“REVERB: Recent Abstraction in Painting”

The UNI Gallery of Art will present a new exhibition, "REVERB: Recent Abstraction in Painting" from Monday, Jan. 14 through Saturday, Mar. 2, 2013. The following artists lectures to be presented in Kamerick Art Building South, room 111: Christie Blizard, January 14 at 7 p.m. and Dana Saulnier, February 4 at 7 p.m. Each lecture will be followed by a reception. Sponsored in part by the Sarah Elizabeth Hearst Visiting Artist fund.

Curated by Assistant Professor of Art Kenneth Hall, this group invitational exhibition features new work by Scott Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Jimmy Baker (Cincinnati, Ohio), Christie Blizard (Lubbock, Texas), the late Megan Dirks (Sioux City, Iowa), Angelina Gualdoni (Brooklyn, New York), Mary Laube (Iowa City, Iowa), Dana Saulnier (Oxford, Ohio), and Deborah Zlotsky (Albany, New York). These artists have been assembled because of their passionate investigations into expressive mark making and gestural iconography.

Curator Kenneth Hall states, "Contemporary abstract painting shows interesting tendencies toward figuration (though not necessarily the human body) as it responds to the senses. The subject of seeing and the senses, generally, is a theme in the work of these artists who bring unique viewpoints and aesthetics to show a robust variety in contemporary abstract painting. The term reverb connotes music, and the effect of enhancing sound by way of technology… making it more spacious, more layered, and more dynamic."

The UNI Gallery of Art will also present a new UNI Permanent Art Collection exhibition titled "The Individual Is the One Illusion," which will run through May 11, 2013. Gallery director Darrell Taylor curates this exhibition, and students from Dr. Elizabeth Sutton’s Art and Globalization seminar will present descriptive materials about each art object.

All events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday and by appointment. Please note that the Gallery will be closed Jan. 21 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

For more information, visit www.uni.edu/artdept/gallery/Home.html or call 319-273-3095.