University Galleries presents 2010 Alumni Spectacular

University Galleries announces the opening of the 2010 Alumni Spectacular with a reception on Saturday, Sept. 18, from 5 to 7 p.m.   The event is free and open to the public, and free parking is available in the School Street Garage. 

The open-entry exhibition includes work by arts and arts technology alumni who attended Illinois State since the 1940s.  Although there are many works by artists who received bachelor's or master's degrees at Illinois State, neither a degree in studio art nor a diploma was a requirement for admission. 

The exhibition, the most encompassing alumni show ever installed in University Galleries, includes drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, metals, glass, paintings, collages, assemblages, videos and digital works by 220 artists from 28 states across the United States. 

Two additional exhibitions will also be included.  National, curated by Adam Farcus, includes works by Maria Gaspar, Matthew Paul Jinks, Rebecca Mir, Irene Perez, Allison Yusakawa and Adam Farcus. 

In the National exhibition, “each artist explores nationality through personal experience and related cultural issues,” said Farcus.

Then & Now: Artists from the Lang-Fuller Building, curated by James Hejl and cometogether studios, includes work by Harold Boyd, Mark Forth, Lyle Salmi, Michael Dubina, James Hejl, Rick Harney, Michelle Peterson, Michele Bock, Fay Lee, Angel Ambrose, Chris Starkey, Todd DeVriese, Rhea Edge, Gerard Erley, Herb Eaton and Sandra Oglesby.  For more than 30 years, the historic Lang-Fuller Printing Company building in downtown Bloomington has housed artists’ studios.  This exhibition features two works by each artist: one created while working in a Lang-Fuller Building studio, and one created recently.  Textual and photographic documentation of the buiding’s history will accompany the exhibition. 

All three exhibitions will be open from Sept. 18 through Oct. 17 and are free and open to the public.

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