A Look Back...

James Brooks Gallery

This past weekend, Derek and I attended our niece's high school graduation (congrats, Jessica!), which has got me thinking about my own university graduation and the work I was doing at that time. At my school, it was mandatory to put on a solo exhibition as a 2 credit hour course during your senior year. At FSU, I was very involved with drawing the figure from life - oh to have the luxury of a large studio and dependable model! These works are all charcoal and pastel on paper (some nice paper, some...not so nice) and are about lifesize. Anyway, just thought I would share the pictures of past work and my very first solo exhibit.

Leaning Man. 5 x 3' charcoal and pastel on paper. 2006.

La femme se penche. 5 x 3' charcoal and pastel on paper. 2006

Man. 4 x 3' charcoal and pastel on paper. 2006

Study of feet. 4 x 3' charcoal and pastel on paper. 2006.

Portrait of a young man. 4 x 3' charcoal and pastel on paper. 2006.

FSU Article and New Paintings!

April 21st. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2"

April 15th. oil and acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 1/2"

Right now there is a little article on Fairmont State University's news page that I am featured in! FSU is the university where I earned my BA in studio art. It is a small school, but I am very proud to have studied art there at the time that I did. I owe almost everything that is important to me today to Fairmont State. Even my husband (we met in a drawing course)! So thank you to FSU and to Bradley Omanson for this article. He also writes for the Fine Arts Tatler blog.

Gary Leib, Artist in Residence at FSU

*picture from Fine Arts Tatler blog, follow the link below for more!

Tonight from 7-9 there will be an opening reception held for Gary Lieb's new exhibition at Jim Brooks Gallery at Fairmont State University. Anyone in the area should stop in and check it out, it's a wonderful opportunity to see his work. On display will also be his collaborative ceramic pieces, completed with Jeff Greenham - which I am particularyly interested in seeing.

Lieb's illustrations and cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, Musician Magazine, The New York Observer, Raw, Blab and as weekly features in The New York Press.

Here is a very nice post with great pics of installation from the Fine Arts Tatler: http://fineartsfsu.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/artist-in-residence-gary-leib-to-exhibit-new-work/