'Heritage Habitats' Featured in Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont

Heritage Habitats, a collaborative work created by Michigan-based artists Vicki VanAmeyden and Ginger Owen, will be featured in the Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College from September 2 – 25, 2015. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

VanAmeyden, a Master of Fine Arts in Painting graduate of Western Michigan University and Owen, a Master in Fine Arts in Photography graduate of Louisiana State University, have combined their skills and disciplines to create

Heritage Habitats

, “a series of physical spaces for contemplation and invocation of ancestry.” The two immersive, sculptural installations emphasize the common experiences that bind human beings together. Looking through the lens of nostalgia, the installation engages the viewer in contemplation of the basic stages of life, from birth to death.

The iconic images selected for each installation,

Cairn

and

Grove

, are from the artists’ own family albums. Created to engage the viewer through their own unique experiences within the larger human story,

Cairn

“operates like a box of photographs” that one can sift through to memorialize life that has passed.

Grove

, on the other hand, acts as an interdependent ecosystem - a metaphor for a family. The hanging panels create an abstraction of a forest, which must be disturbed to transform. Both installations together, explore the passage of time as we pursue our own history through self-discovery.

The Park National Bank Art Gallery is located in the Snyder building on the UC Clermont College campus in Batavia at 4200 Clermont College Drive.  Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. The gallery is closed weekends.

About the Park National Bank Gallery - Park National Bank Art gallery at UC Clermont College offers visual art exhibits open to UC Clermont students, faculty, staff and the general public.  Our beautiful and spacious 1,000 square foot gallery is ideally suited to a variety of art exhibits.  The gallery is situated in a highly visible area in the Snyder building, room S140, on the UC Clermont College campus in Batavia, Ohio.

For more information about the Community Arts at UC Clermont College visit: http://www.ucclermont.edu/community/arts.html