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role or rôle n
- an individual part in a play, movie, opera, or other performance played by an actor, singer, or other performer
- the usual or expected function of somebody or something, or the part somebody or something plays in a particular action or event
- the part played by somebody in a given social context, with any characteristic or expected pattern of behavior that it entails
Regarding Self describes a body of sculpture I have worked on for several years. In a politically charged society where traditions continue to metamorphose I investigate the female position in domestic, academic and social systems. I am interested in imagery that is historically traditional and often personal and its implementation in the present time. It is through creation that I communicate with my subconscious and consider how my reality is affected by environment and experience. I honor the truth of this language and the revealing exorcism, which externalizes and presents questions of memory, identity, daily practice and experience in a more concrete fashion than I could otherwise achieve.
The Deluge Series is a parallel body of work with Mark Guilbeau. These collaborations are a means of developing a visual language that allows our combined commentary on social and political issues affecting us. Through the installations we emphasize the processes by which the global community is being developed. The title and theme of the work is appropriated from a set of drawings created by Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci expected the world to end as the result of a catastrophic natural disaster, most probably a flood. The deluge we investigate is not a natural disaster induced by torrential rains and swelling rivers, but the equally disastrous ramifications of the self-inflicted borage of human over-production and global consumption.
Born in Galway, Ireland, in 1968 Rian Kerrane received her BA in Fine Arts Degree from the University of Ulster at Belfast in 1991. She located to the United States in 1994 and earned her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 1997. Currently residing in Denver, Colorado, Rian is Assistant Professor and Area Head for the Sculpture Program at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Rian is an advocate for the arts and believes that art and education are uniquely associated. Her primary interests lie in sculpture with emphasis in casting and multi-media installation. Rian’s work has shown in sculpture gardens and galleries in the United States and Ireland and most recently exhibited in the 2007 Florence Biennale, Italy and Edge va a Mexico at the Centro Cultural, Casa Borda, Taxco, Mexico. She was awarded Peoples Choice for her work exhibited in Art at Northlake Park, Orlando, Florida in 2004 and received both Best of Show and the Peoples Choice Award in the 2nd Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition in 2002.