The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the
exhibition, Under the Sun, by mid-western
artist, Zina Mussmann.
Zina Mussmann was born in
Milwaukee and received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from UWM's Peck School of
the Arts in 2002. She went on to complete her MFA in Painting at Northern
Illinois University in 2008. Zina has exhibited nationally in cities including
Milwaukee, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Sacramento, and Chicago. Her work was
recently featured in the Manifest International Painting Annual 1, which was
published in late 2011. Currently, Zina is the Co-Director of greymatter, an artist run initiative
that she established in 2011 with artist Rachel Quirk.
“My process involves the
collection and appropriation of images and words from various ephemera, such as
photographs, documents and film. I am interested in de-contextualizing this
information and re-contextualizing it into mixed media works. These new
constructions are a hybrid of drawing, painting, and collage that create
ambiguous meanings which complicate understanding. I allow the work to exist in
a state of absurdity by choosing to exclude certain information that is vital
to the interpretation of the images. The work becomes more about questions than
answers and alludes to the fact that, as humans, we can never really find real
truth, only temporary conclusions. That really, there is nothing new under the
sun.”
The show runs from January
7th to February 7th. The gallery is located in building
11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR. There is no charge for admission.
The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.
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