PREOCCUPIED

From the organizers:

“Join us on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 7 PM for a reception for PREOCCUPIED: Pondering overlaps and transfers across the landscape and lore of these plains, edges, and canyons an ongoing installation work by Scotty Hensler with collaboration from Mallory Prucha, Jude Haragan, and audience participation.

The reception will also include a musical happening in the space with Llano Estacado Monads Band (LEMB) at 7:30 PM. The Llano Estacado Monads Band is a decentralized musical group with an asynchronous and free-form structure, allowing for a completely collaborative and improvised sound.

The South Plains College Fine Arts, Art Gallery presents this continuously developing installation, art that transforms the space, by Scotty Hensler, SPC Assistant Professor of Art. His work in collaboration with Mallory Prucha and Jude Haragan explores ideas of Levelland and the Llano Estacado through imprints of artifacts, activities, and stories of the region’s inhabitants, both human and animal. In this installation, Scotty uses elements from the Marjorie Merriweather Post Collection alongside broader imagery of West Texas. By bringing these together, the work explores the continuities and changes that have imprinted on this land, both historically and in the present day.

Refreshments provided. This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibition is on view now through Sunday, August 18, 2024 at South Plains College Fine Arts, Art Gallery, 1400 Barnes Dr, Levelland, TX 79336″