Media Release

 

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
For Immediate Release
Communications

Contact: Diana Paul
Telephone: 229-6501

 

Drawing Voices
An Exhibit That Merges Sound and Drawing

 

Georgia artist Craig Dongoski’s work will be on display at Reed Whipple Cultural center beginning on March 28, 2008. The exhibit will feature the artist’s laboratory or workshop experiments comprised of images that have been produced by way of sound. An artist reception and gallery talk is free and open to the public and will be on Friday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Reed Whipple Cultural Center gallery, with the gallery talk beginning at 6:30. The exhibit will run through June 14, 2008.
 
As part of this exhibit and as an educational component the artist will work with students to create a visual piece to be included with the other pieces. The student participants will be asked to respond to audio of a drawing being made and will try to
make the same sound with their drawing tool. This audio/visual experiment will take place during the reception and gallery talk.

Dongowski is associate professor of Art at Georgia State University in Atlanta where he teaches courses in Drawing, Design and Painting. He has taught classes, workshops and has given lectures over the past several years at numerous universities both nationally and internationally such as Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy; visiting artist residences at the Oder 24 Gallery in Berlin, Germany; American University in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Kinki University in Osaka, Japan; Franz Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium; University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada; Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Frogman’s Press Print and Paper Workshop, Vermillion, SD; Pasadena Community College, Pasadena, CA; Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C. He has been in at least 70 solo and group exhibits since 1990, including exhibits at LA Strange Animal LA, CA in 2005; Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, NY in 2004; Galerie Entropia in Wroclaw, Poland in 2003; Lunar Landing Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Gusto House Gallery in Kobe, Japan in 2002 and the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 1999.

This exhibit is presented by the Office of Cultural Affairs of the city of Las Vegas Office of Government and Community Affairs. The cultural center is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call (702) 229-1012 for more information. The center is closed Sunday, Monday and on holidays.

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