UNLV student artist Danielle M. Kelly will display her masters thesis exhibit, Master of the Obvious, April 9-13 in UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery (895-3893). We asked her about her image “echolocator”:
“Not unlike the sonar used by bats or whales, the drawings in the series echolocation are lost graphic vibrations in search of one another. I love the idea of drawing as an action, and in this series I think of the drawings as retaining some vibration from the act of dragging pencil across paper. As echolocation, they describe their position in direct relation to the space and density that surrounds them, potentially shifting in dimension as a response to surrounding architecture and objects as well as human bodies. In this way, I find them to be interactive and optimistic, with the viewer serving as a reflective sonar device. The echolocation drawings emit vibrations, which then become sonic reverberations that bounce off of the viewer and back to the drawings, aiding the echoes in finding one another.”