'Appropriate Ambitions' comes to EWU gallery

 

Last updated 3/3/2016 at 9:09am



Eastern Washington University’s Gallery of Art is hosting Garrett Bryant and Yaro Shon Neils’ “Appropriate Ambitions” exhibit from March 3 to April 14.

According to a news release, “Appropriate Ambitions” is a collaborative installation combining the work of visual artists Garrett Bryant and EWU professor Yaro Shon Neils.

Bryant grew up in Memphis, Tenn., where he spent his childhood playing war and drawing dinosaurs and superheroes. He earned his bachelors degree in liberal studies from Middle Tennessee State University and his masters in educational leadership from the University of Montana. In 2015 he completed a bachelors in arts from UM with an emphasis in sculpture.

Accompanied with quotations from contemporary celebrities and politicians, Bryant uses satire to explore a tradition of male privilege that continues to dominate contemporary American culture.

Neils is an interdisciplinary artist who closely examines personal experience in order to unveil contemporary cultural mythologies. She was born on an old brass bed in her grandmother’s cabin, the literal and metaphorical return to which has served as the crux of much of her art-making. She was raised in an agricultural community located in the heart of urban south Phoenix.

Favoring idea over medium, her work takes the form of historic and contemporary photographic processes, time-based media, artist’s books, performance, installation and the written word. She holds degrees in photography and French from Arizona State University and an MFA from the University of Montana’s School of Art.

EWU’s Gallery of Art is located in the art building situated in the center of the Fine and Performing Arts Complex on the campus in Cheney. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and is closed weekends and holidays. Admission is free.

 

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