Trace/Divide/Order Exhibitions

Trace (mapping space)
&
Jennifer Scheuer: Order of Things

Eagle Exhibition Hall 

UNT Campus

March 6-12th, 2019

Reception: March 8th 1:00-3:00pm

Gallery Hours: M-F 8:00-5:00pm

Trace (mapping space) is an exhibition that explores how mapping and map imagery serve as a model for contemporary artists, utilizing a combination of symbolic language and layered imagery to investigate history, geography, and inherited narratives. These works represent a wide variety of print media and aesthetic perspectives. The places mapped are both imagined and real. In keeping with the Texchange theme, the work in this exhibit examines contemporary issues of migration, loss, unstable climate conditions, and self within community. The act of mapping has metaphorically and graphically distilled complex information, so that these ideas emerge in way that is accessible to the viewer. The artists in this show are formalists at heart, paying careful attention to the conversations and tensions in the image that make up the whole. - Curated by Rachelle Hill and Mary Jones.

Havens (Establish), Screenprint by UNT Graduate Student Aunt Escobedo-Wickham

Jennifer Scheuer: Order of Things:  Our minds seek to make connections, to categorize the familiar and the unfamiliar. In The Order of Things Jennifer Scheuer visualizes “The Doctrine of Signatures,” a theory that the world is made of signatures that inform us how to heal our own bodies. Does categorizing the world in relationship to ourselves reflect a higher order, an illustration of biological structure, or simply mnemonics? The work in this exhibition explores different ways of seeing an idea of healing, including through scientific thought and spirituality. How do forgotten or disproven ideas continue to hold cultural value? In consideration of Texchange, the work addresses different disciplines and uses the language of scientific imagery and illustration to discuss ideas that have varied roots of origin including: history, spirituality, medicine, scientific analysis, healing, and medicinal gardens.