The Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art's mission is to promote smart and relevant works of art by emerging, mid-career and established contemporary artists. The Gallery strives to serve as a laboratory for student learning and seeks to enrich the lives of community members.
The Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art is the proud recipient of the 2018 Ellsworth Kelly Award presented by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for the solo exhibition of work by artist Bojana Ginn.
Art & Design
Summerville Campus
Office 240
1120 15th Street, WH-240
Augusta, GA 30904
Reception: Wednesday, October 18, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
As an image based artist Stefan Petranek (b. 1977) works across mediums that range
from historic photographs to video sculptures that combine digital projection technologies
onto a variety of 3D forms and surfaces. Working with subjects that range from genetics
to climate change, his work explores how contemporary culture, especially through
advances in science and technology, affects our perception of nature and how we define
it today.
Petranek’s photographic and video work have been exhibited widely in the U.S. as well
as appearing internationally. Recently awarded the 2018 Christel DeHaan Artist of
Distinction Award, his series The Future is Broken about the current state and projected
future of climate change has garnered notable attention and was recently exhibited
in FotoFocus’ Auto//Update exhibition and Creative Advocay’s Collective Voices exhibition
in 2019 among others. Petranek’s Brain Tumor Diaries, Genotyping and Genetic Portrait
Project series have also received critical recognition including a review by Lenscratch,
publication in Front Line Genomics Magazine, and Manifest Press’ contemporary fine
art photography book INPHA3 to name a few. He currently resides with his family in
Indianapolis where he is an Associate Professor of Photography and Intermedia at Indiana
University’s Herron School of Art & Design.
