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Nov. 2, 2004
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Contact: Pamela Hammond
(310) 243-2001
phammond@csudh.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

University Art Gallery presents
“ Diverse Visions,” Featuring Art Department Alumni

Carson, Calif. – California State University, Dominguez Hills, University Art Gallery presents “Diverse Visions,” an invitational exhibition featuring 60 works of art in varied media by 14 Art Department alumni. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, Nov. 17, and continue through Dec. 8. Included in the exhibition will be the following alumni artists: Victoria Almeida, Richard Alvarez, Andy Blinn, Paul Carmichael, Edith Asker Chipman, Maria Elena Fuster, Geoffrey Guerrero, Janice Lloyd Govaerts, Matt Jackson, Edmond Maloney, Vince Ray, Lance Reynolds and Leticia Villa.

The exhibition includes painting, ceramics and prints. Almeida presents poetic abstractions; Alvarez, canvases of Latino imagery; Guerrero, ceramic plates; Jackson, prints from his “Anger” series; and Govaerts, large-scale ceramic towers. Other work includes Maloney’s “Elegy” series of paintings, Lance Reynolds’s installation on mass marketing and the internet, and Carmichael’s grisaille paintings of Xeroxed images.

In conjunction with the opening reception on November 17 from 6 to 8 p.m., a conversation with three alumni artists, Victoria Almeida, Richard Alvarez and Geoffrey Guerrero, will be held in the University Art Gallery beginning at 7 p.m.

The exhibit and related events are sponsored by the Instructionally Related Activities Committee.

The University Art Gallery is located in LaCorte Hall. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and admission is free to the exhibition and related events. The campus is located a 1000 E. Victoria Street in the city of Carson near the junction of the Harbor, Artesia and San Diego freeways. Visitor parking permits may be purchased for $2.50 at the yellow dispensing machines at the front of each campus lot.

Contact:
Kathy Zimmerer, Director
University Art Gallery
(310) 243-3334
kzimmerer@csudh.edu

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