{"id":45546,"date":"2016-10-26T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45546"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:21:43","slug":"nau-art-museum-welcomes-new-narrative-art-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-art-museum-welcomes-new-narrative-art-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Art Museum welcomes new &#8216;narrative&#8217; art exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new art exhibit, <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>A Subjective Archaeology: Recent Works by John O&#8217;Connell, <\/i>will be<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0on display at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/CAL\/Art-Museum\/\">Northern Arizona University Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">from Nov. 1 through Dec. 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A free, public opening reception with artist John O\u2019Connell is from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of the works in this exhibition manifests a process that is essentially open-ended,\u201d says John O&#8217;Connell, associate professor in painting and drawing at the University of Utah. &#8220;These painted moments are built layer upon layer as an accumulated history, only to be lost and obscured by the layering of the next moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a provocative duplicity involved in John O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s works in that, at first sight, they appear to have been created out of found objects repurposed for art making. In fact, O&#8217;Connell is expressing a memory, as he describes it, \u2018of the marginalized spaces of my youth in postindustrial New England\u2019 through immensely complicated layerings of new wood and paint,\u201d says <strong>George V. Speer<\/strong>, director of NAU&#8217;s museum.<\/p>\n<p>During the reception, complimentary parking is available on north campus in lots P3, P4 (ADA), P8 and parallel spaces on Knoles Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The NAU Art Museum is located at 620 S Knoles Drive in Flagstaff, and is open from Noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. For daytime parking information, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Parking-Shuttle-Services\/Guest-Parking\/\">NAU Guest\u00a0Parking\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-art-museum-welcomes-new-narrative-art-exhibit\/\">A new art exhibit, A Subjective Archaeology: Recent Works by John O&#8217;Connell, will be\u00a0on display at the Northern Arizona University Art Museum\u00a0from Nov. 1 through Dec. 3.\u00a0 A free, public opening reception with artist John O\u2019Connell is from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3. \u201cEach of the works in this exhibition manifests a process that is&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":45550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}