Design professor investigates creativity and commerce with industrial processes

EXHIBITION: MAY TVEIT AND AVANTIKA BAWA’S TEMPLATE DAYS

Design professor May Tveit’s work was brought together with that of Portland, OR/New Delhi-based artist Avantika Bawa in a two-person exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum.

In Template Days: Avantika Bawa & May Tveit, the two artists/educators’ wall-mounted assemblages and prints called forth the bearing of history, creativity, craft, and mass production.

Created serially by using templates and repetitive fabrication techniques – both handmade and digital – the artists repurposed industrial materials to realize sculptural wall projections and inked surfaces from which to produce prints on paper.

The resulting geometric topographies reference ancient architectural forms, painterly expressions of light and shadow, and compositional challenges created through precise and unmasked manipulations of utilitarian materials. Installed on the gallery walls, the compilation of work invited viewers to explore the relationship between aesthetics, function, and making.