Art Vidrine
Art Vidrine is a multimedia artist, art critic, and Assistant Professor of Art at Bowie State University whose work focuses on the ways in which abstraction, perception, and agency structure our lives.
His art often embodies systems of abstraction to draw attention to what gets left out or destroyed by reductive thinking. It emphasizes perception’s role in making sense of the world while influencing our decision making and actions. It thematizes agency to prompt reflection on our possible responses and their consequences within a given situation.
Ultimately, two essential questions influence his work: How are we limited from imagining alternative ways of thinking and acting? And what can we do about it?
He received a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and a MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (New York). He has exhibited in a variety of venues such as the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, FUSE’s 3rd Thursdays in Allentown (PA), Miami Project (during Art Basel Miami), NIAD (CA), Sideshow Gallery (NY), Target Gallery (VA), and a yearlong installation at the San Francisco Zoo.