Complete Run Turok, Dinosaur Hunter (#1-#12, July’93-June’94)

NEW ORLEANS – Heriard-Cimino Gallery presents Between the Pages, mixed sculptures by Aaron McNamee. This Opening is in conjunction with Whitney White Linen Night and will be on view August 4 through September 24, 2012. A reception to meet the artist will be held on Saturday, August 4th, from 6 until 9 p.m.  The public is invited.  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 until 5, or by appointment.

This exhibition could not be more timely! Aaron McNamee presents one entire and complete year of the Times-Picayune daily newspaper, presented month by month in individual panels – a premonition perhaps of things to come. The New Orleans newspaper as we have known it, first established one hundred seventy-five years ago, has now become extinct – the morning ritual of New Orleanians gone, as well as the artist’s performative daily ritual of utilizing the city’s daily newspaper to create his sculptures.

About the Exhibition:  The printed words and images of newspapers, magazines, and comic books is a primary component in McNamee’s work.  His fastidious building of his sculptures page by page, leaf by leaf, paper and glue, becomes blurred, denying any specific information of content. The colors and words intermingle, bleeding through layer upon layer. The result, a painting without paint. McNamee utilizes the New Orleans Times-Picayune, complete years of American Rifleman, Mother Earth News, Road and Track, Smithsonian and The Incredible Hulk, Legends of the DC Universe, and Professor Xavier and the X-Men.

The labored repetition of aligning and gluing each piece of paper seems to be a kind of meditation. The viewer experiences the alchemical result, the transmutation of the familiar into the sublime.

Aaron McNamee received his undergraduate degree from Eastern Oregon University and his M.F.A. from University of New Orleans. Since his moving to New Orleans five years ago, the artist has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions. This is his first solo exhibition at Heriard-Cimino Gallery. The artist lives and works in New Orleans, LA.

Heriard-Cimino Gallery website:

http://www.heriardcimino.com/current_x/cx1.html

Nightingale Gallery of Eastern Oregon University is excited to open our 2011-12 exhibition season with our triennial Alumni Exhibition.

The work of these alumni cover a wide range of media from drawing to painting to mixed media to sculpture. The exhibiting artists represent a span of forty years of Art Program graduates. Those showing include nationally recognized 1970 graduate Don Gray as well as up and coming 2009 grads Mariah Boyle and Devin Farrand. Other exhibiting artists include: Shannon Berg (2006), Elizabeth Garton (2011), Jaime Gustavson (2000), Dawn Lepper (2006), Austin McDonald (2005), Jessica Parries (2011), Jessie Street and Marguerite Torres (both 2009)

In addition to presenting a diverse selection of our alumni’s creative work the gallery is pleased to welcome back to campus several of the above mentioned artists. Devin Farrand a sculptor and recent MFA graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and currently living and working in Los Angeles will present a public presentation on his current body of work Wednesday, September 28 at 6pm in Zabel Hall room 142.

Farrand will also take part in a panel discussion on graduate school experiences for art majors. Other panelists include Mariah Boyle, a current MFA candidate at Washington State University; Shannon Berg, a recent graduate of Montana State University’s graduate program in art; Jaime Gustavson, a 2007 graduate of Vermont College Union Institute’s low-residency MFA program; and Jessie Street, art educator and 2009 graduate of EOU’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program. Each of the 5 bring to the conversation a unique perspective and is representative of a variety of approaches to post-graduate education in the visual arts. The panel will be informative for both current EOU Art majors and others who are considering pursuing a graduate degree. The panel will take place at 6pm on Thursday, September 29 at 6pm in room 116 of Loso Hall. Both presentations are free and the public is encouraged to attend.

“We are pleased to have such talented artists out in the world representing the strengths of our program and this University,” said Cory Peeke, Nightingale Gallery Director. “We are even more pleased they have chosen to share their creative endeavors and insights with our current students and the regional arts community”

The Nightingale Gallery is located in Loso Hall on the campus of Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, OR. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 11AM-4PM. For more information please visit our website: http://www.eou.edu/art/nightingale/index.html or follow us on Facebook.

To request images of artwork for publication or to schedule an interview with one or more of the artists please contact Gallery Director Cory Peeke at cpeeke@eou.edu .