Meredith Davis, an instillation artist, will open her latest exhibition in the Barrow's Rotunda at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts on July 21. Soon after, Dartmouth student Kristen Stromberg '94 will be featured in the Senior Fellowship Award Exhibition.
Davis' work reflects her personal reflections of the value systems of our society at large, her transitions in beliefs, dreams and memories are molded into a three-dimensional piece of artwork. Davis has been an installation artist for the past 13 years.
Her most recent installations have focused on women's issues, particularly within the realm of death and dying.
Davis's exhibition at the Hop will be titled "Family Values," with its images of laundry and washing illustrating the economic plight ofwomen caught in the cycle of domestic abuse.
The installation will be on show until Sept. 27.
Davis has exhibited her work at Mobius, Boston's artist-run center for the media, Wheaton College, The Fitchburg Art Museum, The Fuller Art Museum and Simmons College.
Currently, Davis is showing an installation titled, "The Garden's Secret" at the DeCordova Museum as part of its miniature golf exhibition.
Davis graduated from Connecticut College and earned her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art. In 1989, she was awarded a Massachusetts Artist's Foundation Finalist Award in sculpture. She teaches at Monsterrat College of Art and Framingham State College.
From July 27 through Aug. 18 Stromberg will have her work featured at the Hop.
Stromberg's installation, "Double Diamond Hitch" will use sight and sound, integrating music and art via sound sculpture, prerecorded electroacoustic compositions and Piezo electronic sound pickups attached to music.
The installation follows the theme of domestication of animals/nature, paying particular attention to the implements used like harness and yokes and the amount of movement allowed an animal under restraint.
Stromberg will graduate from Dartmouth with a senior fellowship credit instead of her double major of art and music.
