Close-up of signs outside of the fallout shelter in Dehnel's "Greetings.from America."
By Senior sculpture major Matthew Dehnel’s exhibit “Greetings from America” features video, signs, brochures, food cans, nuclear bomb fused sand and more in an atomic age inspired gallery. In this exhibit, guests can view and walk into a constructed fallout shelter made entirely out of road signs and wood.
Dehnel created this exhibit after reflecting on the 1940s-50s and current political atmosphere and its relation to pop culture.
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- A constructed postcard from the American Atomic Age “Greetings From America!”
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- Close-up of an Edison light bulb hanging from the roof of the fallout shelter.
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- Matthew Dehnel’s “United Assembly Line” which features nine lifeboat raft biscuit ration cans.
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- Dehnel’s “Fusion” which features a radiological survey meter, a reproduction of a RobCo Stealth cloaking device and six emergency drinking cans.
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- Close-up of signs outside of the fallout shelter in Dehnel’s “Greetings.from America.”
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- Dehnel’s “What Makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.” is a Vault Tee training video adapted from an analog signal to his digit display which runs on a loop over 13 minutes long.
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- A close up of Dehnel’s “Fusion.”
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- A trinitite sample, which is fused sand from the first nuclear bomb tested in 1945, “The Trinity Gadget” is placed at the front of the gallery.
