{"id":34195,"date":"2018-11-21T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=34195"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:29:42","slug":"senior-art-exhibit-featuring-william-owens-at-bemidji-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/21\/senior-art-exhibit-featuring-william-owens-at-bemidji-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Art Exhibit Featuring William Owens at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Strange\"Badge:<\/a>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ senior, William Owens, will host an art show in Bridgeman Hall’s Gallery X from Nov. 26-30. The art showcase, entitled “Strange Characters,” explores the artistry of font and type using paint, sculpture and mixed media.<\/p>\n

“This exhibit focuses on seeing text and type in a purely aesthetic sense by removing legibility and allowing the viewer to concentrate on the form,” Owens said.<\/p>\n

Owens, of Devils Lake, N.D., will graduate in May 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts. The week-long gallery exhibition is in partial fulfillment of his graduation from the School of Technology, Art and Design.<\/p>\n

“The broad focus of my art is the celebration of the mundane, taking something that’s often overlooked – the shadow in the corner of the room, the texture after patching drywall, the space between the letters you’re reading – and imitating and exemplifying it to make it interesting,” Owens said.<\/p>\n

Bemidji State’s Gallery X is a student-directed gallery that offers students the experience of planning and executing an art show with their own artwork or that of their peers. The gallery is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

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