From OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery in the Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts is hosting a solo show by award-winning local artist Julia LaBay.
The exhibit opened Thursday, Aug.22 and continues through Oct.r 18. Hours of the Walter E. Terhune Gallery are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. The gallery is open by appointment only on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
LaBay is a 3D technical assistant and instructor in the University of Toledo Department of Art. She is also the curator for the Blair Museum of Lithophanes. She was most recently awarded an Artist in Residency at Imagination Station during the summer of 2024.
In her artist statement, LaBay wrote:
“My most recent work has been investigating tools and the space they occupy. I experiment by way of, how things take on new meaning depending on placement and orientation in space. Through my own understanding of exploration with material I’m creating a visual language.
“Tools have been the one constant in my life and career. As a woman artist, designer, educator and Jill of all trades. There’s a different language you learn when working with tools, that relationship tells you their limits through your own senses.
“By taking my daily life as subject matter and referencing human interaction. I approach a wide scale of materials and processes in a multi-layered way. I investigate space and material, I lure the viewer into moments that exist to punctuate human interaction in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in my everyday life. To see is a metamorphosis, not a mechanism.”
For more information on the exhibit, please visit owens.edu/fpa/cfpa/julialabay.
