Monday, November 3
Matt Wilt, mixed media sculpture
Reception: Gallery 406, 12:30 p.m.
Artist talk: Gallery 406, 5 p.m.
Wilt’s art references the body and its uneasy union with the artificial or mechanical. Symbolic forms include the hand and objects used as surrogates for the body: bottle nipples, respirator bags, sex toys and prosthetics. These forms as manufactured objects replicating natural functions act as substitutes for nature. Wilt finds this composite of the physical body and the synthetic world simultaneously fascinating and frightening and attempts to connect threads that link many disparate elements of history, culture and what it is to be human. Exhibition continues through December 4.