A Solo Project by Dawit Petros January 7, 2010

Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Department of Studio Art Emerging Artist Series presents
A Solo Project by Dawit Petros

Jan. 7 - Feb. 6
Opening Reception:Jan. 7, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Room Gallery (R); Admission is free.

Dawit Petros’ semi-autobiographical artworks investigate the confluence of place and subjectivity through the lens of modernist aesthetics inspired by Adrian Piper, Vito Acconci and Sol LeWitt. Drawing upon his impressions of emigrating from the small East African country of Eritrea to the United States by way of Saskatchewan, Canada, Petros balances the complex histories of Western Aesthetics and Global Diaspora – two corpuses typically opposed – in a poetic and philosophic manner.

University Art Gallery (UAG) Bldg. 712 and ROOM (R) Bldg. 727, Room 1200
Open Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Information: (949) 824-9854; gallery@uci.edu
www.ucigallery.com

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