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Current Exhibitions
Aesthetic Engineering: The Imagination Cycle
Artist(s): Ginny Ruffner
Exhibition Dates: 07/04/2008 through 10/12/2008
Reception Date: 08/23/2008
Reception Time: 2 - 5 pm
Aesthetic Engineering: The Imagination Cycle features new large-scale sculpture and installation work that cross-fertilizes flora, fauna and art. This exhibition is a mix of glass, steel and bronze, with explosive flowers, massive leaves, and twisted growing vines, including over 1,000 flowers, and eighteen freestanding sculptures made from bronze, steel and glass.
GINNY RUFFNER: ARTIST STATEMENT
AESTHETIC ENGINEERING SERIES
The Aesthetic Engineering Series is a group of metal and glass sculptures originally inspired by recent extraordinary developments in genetic engineering - particularly inter-kingdom gene sharing between animals and plants. This combining of the genetic material of two kingdoms, as well as the suggestion of genetic rationale for certain behaviors, predicts almost infinite possibilities for new genetic traits.
Developed in response to these intriguing challenges that stretch the imagination, Aesthetic Engineering Series is the 'what if' imaginative hybridizing of entities that often neither have genes, nor the ability to reproduce.
The goals of the Aesthetic Engineering Series are twofold - increased beauty, and the intellectual stimulation of of visual thought experiments.
SPECIAL EXHIBIT CELEBRATION AND BOOK SIGNING
Saturday, August 23rd, 2-5 pm
Ginny Ruffner's exhibit, Aesthetic Engineering: The Imagination Cycle, is celebrated with a reception and book signing of her latest pop-up book, The Imagination Cycle. These highly collectible books will be available for sale in the Museum Store.
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