will serve as the source material for mural scale photographs installed in the gallery. Large-scale reproductions of the built environment, mapped on top of the already existing walls of the gallery, will create a haptic confusion of light and shadow, while the awning-based works, themselves lit from within, will continue to unravel — or illuminate — our sense of place and perspective.
Wright Gallery is part of Texas A&M’s School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts and School of Architecture. It is located in the Langford Architecture Building A, and is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
