Multimedia Exhibition Shows Connection Between Poetry And Art

January 11, 2011 Art | University of Maryland Art Gallery | English

UM’s The Art Gallery presents Poetic.Aesthetic. from January 27, 2011 through March 5, 2011.

UM’s The Art Gallery presents Poetic.Aesthetic. from January 27, 2011 through March 5, 2011.

For Immediate Release

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – University of Maryland’s The Art Gallery, in collaboration with the departments of English and Art, have partnered with national and international artists to create new works of visual art inspired by literature.

The exhibition entitled Poetic. Aesthetic. An Exploration of Creativity in Poetry and Visual Art features 40 works in various media, including paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, screen-printed posters, and installations. They are also joined by new video works inspired by poet Lucille Clifton’s The Book of Light performed by Jefferson Pinder, multi-media artist and UM assistant professor of art and high school students from area schools.

“Poetic. Aesthetic. Seeks to foster creative collaboration across artistic disciplines,” said Art Gallery Director and Curator John Shipman. “The artists in this exhibition explore the interaction between language and image and the implications of text itself as image,” Shipman said.

Each visual artist will create three new works of art based on the poems of one poet.

The artists exhibiting new works in the exhibition are: Kris Chau, Audra Buck-Coleman, Bill Dunlap, John Foster, Tim Gough, Dan Grzeca, Hero Design, David Hughes, Mirta Kupferminc, Ruth Lozner, Jefferson Pinder, Strawberryluna, Julianna Swaney, and James Thorpe.

The poets highlighted in this exhibition are: Elizabeth Arnold, R. Dwayne Betts, Lucille Clifton, Michael Collier, Jehanne Dubrow, Michael Glaser, Joseph Harrison, Ethan Huang, Linda Pastan, Maryland State Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly, Dave Smith, Saul Sosnowski, Elizabeth Spires, and Joshua Weiner.

Press Preview

When: Monday, January 24, from noon to 2 p.m.
Where: University of Maryland, 1202 Art-Sociology Building, College Park, MD, 20742
RSVP: Press should RSVP to jwatson4@umd.edu.

Public Opening

The public opening reception will be held on Thursday, January 27, from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition opens to the public through Saturday, March 5, 2011.

The Art Gallery is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. The gallery is also supported in part by the College of Arts and Humanities, the University, as well as national, state and local arts agencies, foundations, corporations, and private donors.