Erschen and Wilson bring compelling work to USF Moser Performing Arts Center gallery
The University of St. Francis presents the highly
visually compelling work of Paul Erschen and Dave
Wilson.
The show runs through Dec. 31 in the university’s
Moser Performing Arts Center gallery. The public
is invited to lectures by the artists on their
works at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 6 and Thursday,
Oct. 14. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays
through Thursdays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays. For
weekend hours or other information, call (815)
740-3404.
Linked materially through their use of collage, photography and modest scale, the works of Wilson and Erschen exist as symptomatic documents, quietly revealing personal and cultural conflicts with history, politics, memory and class identity.
Wilson's contributions, which include small scale paintings, drawings, collage, and extracted journal entries, employ ghostly images, layered textures, and found images in an effort to both poetically reveal and pictorially obscure the artist's varied personal history.
Erschen's drawings, serigraphs, small-scale paintings, and sculpture emerge from seemingly opposing sources to present bleak and confounding accounts of visual experience. Images extracted from publicly available resources, such as microfilm newsreels, catalogs, and reference material become subject to the same damaging pictorial devices as the visual documents generated by Erschen's daily experiences.
Formerly an instructor at the University of St.
Francis, Wilson is an art professor at Black Hills
State University in South Dakota. Erschen is an
art instructor and curator for the Moser Art Gallery
at the University of St. Francis.
The University of St. Francis, at 500 Wilcox St.
in Joliet, serves some 4,300 students nationwide.