STORRS, Conn. -- As members of three straight NCAA championship teams, former Connecticut women's basketball players Morgan Valley and Maria Conlon are used to being watched.
They were just what nationally known video artist Janet Biggs was looking for to complete her newest work, "One-on-One," a piece that deals with the idea of spectatorship.
"I asked them to please be as aggressive as you can be," Biggs said. "They just stepped up to the task like no two players I have ever worked with."
The piece, a continuous loop of hoops with both women locked in a mesmerizing dance for control, opens its 17-day run Wednesday at UConn's Contemporary Art Galleries on the Storrs campus. Viewers enter a small, dark room and encounter larger-than-life images of Conlon and Valley in a one-on-one drill cast on double-sided screen. Conlon has the ball throughout the footage while Valley counters her every move, trying in vain to gain control.
