COLLECTION NAME:
Art and Art History Student Work
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Halted Rhythm
Image Title:
detail view
Work Description:
Artist statement: St. Louis born artist Aidan Patrick Welby explores the relationship between land use and communal identity; a place and its people. Approaching this relationship through a lens of environmentalism, Welby is both captured by and critical of the ways in which a community’s reliance upon the land is shaped by its regional identity and yet ultimately destructive to the land. // Welby’s work is tied to language. Drawing upon written codes of law and oral folk traditions, he views his work as a synthesis of objective prose and subjective poetics; two modes of thought bound into a single visual sentence. Often enacting process based work, Welby replicates industrial practice in a concentrated manner. The result, an altered land-object, can be seen as exploitative, and yet a potent means of demonstration. Other work is rooted in folklore, centuries old understandings of a people and a place, collapsing these timeless tales into a singular contemporary moment of political and environmental critique. // Welby’s work evolves from its location, a regionalist approach which aims to combat 21st century ideas of a globalized culture; forefronting communal identity over the commonalities which transcend time and place to define us as human. // His thesis work, the proposed Weeping Wall explores the geologic impacts of extractive industry. A large stone of ochre—the earth pigment famously used by early humans—sourced from an open-pit mine, is embedded into the gallery wall, and subjected to a circuitous flow of falling water. As the boulder erodes, the iron-rich pigments stain the white wall, leaving behind artifacts of passing time. The work exists as a geologic hourglass, a mass of earth at odds with gravity and time to create a contemporary landscape painting of dynamism and impermanence.
Work Dates (display):
2019
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Aidan Patrick Welby (American, born 1997)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
Thesis not found on file (last checked: 02/20/2024)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
BFA 2020, Art and Art History
Work Creator memberOf:
Sculpture and Post-Studio Practices student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
Work Subject:
earthworks (sculpture)
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earthworks (sculpture)
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Work Subject:
identity
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identity
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Work Subject:
landscapes (environments)
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landscapes (environments)
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false
Work Subject:
environmentalism
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environmentalism
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false
Work Subject:
language (verbal communication)
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language (verbal communication)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
folklore (culture-related concept)
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folklore (culture-related concept)
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false
Work Subject:
culture
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culture
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false
Work Subject:
nature
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nature
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false
Work Subject:
time
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time
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false
Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
granite, steel, drywall
Work Measurements (display):
10 ft (H) x 10 ft (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado Art Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© Aidan Patrick Welby
Work Rights (display):
© Aidan Patrick Welby
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection:
Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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