{"id":248,"date":"2017-02-07T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/?p=248"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:37:22","slug":"student-art-exhibit-digital-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/2017\/02\/07\/student-art-exhibit-digital-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Art Exhibit – Chromatic Entropy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0The Boland Hall Gallery provides a space that helps to educate and serve the SJU and surrounding communities.\u00a0 Student work is rotated on a monthly basis and March features ceramic work from Senior Art Major, Sue Henry.<\/h6>\n

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Sue Henry\u2019s Chromatic Entropy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0by Molly Ledbetter, Gallery Exhibition Research Assistant<\/p>\n

In this powerful, vibrant body of work, artist Sue Henry explores such themes as nature, the organic, deterioration, and femininity.\u00a0 The title of her show, \u201cChromatic Entropy,\u201d suggests a sense of beautiful degradation, a concept much of her work embodies.\u00a0 In many ways, her collection enshrines and celebrates the natural processes of aging and wear in life, capturing simultaneously the stunning intricacies that accompany such change.\u00a0\u00a0 Her show exhibits decay and aging in the natural world, and from this emerges realized notions of maturity, growth, rootedness, and strength.<\/p>\n

Art has always been an important part of Henry\u2019s life, though it took a back seat when she started a family and pursued a career in another field.\u00a0 When her children got a little older, she reconnected with clay through local art classes and studios.\u00a0 Years later, however, she developed a painful case of arthritis and had to take a break.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until her second year at Saint Joe\u2019s that she rekindled the flame and found herself back at the wheel, where she took her work in an entirely different direction from her functional ware\u2014dishes, bowls, mugs, plates\u2014of the past. \u00a0In an interview, she expressed some personal parallels to her work:<\/p>\n

\u2026there is a connection for me to this feeling of entropy.\u00a0 As a woman, the older I get, the bolder I get.\u00a0 Around age 50, I realized that I cared less about what others thought, but in a good way.\u00a0 I just turned 60 and know I have a voice, have opinions that I share sparingly, and am so much more embracing of differences in people. <\/em><\/p>\n

In a word, she speaks to the positivity and wisdom that comes with maturing\u2014a message most manifest in her work.<\/p>\n

With the titles complementing each piece, Henry \u201cwanted to give the viewer something to consider,\u201d as you browse and lean in to the work to discover discrete elements and texture.\u00a0 In the sea of this nature-inspired collection hide little gems and secrets and morsels of detail folded into the shadows. \u00a0Engulfed in blankets of undulating petals and shells emerge succulent, embossed, shiny little pods and pearls and seeds.\u00a0 These components, hiding in crevices and nestled into small nooks in the sculpture almost breathe life into each piece.\u00a0\u00a0 The attention to minutiae and liberties with color help the work come to life in a very organic, elegant, and dynamic way.<\/p>\n

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