NASHVILLE, Tenn. – An installation by Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Louis Cameron marks the first exhibition by an outside artist at Vanderbilt University’s new E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center.
Projected Works runs March 13-24 at the Studio Arts Center at 1204 25th Ave. S. on the Vanderbilt campus. The installation is free and open to the public during business hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Projected Works is a two-part installation, including the world premiere of a new slide projection and Cameron’s acclaimed video Universal. It was organized by James H. Dickerson II, assistant professor of physics.
Universal, a fluent, animated compilation of several hundred UPC barcodes, presents the common appendage to consumable goods as a meditation on light and contrast. The new slide projection consists of red, green and blue clusters, projected onto a white canvas. The colors engage and orbit each other like celestial bodies.
Cameron has exhibited widely. He was included in the First Moscow Biennale (2005) and the major survey of abstract art, Extreme Abstraction (2005), at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. His work has been featured in major museum exhibitions, which include Freestyle (2001) at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Open House (2004) at the Brooklyn Museum, and Buy American (2004) at Chez Valentin in Paris. In 2003, Cameron completed the Artists-in-Residence Program at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Cameron received his MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He is represented by I-20 Gallery in New York.
Projected Works is sponsored in part by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, The College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Art and Art History, Vanderbilt University.
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