Installation, Performance Artist Trey Duvall to Exhibit at UW Art Museum

A new exhibition, “Trey Duvall: Do, Do, Do, Do, Do,” will open Saturday, Aug. 10, at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. 

“Do, Do, Do, Do, Do” presents an evolving site-specific sculpture, “Spool/Unspool,” and a rotating frieze of video performances. Duvall’s work concerns entropy, futility, humor, duration, stamina and material or physical exhaustion. His creative practice includes various forms of large-scale installation, video, performance and other sculptural and organizational mediums. The exhibition will be on view through Nov. 16.

Duvall will visit UW Nov. 11-15. He will give an artist talk Tuesday, Nov. 12, from 6-7 p.m. in Room 111 of the Visual Arts Building. UW students will perform “Here to There” in collaboration with the artist and in conjunction with “Do, Do, Do, Do, Do” Thursday, Nov. 14, from 5-7 p.m. in the lobby of the Visual Arts Building. “Here to There” will create an absurdist assembly line, exploring repetition, futility and fallibility. Events are free and open to the public.

“We are very excited to bring Trey’s installation work to Wyoming,” says Nicole Crawford, chief curator of the UW Art Museum. “He creates spaces that force us to confront and think about the installation and pushes the boundaries of what we think of a ‘typical’ artwork.”

For more information about the UW Art Museum, call (307) 766-6622, visit the website at www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum, or follow the museum on Facebook and Instagram.

The UW Art Museum collects, exhibits and interprets art to inspire creativity and nurture lifelong learning for the people of Wyoming. Located in the Centennial Complex at 2111 E. Willett Drive in Laramie, the museum is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday hours are extended to 7 p.m. Admission is free.

About Trey Duvall

In addition to site-specific installation and performances, Duvall’s work has been recently exhibited at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn.; RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver; Rice University, Houston, Texas; Triumph Gallery, Chicago; Galerie des Beaux-Artes de Nantes, Nantes, France; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas; School of Visual Arts, New York City; and Plot Manifest, Marfa, Texas. His work also has been featured on ABC News, the Houston Chronicle and Art in America.

Duvall received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Houston. He is currently an artist-in-residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center and acting director/curator at SITE Gallery Houston in Texas.