Greene County Museum opens year with new exhibit of drawings
By From staff reports
Published in News on January 7, 2015 1:46 PM
SNOW HILL -- The Greene County Museum begins 2015 with the exhibit "Drawings by Michael Voors."
Voors is a professor in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University, where he has taught since 1980. The opening reception for this exhibit will be held on Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The public is invited, and there is no admission fee.
Many of the drawings by Voors have been nourished by travel. In particular, travels to locations that have an ancient or sacred character. Changing qualities of light, surfaces that reveal the passage of time and variations of architectural passages attempt to move toward larger meanings and associations. The work is viewed as a tool for participating in a larger mystery.
An encounter with a ruin is a dialogue with the past through the lens of the present. Evidence of past culture is shown through the things that are made.
Particular choices of architectural design and the formation of ritual centers provide clues of human habitation and evidence cultural values.
Voors work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in many public and private collections including: the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University and the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
The Greene County Museum is located at 107 N.W. Third St., Snow Hill, and is open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information, call 252-747-1999.