Faculty News:

Associate Professor Michael Oatman is featured in “Affinity Atlas,” a show currently in exhibition at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY. The show is organized by the museum’s director Ian Berry and can be visited until January 3rd, 2016.

Michael Oatman’s series of intricate collages entitled The Branch (or, the Site of Our Complete Liberation) has been included in the show.

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According to the exhibition statement:

Affinity Atlas charts an exploratory path across disciplines built on idiosyncratic treasures from the Tang Teaching Museum collection and punctuated with recent works by a roster of contemporary artists. Artworks, images, and objects spanning centuries and continents collide and coalesce, forging fresh connections between seemingly disparate works. The exhibition seeks to find affinities in unexpected juxtapositions.

Affinity Atlas draws inspiration from the last work of the pioneering art historian Aby Warburg, who from 1925 to 1929 (the year of his death) undertook an ambitious cataloguing project — nothing less than a visual compendium of his life’s research. Forgoing the customary art historical narrative, Warburg instead chose to illuminate his scholarly research through a constellation of some 2,000 images, which he pinned onto a series of room-filling black panels. (…)

For more information, please refer to the exhibition page: https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/110-affinity-atlas.

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