Work by Bob Condia will be featured in
the next exhibit sponsored by the Kansas State University College of
Architecture, Planning and Design.
Not
Simply Every Sunset Over Eden
will be shown in the
Chang Gallery of Seaton Hall from November 16, 2009, through the end of
December. The gallery is open to the public without charge from 8:00 a.m.
through 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. It is closed on weekday holidays.
Professor Condia
believes that analog illustrations are the hand-eye collaboration of thinking. Henri de Hahn, department head of architecture at Cal Poly, San
Luis Obispo, says, “You will find [Condia’s illustrations] to be a
little jewel that traces the imaginary journey of an artist’s peregrinations
in the Tuscan landscape. Not Simply Every
Sunset Over Eden presents a series of pictorial still lives that upon
closer scrutiny serve as a possible background for the creation of a single and
more monumental canvas of ideas. Like an autobiographical essay, the artist
explores his poetic sensitivity through a series of transforming architectural
themes: the canvas as a field of
intervention, the human presence as condition for dwelling, the building as
spatial narrative, concluding with portraiture as a mirror of the artist’s own
fantasies.”
In addition, David
Cronrath, dean of the College of Art and Design at Louisiana State University,
states, “E-mail, the world of constant contact has attempted to destroy any
vestiges of daydreaming. Looking at Bob Condia’s beautiful paintings restores
this art. Through his work we rediscover the weightlessness and scale less, the
drifting in the seamlessness of fanciful thought that seems to define
daydreaming. Condia’s art takes the viewer to this foreign yet, and fortunately
for us, not lost territory.”
Professor Condia has
been on K-State’s architecture faculty since 1989, winning K-State’s Commerce
Bank Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2008. He was promoted to
professor in 2001. He has also taught at Southwestern College, the Design
Institute of San Diego, the New School of Architecture in San Diego and
Oklahoma State University. Condia holds a bachelor of architecture from
California Polytechnic State University and a master of science in architecture
and building design from Columbia University.
He is the author and
co-author of many articles, a frequent exhibitor and guest lecturer, and
practices award-winning architecture at Condia + Ornelas Architects.
For more information,
contact:
Robert Condia,
785.532.1106
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090
