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Art, Found
By: Elizabeth Caldwell ‘08
STAFF WRITER

What do dead rats, a singing vase, Marcel Duchamp, and fairy tales have in common?

They were all featured in the faculty art show, “Found Objects,” which opened in Pannell Gallery January 26th. Sweet Briar’s own Paige Critcher, Joe Monk, John Morgan, and Laura Pharis displayed pieces that were a hit with attending faculty and students.

“I think it's a great show,” Dean Green commented.

Prof. Critcher, who teaches beginning and advanced photography, created her contributions by putting a variety of dead animals on a computer scanner. She liked the way the electronic images called attention to small things she hadn't noticed on the animals before. “I got hooked on the details,” Prof. Critcher explained.

Thematic design was also present in sculpting professor Joe Monk's work. His creations, mostly vases, were decorated with an array of found objects that included a singing button from a birthday card. Prof. Monk cited friends, the garbage, and just about any place as resources for his “junk.”

“It can just be any small thing. Well…it has to have some sort of glyptic quality,” Monk explained. “Glyptic means it has to have a pleasant shape. A Ferrari is more glyptic than a Yugo.”

Prof. Morgan, who teaches painting, cited Marcel Duchamp as an inspiration for his box creations, which contain an assortment of paintings and ornaments. Duchamp, a French artist active in the Dada and Surrealist movements, was most famous for his controversial piece Fountain - a urinal that he submitted to the Society of Independent Artists in 1917.

And Laura Pharis, our printmaking instructor, showed a beautiful array of paintings and drawings. One of the most popular was a piece entitled Red in Fairy Tales, which illustrated how that particular color is used in many of the stories.

“It was my favorite,” Jenny Lowrey, '07, said.

The exhibit will be open until April 8th and is free and open to the public.