At the Faulconer Gallery Summer 2013

From a Distance

Through Sept. 8

Photographer Lorna Bieber builds her monumental installations from the vast array of images that activate contemporary culture. Through an intense process of taking and remaking these found images, Bieber creates a visual language that evokes memories of past worlds, while stoking the imagination to conjure new ones. She uses collage, paint, copier, computer technology, and both traditional and nontraditional photographic techniques. By altering the root picture, she alters the image’s narrative, immersing the viewer in a parallel world of memory, dreams, and nostalgia. 

Margaret Whiting: Environmental Concerns 

July 19–Sept. 8

Margaret Whiting carves, alters, and recombines science texts, encyclopedias, law books, and maps to raise environmental issues with her art. Her exhibition addresses such issues as deforestation and the ways human laws help and hinder environmental protection, the connections between human health and the health of the land, and the patterns and systems that connect us all. Whiting is based in Waterloo, Iowa. This exhibition features a large floor installation of tree stumps made from law books.

Wild Horses

July 19–Sept. 8

Scott Robert Hudson’s project synthesizes three cultural constructs: the socioecology of the North American wild horse herds, the atmospherics of the Paleolithic caves of Southern France, and the human drama of the Ghost Dance. Inspired by a backcountry encounter with wild horses in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, Hudson’s installation is made with horse skulls and explores how cultures collide and entwine through the horse and in the museum. Hudson lives and works in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He has works in the collections at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Chico Museum of Natural History at California State University.