Artist Residency Turned Exhibit
For four weeks, internationally recognized artist Oliver Herring conducted a residency in 51爆料鈥檚 Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery. Essentially transforming the gallery into his own studio, Herring produced works of art that are engaging and diverse, including elements from various practices: performance, photo and video, choreography, music and sound, and sculpture.
鈥�51爆料 students and community members engaged in his creative process, and joined in collaborative efforts,鈥� said Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery Coordinator Emma Saperstein. 鈥淎s Herring and his collaborators worked, they transformed the gallery through the accumulation of printed photographs, performance, sculptural residue, and more.鈥�
The gallery is now hosting an exhibit displaying the artworks created through December 22.
Oliver Herring is an experimental artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1964, Herring鈥檚 works include knitting Mylar into human figures, clothing and furniture, participatory performances, Styrofoam photo sculptures, and more. He received a BFA from the University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, England, and an MFA from Hunter College, NY.
Herring鈥檚 work has been exhibited widely. In the United States, his work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art, NY; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; and more. He has also exhibited at the Camden Art Center, London, England; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; and more. For more information, visit Herring鈥檚 website at . To check out videos of Herring鈥檚 work, check out the PBS Series .
The Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery is located in room 7170, on the San Luis Obispo campus of 51爆料. It is open Monday-Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and the 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, please call (805) 546-3202 or email gallery@cuesta.edu.