“BARNES HALL”: This still image from the “Barnes Hall 2012-14” exhibit at the Princeton Day School (PDS) Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery will be on display from November 24 to December 17. The exhibit features the photography and video work of PDS alumna Eleanor Oakes ’03.

A new exhibition is opening at the Princeton Day School (PDS) Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery on November 24 and will run through December 17. The exhibit titled Barnes Hall 2012-2014 features the photography and video work of PDS alumna Eleanor Oakes ‘03. There will be an opening reception on Tuesday, November 14 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the gallery. There will also be an open house with the artist on Friday, November 27 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the gallery. Both events are free and open to the public.

PDS alumna Eleanor Oakes is an artist and photography professor currently living in Detroit. She received a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Princeton University in 2007 and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University in 2014. Her work has received awards, such as a Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award from the San Francisco Foundation (2013) among others, and has been featured in publications and exhibitions such as 25 Under 25: Up-And-Coming American Photographers and a recent solo exhibition at Tyler Wood Gallery in San Francisco. Her work can be viewed online at www.eleanoroakes.com

In this exhibit, Ms. Oakes features a video installation made with dust in a work titled Barnes Hall 2012-2014. In an interview conducted with the artist, PDS student Michelle Leung ’18 writes that this piece “can also be viewed as a self-portrait for Oakes. It originated from the dust she found in her new studio as a graduate student in Stanford…. As she summarized about her Barnes Hall exhibit in her interview with Luca Curci during her Hidden Rooms exhibition in Venice, “The piece embodies how we exist within our own private space, the perpetual accumulation of dust as a measurement of time, and the tiny particles that make up our totality, while underlining our own mortality within that system. Barnes Hall makes visible the hidden nature of our being and the remains of its physical memory.’”

Barnes Hall 2012-2014 is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday when the school is in session. For more information about the Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery please call Jody Erdman, Art Gallery Director, at 609.924.6700 x 1772 or visit www.pds.org.

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