"Road in Sight"
Curated by Lauren Miller and Jessica West
April 13 - May 15, 2005
Franklin Center Main Gallery featuring work by Juan Logan
(Selected works from contemporary North Carolina artists on display across the Duke University campus :: Map Available).
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
5:00 PM :: Curators' Lecture :: Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg)
6:00 - 9:00 PM :: Opening Reception, Main Gallery
This student-curated exhibit exposes visitors to two campus buses transformed into works of art, a graffiti-encrusted bridge, a bus stop and five other campus destinations. Through May 15, Duke’s Art and Art History Department presents "Road in Sight: Contemporary Art in North Carolina," an exhibition of more than 80 works by 22 artists, including three commissioned pieces. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, installation, digital media and photography. In addition to outdoor sites, art will be exhibited at the Center for Documentary Studies, the East Duke Building, the Allen Building and the John Hope Franklin Center.
Complicity (2003) and The Draft (2002)
The Franklin Center main gallery features two works by Juan Logan, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Complicity, Logan mounts porcelain masks based on the iconic features of Aunt Jemima on the wall. An image strongly associated with care and domesticity, Aunt Jemima has also become an icon of black oppression. Logan distorts her face with gauged eyes, flesh wounds and sometimes a bound mouth in order to refer to domestic and sexual violence in the black community.
Angered by his son’s soccer coach who put his own desire to win above his responsibility to care for a player’s injury, Juan Logan created The Draft to criticize how athletes are now treated as commodities. Logan depicts black individuals in figurative symbols that refer to Jim Crow tarring and feathering, and reduces them further to faceless representations.
The exhibition is presented by the Department of Art and Art History with contributions from President Emeritus Nannerl O. Keohane; the Duke-Semans Fine Arts Foundation; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; the Office of the Provost; the Bassett Fund; the Duke University Union; Duke Performances; the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies; the John Hope Franklin Humanities Center; and Campus Council.
For more information, contact Lauren Miller, lauren.miller@duke.edu or Jessica West, jessica.west@duke.edu