Ambiguities II
2009, Artworks Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
AMBIGUITIES II included 63 enlarged images appropriated from popular culture, current events and art history. This collage of photographs extended around three walls of Artworks Gallery.
The work centered on a large detail of 16th century German painter Albrecht Aldhorfer's BATTLE OF ISSUS, which depicts thousands of mounted soldiers in combat. Photos of masses of people at Barack Obama's inauguration and at the Haj at Mecca were juxtaposed with portraits of individuals of different races, nationalities, religions, occupations, and attitudes. The viewer found visual and thematic connections among these disparate images, which were chosen as symbols of our beliefs, anxieties, despairs and hopes.
Ambiguities II is part of a series of similarly themed installations by the artist. AMBIGUITIES I was exhibited in several art centers in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia in 2004 and 2005.
AMBIGUITIES II included 63 enlarged images appropriated from popular culture, current events and art history. This collage of photographs extended around three walls of Artworks Gallery.
The work centered on a large detail of 16th century German painter Albrecht Aldhorfer's BATTLE OF ISSUS, which depicts thousands of mounted soldiers in combat. Photos of masses of people at Barack Obama's inauguration and at the Haj at Mecca were juxtaposed with portraits of individuals of different races, nationalities, religions, occupations, and attitudes. The viewer found visual and thematic connections among these disparate images, which were chosen as symbols of our beliefs, anxieties, despairs and hopes.
Ambiguities II is part of a series of similarly themed installations by the artist. AMBIGUITIES I was exhibited in several art centers in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia in 2004 and 2005.