UICA exhibit to showcase GVSU student artwork

Artwork created by two Grand Valley students will be on display among art produced by nationally and internationally recognized artists during a special exhibit at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids.

Terms of Service
March 30-April 17
Opening Reception Friday, April 3, 5-7 p.m.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
2 W. Fulton, Grand Rapids

Krzysztof Lower and Annie Teall, Grand Valley art and design students, will showcase their works during the “Terms of Service” exhibition that explores identity, individualism and conditions people face as a result of increasingly monitored lives.

Lower will feature a piece he created in 2012 called “3 Minutes of Sleep,” a digital print featuring an index of images of himself sleeping over the course of one night.

“The piece raises some challenging questions surrounding the power and omnipresence of technology, increasingly surveilled ‘private’ life, and many of the personal emotions, such as anxiety, passivity and helplessness, that these phenomena invoke,” Lower said.

Other artists participating in Terms of Service hail from the Netherlands, New York, Illinois, Florida, Maine, Rhode Island and Michigan.

Curatorial Studio, a visual studies course in the Art and Design Department at Grand Valley that helps students develop curatorial skills, is producing the exhibit. The group aims to foster dialogues that support and influence the creation and examination of art through producing exhibits like Terms of Service.

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