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Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D
Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM
The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'.
For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time.
Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961
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The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
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Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Mr. Vinh T. Ngyuen
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: Mechanical Engineering MS Thesis Defense by
Mr. Vinh T. Nguyen
December 23, 2015
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Textile Building, Room 101E Conference Room
TOPIC:
Design and Analysis of Embedded Pipe Network and Conducting Spreader Layer in Asphalt Pavement to Reduce Common Pavement Failures in Hot and Cold Climates and to Harvest Energy
ABSTRACT:
Pavements are one of the primary modes of everyday transportation in every country in the world. According to the National Asphalt Pavement Association, the United States alone has more than 2.6 million miles of paved roads and highways, and 93 percent of those are paved with asphalt. The asphalt material has very high absorptivity and low emissivity causing asphalt pavements to absorb solar radiation from the sun and rise in temperature in hot climates. The raising in temperature causes asphalt pavements to become softer and more susceptible to permanent deformation, also known of as rutting, under traffic. After rising in temperature, the pavements can also release the stored energy to their surroundings causing the nearby air and building temperature to increase. This phenomenon is referred to as the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE), which highly reduces the air quality and increase electricity usage from nearby buildings. In moderate and cold climates, thermal cracking of asphalt pavements is responsible for costly annual maintenance and rehabilitation. There are two popular types of thermal cracking: low temperature cracking and thermal fatigue cracking. Low temperature cracking mostly appears when the thermal stress developed exceeds the tensile strength of the asphalt mixture. However, if the thermal stress developed is below the asphalt mixture tensile strength, pavement failure may still occurs due to repetitive thermal cyclic loads. This type of pavement failure has been widely proposed by many researches to be a potential mode of pavement distress in moderate climate where the daily temperatures highly fluctuate. Previous research by our group and others have found that a spreader layer made of highly thermal conductive material coupled with a pipe network can act as an adequate sink for the pavement and lower the surface temperature significantly for hot climates to reduce rutting. In this study we have theoretically investigated the performance and behaviors of the asphalt pavement coupled with the pipe-spreader system under realistic environmental conditions. The results obtained from this research have shown that adding the highly conductive spreader layer to a pipe network helps reducing both the surface temperature and rut depth (by 6 mm after 5000 load repetitions) while still maintaining large pipe spacing value to minimize structural risks. It has also been discovered that the thermally induced tensile stress at the pavement surface was reduced significantly (by at least 80%) with the help of the pipe-spreader system. The thermal energy collected from the pavement was also investigated as an energy source to power two different absorption refrigeration cycles (Amonia-water absorption refrigeration cycle and Lithium-Bromide absorption refrigeration cycle) to provide cooling of nearby residential buildings. The results in this research indicate that the thermal energy obtained by the collector system is not enough to power the absorption refrigeration cycles and additional energy input is needed to provide adequate cooling. Thus, the cost of implementing and maintaining this system would be quite high. However, this system is very promising to pay for itself in the long run.
THESIS ADVISOR:
Dr. Sankha Bhowmick
THESIS COMMITTEE:
Dr. Sankha Bhowmick, Dr. Mehdi Raessi, Dr. Rajib Mallick
Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend.
For more information, please contact Dr. Sankha Bhowmick (sbhowmick@umassd.edu, 508-999-8619).
Thank you,
Sue Cunha, Administrative Assistant
scunha@umassd.edu
508-999-8492
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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