Student show explores archetypes in Englewood - #lakewoodnews

"Archetype Revival" explores ways in which traditional archetypes can be reinvented -- the theme for the 2016 class of nine Design and Build students at Museum Outdoor Arts this summer. Traditional archetypes can indeed be reinvented -- and a group working together can do some really creative thinking and problem solving, both intellectually and technically."Original Forms and players are explored: from Tarot Card characters to classical Greek Theater. The Jungian Figures -- from Hero to Trickster are also redefined ...," says the program. The viewer is invited to reinvent as well.Working under the direction of Master Artist Cory Gilstrap for eight weeks, the group of college-age artists created collaborative pieces, such as "Grizzly-Oscar," which rears up to meet the visitor just inside the gallery doors.Built on a taxidermist's huge grizzly bear form, Oscar has a smile and a coat of cheerful plaid quilt scraps stitched together in lieu of a furry coat. The group also built "Teacup Teddy," a bit farther in, a more approachable, smaller teddy bear type which is made from broken china cups and saucers glued over a teddy form. One immediately starts forming ideas and words to talk about the contrast.Along the walls are individual projects by each artist as well as more collaborative works: "Happy Weapons," for example, features a group of weapons intended to kill, but delicately covered by beautiful silk flowers. Their statement comments, "By rendering the devices impractical, the piece highlights the true purpose of weaponry."A complex assemblage of traditional forms set on and around a mantel -- and painted shades of gray -- is called "The Collective Unconscious," and the explanation refers to Carl Jung, who "theorized the human psyche as being comprised of archetypes -- universal or mythic characters, images, patterns and symbols that are models of people, behaviors and personalities, which reside in the unconscious mind and are shared among all human beings. The structure from which these archetypes arise is called the Collective Unconscious."Plan to allow some time to visit this engaging exhibit. One needs to circle around and make multiple visits to groups of objects and single items and contemplate the explanations given and their interrelationships.The students involved are both local and from across the country: Alyssa Edmunds, Colen Hansen, Tiffany Matheson, Kalli Padgett, Travis Powell, Emma Scher, Brennan Turner, Amanda Vela and Natasha Vidger. There is an exhibit by Design and Build alumni in the atrium: Lanka, Georges Loewenguth and Jesse Nickell.If you goThe Museum Outdoor Arts is located at 1000 Englewood Parkway, in the Englewood Civic Center. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. 303-806-0444. Moaonline.org.

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