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After introducing you to our first two resident artists, Jagath Weerasinghe and Yong Soon Min, it is time to finish our artist spotlight series with the final member of the Baik Artist Residency, Tintin Wulia. Once again, the Baik Artist Residency is occuring in the Van Every/Smith Gallery through the month of October, with the exhibition on view from October 29th and December 11th. Please go into the studio space and see what each resident artist is creating for the project! Tintin Wulia was born in Bali, Indonesia, and is now based in Brisbane, Australia and Gothenburg, Sweden. After studying...

Jaume Plensa’s Waves III radiates outward in all directions in the form of brick paths. I find myself walking past it almost every day as the main campus sidewalks lead to, and diverge from, the sculpture. As a work of art, it is engaging and timelessly relevant. Letters from all different languages interconnect to form a single person. Waves III is an intricately complex yet holistically simple allusion to both diversity and unity. In this instance, letters do not compose meaning by creating words. Instead, they create a form, an exploration of humanity. Open-ended both figuratively and literally, the piece...

            From October 25 to November 3, the Davidson College Theater Department will perform William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. Standing at the crossroads of visual and performing art, the Galleries will decorate Cunningham Hall with various Shakespearean prints in preparation for the big show! These prints date to late-18th Century England, and cover the entire repertoire of the Bard – tragedies, comedies, and histories alike. Perhaps as interesting as the art itself is the history of these prints, filled with high-society fashion, economics, and British nationalism.             Although Shakespeare died in 1616, by the end of the 18th Century he was...

We have already introduced one artist of the Baik Artist Residency, Jagath Weerasinghe. Now, we are excited to introduce you to another, Yong Soon Min! Keep your eyes peeled for a third Artist Spotlight blog post about the third Baik artist, Tintin Wulia, in the upcoming days. Davidson College is lucky to welcome Yong Soon Min as an artist in residence. Min, Wulia, and Weerasinghe will occupy the Van Every/ Smith Gallery with their exhibitions until the end of October. Min arrived last week and will stay until the end of October working on an exhibition for the Davidson community...

Over the next few days, we will be introducing each of the three artists who make up the Baik Artist Residency. For the entire month of October, each artist will be working in the Van Every gallery creating works for their combined exhibition, which will be on view from October 29th until December 11th. Today, we are spotlighting Sri Lankan artist and archaeologist Jagath Weerasinghe. Born in Sri Lanka, he studied painting and the conservation of wall and rock paintings before moving to the United States to pursue his MFA at American University in DC. He is currently the director...