Art exhibit is a VanderMeer, Eagle collaboration

The Faulkner Gallery features various artwork for the exhibition “Visualizing the Unknowable: Jeff VanderMeer and Scott Eagle.”

The Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery, on the library’s second floor, showcases longtime collaborative work between Scott Eagle and Jeff VanderMeer.

The exhibit, “Visualizing the Unknowable: Jeff VanderMeer and Scott Eagle,” has been installed in the Faulkner Gallery and is scheduled to remain on view through August. This features distinct work created throughout the 30-year artistic and literary collaboration of Eagle, an associate professor and Area Coordinator of Painting and Drawing in the ECU School of Art and Design, and VanderMeer, internationally acclaimed author known for his Southern Reach Trilogy novel series.

Event details in conjunction with host School of Art and Design and the library exhibition:

• “Annihilation Book to Film” public talk: April 7, 5 p.m., Main Campus Student Center room 235A; An in-depth exploration of the responses to the Southern Reach Trilogy, including a semi-comic account of one author’s viewing from afar of the movie-making process.
• Exhibit reception and artist conversation: April 8, 4 p.m., Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery; Eagle and VanderMeer engage in an unscripted conversation about how their creative partnership has influenced each other’s personal work.

VanderMeer is the author of “Annihilation,” the novel that inspired a film starring Natalie Portman, directed by Alex Garland. Eagle’s work has been exhibited and reproduced through a variety of international and domestic outlets, including The New York Times, The Oxford American and Wired Magazine.