Thomas Buildmore and Morgan Thomas: Semiopticon August 14, 2009

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University is pleased to present 'Semiopticon,' an installation by Thomas Buildmore and Morgan Thomas. The installation aims to explore the use of semiotic symbols seen throughout historic and contemporary art, and recognizable to our audience, to transform the gallery into a sacred and worshipped space. In the same way the Capuchin monks decorated their walls with skulls, the elaborate paintings of the Sistine Chapel, and the illustrated scenes of future hunts by cavemen, the paintings on each gallery wall strive to reflect on this innate drive in human nature to communicate through decoration.