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RENI GOWER
August 27th–October 13th, 2012
Paintings/Encaustic
Residency: October 4th–5th, 2012
Lecture: October 4th, Taylor Hall, Room 404 @ 7 p.m.
Reception to follow in Sawhill Gallery from 8pm–9pm
Reni Gower is a professor in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. For more than 30 years, her work has been showcased at national and international venues, including the Library of Congress Print Collection; Pleasant Company/Mattel, Inc; the American Embassies in Lima, Peru and Osaka, Japan; Media General, Inc; and the Federal Reserve Bank. Her current project Papercuts will travel to seven national venues between 2011 and 2013. Using the language of abstraction, Gower blends a fluid, improvisational painting approach with a repetitively structured and analytical one to create complex images on various mediums. |
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HARLAN W. BUTT
October 22–December 8, 2012
Encore Artist
Metals/Enamels
Residency at JMU: October 22–24, 2012
Lecture: October 22 5–6 p.m., Taylor 405
Reception: October 22, 6–8 p.m., Sawhill Gallery
Harlan W. Butt is a Regent Professor of Art at the University of North Texas, where he has taught since 1976. He is the past president of the Society of North American Goldsmithing (SNAG), past president of the Enamelist Society, and a Fellow of the American Craft Council. His work, influenced by the colors, textures and shapes of the plants and animals where he has lived, is exhibited in collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the Arrowment School of Arts and Crafts. |
