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Unknown Forest | Avani Patel
October 3, 2024 - January 27, 2025 | Art Alley
Avani Patel’s cultural background has had a profound impact on forging her identity as an artist. As a young girl living in India, she fell in love with the patterns of dresses, exotic colors, the sound of music, as well as the spectacle of both theatre and cinema. Effectively symbolizing the rhythm of her daily life, they are all fluidly interconnected. Indian culture is the starting point of Patel’s work. The range of Indian culture expressed through film, theatre, music, and performance are all sources of artistic inspiration for her. Even though she is far away from home, Patel continues to explore the boundaries between Eastern and Western cultural influences with paintings that call to mind these textiles, costumes, exotic flora and spices, and a diversity of rhythmic sounds. She believes that art has the power to raise awareness about major environmental issues as well as their cultural consequences.
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Reunion | Cannupa Hanska Luger
August 24th, 2024 - March 4th, 2025 | HUB Gallery
Reception Date: Friday, October 18th, 4 – 6 p.m.
The HUB-Robeson Galleries are excited to present Reunion, an immersive, multi-level exhibition featuring sculpture, regalia, and digital media by New Mexico-based, contemporary Indigenous artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. The artworks presented in Reunion make up a spectrum of possibilities and shed light on historical truths to tell a narrative of complexity in the act of survival. They act as reliquary to acknowledge the accumulation of loss, the entropy of societal waste, and the cascading effects of a decimated species on our precious and interconnected environment. These artworks presented together for Reunion access visions beyond survival and cultural adaptation to present opportunities to dream of a sustainable future for humans and the earth to thrive together.
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Homing | Kiran Joan
September 6th, 2024 - Jan 27th, 2025 | Exhibition Cases
Kiran Joan uses ceramics as an extension of her illustration practice, through which she explores themes of identity, culture, and community through magical and surreal worlds. Drawing from her South Indian heritage and current experiences in the US, Kiran explores the convergence of these cultures in her work. Her practice fosters a dynamic conversation between illustration and three-dimensional works to create spaces of comfort while drawing inspiration from evolving relationships between people. Kiran’s figures, characterized by enormous eyes, restricted bodies, humor, and bright colors, represent her journey of navigating new cultures and exploring “otherness”.
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Memento | Zachary Layhew
September 6th, 2024 - Jan 27th, 2025 | Exhibition Cases
Zachary Layhew is a Pittsburgh-based artist working primarily in glass. His work revolves around a combination of glass blowing, cold working, and then a further reheating, manipulating, and assembling of these pieces. The works in Memento represent objects that are kept as a reminder or souvenir of a person or event. He asks, “Are these objects here to remind us of the time that has passed? Why do these specific items hold such meaning? Will the need to make them ever stop?” The care and consideration he has put into the craft of these works sufficiently carry those memories safely as time progresses on.
