With Longing and Belonging, the University Art Gallery proudly presents the thesis work of senior art majors Timothy Cook, Calley Doyle, and George Meng.
Together their work explores distance, displacement, longing, and—most importantly—a shared effort to locate oneself and find a place—a place in the landscape to which to return, a place in history, a place that feels like home, a place of belonging.
Longing and Belonging combines three bodies of work.
Timothy Cook evokes coastal landscapes and the “living edge” of land and ocean in the sculptures of Gellyfish. Abstracted forms and industrial materials distance the experience of a natural landscape, suggesting that experience while putting it out of reach.
In Reflection of Memories, Calley Doyle uses portraiture, collage, and collected objects to condense moments of lived experience and build “a trail of memories”—a collection of historical evidence with which to remember.
George Meng blurs boundaries and definitions of identity in his ambiguous photographs, invoking an experience of disorientation and displacement—but also moments of quiet—in Home Beyond the Horizon.
