November 16, 2015 at 3:20 p.m.
ArtStart to open winter exhibition Nov. 19
ArtStart to open winter exhibition Nov. 19
Mountain is a series of five digital images of generic mountains generated from photographs of lava cone formations in Iceland. While the works are not images of particular mountains, Hilyard says "All my work relates in some way to a quality of experience that has been described as 'the Sublime.'"
"I feel that there is something universal about the attraction of the Sublime. A lot of my recent work is inspired by the fact that the human mind has always longed for this quality of experience, has always struggled to encapsulate it in its creations, and yet so often this fails," he said in a press release announcing the exhibition. "My interest in digital media is focused on its ever-growing capabilities to simulate the world around us, not as it is, but as we wish it to be." Hilyard is currently a professor of Digital Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he creates artwork in a variety of media. His work has been exhibited across the United States and abroad.
In Portfolio, Dinges uses recycled Apple computers and PVC pipe as media to create engravings that evoke "the impact of industry and globalization on our culture." He has chosen PVC plastic because it is both ubiquitous in our contemporary environment and toxic in nature.
"In my art practice, by drawing parallels through the use of scale and materials, I want to ask the viewers to contemplate their own relationship to their social and physical environment," Dinges said. "The human species, as we know it, is under tremendous pressure to conform to conditions that exploit our fears and needs. Will we, as a civilization, acquiesce or resist those forces to try to mold us into what they want?" The artist lives and works in Illinois.
ArtStart Gallery, 68 S. Stevens St. in Rhinelander, is open Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fridays from 1 to 7 p.m., and Saturdays from 11 to 5. Admission is by donation to ArtStart. For information on this and other ArtStart programs, visit www.ArtStartRhinelander.org.
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