Photo provided by WWCC
ROCK SPRINGS – The Art Gallery at Western Wyoming Community College will open its newest exhibit, “Coincidences…. Mishaps,” by Wyoming artist David Jones, on Friday, Jan. 22. It will run through Thursday, Feb. 25. Jones’s work considers land-use issues in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West through the lens of scale-model images and other mediums, according to a release from WWCC.
Jones will give an artist’s talk about “Coincidences…. Mishaps” and his work process at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, in the WWCC Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.
Jones is an Instructional Art Technician at the University of Wyoming. Originally from Augusta, Ga., Jones moved to Laramie about 11 years ago.
“Since I moved to Wyoming, I have been interested in exploring ideas about land use in regards to governmental policy, supply and demand, and our priorities as a nation, as well as what the manmade elements found within the landscape can tell us about the human condition,” Jones says in his artists’ statement.
“The work that David will share with Western and the local community is an ongoing project,” explained WWCC Gallery Director and Professor of Art Florence McEwin, Ph.D. in a press release. “David discovered an abandoned trailer and recreated that trailer in a scale model, which was photographed and then filmed while being destroyed. It became a removal surrogate for the original trailer. The artist controls his or her environment, whether within a painting or through non-traditional means.
“‘Coincidences… Mishaps’ is an intriguing presentation. The gallery works are photographs of the scale model and visual reference concepts that introduce ideas for the viewer to mull over,” McEwin said.
For more information on this exhibit or on the forthcoming artist’s talk, please contact Gallery Director and Professor of Art Florence McEwin at [email protected].