October 3 - 27, 2022
From Tarleton State University:
“In the exhibition LagoonoogaL, water and the larger vena cava systems of development are considered in a multimedia installation inside the TSU Art Gallery. Burns presents a series of videos which continue his recent work exploring the landscapes of infrastructures and the ways in which they vine through our daily lives. A leisure-filled, turquoise lagoon sits in high contrast to the surrounding sod and brown, a wave pool churns behind a highway wall, the uncanny offerings of a water treatment plant feed back into a river—the exhibition presents video documentation of these and other strange specimens from the regional landscape with an aim to consider their meaning as present day artifacts of dreams and aspirations. The sculptures and architectural interventions in the gallery speak to larger ideas of the built environment and its entanglements with nature.
Trey Burns (b. 1984) is an artist and writer whose work explores filmmaking, built environments, and histories of place. In 2018, he co-founded Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization which highlights temporary projects in an outdoor setting. After receiving his MFA from the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008, Burns has shown his work at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture Paris, Malaquais Gallery (Paris, France) Pavillion Vendôme (Clichy-la-Garenne, France), the St. Paul’s Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), Wassaic Projects (Wassaic, NY), ex ovo (Dallas, TX), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The May Gallery (New Orleans, LA), The Hand (Queens, NY) and et al Projects (Brooklyn, NY). In 2020 he received an NEA grant with Tamara Johnson in conjunction with Wassaic Projects in New York. In 2020 and 2021 he received an ArtsActivate grant from the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture for the program Sculpture School, an education program and platform for emerging artists to create work that responds more deeply with place.”
Reception: October 3, 2022 | 12–5 pm
Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery of Art at Tarleton State University
1333 W Washington St.
Stephenville, 76401 Texas
254-968-9245
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