101st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Bridges Not Walls R
andolph College’s Maier Museum of Art presents the 101st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Bridges Not Walls, opening August 31 and running through December 7, 2012. Bridges Not Walls will feature six artists: Edgar Endress, Assaf Evron, Muriel Hasbun, Sook Jin Jo, Jiha Moon, and Kukuli Velarde.
converging in this country is nothing new, but public visibility has increased dramatically over the past few decades, as has the ability of artists to be exposed to and influenced by one anothers’ work. Randolph College also has a longstanding commitment to cultivating a global perspective in a liberal arts setting. The College has embarked on a five-year, cross-curricular, measurable plan to move away from the old model of mere “tolerance” for diversity toward “intercultural competence,” a philosophy with more depth and integrity. Intercultural competence is about bridging cultural differences and recognizing commonalities in values, expectations, and beliefs.
FALL SEMESTER 2012
The first exhibition of the next 100 years reaffirms the College’s longstanding commitment to contemporary American art education and highlights the fact that so much significant contemporary American art is created by people from other countries who have made America their home. Artistic talent from around the world
August 31–December 7, 2012
Edgar Endress in collaboration with Brooke Marcy, Marco Moreno Navarro, and Chris Rackley, The Shrine of the American Dream (detail), 2012, paint on wood panels, dimensions variable.
Chilean-born Edgar Endress is an artist who teaches at George Mason University and lives and works in Virginia. He is a founding member of the Floating Lab Collective (FLC), a group of metropolitan D.C.-based artists working collectively on performances, media art, and research. The mission of the FLC is to expand the space of art into public space and to expand the discourse about contemporary art. For Endress and his Washington D.C.-based FLC, the opportunities for social interaction created by their work are at least as important as the visual elements.