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The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA

  • Ruffin Gallery Exhibition - Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales
    Aug 29 -
    Oct 10
    Ruffin Gallery Exhibition - Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales
    The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA
  • Ruffin Gallery Opening Reception - Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales
    Fri,
    Aug 29
    Ruffin Gallery Opening Reception - Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales
    The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA
  • Ruffin Gallery Closing Party - Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales
    Fri,
    Oct 10
    Ruffin Gallery Closing Party - Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales
    The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA

A Quick & Tragic Thaw: Collaboration by Yvonne Love and Gabrielle Russomagno

The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA

Mon, Aug 26, 2019 - Oct 18, 2019
All day

Please join the McIntire Department of Art for the first exhibition of the 2019-2020 school year in the Ruffin Gallery!
FULL DESCRIPTION

Quick and Tragic Thaw is a series of artworks that explores the impact of a warming world using the arctic region as the symbolic apex. Through the study of scholarly research and data, use of mapping technology and satellite imagery, as well as essays, poems, photographs and illustrations, these artworks interpret the more recent story of human influenced climate change. More broadly, this urgent narration recognizes migration movements of biological forms, toxins, and water and is meant to be a meditation on loss and the fragility of the planet.


These artworks interpret and materialize the research of climate science and contextual literature by juxtaposing specific material with content intended to emphasize connections (and implicit irony) between indisputable data and the conceit of how we chose to live. This work also honors the fact that maps are an art form in and of themselves, that they are literate, and a scientific achievement. Read in one way, they are a narrative of human existence. Read another, they are an accounting of our planetary history and the emergence of the Anthropocene epoch.  ​

The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA
179 Culbreth Rd. Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
434.924.6123
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About The Ruffin Gallery: Department of Art at UVA


Ruffin Gallery is an active part of the Studio Art program. Each year the gallery hosts four to six exhibits that serve as the University's most important showcase for contemporary art and are an integral part of the Studio Art experience.

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179 Culbreth Rd. Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
434.924.6123

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