Museum
Conversations With The Past
(November 5- December 17)
Burke Hall Gallery
Our personal histories are often defined by our relationships and our geographical heritage. Politics and cultural biography can also influence our account of the past. Our most recent art gallery exhibit, Conversations With the Past, brings four artists together to speak to us about remembrances and how we perceive former times.
Through her narrative paintings, Linda Gall mirrors the cultural complexities of current and past family life.
Linda Gall: Waiting for the Sixties: Nuclear Engine
Using digital photographs, mixed installation, constructed objects, and with the aid of metaphorical reference, Priya Kambli retrospectively shares her passage from India and investigates the emotional impact of loss of place.
Priya Kambli's Work
According to installation artist, Eddie Fulcher, memories can create a storyboard for our larger issues in today's society. Through his work, he reveals how we tend to reconstruct or romanticize the past to suit our needs.
"Conversation" by Eddie Fulcher
"Path" by Eddie Fulcher
In his Holocaust series of expansive expressionistic paintings, Marty J. Kalb creates an homage to the millions of Jews and others murdered during World War II. Kalb believes that "art can act as a moral compass and it does create an expressive, emotional record of a culture's social and political attitudes." By recording or reconstructing the past, the artists participating in this show provide us with a broader understanding of time, place, and history.
"Black Milk of Daybreak" by Marty J. Kalb
"Judenrein #2" by Marty J. Kalb
"Round Up: Warsaw Ghetto Jews" by Marty J. Kalb
They invite a dialogue encompassing these elements along with some of the external conditions mentioned above which impact our personal and cultural attitudes.