March 2021 College News

MODERN SOCIETIES I Esther Choi JANUARY 19 – APRIL 1 1 Exploring what photography historian George Baker has referred to as “photography’s expanded field,” Modern Societies I operates in the liminal format of a moving still image—a play on the genre of still life or nature morte. The video work marks a departure from a technique that Esther Choi began exploring nearly fifteen years ago, wherein the artist photographed “post-natural materials” using medium and large format cameras, and then pieced the photographs together by digitally weaving them to create a pictorial surface of continuous landscapes. Modern Societies I features sculptural materials derived from enriched wheat, water and salt, performing symbolically as the earliest materials used for modeling as well as the elements constitutive of the staff of life. THE TEXAS STATE GALLERIES Galleries 1 & 2 are physically located within the School of Art & Design at Texas State Universit y. OTHER ONGOING EXHIBITIONS: STATES OF FLUX Januar y 19–April 11, 2021 OBJECTS IN MIRROR March 8–April 11, 2021 To fnd out more, please visit: www.txstgalleries.org 4 | March | College News College of Fine Arts and Communication | 5