'Rustic' by Justin Burwinkel and Emily Moorhead Featured in Park National Bank Art Gallery

Rustic by Justin Burwinkel and Emily Moorhead will be featured in the Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College from January 31 – February 22.  An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 10, 6-8 p.m.

Burwinkel, a local photographer and presently a doctoral student in the College of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati prides himself as an avid artist-scientist and Moorhead, with a master of fine arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO., and a bachelor of fine arts from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio is a mixed media artist. 
 
This duo exhibit offers sentimental imagery of local historical treasures through Burwinkel’s photography as well as a glimpse of cultural contradictions through Moorhead’s three dimensional works that leave room for critical contemplation.  
 

Burwinkel finds the precious beauty in our area’s ever diminishing structures such as railroads, barns and bridges, “Blessed, too, was I to have grown up in an area still populated with beautiful wooden barns and covered bridges.  As I began photographing the world, I felt drawn to these fleeting wooden structures, even those that had begun to tumble down, that still existed around me.” Moorhead’s works engage the viewer in examining social contradictions, “Examples can be found in personal conflicting experiences like the kindness of a stranger who advocates gun use/ownership…” she states “Through my work I attempt to reconfigure what has been presented as truth, initiate conversations, and generate empathy.” 

The Park National Bank Art Gallery is located in the Snyder building on the UC Clermont College campus in Batavia at 4200 Clermont College Drive. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. The gallery is closed on Sundays. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.