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Jun26 Wednesday
Live-Work: matthew anthony batty, Dakota Parkinson & Andrés RamirezGallery221@HCC Dale Mabry Campus | 2nd floor DLRCMarch 18 – June 27, 2024Closing reception Wednesday, June 26, 5-8 p.m.
Our environments are changing. As their inhabitants, we too are changing. The relationships between people and places are constantly renegotiated as we act on the world and it, in turn, acts on us. Live-Work is an exploration of built environments in transition and how we move through them. It takes its name from the language of mixed-use development, asking us to consider the connection between labor, recreation, daily life, and cultural perceptions of place. Three artists—matthew anthony batty, Dakota Parkinson and Andrés Ramirez—speak to the transformative processes involved in placemaking through media such as installation, ceramic sculpture and photography.
matthew anthony batty’s transdisciplinary practice explores dark ecology, nature/culture and environmental justice. They earned an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University. Dakota Parkinson is a ceramic artist and educator examining materiality and change in both body and place. She is currently artist in residence at the Morean Center for Clay. Andrés Ramirez’s photographic practice considers the personal and political. He received his MFA from the University of South Florida.