APPLETON, WIS. – Mixed-media artist Gretchen Beck, professor of art at Concordia University in California, delivers the opening lecture Friday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. for the newest exhibition at Lawrence University’s Wriston Art Center galleries. A reception with the artist follows the address. The exhibition runs Nov. 14 – Dec. 21.
Beck’s work deals with the Djarma and Fulani cultures of Niger, West Africa, where she lived for three years. Her abstract imagery portrays concepts of ritual and tradition within the social structure of Nigerien culture. Beck’s drawings and paintings will be shown in the Kohler gallery.
Milwaukee-based artist Lynn Tomaszewski, a faculty member at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, will have prints, paintings and video exhibited in the Hoffmaster gallery. Often working with large quantities of information or objects, Tomaszewski mixes media and converges art and science with the concept of nature. Her most recent work combines patterns of information — DNA sequence data, maps of the universe — with video captures of everyday events.
The Leech gallery will feature the show “CUTE!,” a selection of small, charming images from Lawrence’s own permanent collection. The works were chosen specifically for their potential to elicit an “aaw, isn’t that cute” viewer response.
Wriston Art Center hours are Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Saturday-Sunday from noon – 4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays. For more information, call 920-832-6621 or visit http://www.lawrence.edu/news/wriston/.
