COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Brit Bunkley will discuss his art at a presentation entitled, “The Whimsical Apocalypse” at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities on the campus of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
During the free event, Bunkley plans to discuss his recent work that “crosses the mediums of digital video and animation, monumental sculpture and installation utilizing apocalyptic anxiety with possible whimsical existential resolutions.” His work combines public art installations and digital three-dimensional visions.
Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist whose current art practice includes public art, sculpture, installation, and the creation of moving and still images and architecture designed using computer 3D modeling, video and image editing programs, with content emphasizing an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony.
Bunkley is represented in numerous international collections and has completed a dozen permanent and temporary public art projects. In addition, he has received several grants and fellowships including a Wallace Trust grant in New Zealand and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the U.S.
Recent international group exhibitions include Sanctioned Array-Other2 Specify at the White Box gallery in New York City, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid at the Centre Pompidou and at the Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Spain; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Images Contre Nature 2011international festival of experimental video, Marseille, France, FILE 2011at the SESI’ Cultural Centre Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art where he won third prize for his video “Paradox of Plenty.” Bunkley’s most recent solo exhibition was at the Suite Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, in June 2012. He will have a solo exhibition at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland January- March 2013.
Bunkley has completed a dozen temporary and permanent public art projects. Most recently Bunkley completed the commission Hear My Train in Wanganui, New Zealand, in April.
For more information and to see examples of Bunkley’s works, visit http://britbunkley.com/
To reach the Heller Center, visitors should enter from North Nevada Avenue, turning east onto North Campus Heights Road. For more information about the Heller Center or to see a map, please visit http://www.uccs.edu/~heller/contact.html
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