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Passions and Visions: Antarctica
Monday October 10 – Saturday October 29
Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor
Reception: Thur Oct 27 • 5:30–7:30 pm
Note: this exhibition closes at 2 pm on October 29
Gracing the OSU Archives is a relatively unknown collection of exquisite pastel drawings produced during the 2nd Byrd Polar Expedition, 1933–35, by the Armenian American artist, David Abbey Paige. Forming the heart of Passions and Visions these 60 works are presented for the first time in the US since 1939. Historic photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia related to the expeditions and an extensive display of maps, from early cartographic drawings to the most recent RADARSAT images of Antarctica, selected from OSU’s Byrd Polar Research Center and Archives, are also presented. The inclusion in the exhibition of international artist Ed Osborn's “Flyover,” an audio/visual piece incorporating 1940s aerial reconnaissance footage with voiceover readings, is of particular note.
Special Events:
“Brown Bag Lunches”/Informal Gallery Talks
Wed Oct 12 • 12:30 pm
OSU’s Byrd Archives Director, Dr. Rai Goerler and Curator, Laura Kissel focus on Paige’s work and the 2nd Byrd expedition.
Wed Oct 19 • 12:30 pm
Geographical Sciences professor, Gary McKenzie and Byrd Research Associate (retired), Henry Breecher focus on the cartography of Antarctica.
Passions and Visions is presented in conjunction with the Byrd Center’s conference Our Polar Past and Present: History and Science Moving Forward from the
20th Century, Oct 26–29, at which polar explorers, Byrd scholars, polar historians, and current and past directors of the Byrd Center have been invited to discuss the future of polar research. For more information about the conference, the Polar Archival Program and the Byrd Polar Research Center, visit the website: library.osu.edu/sites/archives/polar/index.htm
Wednesday October 26
7:30 pm • Hughes Hall Auditorium
Barry Lopez: The Artist at Work in the Wilderness
Lopez is the author of Arctic Dreams and 13 other works of fiction and nonfiction. He has been on expeditions into the Transantarctic Mountains, has worked with a scientific dive team under the ice in McMurdo Sound, and was aboard the icebreaking research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer in 1992. He is a recipient of the National Book Award and other honors. (Book signing follows lecture.)
Co-sponsored by OSU’s Byrd Polar Research Center and Archives, College of the Arts, Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, Office of the Executive Dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Multicultural Center, School of Natural Resources, Departments of Art, English, Comparative Studies, and Geological Sciences, and the Wexner Center Bookstore.
Thursday October 27
4:30 pm • Knowlton Hall Auditorium
Ed Osborn: Farthest White—The Aesthetics of Polar Representation
Born in Helsinki, Finland and now based in Oakland and Berlin, Osborn has performed, exhibited, lectured and held residencies throughout North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South America. Recipient of many awards including the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Stipendium and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he also served as Director of SoundCulture96, the largest sound festival ever held in the US. Osborn is currently a professor at UC Santa Cruz and is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco) and Galerie Rachel Haferkamp (Cologne). For more information on the artist, please visit: www.roving.net
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art, The Byrd Polar Research Center, and Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor
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David Abbey Paige, pastel
David Abbey Paige, pastel
Ed Osborne, flyover of Antarctica
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