solo exhibition of Craig Voligny
American artist and Fulbright Fellow, Craig Voligny, has spent the past seven months immersed in the Kenting National Park viewing the Kenting Reef up close on land and in the water. This exhibit is the result of that experience.
The Kenting Reef is a living seascape, like all living things it can be healthy, ill or in recovery. By interpreting the reef conceptually through the basic philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, art-works have been created to abstractly represent coral colonies as organs of the reef ecology .
In combination with naturalistic observations, imagery has been referenced from science diagrams and graphic representations of temperature, water circulation and light distribution related to the reef ecology.
Location
The National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
3rd Pavilion-3rd floor
2 Houwan Road, Checheng, Pingtung, 944, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Contact
Chiang Hai (Ocean) ocean@nmmba.gov.tw
Craig Voligny craigvoligny@gmail.com
Exhibition Dates：April 22nd- May 31st, 2011
Reception: April 26th, 2-4 pm
About the artist: Craig Voligny
Craig A. Voligny was born in St. Ignace, Michigan (U.S.A.) in 1974. Since then he has lived in Ohio, Oregon, Alaska, Arkansas, Dalian and Changchun of China and now Taiwan. He studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design and graduated with a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. He has been a Fulbright Fellow for the purpose of creative research related to the Kenting Reef of Taiwan since 2010.