Shell-Shocked Shadows: The Covid 19 Series
Shell-Shocked Shadows: The Covid Series
First Floor Hallway of Joyner Library, East Carolina University
Exhibit Dates: October 13th - Extended! This exhibit is still on view on the first floor of Joyner Library at East Carolina University
The black and white print series “Shell-Shocked Shadows” created by artist, Susan Martin Meggs represents a personal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The response is paradoxical with multiple layers of meaning. Shells and beach are associated with family vacations, tranquility. There is the aspect of transparency of the shells in particular. The transparent “jingle” shells suggest the elusive, transparent nature of the virus and by their shape, a pox. At the same time, shells suggest a relaxing family vacation pastime: collecting shells on a beach. Shells are also skeletons of once living beings, and broken shells suggest loss and broken lives. The beach and the ocean itself are paradoxes of peace and calm and beauty, versus at the same time always embodying the threat of ferocious storms, flooding and erosion. The shadows bring up a host of hackneyed narratives: we are shadows of our former selves; the virus is a shadowy, elusive, a threat that lives in the shadows; implications of a looming darkness or an imaginary presence. Again, the paradoxes of light and sunshine and children playing and the shadow of the unseen, or shadow people.
For more information contact Charlotte Fitz Daniels: fitzdanielsc16@ecu.edu 252 328-0287
This exhibition is sponsored by the Friends of Joyner Library
Lightness of Being: A Sense of Place
Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery, Joyner Library, East Carolina University
Exhibit Dates: October 13th - November 30th, 2021
Reception Date: October 14th 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Susan Martin Meggs’ body of artwork in her exhibition, Lightness of Being: A Sense of Place, is strongly influenced by her surroundings as “a sense of place.” As a personal, engaged experience, a sense of place becomes a constantly morphing transformation of identity relative to past and present. Her works are largely divided between landscapes and cityscapes. The landscapes demonstrate juxtaposition of iconography between the built environment and natural forms, as well as the effects of light on the perception of form. A series of oil paintings examines light as cast shadows of natural elements on primarily architectural surfaces.
For more information, contact: Charlotte Fitz Daniels: fitzdanielsc16@ecu.edu (252) 328-0287
This exhibition is sponsored by the Friends of Joyner Library.