Series: Art Exhibition
Reception Date: Friday, March 19
Time: 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: March 19 - April 15
Venue: Visual Arts Building, Main Gallery
Ticket Prices: Free admission

Lecture: March 31, 2004, 7:30 pm, Jonsson Performance Hall
Honored speaker and artist, Eve Sonneman will present a lecture, "Reflections On The Diptych,"

Second Look, curated by Associate Professor Marilyn Waligore, explores references to time--such as duration, series, sequence, and the potential of narrative--in photography and digital media.

Texas artists participating in the exhibition include Kathy Lovas and Martin Menocal of Dallas, Terri Cummings of Fort Worth, and Huntsville area artists James Paster, Michael Henderson, and Tony Shipp.

Second look is an exhibition that explores references to time in photography and digital media. Media processes influence our perception of time as in the instantaneous snapshot, or conversely, the long exposure. In new media, setting the frame rate may stretch or compress the experience of continuous time. The film loop presents an image cycle that repeats endlessly, with a duration that is boundless. Martin Menocal and Tony Shipp rely on connections between serial photography and film; Menocals photographic prints of film strips and Shipp's zoetrope sculptures both recall the 19th century Studies of Animal Locomotion created by Eadweard Muybridge. Here, in the context of the series, camera-based imagery calls us to take a second look at a moment.

Examining the still shot or film clip attests to our fascination with technologys ability to dissect linear time into discrete units. Photographic experiments of the 1970s informed by systemic art have influenced subsequent work with image progression. The camera lens records the staging of events that unfold over time, creating a narrative. Kathy Lovas and Terri Cummings experiment with photographs placed in installation environments to invite viewer interaction. Here photographs of disparate events are brought together, fostering a narrative generated by the viewer's movement through space. Visual and conceptual contrasts and correspondences guide the formation of the image sequence. Multiple monitors juxtapose moving images that invite contemplation in Michael Henderson's fusions of 3D animation and video. Given the proliferation of images arranged in new combinations, we must reconsider photographys status as solitary, still image and review its influence upon and reaction to new media.

EVE SONNEMAN LECTURE
Artist Eve Sonneman will present a lecture, "Reflections On The Diptych," at 7:30 pm, March 31, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition Second Look. As honored speaker she will talk about her own work, and will consider the importance of serial photography within a larger historical context. Eve Sonneman is viewed as an innovator through her work with photographic diptychs in the 1970s that challenge the concept of the "decisive moment," as documented by photo-historians Jonathan Green and Naomi Rosenblum. New York artist Eve Sonneman is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in addition to 30 museums worldwide. A photographer of international renown, she has participated in the 1977 Documenta and in the biennales of Venice, Paris, Strasbourg, and Australia, has published five books, and has been the subject of 77 solo exhibitions. Her recent delicate abstract oil paintings and watercolors continue her explorations of light and color. Her paintings, as critic William Jeffett has stated, "ask us to suspend directed modes of thought. At the same time, they are never totally removed from the artist's understanding of photography as disengaged vision."

More information about Eve Sonneman can be located at www.evesonneman.com.

Marilyn Waligore received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and undergraduate degrees in art and English from the University of California-Berkeley. She is a recipient of the Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, the Visual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and the Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award in Photography and New Genres. Her photographs are included in collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others, and have been shown in more than 90 exhibitions.