Faculty News: Aaron Collier at UMass

"Datum Drawing" gallery talk with Prof. Aaron Collier

Datum Drawing (February 4-March 8) is an exhibition that explores the use of datum in drawing as an architectural or spatial point of reference. A Datum Line is a line to which dimensions are referred on engineering drawings, and from which measurements are calculated. The term datum refers to a piece of information or fixed point of scale that serves as a reference in defining the geometry of a composition and in measuring aspects of that geometry to assess its relation to another value in space. Artists, architects, designers, engineers, cartographers and many others use datums to construct and define visual representation of space and place.  This show brings together two artists and   two architects who employ the use of datum lines in their work.

ARTISTS:

Aaron Collier, Assistant Professor of Art, Tulane University 

Perry Kulper, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan 

Derek Lerner, NYC based artist

Tiffany Lin, Associate Professor of Architecture, Tulane University      

Curated  by Sandy Litchfield, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture

DESIGN BUILDING GALLERY
University of Massachusetts 

John W Olver Design Building #180
551 North Pleasant Street

Amherst MA