‘#Brute’ exhibit at CCU’s art gallery tells a difficult truth

Multimedia artist Kate Kretz presents “#Brute,” which runs through Wednesday, Nov. 28 in the Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts; the exhibit is free and open to the public.

Generally focused on creating time-intensive work to display difficult truths, Kretz uses a variety of media to explore and highlight social inequities.

“I often experience news stories of inhumanity as a literal blow to my body, and carry the negative energy around with me until I process a way to remove it from my person through transformative creation,” Kretz writes in her artist’s statement. “My work functions as a meditation, a healing prayer, a potent incantation to embed the finished object with as much power as possible, to rival the impact of that original negative impetus for making it. I am aiming for a beautiful, exquisitely crafted gut punch.”

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