My exhibition – Matt Ballou: RANGE – is still up at William Woods University until December 16, 2012. I hope you can go see it if you haven’t yet. Below are some photos of the space, both after the installation and during the reception. I want to thank everyone who came out – friends, students (graduate and undergrad, current and former), and colleagues – and especially Jennifer Sain for her help in making the exhibition happen. Special thanks to Jane Mudd for encouraging William Woods to host this show.

Installation, back on November 12, 2012.

Three panoramas of the installed work.

Two of my all-time favorite works… Locus #77 and #78

Beautiful angles and shapes during the reception…

At the reception I gave a brief impromptu talk that led into some interesting questions from the audience and my own musing on the work.

Me during my talk – Photo by Kevin Larson.

Click here to download the talk and Q+A session (42 MB MP3 format, 50 minutes long).

Some notes about the talk:

• Click here to see a picture of a Diebenkorn Ocean Park painting next to Nerdrum’s defecating woman painting.
• Learn more about Miyoko Ito here. See more of Miyoko Ito’s work here – there’s a current show up in Berlin.
• I mispronounced Coyolxauhqui in the talk. Here’s more information about her.
• Basic info about the Dodecahedron, here.
• Information about Kepler and polyhedra, here.
• Durer’s Melancholia, an example of how artists have used geometric-forms-as-connected-to-metaphysical-ideas that I speak of in the talk.
• Information on the mandorla here and here. The mandorla is based on the vesica piscis.
• Information on my Lamentations 3 series here.

Photo of me at the talk – Photo by Eric Norby.