University at Buffalo: Reporter

Works by outstanding alumni, faculty
to be shown in tribute to UB art program

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

In celebration of UB's sesquicentennial, the UB Art Department faculty has selected work by 23 of its outstanding alumni and 17 faculty members for exhibition in the University Art Gallery. The show will open with a public reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, and will run through Dec. 18.

Karen Emenhiser, associate director of the gallery, said the show is a comprehensive tribute to the UB art program, which has turned out such well-known artists as Susan Altman, Nancy Dwyer, Chuck Agro, Ellen Carey and Joel Peter Johnson, all of whom will be represented in the exhibit.

The alumni represented also will include Mindy Bremmer, Dennis Goris, Kurt Feueherm, Barry Fitzgerald, Thomas F. Insalaco, Daniel Levine, Jane Marinsky, Gina Occhiogrosso, Thomas R. Payne, Endi Poskovic, Robin Shores, Robert C. Smith, Andrew Leighton Strout, Evan D. Summer, Scott Swiles, Jason Everett Tennant and Anne Turyn.

Faculty exhibitors are: painters David Schirm, Norine Spurling, Sheldon Berlyn, Willard Harris; printmaker/painter Harvey Breverman; printmaker Adele Henderson; collage artist Jeff Sherven; photographers Marion Faller, Daniel Calleri; illustrators Kathleen Collins Howell, Alan E. Cober; graphic designer Paul McKenna; sculptors Tony Paterson, Susan Mills, and digital artists Gary Nickard, Anthony Rozak, Tyrone Georgiou.

The gallery is on the first and second levels of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus. Hours are Wed. through Sat., 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

A concurrent exhibition in the gal-lery's Lightwell Gallery through Dec. 20. is Leonardo Drew's "No. 45-A," a massive, site-specific installation constructed as a personal homage to the sensual surfaces of Abstract Expressionism.


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