- Title: Lecture - 'A Sense of Security'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 03/15/2004 - 03/15/2004
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936-3518
- Description: Margo Mensing, Artist, Skidmore College
- Detailed Information: Artists-at-Work Series
Margo Mensing will talk about “A Sense of Security,” now exhibited at the Residential College Art Gallery thorough March 20.
This exhibit consists of mural size “drawings” depicting such iconic world sites as the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Opera House, places the artist has visited. Constructed from thousands of paper circles punched from the inner lining of security envelopes, each image depicts “safe” and familiar places. Yet, in this age of uncertainty, a current of unease permeates the work.
Skidmore College Professor Terence Diggory said of these works: “There is an allure in the shimmering surface of these drawings that continues to fascinate the eye even as the mind increasingly becomes engaged by the several paradoxes put into play by Mensing's choice of medium and subject matter. Among these is the paradox of producing visual representation with material that was originally designed to thwart vision.”
Margo Mensing (Art and Art History, Skidmore College) earned her BA in English and MA in American History from the University of Michigan. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Art History/Theory/Criticism and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A diversity of interests informs both her work and teaching, resulting in provocative installations, collaborations, and curatorial projects involving fiber arts and other mediums.
