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Jim Cogswell: Meanwhile
Colorful and exciting, Cogswell's work originates in the figure; by the time the piece is completed the figure has merged into an abstract design.
Mon, Oct 12th to Fri, Dec 11th, Library
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Mon/Tues
10 am – 6 pm
Wed/Thur
10 am – 8 pm
Fri
10 am – Noon
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WCC Home: Resources: Other Resources: Gallery One, WCC's Art Gallery
The Art of Architecture
June 18 - July 27, 2001
This exhibition explores the relationship between art and architecture by focusing on architectural drawings and renderings. As a key step in the planning stages preceding the construction of architectural forms, architectural drawings serve to logistically anchor architecture in two-dimensions. Problems can thus be dealt with on a safe and manageable scale because of the drawings' ability to represent materials and sizes in an economic way. But the value of architectural drawings does not start and end with their technical utility; they are also spaces in which to explore solutions and create possibilities.
Can and do these drawings—which are so essential to the architectural planning process but which may or may not come to fruition—stand as artworks in their own right? "The Art of Architecture" hopes to raise questions like this in response to the collection of architectural drawings and renderings by Washtenaw Community College faculty and students. In addition, drawings and models of historically significant buildings will also be on view, highlighting the way in which architecture, like art, is a record of the passage of time. The changes in drawing and rendering that technology has made possible serve to reinforce this idea, and they are a key part of the exhibition as well.
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