Felecia Chizuko
Carlisle's "Ee-glee's gate" was created specifically for the Schmidt
Center Gallery
Public Space at Florida Atlantic University in Boca
Raton.
(Photo by Jonathan D. Marcus)
'Unique contribution' to FAU campus
Miami-based artist Felecia Chizuko Carlisle's "Ee-glee's gate" occupies a portion of the Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space at Florida Atlantic University's Performing Arts Building.
The work is the first offering of the "southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art" show. The complete exhibit will be displayed at the school's University Galleries early next year.
"It's definitely a unique contribution," said Rod Faulds, University Galleries' director and "southXeast" co-curator. "Like any art, you might not get it the first time you see it. You need to immerse yourself in it."
The piece has dozens of white-painted wooden slabs that span between two corridor walls like a suspended castle or cathedral. This frame, which was inspired by the architectural and mathematical concepts of Gothic cathedrals, contains four projectors that each cast images of 16 tracings on both walls. The images make use of light and shadow, which transition into different geometric patterns over time.
"I just want the people who use this space on a regular basis to have a different experience of it," Carlisle said.
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