2019 ALL Prize Reception | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

2019 ALL Prize Reception

Arts + Literature Laboratory is proud to announce the recipients of the 2019 ALL Prize, an exhibition award for third-year graduate students in the UW-Madison Art Department. This collaboration between ALL and the UW-Madison Art Department provides two outstanding graduating MFA students with an extended exhibition opportunity in the community.

Adriana Barrios will present her MFA thesis exhibition, "Long Range Signal." The exhibition will include etchings, screen prints, works on handmade paper and large scale video projections. Barrios utilizes direct experience, scientific data, and live feed video technology as a way of recording the environmental changes happening along the California coastline.

Taylor Rushing’s MFA thesis exhibition, "Slumgullion ,"(a word for an improvised hobo stew made from a comprehensive search of one’s pantry) focuses on the slippery and often distorted nature of storytelling through video, two-dimensional and sculptural work. Rushing’s wooden works, made of hundreds of pieces of layered wood with thousands of hand whittled cuts, discuss the confluence between modern DIY culture and American vernacular woodworking. His work in video and performance connect us to our past while aiming to level an audience through humor and accessibility.

A reception for the ALL Prize recipients will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2019, 6-9pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Spring gallery hours are Thursday-Friday, 12-4pm, Saturday 11-3pm, and by appointment. Email hello@artlitlab.org to schedule.

Taylor Wright Rushing was born in Tacoma, WA. He received his BA at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and went on to work as a professional glassblower in the South Puget Sound, work carpentry on the southern coast of the United Kingdom and play in an old time string band in Austin, Texas. He will receive his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the spring.

He acted as the first artist-in-residence at Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia in the summer of 2016 and is currently the artist-in-residence at the Bubbler in Madison’s Central Public Library. His work has been on the covers of Old Time Herald Magazine and Grit City Magazine and he has shown widely in the United States, including at the Todd Art Gallery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the Red Bull Art House in Detroit, Michigan. His work will be on display at the Webb Gallery in Waxahatchie, TX in May 2019.

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Blue Migration by Adriana Barrios

Adriana Barrios is a queer, biracial, Latina, artist who grew up on the coastal borderlands of San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barrios has worked with The Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Santa Reparata International School of Art, and The Chazen Museum of Art. Barrios has exhibited her artwork internationally in Italy and Mexico and nationally in New York, New Mexico, and Texas. Her artwork is in the collections of UW-Madison Graduate School and UW-Madison Department of Special Collections. Barrios's artwork presents a visual response to climate change alongside scientific field work that gives meaning to the social consequences of her lived experience. Barrios uses printmaking, paper making, video, and installation as a way to record and respond to the environmental changes currently happening along the California... Read More

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