{"id":29340,"date":"2021-01-21T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29340"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:13:32","slug":"austin-peay-state-universitys-the-new-gallery-the-katrina-chronicles-by-peter-precourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2021\/01\/21\/austin-peay-state-universitys-the-new-gallery-the-katrina-chronicles-by-peter-precourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University’s The New Gallery \u2018The Katrina Chronicles\u2019 by Peter Precourt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The New Gallery, with support from the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the APSU Department of Art + Design, is pleased to present The Katrina Chronicles<\/em>, a new exhibition by artist Peter Precourt, to continue an exciting 2020-2021 exhibition season.<\/p>\n

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The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University presents \u2018The Katrina Chronicles\u2019 by Peter Precourt. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Katrina Chronicles<\/em> is a densely narrative exhibition where artist\/storyteller Peter Precourt presents a series of personal stories as a way of dealing with his experience of losing most of his possessions and artwork in the devastation that Hurricane Katrina brought to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi,\u201d said Michael Dickins, curator, and director of The New Gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chronicles<\/em> are told in a form that hovers somewhere between a graphic novel, a journal entry, a painting, a memoir, and a flippant conversation. With this work, Precourt hopes to make images that openly engage the imperfection of memory, the possibility of change, and the restorative power of storytelling,\u201d Dickins stated.<\/p>\n

In Precourt\u2019s words, \u201cThe most depressing visual feature of the Mississippi coast, after the immense destruction, was the endless amount of debris. Everything was leveled and spread across the coastal landscape: nails, drywall, toilets, tires, forks, needles \u2026  everything that was once in a house or a garage was now scattered all over the ground.<\/p>\n

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The Katrina Chronicles<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the past six years, I have struggled to come to terms with a way to tell my experience, which is a single-story amongst thousands of stories in the aftermath of Katrina. Ultimately, it made sense to me to tell The Katrina Chronicles<\/em> in a form that embraces the stepchild nature of Mississippi and the leveling power of Katrina.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dickins added, \u201cSince arriving at APSU, I have been interested in curating and exhibiting artists whose artwork is a direct extension of their identity and personal experiences. This exhibition is different in that it is extremely autobiographical, revealing, and distinctively linear. The Katrina Chronicles<\/em> is unpretentiously presented and, through Precourt\u2019s vulnerability and humor, profoundly relatable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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About the artist Peter Precourt
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Peter Precourt<\/p><\/div>\n

Precourt lives and works in Winthrop, Maine, with his wife Jane and teenage children Charlotte and Will. He is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and professor of art at the University of Maine at Augusta where he coordinates the Art Department. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of Houston in 2000 and later served as an affiliate artist there. In 2005-2006, he served as head of the painting department at William Carey University in Gulfport, Mississippi. In 2007, he conducted a four-part lecture series at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, concerning art since 1960.<\/p>\n

Precourt has an active studio and social art practice. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern Maine, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Reed College, Fort Lewis College, San Jacinto College, Lincoln Memorial University, Kennesaw State University, ArtHouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York University and the University of Lisbon in Portugal. His work has been exhibited in Austin, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Houston; Los Angeles; New Orleans, Louisiana; Nashville; New York and Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Peter Precourt, visit his www.peterprecourt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exhibition, walk-through, gallery tour<\/h3>\n

The exhibit opened Tuesday, January 19th, 2021, at The New Gallery, located in the Art + Design building on the campus of Austin Peay State University, and runs through February 12th. A 360-degree virtual walk-through will accompany this exhibition for those who wish to view the work from the safety of their homes. The walk-through can be found on The New Gallery\u2019s webpage and can be accessed via www.apsu.edu\/art-design<\/a>. The virtual walk-through will be integrated with an \u201cartist-led\u201d gallery tour.<\/p>\n

An artist lecture with Peter Precourt will be held at 6:00pm February 3rd via Zoom. Register here<\/a> for this free talk.<\/p>\n

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Hours for The New Gallery are 10:00am-3:00pm Tuesday-Thursday, closed on weekends and holidays, and follows the university\u2019s academic calendar. To maintain social distance measures, a 15-person limit rule will be in effect.<\/p>\n

For more information on this exhibition, which is free and open to the public, contact Dickins at dickinsm@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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