Site Specific Installations 

Artists:   Chris Nau and Douglas Weathersby

When:    April 15 – December 5, 2008

Where:   Map Hill Residence Hall, Main Entry Lounge, Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.

Join us:  Reception, April 15^th, 5 – 7 p.m.

               Artist’s Talk – Douglas Weathersby, April 15^th, 4 p.m.

               Artist’s Talk – Chris Nau, April 16^th, 5 p.m.

      Chris Nau, 2008                      Douglas Weathersby, 2008

Boston area artists Chris Nau and Douglas Weathersby will be creating site specific art Installations in Map Hill and Putney Residence Halls. While each artist uses very different materials and methods, both play with definitions of drawing and their interpretations of real and perceived space.

In the Map Hill Main Entry Lounge, Chris Nau will create a large scale abstraction by drawing directly on the wall with graphite and cutting through it with a jig saw. The finished artwork is sculptural relief and drawing.  Nau’s abstractions, derived from “animals, religious icons and machines” are beautiful mysterious hybrids.

Chris Nau received his BFA from the University of Washington and MFA from Mass Art. Currently based in Boston he has shown throughout the U.S. and in the U.K.

Douglas Weathersby’s interest in “questions of perception and how we construct personal space” prompted him to take multi-shot panoramic portraits of Map Hill and Putney residents’ rooms.  From these photographs he will create mural size photomontages that bring together elements from various rooms that represent students’ diversity of self-expression and their experiences of compartmentalization and connections, community and fragmentation.

Douglas Weathersby received his MFA from Mass Art. He also earned the 2003 ICA Artist Prize. Weathersby owns and operates EnvironMental Services, a company which incorporates his art and livelihood by combining conceptual art practices with cleaning/construction services.

For more information, email Artist-in-Residence Danielle Krcmar, Krcmar@babson.edu, or call the Sorenson Center at 781-239-5888.