Rust participates in installation art exhibition

Brian Rust, professor of art, is one of seven highly regarded artists selected to participate in the Southeast’s longest running exhibition of installation art. A piece he created, Earthen Cycle, is part of Accessibility 2004 Space Questions–Art, Nature, and Culture in South Carolina, the sixth annual exhibition of installation and site-specific art in Sumter, S.C. The exhibition runs October 1-31 in downtown Sumter.

The work, a display of circular walls and spheres, is formed from red clay, kaolin, and area river stones packed down under pressure and held together with a cement binder. It invites viewers to look, sit, and think about the surrounding landscape. It is designed to erode over time with weather and use.

“Earthen Cycle is a reminder of how our natural surroundings are always in flux and that we as humans are also bound up in that cycle,” Mr. Rust says.

In connection with Accessibility 2004 and the Next Wave Festival, the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C., will exhibit a sculpture by Mr. Rust. The work, Reconstructed Symmetry, will be on display through January in the museum’s main lobby.

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