Remaining Strata
By Travis Apel
Oct 31 – Dec 24, 2025
Reception: Oct 30, 5-7pm
Remaining Strata is a solo exhibition featuring a series of new sculptures on how artist Travis Apel has dealt with materials, memory, and malaise over two decades of living in Omaha.
This body of artwork was reduced by aggressive labor of chopping, breaking and carving. The outcome includes waste remnants for other similar compositions: salvaged metal castings, concrete leftovers, shredded tires, shattered auto glass, and repurposed lumber materials compose these biomorphic characters, geomorphic objects, and amalgamated furnishings. Works are fabricated with twine, hardware, and plaster.
Artist Bio
Travis Apel b. 1975 in Moberly, Missouri is a multimedia artist with an emphasis working on sculpture in Omaha, Nebraska since 2001. Apel studied at Kansas City Art Institute from 1994-96. His work gives voice to home-grown mediums of plant fibers, wood, soil combined with synthetic materials repurposed with salvaged stone, concrete, and urban debris.
A mid-career artist, Apel created artwork through artist residencies at Cel del Nord in Barcelona, Spain, and with Nebraska projects at Hot Shops Art Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Arts Center, El Museo Latino, and the Mayflower Mobile Gallery. He installed solo exhibitions across many Omaha arts districts in addition to being featured in the group Invitational Exhibitions at El Museo Latino in 2022 and 2023. In 2022 he received Best 3D Award for the ARTELATINX Biennial at 1516 Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. In 2020 Apel earned a People’s Choice Award for public sculpture at Art on the Campus in West Des Moines, Iowa. Coordinated by Amplify Arts in Omaha, Apel was a cohort member of Alternate Currents Working Group, and a Work In Progress Fellow in 2020 and 2019 respectively. He has sculptures in private collections and his artwork is featured in juried exhibitions nation wide.