Exhibitions
CHRIS KELLEY & KRISTEN MILLER: BFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
Barbara Beach Gallery (APSU) / 601 College St., Room 201 October 29, 2018 - November 2, 2018
Chris Kelley, Kristen Miller
This week, Austin Peay graduating Senior Chris Kelley will present his Senior Thesis exhibition in the Barbara Beach Student Gallery, located on the second floor of the Art and Design building. The exhibition will be a body of photographs, showcasing his first featured solo show. The artist wants to create images concentrated on color and form from found scenes of everyday life. He will demonstrate his use of balance and composition while using mundane and ordinary subjects.
Kristen Miller was born in 1995 in Nashville, TN. In 2018 she received her BFA in interdisciplinary studio from Austin Peay State University. Rooted in material and process, Miller explores the transformation of materials in a tactile and engaging way. Miller has been included in various exhibitions such as the Cummins Station Student Art Exhibition in Nashville, TN, the 2017 and 2018 Annual Student Juried Exhibitions, the Art in the Heart in Dickson, TN public works exhibition for the beautification of Downtown Dickson, and a residency in the Living Gallery at Austin Peay State University for the fall of 2018. In 2017 and 2018 she was the recipient of the Student of Excellence in the Arts Award from Austin Peay State University. Miller currently works and lives in Dickson, TN.
Miller's work is rooted in the thoughts of collage. She considers all of her current works, as well as her process, a collage. While she acknowledges there is not the act of pasting involved, the collage plays its part in gathering strategic materials from a multitude of sources, as well as, combining them with a variety of techniques. The rug is known culturally as a place of gathering and communing. Miller uses this as a symbol of humanity. People are individuals with strengths and skills, but when gathered with others in the collage of life we are made better, stronger, and more fascinating beings. It is not the one skein of yarn or one bed sheet that captivates Miller, but the process of making the sheets and skeins stronger visually and structurally that she creates her rug as well as fiber collages and digital collages.
The exhibitions will be on view from Monday, October 29 until Friday, November 2 and is free and open to the public. An opening reception will take place Monday October 29 from 5-7pm with artist remarks at 5:30pm.
