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Meadows Gallery Features Cheryl
Wassenaar Paintings The Meadows Gallery is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday or by special appointment (903-566-7250). A closing reception and Gallery Talk featuring Wassenaar will be held 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14. The Gallery Talk will begin at 7 p.m. The Wassenaar exhibit presents 20 works, each built from found commercial signage the artist has cut, rearranged, painted, scrapped, etc., and then reassembled into “constructed paintings.” The work seeks to understand what happens to language, the words or phrases on a sign, when its natural ordering is interrupted and its symbols, the letters, are visually isolated by themselves or in new arrangements. Wassenaar explores the function of language when it is freed from the rules of syntax. Recalling the restraint and structure of modernist design and the graphic boldness of Pop Art, her paintings quickly move to our present day visual experience -- continuous clips of text, acronyms and serial numbers that crowd our urban landscapes and vie for our attention. Although the source material originates from the detritus of commerce and industry in her own neighborhood, Wassenaar finds inspiration in the quilts of the southern United States, as well as the artisan work of northern Romania, Morocco, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, appearing in more than 30 group shows and seven solo exhibitions. Wassenaar’s work was featured on three book covers and selected for the quarterly Midwest 2002: New American Painters, published by Open Studio Press in Boston, Mass. Wassenaar is an assistant professor in the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. The gallery is closed on academic holidays. For more information please contact Matthew Rich at 903-566-7483.
Contact person: Emily Battle, (903) 565-5604
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The recent paintings of artist Cheryl Wassenaar of St. Louis,
Mo., are on exhibit through Oct. 15 at the Meadows Gallery, located
in The University of Texas at Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing
Arts Center, gallery director Matthew Rich announced. 