Opening at UMaine Lord Hall: Faculty, Staff Art Exhibition
Contact: Department of Art, 581-3245
Image available upon request: “Unhinged: A Plague on both your Houses,” ceramic, by Constant Albertson, associate professor of art.
ORONO — The Department of Art at the University of Maine is opening a new show, “WHAT’S UP,” an exhibition of work by faculty and staff, in the Lord Hall Gallery on the Orono campus, Oct. 5-Nov. 21.
This year’s work includes ceramics, drawings, installations, mixed media, paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures. The annual exhibition presents an overview of the creative accomplishments of studio, art education and art history faculty and staff. More than 20 exhibitors are showing more than 80 works.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The campus community and public are invited. There is no cost. Lord Hall Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. On the Saturday of Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 13, the gallery also will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
At the opening reception, Jefferson Goolsby, Laurie Hicks, and Nina Jerome will each give a brief talk about their current work. Goolsby produces experimental video and sound works that are processed for playback in a variety of forms, from interactive installation to screen-based playback.
Laurie Hicks, who has traveled extensively in the past year, says, her photographs “are part of an ongoing project that documents the particulars or details of specific places. They are in essence ‘tourist photographs’ that focus our attention on how visual details are critical to our memories of the places we visit or pass through as tourists.”
Nina Jerome’s new paintings, a series about Borestone Mountain near Monson, Maine, “explore panorama with shift in point of view, as well as personal ideas about depicting landscape structure.”
For more information, contact the Department of Art at 581-3245.