‘Bewilderment’ opens Sept. 9
Exhibition features work by Wiley and McGuan
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will present “Bewilderment,” an art exhibition featuring the work of Patrick McGuan and Daisy Wiley, from Sept. 9 through Oct. 10 in the KOA Art Gallery in Blaisdell Hall.
An opening reception and panel discussion with the artists will take place at noon Sept. 9 in the gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
“Bewilderment” explores themes of place, landscape and dislocation through sculpture, installation and experimental writing. The artists consider memory, grief, ecology and language as they construct new ways of understanding how people connect to their surroundings.
McGuan, an assistant professor of sculpture at Hastings College in Nebraska, works across sculpture, performance and writing. His projects examine how language leaves traces on bodies and landscapes, and how labor, devotional art and ecology shape those connections.
Wiley is an assistant professor of art at Pitt-Bradford. She is an installation artist, printmaker and sculptor who grew up between suburban Washington, D.C., DIY punk culture and the agrarian and mountain landscapes of Virginia. Her work addresses political ecology, public memory, speculative fiction and histories of land use. She investigates how myths and narratives of place can shift through collapse and reinterpretation.
The KOA Art Gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. For more information, contact Pitt-Bradford Arts at 814-362-5113 or visit www.upb.pitt.edu/theArts.
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