The Depot presents: “Materie”
Photo by Riley Goodman
Student work focused on expression through rough-cut textures, interaction, photography and more are currently on display at the Depot Gallery through March 6.
“Materie: Studies in Texture and Fracture,” features pieces from students in various VCUarts departments including kinetic imaging, sculpture and photography and film.
Photo student Nicholas Seitz currently has work displayed both in “Materie” and at the Page Bond Gallery’s “View Find 4” exhibit. Seitz said being able to display his work at VCU’s Depot gallery is a great privilege.
“It’s such a wonderful mix of studios, exhibition space, classrooms, multimedia spaces, informal work spaces and area for presentations,” Seitz said. “The gallery has very interesting opportunities for installation with both a formal ‘white wall’ as well as the ‘raw space’ with the original brick of the building exposed.”
Seitz’s exhibition piece includes a collection of handmade paper embedded in brick and concrete dust. Still life images of brick and cinderblock, which Seitz said are the result of a semester’s work in the lighting studio, are spread throughout the installation.
Exhibitions at the Depot Gallery consistently integrate interactive works with simple displays, and “Materie” is no exception.
Some of the installations are displayed on computer screens where viewers have the option to click, drag or follow along a wide range of graphics, while others are in the “raw space” where the interaction with the art is less defined.
Photo and film major Mark Peyton utilized digital printing of a deflated inner tube to visually show the texture in his work “The Tube.”
Although attendees cannot physically touch the 2D image, the print effectively depicts the theme of texture and fracture.
Kristen Lair-Baker, Contributing Writer
