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Morgan Craig Art Reception

February 27, 2017

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MACOMB, IL – Western Illinois University to host a public reception for Morgan Craig's "Razing The New Deal: An Exploration in Architecture and Identity" from 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, Marcy 2, in the University Art Gallery. The paintings can be viewed through April 7.

Craig creates large-scale works of art that displays the ruins of urban dwellings, factories, asylums and penitentiaries. Craig believes the ruins of society offer insight into individual ideologies that's present in a given landscape.

"Beauty is never so affecting as when it is about to disappear.," said Craig. This is the basis of his art as he tries to bring out the beauty of a decaying society.

"I believe that architectural structures acting as both repositories and as vehicles for memory profoundly influence culture and identity by providing a tangible framework through which facets of a society can be expressed.," he said. "Consequently, I have been inspired to build a body of work dealing with how identity is influenced by the types of architectural edifices present in a given landscape, specifically post-industrial edifices. My work is not merely a method of documentation, but a sociopolitical commentary on the effects of hubris, avarice, free trade, outsourcing, deregulated capitalism, and technological obsolescence upon communities throughout the world."

To view more of Craig's work, visit morgancraig.org/www.morgancraig.org/Threshold.html

Posted By: Nicholas Doty (WIUNews@wiu.edu)
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