APPLETON, WIS. — Sculptor Kristin Gudjonsdottir will deliver the opening lecture Friday, September 22 at 6:00 p.m. for the latest exhibition at Lawrence University’s Wriston Art Center galleries. A reception will follow. Both are free and open to the public.
Gudjonsdottir, who creates her work from reused materials, will exhibit a mixed media installation titled Seekers in the Kohler Gallery. Gudjonsdottir attended the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavik, Iceland, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California College of Arts and Crafts. She has shown her work in New Jersey, North Carolina, California, Washington, Montana, and Illinois, as well as in her native Iceland.
The Hoffmaster Gallery will feature Made in Japan: Recent Ceramics by Valerie Zimany. Zimany, a Lawrence University Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art and Art History, has an interest in ceramics and Japanese art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Kanazawa College of Art in Japan and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Penn. She has exhibited her work in both the United States and Japan.
The Leech Gallery will feature Asian Art in the Permanent Collection. This exhibition will include a series of 18th century Chinese ivories of eight immortals from Chinese myth, two ceramic horses from the T’ang period, and a couple of Buddhist sculptures.
The exhibition will run through October 29. The Wriston Art Center galleries are open Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, noon-4:00 p.m. The galleries are closed on Mondays. For more information, call 920-832-6621 or visit www.lawrence.edu/news/wriston.
