LO Waddell Gallery to Host Artist Reception for Digital Artist Kent Watson, August 28

August 24, 2023 / Music, Arts & Other Pretty Stuff

The Waddell Gallery at NOVA’s Loudoun Campus (LW) is excited to announce Kent Watson’s solo exhibition, It Took A Long Time To Take This Shape: Digital Fabrication In Hardwood. The show will open on Monday August 28 and will be on display until October 2. Please stop by to meet the artist for the opening reception on August 28 from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.

“This new body of work from artist Kent Watson is digitally designed and 3D scanned on the computer before being machined into walnut with a cnc router ( computer numerical control or robot cutting machine). The work combines digital fabrication techniques with woodworking.”

A wooden plaque by Kent Watson, cut with a CNC machine to look like an older man's face, eyes closed and mouth turned down in a frown. — A wooden plaque by Kent Watson, cut with a CNC machine.

Submitted by:
Anna Freerksen, LO-Art, AFreerksen@nvcc.edu