From Beginning to End: Peter Barbor

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

Peter Barbor

Peter Barbor, Ceramics BFA 2010

Actaeon

Actaeon is the central figure in an ancient Greek myth. A hunter who accidentally happens upon the virgin goddess Diana bathing in the woods, he is transformed into a stag and ripped limb from limb by his hounds as punishment for the transgression of viewing her unclothed body. As the hunter becomes the hunted, Actaeon dies as a direct result of the innocent sin of his sexuality. In this reiteration of the ancient story, Actaeon’s tragedy is embodied in the brittleness and fragility of bisqued and unfired clay. Helplessly suspended off the ground, Actaeon is reduced to the husk of a man, frozen in the futility of his transformation, both a man and a monster.

From Beginning to End