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Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Presents

Posted by on Sunday, October 9, 2011 in Archives, News.

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Polar Probings: Sculpture by Gabriel Warren. A reception and gallery talk will take place in the Fine Arts Gallery on Thursday, October 13, with the reception held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and the gallery talk given at 6 p.m. The Fine Arts Gallery is located in Cohen Memorial Hall, 1220 21st Avenue South, on the western edge of the Peabody College campus. All events are free and open to the public. The exhibit will remain on view until December 8, 2011.

 

Gabriel Warren creates sculptures using natural ice formations as source material. As noted by the artist, his sculpture is -€œintended to reflect the beauty of the natural sources from which they emerge-€¦ They represent my attempts to triangulate an understanding of a single natural phenomenon: ice.-€ Warren adds, -€œalthough ice is not the only source in the natural world for my sculptural probings, it is the dominant one and has been so for decades. Ice exhibits mind-numbing variability and variety on a visual plane, and, on a scientific one, understanding its behavior is key to understanding many other components of our world.-€ 

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery will present a number of works by Warren, each layered with meanings and references to the condition of the planet and based on his close observation of the way ice behaves, including an outdoor sculpture installation adjacent to Cohen Memorial Hall, the home of the Fine Arts Gallery.

Warren received his bachelor of fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and has studied at the Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy; Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; and the Externat Notre Dame, Grenoble, France. Dividing his time between his studio and residence in Rhode Island and his summer home in a primitive cabin he built on a sea cliff in Nova Scotia, Warren travels frequently to Antarctica, making his 1999 trip as the recipient of a National Science Foundation -€œArtists and Writers in Antarctica-€ grant. His art has been shown at the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island; Hunter College, New York, New York; and the Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui, New Zealand, among many other museums and galleries.

This exhibition is being presented in conjunction with the campus-wide initiative on sustainability and is supported, in part, by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the English Department, The American Studies Program at Vanderbilt University, and the Dean-€™s Office, College of Arts and Science.

 

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