Jan. 27th, 2022 – March. 4th, 2022
EWU Art Building
Admission is free
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9am to 6pm
Closed Weekends, Holidays, and for Spring Break March 23-27, 2022.
Artist Website: https://www.roinmorigeau.com/
The opening reception of Erin Elyse Burns: Iterations as well as a lecture by the artist will be held on Thursday, January 27th, Noon.
Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is located in the Art Building situated in the center of the fine and performing arts complex on the EWU campus in Cheney, Washington.
Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 23-27, 2022.
Admission is free
When there is fire, we have been socialized to reach for the nearest extinguisher, to pull in case of emergency. However, when a crisis or difficulty is subtle, invisible, unable to be proven or seen, the ability to take action in an attempt to combat it also becomes seemingly more difficult. Personal crisis is often exacerbated by it continually being held inside with no witnesses. Particularly when we enter the public realm, we are surrounded by individuals who are in crisis, or are ourselves in crisis without ever sharing or knowing. Of
course, there can be small signs or symptoms; a tear, a scream, a sigh. Pull In Case of Emergency is seeking to begin the process of carving out a type of expression for the hidden or invisible emergencies that play out in our daily lives that go unnoticed.
In a cultural climate of perpetual emergencies, our daily lives, news headlines, textual/phone exchanges, and social media feeds are filled with these crisis experiences and narratives. These crises can either be perpetuated by non-action or be interrogated by intervention. Certain devices have been mass manufactured and installed to promote a
sense of safety and protocol in a moment of crisis. An extinguisher can put out a fire. An illuminated emergency phone is placed on a subway platform. Pull In Case of Emergency is an exploration of ideas of hidden difficulty and crisis. The exhibition consists of multiple site-specific installations. By repurposing a fire extinguisher, a device that aims to provide a
sense of safety and protocol, the installation focuses on the representation of undisclosed danger and chaos. Just as a smoke alarm alerts us to fire, Pull In Case of Emergency is a siren for a crisis that cannot be seen or heard.
Roin Morigeau is a queer/ two-spirit interdisciplinary artist experiencing and investigating pain through mixed-media such as drawing, painting, installation, and sculpture. Living with physical limitations and chronic pain from a spinal injury, Roin centers their art practice as a form of protest and healing.
Roin is a 2021 recipient of the Artist Trust GAP grant. Their work also lives in public and private collections including ARTSWA, The City of Spokane, and has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions including yəhaw̓ at King St. Station at Seattle Office of
Arts + Culture, Whitworth University Bryon Oliver Gallery, Sacred Circle Gallery at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, and the Chase Gallery at Spokane City Hall. They are the owner + curator of YES IS A FEELING, an artist-run studio and gallery in downtown Spokane centering artists whose creative/ intellectual work and very lives exist in direct opposition to the status quo. Roin is a descendant of the Flathead Salish Tribe of Montana and lives in
occupied Spokane territories where they were raised.
Learn more about our upcoming exhibitions and what we have shown in the past.
Josh Hobson
Director of the EWU Art Gallery
jhobson1@ewu.edu.
EWU Gallery of Art
22 7th St,
Cheney, WA 99004
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed weekends and holidays
Receptions are held on opening days of exhibitions (Wednesdays at noon) unless otherwise noted.
All events are free to the public.
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