The Day Series by Ann Trondson

The Day Series by Ann Trondson exhibition runs April 3rd - May 2nd

The Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery is excited to present The Day Series: by Ann Trondson opening April 3rd, 2025 and running through May 2nd with a reception April 23rd 4:30-6:30 and an Artist Talk April 22nd 5-6pm. 

About the Artist: 

Ann Trondson (°1976, Murfreesboro, United States) makes videos, photos, performances and conceptual artworks. By combining the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, Trondson absorbs the constant barrage of synchronicities and moments that are a part of daily life and uses that force in her artistic practice. By contemplating our experiences and thinking of the past, present, and future in more fluid terms, those moments become an act of meditation and mediation. Trondson thinks of art and art-making as a state of consciousness. In John Berger seminal text "Ways of Seeing" he states, “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled,” Trondson explores this notion as her ideas and projects continually evolve over the years and become the NOW, the never-ending present moment again and again. A term Trondson refers to as a "Now Object."  

Her works feature coincidental, accidental, and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise the human experience and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By questioning the concept of who we are, she formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition, order, and intuition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective, and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds and states, are frequently revealed as assemblages. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, she finds that movement, sound, imagery, vibrations, and personal experience reveals an inherent momentum that echoes our own vulnerabilities. 

Her works are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric elements. By creating situations and breaking the passivity of the spectator, she wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component. When art is happening now and is happening all the time, the spectator can be within the work or complete the artwork. Ann Trondson currently lives and works in Toledo, OH. 

ADDRESS: The Roger Glass Center for the Arts Gallery is located at 29 East Creative Way, Dayton 45409. 

GALLERY HOURS

10 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday-Friday

Parking available in S1 during receptions and after 7PM. Limited guest parking passes are available at the visitor center in P, C, and B lots. Outside of reception hours, visitors may obtain a parking permit from the parking attendant located inside the main entrance of Fitz Hall.. For additional information contact Galleries Director Nicholaus Arnold at 937-229-3204, or narnold1@udayton.edu

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