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october 20 – november 4, 2015
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table of contents
intro statement featured artists curatorial team
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copyright info
intro statement T HIS EXHIBITION FEATURES artworks that confront and
Experiencing a void in life is often frightening, but if we allow it, it can also challenge us in surprising ways, causing exponential personal growth. We choose how to engage with it, either leaving it or filling it. Voice in the Void is an exploration of these open spaces and how individuals chose to respond to it. Perhaps the void will have something to say back to us—a silent conversation that could easily be lost. These 24 student artists boldly confront and search the relationship between listening and answering. This show explores this aspect of the human experience and how we express ourselves in the midst of physical or emotional absence. Our goal is for these voices to reach beyond the void.
explore the relationship between the void space and us: the artist, the viewer, the human. A void is more than just an empty space, it can be a formal component of an artwork such as: the negative space in a sculpture, an expanse of color across a canvas, or the embodiment of a feeling. A void can also be a problem or an unknown we must all confront. It can be painful or it can be wonderful.
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featured artists Alexis Aquilina Kathryn Ashford Kira Bester Hannah Brown Jessica Byrd Devan Carpentier Adrianna Coe
Cody Kim Melanie Kim Ludo Krabbendam Daniel Lambert Michelle Lum Shelby Montelongo Savannah Morra Chris Rasmussen
Ryan Cook Hope Daley
Alex Sarina Sarah Starck
Rachel Emenaker Michael Hallman Nico Hernandez
Sarah Sundberg Cherish Travnick
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curatorial team Brooke Braden Adrianna Coe Jessica Dueker Savannah Morra Elaina Swanson
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Psalm 8 (ESV)
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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Cover artwork: Design by Melanie Kim. Featuring Lighted Shadow (detail) by Kira Bester. Voice in the Void (exhibition catalog). Editor: Jeff Rau Copyright © 2016 Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery All rights reserved. Book design by Melanie Kim. Published through Issuu.com All documentation photographs by Jeff Rau, from exhibition in the Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery. Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery Biola University Art Department 13800 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 90639 562.903.4807 • www.Biola.edu/ArtGallery No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
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