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Gonzaga University Art Department Faculty Exhibition

Four panel graphic showing samples of the art on exhibit.

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Dates: January 26, 2019 through May 11, 2019
Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Saturday; closed for University holidays.
Holidays Closed: Feb. 18, Mar. 11-15, Apr. 19 & 22 2019

Exhibitions and events are FREE and open to the public.

“This exhibition promises to be a special opportunity for Eastern Washington residents and visitors to see and experience new work by Gonzaga’s full-time studio art faculty. The excellence and commitment that my colleagues bring to the studio classroom as art educators is equally present in their professional practices as artists. Although they create art using an array of processes in a variety of media, the common trait across their work is an impeccable balance between aesthetic rigor and judicious exploration of a range of concepts and questions that their work probes."

Dr. Shalon Parker — Chair, Gonzaga University Art Department

Decorative image showing artwork by artist Mary Farrell

Highlights from the Exhibition

Mary Farrell, Conflict Zone, 2018

“My artwork is primarily about locating larger meaning within fragments of the world around me, inspired by the human body and plant forms. I think in terms of geography, topography and terrain as the place where the drawn mark can map these forms in space. And in this landscape of the contained gesture it is quite purely about drawing.”

The abandoned Salton Motel with an empty swimming pool.

Highlights from the Exhibition

Matt McCormick, Salton Motel, 2007

“My work as an artist and filmmaker hinges on observation and curiosity. My practice combines an interest in history, geography, and landscape with an explorative aesthetic. I seek to create films that blur genre distinctions and create dialogical situations. Deemed an ‘experimental documentarian,’ my goal is to create non-fiction work that embraces artistic formalism while acknowledging the limits and problematics of documentary storytelling.”

Highlights from the Exhibition

Mat Rude, Boomba Series: I Come in Peace, 2016

The weathered beauty of the work speaks of secret places and the arcane symbols that mark them. Throughout our lives, we discover places that give us comfort, escape, or solitude. The current body of work with its eroded textures and subtle perforations represents the sanctuaries in which we seek refuge.

Decorative image of work created by artist Laura Truitt.

Highlights from the Exhibition

Laura Truitt, Untitled, 2018

“I’ve been working with landscape in my paintings and drawings for fifteen years now. These new works, all done since moving to Spokane in the fall of 2017, have to do with perspective. Linear perspective, surely, but also our emotional and collective perspective of landscape and personal space. The underlying conflict in my work is generated by climate change, land abuse and over consumption of all kinds, my own included. “

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Gonzaga University Art Department Faculty Exhibition

Highlights from the Exhibition

Mary Farrell, Conflict Zone, 2018

Highlights from the Exhibition

Matt McCormick, Salton Motel, 2007

Highlights from the Exhibition

Mat Rude, Boomba Series: I Come in Peace, 2016

Highlights from the Exhibition

Laura Truitt, Untitled, 2018

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