CONWAY — The University of Central Arkansas's Baum Gallery of Fine Art will feature Edie Tsong: An Installation, Tuesday, Nov. 6, through Thursday, Nov. 29.
"Edie Tsong is a contemporary media artist who works in video, performance and installation art," said Elizabeth Smith, assistant professor of art in ceramics at UCA. "She has an impressive resume that includes residencies at the famed Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, N.Y.
"Her work often focuses on self portraits that question how identity is developed, defined and transformed," Smith said.
Tsong will give an artist's talk to the UCA community that is open to the public from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in McCastlain Hall Room 143 (the Art Lecture hall). Her work will be on view in the Baum Gallery through Nov. 29.
The opening reception for this event will be an interactive one between the artist and attendees in the Baum Gallery Foyer from 4:30-5:30 p.m. prior to Tsong's lecture in McCastlain.
All events are free and open to the public.
Tsong, born in Indonesia, earned her bachelor of arts degree in East Asian studies at New York University and her master of fine arts degree from LouisianaState University. She has done installations and performances at such places as the Roswell (N.M.) Museum and Art Center; the Harwood Center in Albuquerque; the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the Texas Fine Arts Association in Austin. Her work has included text in unusual contexts, such as wrapping telephone poles with strips of paper reading "I love you;" or copying in cursive script all the names in the Roswell, N.M., telephone book and presenting it in a mural-like format.
Her recent works have included performance, the use of facsimile, video conference and computer voices.
For more information, call the UCA Office of the Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication, at (501) 450-3293 or e-mail mcastens@uca.edu.
River Valley Ozark, Pages 74 on 10/25/2007