Remnants By Philip Rostek

Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/09/2021 - 10/31/2021
12:00 am

Location
707/709 Galleries

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Artist and Carnegie Mellon University alum Philip Rostek’s  idea-oriented and decidedly autobiographical, as this exhibition demonstrates.

In addition to being an accomplished visual artist, he has composed music for both theater and ballet. His book A Foreigner in Hades speaks of his experience in New York City during the volatile 1980s art scene. The miracle of a heart transplant has enabled him to further pursue his dreams without major interruption. He considers this to be fortuitous beyond anything reasonable or comprehensible, crediting his doctors at Presbyterian hospital as being ‘uniquely inseparable’ from the presentation of his modern work.

Through “Remnants,” Philip explores his body of work through the lens of this “post-medical miracle,” which deepened his belief that the relationship between art and life is best understood as a continuum that ties the iterations of his work together.



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