March 1, 2013

 

Contacts:

Leanne Gilbertson, Northcutt Steele Gallery Director, at Leanne.gilbertson@msubillings.edu or 657-2903
Aaron Clingingsmith, University Relations, 657-2269

 

Show runs through Mar. 28; Free artist reception set for Mar. 21 from 4 – 7 p.m.

 

Scattered Roots

MSU BILLINGS NEWS SERVICES — MSUB Department of Art’s Northcutt Steele Gallery features a collaborative series of monoprints by Tina LaMour and O. Gustavo Plascencia.  The exhibition, “Dichotomies: Traces and Places,” is currently on display through March 28. LaMour, a sculptor and printmaker, and Plascencia, a photographer, have jointly produced a group of richly layered images exploring experiences of identity formation. The collaboration, which began as a series of conversations about each individual artist’s past experiences with family, religion, faith, and social institutions, culminates in artworks that visually explore personal connections and disconnections, continuities and dichotomies, with the other. The overlaps and gaps the two identified while discussing how each used references to cultural memory to reconstruct personal past experiences are represented in delicately printed layers of symbols and visual cues that provocatively suggest similarities and differences, conformity and individuation.

 

Tina LaMour is currently an Assistant Professor at North Country Community College in Malone, NY.  She received a B.F.A. from SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, NY and a M.F.A in sculpture from the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. Working primarily in sculpture and printmaking LaMour has shown nationally and internationally. O. Gustavo Plascencia was raised in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and attended the Escuela de Artes Plasticas “Ruben Herrera” in Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico before immigrating to the USA. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, TX and a M.F.A. at the University of Colorado in Boulder in Photography and Media Arts. Plascencia is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA and has also shown his work nationally and internationally.

 

An artist talk will be presented on Thursday, March 21 at 4 p.m. in Northcutt Steele Gallery in the Liberal Arts Building on the University campus. A catered artist reception will immediately follow in the 1st floor lobby of the Liberal Arts Building.

 

The Nothcutt Steele Gallery is located on the 1st floor of the Liberal Arts Building on the University campus and is open Monday–Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information visit: www.msubillings.edu/gallery and www.facebook.com/northcuttsteelegallery.

 

PHOTO ABOVE:Scattered Roots by Tina LaMour and O. Gustavo Plascencia.  Their exhibit, “Dichotomies: Traces and Places,” is now on display at MSU Billings.