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from the issue of February 21, 2008
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Exhibit showcases Gao's textile work
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery will host the exhibition "Across: Adaptation, Transition, Evolution" through March 12.
The show, featuring work by UNL assistant professor Xia Gao, draws on the significance of a transplanted cultural artifact - a Chinese Qing Dynasty family house known as Yin Yu Tang that was moved to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Gao uses transparent printed and dyed silk and laser cut buckram to create a transformative space in the gallery. She said the installation not only speaks to her "Eastern background by honoring and engaging my Chinese cultural heritage - which serves as root and soil for my contemplation and expression - but also expresses my more recent experience in Western culture."
Lengths of fabric sculpt the space, as surface patterns, shadows and layering effects encourage viewers to experience concepts of cultural identity, cultural transformation, and human development in relation to family and home.
The Hillestad Gallery, on the second floor of the Home Economics Building, is open to the public 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and weekends by special request. For more information, go online to http://textilegallery.unl.edu or call 472-2911.
GO TO: ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 21
ARTS HEADLINES FOR FEBRUARY 21
Contrasts in print
'American Daughter' examines tribulations of presidential nominee
American Life in Poetry
Exhibit showcases Gao's textile work
FAMILY INTERVIEW
Grad work celebration is Feb. 29
'Nicholas Boylston' painting focus of Feb. 24 Sheldon lecture
Ross hosts 'The String Beans' Feb. 23
Sheldon 'College Night' is Feb. 26
Theatrix productions open Feb. 21
UNL Opera opens 'Dead Man Walking' Feb. 21
Work of 30 artists featured in March 8 Art and Art History MEDICI fundraiser
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