Cazenovia College Art Gallery Hosts Thea Augustina Eck Installation

Caption: Untitled image from the “Ulluq: Encountering the North” installation by Thea Augustina Eck.

Cazenovia, NY – Thea Augustina Eck will be on hand for the opening reception of her exhibition, “Ulluq: Encountering the North,” on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 4 to 5:30 p.m., at the Cazenovia College Art Gallery. The exhibition runs through Friday, Oct. 30.

The Cazenovia College Art Gallery is on the corner of Sullivan and Seminary streets in Cazenovia. Hours during the academic year are: Monday through Thursday, 1-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 1-4 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 2-6 p.m. Summer hours vary.

For information contact Jennifer Pepper, gallery director, by e-mail to jpepper@cazenovia.edu, by phone at 315-655-7138. Information is also on the Web at www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery.

In her artist’s statement, Eck writes, ‘the title for the show stems from Canadian Inuit and English. There is a tension between the insider (Ulluq), which in this case is the landscape, and the outsider (Encountering the North), which are the lone figures.”

After earning her bachelor of arts degree in fine arts from Alfred University and the New York State School for Ceramics, and her master of fine arts degree from the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design, Eck received two Rackham Graduate School grants to do archive research in England, Norway and Denmark, on 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploratory history. In 2008 she received the Redstone/Dybvig Award from the School of Art & Design.

Eck’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently in the “Polar Attractions” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. Selected photographs from her “It Is Never Tomorrow” series won honorable mention in the New York Camera Club’s 2008 National Juried Show. Eck just completed research as an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow and Lois Roth Endowment Fellow at the Arctic Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her final exhibition received additional funding from the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy in Denmark. The 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia will host a solo show of Eck’s work in April 2010.

Cazenovia College Art Gallery Hosts Thea Augustina Eck Installation

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