Events
Gallery Talk: Artist John Douglas Powers
November 17, 2023 | 6:00pm
WAM Nights, Adult Events & Programs
Cost:
FREE event. No reservations required.
Location:
Wichita Art Museum
Organizer:
Wichita Art Museum
About this Event
John Douglas Powers, Locus, 2015, Oak, poplar, steel, brass, plastic, and electric motor with two channel video projection, 4 x 22 x 22 feet, Photo courtesy the artist
Join artist John Douglas Powers in WAM’s new Confluence Gallery to learn about his original, site-specific installation, Confluence, commissioned by WAM.
Confluence brings the magic of the tallgrass prairie to the Wichita Art Museum galleries. Comprised of some 700 vertical rods swaying rhythmically like prairie grasses in the wind, Confluence forms a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture. Video projections of Flint Hills skyscapes clad in mirrored stainless steel complete the installation.
John Douglas Powers holds an MFA in sculpture from University of Georgia. He has exhibited at Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and MIT Museum, amongst others. He was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant. Powers currently lives and works in Knoxville where he is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Tennessee.
Confluence will be on view beginning Saturday, November 18, 2023.
Free event. No reservations required. Seating is limited.