Cinema Studies professor’s artwork displayed in Detroit exhibit

The new exhibit, "Essay'd VI," at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit features the work of Andrea Eis, professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of English at Oakland University.

Eis’ work was originally featured in an essay written by Dennis Nawrocki. Following the essay publication, she was invited to display her work a the N’Namdi Center. You can see Nawrocki’s essay at http://essayd.org/?p=1262.

The work on display comes from two of Eis’ ongoing bodies of work she calls Poets and Palpable Knowledge. The pieces include:

Edge Light (Plato's Phaedo, Leipzig: B. G. Teubneri, 1875), 2015. From the Palpable Knowledge series. 60" h x 30" w, archival ink jet print.

I dwell in possibility — (Emily Dickinson), 2008. From the Poets series. 72" h x 42" w, dye sublimation print on chiffon.

Eis’ inspiration comes from years of academic training in the ancient Greek language and culture. In describing her work in her own words, Eis says, “I make artworks that are saturated with the past, but conceptualized and materialized in contemporary digital forms.”

The “Essay’d VI” exhibit is open now, and runs through September 3.

If you’d like to learn more about the artwork of Andrea Eis, visit her personal website.