Assistant professor of theater arts Lawrence Andrews is one of 12 San Francisco Bay Area artists to win a Eureka Fellowship Award. For an exhibit of award recipients' works, Andrews created an installation piece titled Wounded. The work is comprised of three tall black vases out of which flow lilies and twisted kiwi branches. Centered between the vases is a pile of granite rocks each bearing the image of a wound. From the pile a small video screen emits images of a writhing baby. On a wall nearby are the blurred images of a fireman, policeman, and doctor. According to Andrews, "The piece began by looking at the ways in which a community welcomes home its soldiers after war. This idea was used as a back door into the problems of how we reintegrate violent criminal children back into society." Wounded is the first part of an extended body of work on themes concerning workers who face the day-to-day traumas of society. More of Andrews's work on this topic will be on display in a solo show scheduled to open in June at the Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco. (Photo: Barbara McKenna)

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