"Across the Great Divide" at Gardiner Gallery

Friday, February 14, 2014

 Gallery featuring the works of 18 Chinese artists teaching in the U.S.

The OSU Museum of Art’s Gardiner Art Gallery is presenting “Across the Great Divide,” through March 1, featuring the works of 18 Chinese artists who are currently teaching art in universities across the United States. A few of the artists will speak at a at the gallery on Thursday, Feb. 20, from 6 – 7 p.m. following a reception from 5 – 6 p.m. The talk and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located on the first floor of the Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts at the corner of Morrill Ave. and Knoblock St. on the OSU campus in Stillwater.

This exhibition provides an opportunity to examine the shared experience of Chinese artists and their individual endeavors in negotiating their cultural roots while pursuing professional artistic careers in the U.S. Most of them have a complex relationship with China, a country that has embarked on one of the most dramatic social and economic transformations witnessed in recent history.

All of the artists in the exhibition received their graduate training in art in the United States and they all hold teaching positions in art programs across the country. Drawing on their different experiences of living in both the United States and China, these artists are involved in cross-disciplinary experiments in visual arts as they create their own interpretations of the impact of globalization.

For more about the artists and their work, click on the following link http://museum.okstate.edu/exhibitions/across-divide.