{"id":576,"date":"2021-06-15T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=576"},"modified":"2021-06-15T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:57:26","slug":"dawn-cerny-wednesday-may-24th-from-1130-100-pm-in-purce-hall1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/dawn-cerny-wednesday-may-24th-from-1130-100-pm-in-purce-hall1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Cerny: Wednesday, May 24th from 11:30-1:00 pm in Purce Hall1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/Cerny_AT_print-251x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-577\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dawncerny.com\/\">Dawn Cerny\u00a0<\/a>is a multidisciplinary \u00a0artist based in Seattle. Her recent works on paper and in sculpture examine the formal articulation of value and power\u2014or lack thereof\u2014through everyday gestures, bodily postures, and personal aesthetic choices.\u00a0 Cerny\u2019s monochromatic sculptural works also evoke racks, chairs, and cabinets of uncertain purpose, at once amplifying and distorting furniture\u2019s connection to the human form.\u00a0 Amassed together within the gallery, they might comprise a domestic arrangement, a showroom, or a crowd of people, alone together in public space. Like Buster Keaton\u2019s slapstick comedy\u2014a favorite of the artist\u2019s\u2014Cerny\u2019s sculptures can be seen as an absurdist response to the productive rationalism of modern times, one that both represents and is alienated from everyday life. Cerny\u2019s work has been exhibited at many venues including Henry Art Gallery; Or Gallery in Vancouver, Canada; Night Gallery in LA and Derk Eller Gallery in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Cerny\u00a0is a multidisciplinary \u00a0artist based in Seattle. Her recent works on paper and in sculpture examine the formal articulation of value and power\u2014or lack thereof\u2014through everyday gestures, bodily postures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[100,8],"tags":[108,3,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}