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The exhibition opens Friday, April 2nd<\/sup> with a reception from 6-8pm in the gallery located in Loso Hall.\u00a0 The show will run through Friday, April 23rd. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 11am to 4pm.<\/p>\n Mirrors of Experience<\/em> will present a selection of Boyle\u2019s recent large scale charcoal drawings. Boyle\u2019s dynamic works, often feature self-portraits, and are derived from a sense of identity as linked to the loss of important women in her life.\u00a0 The artist\u2019s exploration of feelings of grief and healing, life and death; lead her to create staged, dreamlike visual narratives. Boyle\u2019s images suggest a loss of immediate control and a sense of a time and place that has been fractured.\u00a0 They often suggest the experience a dream or fleeting fragment of distant memory.<\/p>\n \u201cMariah Boyle\u2019s direct approach to drawing combined with her sophisticated use of art historical and literary symbolism makes for a powerful exhibition of drawings,\u201d said Cory Peeke, Nightingale Gallery Director.\u00a0 \u201cHer works while seemingly romantic representations also present viewers with scenarios both vaguely familiar and disquieting.\u00a0 The Nightingale is excited to be able to present such a large grouping of these compelling images to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n Mariah Boyle grew up in Vale, Oregon. She attended Eastern Oregon University graduating with her B.A. degree with a major in Art in 2009. She currently lives in La Grande where she is the EOU Art Program\u2019s alumni artist in residence. Boyle was recently accepted into the graduate Art program at Washington State University. She will be moving to Pullman, WA this fall in order to pursue her M.F.A.<\/p>\n Boyle\u2019s work has been exhibited numerous times within the region and also at the Galeria Jesus Gallardo, La Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico as part of the Autoretratos<\/em> exhibition. Her images have also been recognized with numerous awards including recent inclusion in \u201cCreative Quarterly\u201d Issue #18, two Union County Cultural Enrichment Grants, one in 2009 and 2010, and honorable mentions at both the EOU All-Campus Juried Student Exhibit and the Pendleton Art Center Regional Exhibition both in 2009.<\/p>\n In conjunction with the exhibit Boyle will present a public gallery talk on Wednesday, April 14th at 6pm in the gallery.\u00a0 The presentation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n For further information about the exhibition call the gallery, 541-962-3667 or on the web at www.eou.edu\/art\/.\u00a0 To request images of artwork for publication or to schedule an interview with the artist please contact Gallery Director Cory Peeke at cpeeke@eou.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nightingale Gallery of Eastern Oregon University is pleased to present\u00a0Mirrors of Experience,\u00a0a solo exhibition of local artist and EOU alumna Mariah Boyle. The exhibition opens Friday, April 2nd with a reception from 6-8pm in the gallery located in Loso Hall.\u00a0 The show will run through Friday, April 23rd. Gallery hours are Monday through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-student-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}