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“Four Decades,” a retrospective of the work of Wright State art professor emeritus Ron Geibert, is on display in the Stein Galleries through Oct. 21. (Photos by Chris Snyder)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s an art show with an Orwellian tang. Arresting images on electronic kiosks inspired by the dystopian George Orwell novel \u201c1984\u201d explore how language and imagery can be twisted to create deception.<\/p>\n

The video monitors throb with images designed to make gallery-goers think about half-truths, doublespeak and how history is remembered through a blurry lens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about our fear of confronting the truth,\u201d said Wright State art professor emeritus Ron Geibert, whose retrospective art show titled “Four Decades” is on display at the university\u2019s Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries<\/a> in the Creative Arts Center.<\/p>\n

“Four Decades” is free and open to the public. It runs through Oct. 21. The galleries are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

The show is complemented with Geibert\u2019s photographs as well as artwork collected and organized by Geibert in more than a dozen art exhibitions at Wright State from 1986 to 2007. One of his juried projects drew 1,300 applicants from 60 different countries seeking to display their work. The retrospective also includes a reshowing of a 1986 show that features rarely seen photographs from the Great Depression.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one place you get to see everything I\u2019ve done in my life as an artist,\u201d said Geibert. \u201cPeople are probably going to see work they\u2019re not going to see anywhere else in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

A pioneer of color photography, Geibert actually first studied aerospace engineering. But he was drawn to photography, shot landscapes in Nebraska and in 1978 segued into street photography.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when I discovered what I was meant to be as a photographer,\u201d said Geibert, who joined the Wright State Department of Art and Art History<\/a> in 1981 to teach photography.<\/p>\n

Today, the 66-year-old Geibert is an accomplished, portfolio-rich artist whose photographs can be found in New York City\u2019s Museum of Modern Art, the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale in Paris and the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Some of Geibert\u2019s artwork at the retrospective are \u201csliver\u201d prints \u2014 photos of ballet movements and fighter planes that are cut into thin slices and then joined together to create a new image. Panoramic landscapes were created by placing seven square images together.<\/p>\n

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“Four Decades” features Ron Geibert’s electronic kiosks that were inspired by George Orwell’s \u201c1984,\u201d exploring how language and imagery can be twisted to create deception.<\/p><\/div>\n

The collection art features photos of water from a scientist-turned-photographer David Goldes, who calls water one of the most symbolic substances in human history and one of the most difficult to photograph.<\/p>\n

One of the most popular photos in the collection is one of people who appear to be made of Cheetos. And there\u2019s a cathode ray tube with the image of a human skeleton that appears when motion sensors are activated.<\/p>\n

But some of the most intriguing images flash from Geibert\u2019s Orwellian electronic kiosks.<\/p>\n

On one kiosk, letters in a crossword puzzle materialize one by one to spell out the final paragraph of 1984, culminating with the words \u201cHe loved Big Brother.\u201d Another kiosk centers on the theme of \u201cwitnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo often today we are spectators to activities,\u201d said Geibert. \u201cWhen we witness something, the question is now do you become a participant?\u201d<\/p>\n

The monitor displays a vertical sliver of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Seen as if one is lying on the ground when the shots are fired, it\u2019s a looping blur of green and black images until Jackie\u2019s pink pillbox hat floats by.<\/p>\n

Geibert said the retrospective is a celebration<\/a> of the wonderful career opportunities he received at Wright State.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to do something in my career that was challenging, that I loved and that I grew in. How many people get to do that?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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