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UT Tyler Meadows Gallery to Present Exhibition Featuring German Artist Hans Molzberger

October 16, 2015

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October 16, 2015



The next exhibition at The University of Texas at Tyler Meadows Gallery will feature the internationally renowned German artist Hans Molzberger, Ray Sikes, gallery coordinator, announced.

The public exhibition will open Monday, Oct. 19. A public reception and gallery talk will be 6 – 7:30 p.m. that day at the gallery. The exhibition will conclude Friday, Nov. 20.

The Meadows Gallery is located in the UT Tyler R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by special appointment.

For more information, contact Sikes, 903.566.7237 or rsikes@uttyler.edu.

A self-taught artist, Molzberger, was born in 1953 in Höhr-Grenzhausen in Germany’s Rhineland region, where his family has lived for many generations working in industrial ceramic factories. In 1982, as a result of mounting personal crises and a fervent need to reassess his life, Molzberger started a studio in Wendland, Germany and by 1991 mounted his first museum exhibition. Working mainly with assemblages and Raku ceramic objects, the artist recently turned to printmaking. He now creates woodcuts and large-scale silkscreens that contain political subject matter.

Molzberger has worked in Israel, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Russia and lectured at several major universities. He currently divides his time between Germany and Houston where he is an artist affiliate at Houston Baptist University. He is also director of an artist residency program that he began in 1996, in Hilmsen, Germany.

One of the 14 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler features excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,500 high-ability students. UT Tyler offers courses at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.