Artwork by a University of Wisconsin-Stout faculty member has been featured at three galleries this summer, including an ongoing exhibit at the University of Wisconsin.
Daniel Atyim, an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design, has had exhibits at Beloit College鈥檚 Wright Museum of Art in Beloit; the First Stage Gallery in Virginia, Minn.; and at the Class of 1925 Gallery in the Memorial Union at UW-Madison.
The Madison exhibit, 鈥淯nsound Methods,鈥 runs through Friday, Sept. 15.
The gallery says Atyim is an artist 鈥渟educed by color. His latest work highlights the textural properties of oil paint. The resulting topography of paint interacts with the underlying surface, clarifying or obscuring your shifting perception of the forms represented. The images suggest reconfigured human fragments, the natural world and forgotten spaces.鈥
Atyim鈥檚 works feature rows of various colored discs that shadow underpaintings.
鈥淓xploring the function and meaning of surfaces, I find transition implicit in facades. I am interested in the ways that surfaces describe and dim underlying structures,鈥 he said.
鈥淭he layer of colored discs obscure the surface and impede translation. These fragments, sparring with the translation of the image, don鈥檛 quite create a complete narrative.鈥
Atyim鈥檚 painting 鈥淏etween the Mounds鈥 was the cover artwork for the July 12 issue of Volume One magazine in Eau Claire.
Atyim has a Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University.
鲍奥-厂迟辞耻迟鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;School of Art and Design offers six undergraduate majors and a Master of Fine Arts in design.
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Assistant Professor Daniel Atyim, right, works with a student in a Drawing II class in February.
鈥淏etween the Mounds鈥 by Daniel Atyim features circles of oil paint over a subsurface painting.
