Adriana Barrios, Taylor Rushing

press release: Arts + Literature Laboratory is proud to announce the recipients of the 2019 ALL Prize, an exhibition award for third-year graduate students in the UW-Madison Art Department. This collaboration between ALL and the UW-Madison Art Department provides two outstanding graduating MFA students with an extended exhibition opportunity in the community.

Adriana Barrios will present her MFA thesis exhibition, "Long Range Signal." The exhibition will include etchings, screen prints, works on handmade paper and large scale video projections. Barrios utilizes direct experience, scientific data, and live feed video technology as a way of recording the environmental changes happening along the California coastline.

Taylor Rushing’s MFA thesis exhibition, "Slumgullion ,"(a word for an improvised hobo stew made from a comprehensive search of one’s pantry) focuses on the slippery and often distorted nature of storytelling through video, two-dimensional and sculptural work. Rushing’s wooden works, made of hundreds of pieces of layered wood with thousands of hand whittled cuts, discuss the confluence between modern DIY culture and American vernacular woodworking. His work in video and performance connect us to our past while aiming to level an audience through humor and accessibility.

A reception for the ALL Prize recipients will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2019, 6-9pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Spring gallery hours are Thursday-Friday, 12-4pm, Saturday 11-3pm, and by appointment. Email hello@artlitlab.org to schedule.

This exhibition is supported in part by the UW-Madison Art Department and Dane Arts, with additional funding from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.