Artwork by a University of Wisconsin-Stout faculty member has been featured at three galleries this summer, including an ongoing exhibit at the University of Wisconsin.
Daniel Atyim, an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design, has had exhibits at Beloit College’s Wright Museum of Art in Beloit; the First Stage Gallery in Virginia, Minn.; and at the Class of 1925 Gallery in the Memorial Union at UW-Madison.
The Madison exhibit, “Unsound Methods,” runs through Friday, Sept. 15.
The gallery says Atyim is an artist “seduced by color. His latest work highlights the textural properties of oil paint. The resulting topography of paint interacts with the underlying surface, clarifying or obscuring your shifting perception of the forms represented. The images suggest reconfigured human fragments, the natural world and forgotten spaces.”
Atyim’s works feature rows of various colored discs that shadow underpaintings.
“Exploring the function and meaning of surfaces, I find transition implicit in facades. I am interested in the ways that surfaces describe and dim underlying structures,” he said.
“The layer of colored discs obscure the surface and impede translation. These fragments, sparring with the translation of the image, don’t quite create a complete narrative.”
Atyim’s painting “Between the Mounds” was the cover artwork for the July 12 issue of Volume One magazine in Eau Claire.
Atyim has a Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University.
UW-Stout’s School of Art and Design offers six undergraduate majors and a Master of Fine Arts in design.
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Assistant Professor Daniel Atyim, right, works with a student in a Drawing II class in February.
“Between the Mounds” by Daniel Atyim features circles of oil paint over a subsurface painting.
