{"id":305,"date":"2016-02-17T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/sculptures-by-farfan-on-display-in-thompson-gallery\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:49:14","slug":"sculptures-by-farfan-on-display-in-thompson-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sculptures-by-farfan-on-display-in-thompson-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptures by Farf\u00e1n on display in Thompson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/art-exhibit-farfan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1516 lazyload\" title=\"art-exhibit-farfan\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/art-exhibit-farfan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"238\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 234px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 234\/238;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JANUARY 20, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Media Relations<\/p>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Sculptures by Diana Farf\u00e1n are on display now through Feb. 17 in Furman University\u2019s Roe Art Building, Thompson Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit, \u201cThe Toy Republic,\u201d is free and open to the public. Through the use of primarily ceramics along with mixed mediums, Farf\u00e1n\u2019s surrealistic forms show the plight of people as they are impacted by societal and class hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, Farf\u00e1n received her BFA at the National University of Colombia and her MFA in ceramics at the University of South Carolina. Her two- and three-dimensional works have been shown and awarded in a number of exhibitions in places including Colombia, the U.S., and Taiwan. Farf\u00e1n lives and works in Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Gallery hours are 9 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information about the exhibit, contact Debi Jolly in Furman\u2019s Department of Art, 864-294-2074, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/dianafarfan.com\/\">http:\/\/dianafarfan.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 20, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Media Relations<\/p>\n<p>Sculptures by Diana Farf\u00e1n are on display now through Feb. 17 in the Thompson Gallery of Furman\u2019s Roe Art Building. \u00a0The exhibit, \u201cThe Toy Republic,\u201d is free and open to the public. Through the use of primarily ceramics along with mixed mediums, Farf\u00e1n\u2019s surrealistic forms show the plight of people as they are impacted by societal and class hierarchies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}