Andrew Caldwell, Epiphany Knedler, Alma Leiva, and Ezra Wube
Digital Art Exhibitions at the E. Craig Wall Jr. Academic Center
Wall Academic Center
On View: August 16, 2020— October 03, 2020
Andrew Caldwell
Fearful Fascination, 2019
Lens-based new media incorporating still and moving images, 3D and motion graphics techniques, 2:00
Andrew Caldwell is a visual artist and photographer. He earned both his BS in Professional Photography with a concentration in Digital Media and his MFA in Photography from the Brooks Institute in California. His work has been shown across the world, including at Los Angeles Center for Photography, the South East Center for Photography, and the Prix de La Photographie de Paris. He has received numerous awards for his works, including a Top 25 finish for the Time-Based category in in the well-known international art competition, Art Prize 10. He is currently based in Boone, North Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Commercial Photography at Appalachian State University.
Epiphany Knedler
810 Dickinson Avenue, 2018
Digital video, 0:22
Epiphany Knedler aims to archive American life through her photography. As a result, her work highlights the politicization of our everyday world. Knedler grew up in Vermillion, South Dakota. She graduated from the University of South Dakota with a BFA in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Photography and a BA in Political Science. Afterwards, she moved to Greenville, North Carolina, where she taught undergraduates photography and received her MFA in photography at East Carolina University. Her work has been exhibited with VAE Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, and PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, to just name a few.
Alma Levia
Survival map for the outsider (Mapa de supervivencia para el forastero), 2015
Animation, 3:55
Alma Levia was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and moved to the United States when she was fourteen. In 2007, she received her BFA in Photography/Electronic Media from the New World School of The Arts in Miami, Fl, and completed an MFA in Photography/Film, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2011. Levia has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and received multiple fellowships and awards for her work that explores conflict in her homeland that has brought bloody realities to Honduras.
Ezra Wube
Mela, 2011
Stop motion animation using paper clips, 1:41
Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Ethiopia) is an artist working in animation, painting, installation, and video. He immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia when he was eighteen, and received a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. He founded Addis Video Art Festival, which takes place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Wube is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
