From Beginning to End: Patrick Egger

From Beginning to End

October 30-December 18

Reception: October 29 from 6pm-8pm

Our lives are inextricably linked. The artists in this exhibition explore birth, life, and death in different ways, all attempting to understand their own relationship with the world.

Our lives have a beginning and end whether we believe it is predetermined or by chance, we all experience our world in different ways. Some believe that personal stories and memories are what define our lives. Some fixate on illness and our progression towards death while others take comfort in the fact that they are part of a cycle that is ongoing. Even though we look at life differently we will experience birth and new beginnings as well as mourn the loss of someone close.

This exhibition asks the viewer to reflect on and question their own personal feelings about life and death, and leave with a deeper understanding of their own mortality.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Patrick Egger

Patrick Egger, Printmaking MFA 2010

Camping in Canyonlands, Utah… It’s Raining Babies. 1:29 a.m. July 5^th 2138

Born Again Bird

Drawing and portraiture are the primary interests of Patrick Eggers’ work. He uses these long-established methods to reinvigorate not only the question and purpose of drawing, but also as a way to explore our culture today. Camping in Canyonlands, Utah… It’s Raining Babies. 1:29 a.m. July 5^th 2138 imagines a society very changed in the future, where overpopulation leads to a storm of babies falling from the sky. In the piece Born Again Bird, Egger explores the idea of rebirth through his character who imagines what it would be like to be reborn a bird.

From Beginning to End