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Aurora, New York—The Wells College Visual Arts Department will host 'Here, Look,' by artist Katie Waugh in the College’s String Room Gallery September 4 through October 11. The exhibit is free, and the public is cordially invited to view the show. An artist’s reception will be held on Wednesday, September 4 from 6 to 8 p.m.  Refreshments will be served.

Waugh’s artwork explores collective aspiration and social performance, often questioning the structures and systems by which communities express and define themselves. This new exhibition, featuring work made almost exclusively during her time living in the Finger Lakes, takes inspiration from the highly visual nature of the relationship between communities and their waterfronts. Comprised of video, photography, drawing and fiber, this work considers the way images are used to interpret and mediate a contemporary understanding of the sublime.

Waugh's work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Ireland and Lithuania, most recently at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (summer, 2013). Originally from Wisconsin, Katie Waugh completed a M.F.A. (2010) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a M.A. (2008) from the Savannah College of Art & Design.  She recently moved to Aurora, N.Y., where she joined the Wells College faculty as assistant professor of studio art.

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