Robert Stackhouse and Lowry Burgess

Internationally known artists Lowry Burgess and Robert Stackhouse displayed their latest works at the University's Joseloff Gallery, from Nov. 9 through Dec. 12, as the 2000-01 recipients of the Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School.

Burgess's The Seed of the Infinite Absolute, a sculptural object formed by an elaborate series of processes and distillations over the past 25 years, was carried to the surface of the Antarctic Pole in February. The shell of the work contains an emulsion of the essences of trees, flowers, blood, and water. The sculpture was accompanied by a series of 26 drawings titled The Quiet Axis.

Stackhouse showed a 34-foot-long, limestone-and-aluminum sculpture titled Resurgent. This massive, double-ended, boat-like structure juxtaposes the organic with the industrial, the traditional with the modern, and is seen as a metaphor for the new millennium. The sculpture was displayed with several of Stackhouse's works on paper.