After History and Demons nature/nurture Exhibit

Come to the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University between September 1 and October 3, 2010 to enjoy two Faculty Exhibits.  After History and Demons nature/nurture features the work of FIU’s very own faculty: Jacek J. Kolasinski, a video-art professor and Kathy Dambach, who teaches 3-D design.

After History features silhouettes of toy like planes and zeppelins anxiously hover over the ghostly balsa ruins of an industrial metropolis shrouded by a sense of nostalgia for an irrevocably lost fantasy is the central stage of Kolasinski's multimedia installation entitled After History. A three-dimensional "drawing" drafted by the interplay of shadows and flickers of light interlaced with the miniature porticos, facades, colonnades, and industrial architecture, synthesizes the unattainable dissipating memory of the future. 

The exhibition, Demons nature/nurture, references Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name in the context of classical ceramics. 

Dambach's work in the exhibition explores demons as personal and political, humorous and lethal, and how one negotiates self doubt, one's place in the world and the political ramifications. Much of the imagery in the exhibition has been developed from a single Venus figurine, found by the artist. The found form has been reconfigured into 26 provocative vignettes as political and social commentary. Along with these vignettes there are other larger figurative pieces and humorous portraits.