Patrick Luber's "Wound"

Tom Block's "One Who Meets Death"

Marcia L. Santore's "Blue Window"

Wein Gallery Hosts Small Works Exhibit

 Presentation College’s Wein Gallery will host a Small Works Exhibit featuring artwork from around the country.  The exhibit can be viewed at Presentation College from September 17 through November 9.  The Wein Gallery is located on the second floor of the Main Building.

 The exhibit features the works of six artists from across the country.  “The exhibit was advertised in national art publications,” said Wein Gallery Director Greg Blair.  “We are very pleased with the response we have received from so many talented artists.”

 Artists exhibiting in the show include: 

• Tom Block of Silver Spring, Maryland will exhibit three pieces:  “One Who Meets Death,” “The Drowning Man,” and “Western Man.”  The works combine quotes from great humanists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi with Eastern-inspired visual language.  “The works highlight the similarities between all wisdom traditions, and provide public testament to the similarities between persons from all cultures, religions and ethnicities,” said Block.  “A gentle reminder that we have far more in common than we do things that separate us.”  The works have been incorporated in public art projects in Tempe, Arizona and Silver Spring, Maryland

• Minneapolis artist Michelle Brusegaard has contributed two photographic works to the exhibition.  The Grand Forks native utilizes painting and photography to convey her expressionistic style.  She was inspired to study art through observing her grandmother paint landscapes and still-lives.

• Nathaniel Hester of Hurdle Springs, North Carolina will present Oklahoma Centerfold #5 and #19.  Hester’s works are prints investigating the incongruous harmonies of the American landscape.

• Josh Johnson, a Master of Fine Art Candidate at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln will exhibit his sculpture entitled “Concerned?  Sometimes I fake it.”  Johnson uses metal casting and fabrication with found objects in creating his sculpture.  “My artwork is influenced by humor, music, toys, fantasy, science fiction, antiquated machinery and animals.  I employ these to comment on personal experiences, human behavior and contemporary culture.”

• Patrick Luber, Professor of Sculpture at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks will present three pieces from his Milagro Series.  Luber’s sculpture explores the ways that faith is manifested in physical form.  The inspiration for Luber’s series comes from Milagros, small metal relief images used in individual devotions, traditionally among Catholics of Mexico and the American Southwest.  Individual religious practices and manifestations of faith are the subject of Luber’s work.  “It is these individual aspects that I use to address the complexity of personal expressions of worship, especially prayer, within a broader context,” said Luber.

• “Blue Window” and “Cast a Long Shadow” by Marcia L. Santore will be presented in the exhibit.  A resident of Plymouth, New Hampshire, Santore has taught art at Plymouth State University.  Paintings, drawings and collages to create somewhat ambiguous images to provoke emotional, psychological and political responses in the viewer, empowering the viewer to determine the work’s ultimate meaning and allowing that meaning to change over time.

   For more information on the Wein Gallery exhibit contact Greg Blair at (605) 229-8585.