Digital Masterworks & Tattoo Legend James Cobb and Student Works from Our Lady of the Lake University

April 17-May 17, 2008

South Texas College Library Art Gallery- Pecan Campus is proud to present “Digital Masterworks & Tattoo Legend” an exhibit featuring artworks by artist James Cobb and his students from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX. The exhibit opens Thursday, April 17th with an Artist Lecture at 5pm and Reception immediately following at 6pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

James Cobb is a digital artist and musician from San Antonio. “Digital Masterworks & Tattoo Legend” will feature a collection of Cobb’s art including works from two series entitled “Our Children” and “The Secret Lives of Sticks and Stones”. The exhibit will also showcase artwork by eight of Cobb’s students from Our Lady of the Lake University where Cobb teaches New Media and Digital Imaging classes.

Cobb’s “Our Children” series includes a collection of 10 Light-Jet prints on paper depicting scanned images of children with digitized tattoos all over their bodies ranging from subjects such as botany, zoology, religion and popular culture. James Cobb says that he uses tattoo-like images in his artwork as a means for creating another layer of visual information, another level of narrative. As the backdrop for “Our Children”, Cobb includes a soundtrack, composed by his band “Six-Fing Thing”, along with an overlaying audio track with interviews of the children pictured in the digital series.

“The Secret Lives of Sticks and Stones” includes a series of abstract digital prints created using both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop applications. In regards to this series Cobb says,
“I’ve long felt that my musical projects struck a good personal balance between melodic musical approaches and an abstract atonal sensibility. I wanted to recreate this balance visually and that desire, coupled with my need to tease out what I like to think of as another layer of reality that lies within all things was the driving force to creation of the series”.

“We are very delighted to be showcasing Cobb’s work”, states David Freeman curator and coordinator of the STC Library Art Gallery, “and to have him share his creative style and CGI conceptual energy with our digital art students. Cobb is actually an internationally exhibited painter but we are presenting his digital works because he represents a genuine individual contemporary digital vision. Cobb’s work is edgy, polished and introspective and our students will gain a lot of insight from his students work also”.

“Digital Masterworks & Tattoo Legend” will be on view April 17- May17, 2008 at the STC Pecan Campus Library Art Gallery located at 3201 W. Pecan Blvd., McAllen, TX 78501. The Art Lecture is Thursday, April 17th at 5pm, Auditorium Bldg. D with a Reception immediately following from 6-8pm in the Library Art Gallery.

The exhibit will also be on view at the Mid-Valley Campus Library Art Gallery in Weslaco from May 22 – June 27, 2008 and at the Starr County Campus Library Art Gallery in Rio Grande City from May 29- June 27, 2008.

The South Texas College Library Art Gallery program exhibits regional, national and international artwork, explores new visions and theories of creativity and introduces innovative artistic expressions to the South Texas region.

For more information please call: (956)872-3488, email: libraryart@southtexascollege.edu
or visit our website: www.southtexascollege.edu/libraryart.