Imagined Histories

Selected Photographs by Robert Hite

April 12-June 1, 2010

Scarbourough Phillips Library, 2nd floor

Hite will present a selection of photographs from his "Imagined Histories" series at the St. Edward's University Scarbourough Phillips Library. In the photographic series "Imagined Histories", Hite resituates is architectural sculptures in outdoor settings, magnifying the effects of dislocation and displacement that is central to all his imagery.

Crossing Safely

Sculpture Installation

April 12-June 1, 2010

Located on the front lawn of the Main Building at St. Edward's University

Hite will reveal his new sculptural work being at St. Edward's University on April 12. Crossing Safely is inspired by a modest shed-shaped shack in Arrazola, Oaxaca, Mexico, which Hite photographed in Mexico, when he began to develop a major work for St. Edward's and the Kozmetsky Center. "This work honors he stories of those who have traversed the border... successfully or not..." says Hite.

The Search for Social Justice Through the Arts

Public Lecture

April 12, 2010

In conjunction with these two exhibits, Robert Hite will give a public lecture, "The Search for Social Justice Through the Arts." on Monday, April 12th in the Ragsdale Auditorium at 7 p.m. with a reception to follow immediately.

Robert Hite was born in 1956 in rural Virginia, attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. After studying traditional ink brush painting in Malaysia, he worked as a studio assistant with Washington Color School painter Leon Berkowitz. Informed both by a rich southern narrative tradition and a closeness to natural environments, Hite's imagery often draws upon his memories of youthful wanderings in the Virginia tidewaters.