JEREMY LUNDQUIST Jeremy is exhibiting a series of etchings produced during this fellowship that directly reproduce, alter and layer fragments of the Joint Chief of Staff's diagram, "Afghanistan Stability/COIN Dynamics.” The work is a critique of the current military and diplomatic strategy of the U.S. in Afghanistan while examining the futility of diagramming the chaos of war. The process involves printing each section from a single plate as information is built up and then scraped away. Jeremy pulls prints along the away as text and image materialize, linger, and disappear. This technique helps provide viewers the opportunity to consider and question how history and policy is constructed. HARTMUT AUSTEN For this exhibition, Austen is presenting a selection of drawings and paintings that he has produced in the past year in Iowa City. While he investigates the notion of “boundaries” in paintings that often appear colorful and expressive, his drawings refer more openly to their photographic or cinematographic sources. Made of carefully layered ink washes, the drawings convey a more introspective mood, in which architectural elements play a prominent role. A catalog with 16 pages documenting the works by Lundquist and Austen will be published in May. |
AuthorHartmut Austen is a painter and educator living in the Boston area. Archives
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