Apparition (assembled)
Wesley Heiss
2020
Balsa wood, plastic, glue
Says curator Mark Wonsidler: “If you consider the arc from pure science to applied science, we see the same things in the arts, where people are engaging in an open-ended inquiry with a lot of questions and not necessarily clear outcomes, and they enter into a process of discovery.”
A spring 2020 exhibition at LUAG featured the diverse work of 15 faculty members from AAD: Anna Chupa, professor of design; LUAG’s William Crow; Amy Forsyth, associate professor of design; Lucy Gans, the Louis and Jane Weinstock ‘36 Chair of Art and Architecture; Eugene Han, assistant professor of architecture; Wesley Heiss, associate professor of product design; Marilyn Jones, associate professor of design; Susan Kart, assistant professor of art history and Africana studies; Peter Lusch, professor of practice; Deirdre Murphy, visiting assistant professor of painting and printmaking; Nik Nikolov, associate professor of architecture; Nicholas Sawicki, associate professor of art history; Jason Travers, professor of practice; Christine Ussler, professor of practice; and Anthony Viscardi, professor of architecture. Exhibited works ranged from painting, drawing and sculpture to architectural and graphic design. The department’s two art historians—Kart and Sawicki—provided written commentary on works from LUAG’s permanent collection that they use in their teaching.
Stacie Brennan, LUAG’s curator of education, developed programming to showcase the interdisciplinarity of the works. Several featured faculty members were paired with an individual from a different field for a series of conversations called “Art in Dialogue,” designed “to highlight how cross-disciplinary conversations can come to be and how works can inform each other,” Brennan says.
