Recitation Hall hosts several fall exhibits

Three Views of Nothing (2004), digital drawing and print, by Lance Winn

2:33 p.m., Sept. 23, 2004--Several exhibits will be on view at Recitation Hall during the fall semester, beginning with the current show of work by Lance Winn, a new member of UD’s art department faculty.

Cosponsored by the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications, the exhibits will showcase a broad range of work and give wider recognition to the artistic endeavors of UD students and faculty.

Below is the fall 2004 lineup.

Lance Winn, New Faculty Exhibition, will be on display through Friday, Oct. 1. Showcasing a range of work reflecting Winn’s diverse
studio practices, the exhibit features work that Winn describes as focusing on “reproductive processes [that] investigate the types of distortion that may occur as information is translated and multiplied.” A closing reception for the artist is scheduled for the Homecoming Weekend Art Loop, from 5-8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 1. (The gallery will remain open until 10 p.m. following the reception.)

The Sculpture Exhibition, a display of three-dimensional work, will run from Monday, Oct. 4, through Friday, Oct. 22. An exchange of art between UD and Towson State University in Maryland, the exhibit will feature a range of sculptural styles and mediums.

Theater of the Mind, an exhibition of prints that depict artists’ renditions of what goes on in their heads, will be on display from Monday, Oct. 25, through Friday, Nov. 12. The collection of images—now a nationally touring exhibition of 20 original prints juried by John Amity, well-known print collector and director of the Amity Foundation—comprises the show. Of special note, the exhibit features a hand-colored etching, “Uplifted,” by Rosemary Lane, UD professor of art. Theater of the Mind is produced and organized by the American Print Alliance, a coalition of five print societies. It is sponsored locally by the printmaking area of UD’s art department.

GAS—Getting Art Started, will run from Monday, Nov. 15, through Saturday, Dec. 4. An exhibit of undergraduate work in a variety of styles and media from across UD’s Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications, the show is just one of the events sponsored yearly by the student art group, GAS.

Peter Williams, New Faculty Exhibition, will run from Tuesday, Dec. 7, through Sunday, Jan. 30. Featuring paintings by Williams, a new UD art professor hailing from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., (where he was distinguished professor of art), the show includes works that have earned Williams wide acclaim. Included in the prestigious Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002, Williams’ work was described in a recent article in Detroit’s MetroTimes as possessing “genius marked by a seamless mixing of the particular and the universal, the personal and the social, the contemporary and the traditional.” A reception for the artist will be announced closer to the show’s opening.

All exhibits are free and open to the public. For more information on any of the exhibits, including hours, call (302) 831-2244.

Article by Becca Hutchinson

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