THE ART OF Loring Taoka
Monday, Sept. 9 – Friday, Oct. 11
Loring Taoka creates art inspired by the act of perception—the way we perceive visual elements, shapes, patterns and previously identified characters with the use of basic geometry as a medium. Squares fade into squares, circles are completed in a two-way mirror and a rectangle is created by smaller rectangles, all asking us to question our senses.
GALLERY HOURS: 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.
ARTIST LECTURE: THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 2 P.M.
GALLERY RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 4:30-6:30 P.M.
Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Edwards 129
Admission: Free and open to the public (no ticket required)
In the Bleifeld Gallery.
Todd McGrain, the artist behind The Lost Bird Project, created bronze sculptures of the extinct great auk, Labrador duck, passenger pigeon, heath hen and Carolina parakeet to chronicle humankind’s impact on our changing world. Each sculpture is permanently on display at the location where its species was last seen. The Carolina Parakeet was last observed in the wild in the 1920s near Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee, FL, where a permanent installation is now on display. Since deploying his original sculptures, McGrain has made other castings that travel for various exhibitions.
Along with the installation in the Arboretum, the Bleifeld Gallery is displaying smaller bronze castings of the five sculptures plus drawings and photographs related to the project.
The artist will be at Brookgreen for a discussion on this work on November 2 at 1:00 p.m.
Main image: Reef Explorer, Jeff Burchill, Persian Red Travertine
THE ART OF Loring Taoka
Monday, Sept. 9 – Friday, Oct. 11
Loring Taoka creates art inspired by the act of perception—the way we perceive visual elements, shapes, patterns and previously identified characters with the use of basic geometry as a medium. Squares fade into squares, circles are completed in a two-way mirror and a rectangle is created by smaller rectangles, all asking us to question our senses.
GALLERY HOURS: 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.
ARTIST LECTURE: THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 2 P.M.
GALLERY RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 4:30-6:30 P.M.
Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Edwards 129
Admission: Free and open to the public (no ticket required)
In the Bleifeld Gallery.
Todd McGrain, the artist behind The Lost Bird Project, created bronze sculptures of the extinct great auk, Labrador duck, passenger pigeon, heath hen and Carolina parakeet to chronicle humankind’s impact on our changing world. Each sculpture is permanently on display at the location where its species was last seen. The Carolina Parakeet was last observed in the wild in the 1920s near Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee, FL, where a permanent installation is now on display. Since deploying his original sculptures, McGrain has made other castings that travel for various exhibitions.
Along with the installation in the Arboretum, the Bleifeld Gallery is displaying smaller bronze castings of the five sculptures plus drawings and photographs related to the project.
The artist will be at Brookgreen for a discussion on this work on November 2 at 1:00 p.m.
Main image: Reef Explorer, Jeff Burchill, Persian Red Travertine
In the Bleifeld Gallery.
Todd McGrain, the artist behind The Lost Bird Project, created bronze sculptures of the extinct great auk, Labrador duck, passenger pigeon, heath hen and Carolina parakeet to chronicle humankind’s impact on our changing world. Each sculpture is permanently on display at the location where its species was last seen. The Carolina Parakeet was last observed in the wild in the 1920s near Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee, FL, where a permanent installation is now on display. Since deploying his original sculptures, McGrain has made other castings that travel for various exhibitions.
Along with the installation in the Arboretum, the Bleifeld Gallery is displaying smaller bronze castings of the five sculptures plus drawings and photographs related to the project.
The artist will be at Brookgreen for a discussion on this work on November 2 at 1:00 p.m.
Main image: Reef Explorer, Jeff Burchill, Persian Red Travertine
In the Bleifeld Gallery.
Todd McGrain, the artist behind The Lost Bird Project, created bronze sculptures of the extinct great auk, Labrador duck, passenger pigeon, heath hen and Carolina parakeet to chronicle humankind’s impact on our changing world. Each sculpture is permanently on display at the location where its species was last seen. The Carolina Parakeet was last observed in the wild in the 1920s near Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee, FL, where a permanent installation is now on display. Since deploying his original sculptures, McGrain has made other castings that travel for various exhibitions.
Along with the installation in the Arboretum, the Bleifeld Gallery is displaying smaller bronze castings of the five sculptures plus drawings and photographs related to the project.
The artist will be at Brookgreen for a discussion on this work on November 2 at 1:00 p.m.
Main image: Reef Explorer, Jeff Burchill, Persian Red Travertine