Student Annual Art Exhibition Opens April 6

The 2010 Student Annual art exhibition will open in the University Galleries at Illinois State University with a 5 p.m. opening reception on April 6.  The exhibition will continue through May 9.

Open to all Illinois State students - not exclusively art majors - the Student Annual provides a forum for students to submit their work for review by professional artists, designers, critics and curators.  The exhibition reflects the changing concerns and trends of the artwork at large.

This year's juror for studio work is Jason Lazarus, an artist and instructor in photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College.  The graphic design juror is Bradley DeCharry, assistant professor at the University of Iowa and a freelance designer in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The opening reception will include an awards ceremony and scholarship announcements.  Awards are sponsored by individuals, groups and businesses in the community.  The recipient of this year's Marshall Dulaney Pitcher award, endowed in 1970 by the family of Marshall Pitcher, is MFA student David Schriefere of Moline.

Concurrently with the Student Annual will be an exhibition titled "Julia Fish: selected studies + drawings: 1996-2010,"  For more than 20 years, Fish has integrated the formal aspects of her physical surroundings with the precepts of minimalist painting.  She is a professor of studio art at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Sam Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlinische Galerie in Germany and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.  Fish's work currently is on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The University Galleries is located in room 110 of the Center for the Visual Arts at the south end of the ISU campus.  Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays through Mondays; 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays.