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Artist lecture: Thursday, Oct 4 at 1:15 pm., at the Staerkel Planetarium
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Gallery reception: Thursday, Oct 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Gallery talk by Teresa Dunn at 6:30 pm
Music by Lanterna
"Cover the Waterfront," is a solo exhibition of paintings by Michigan-based artist Teresa Dunn.
Dunn is a Mexican American raised in southern Illinois. She creates images influenced by the feeling suspended between two cultural heritages. Her body of work in the gallery features circular paintings that symbolize islands and landmasses, both protected and isolated. The imagery in the work conjures conflicting ideas of protection and escape, such as a sense of home mixed with a longing for a journey afar.
"These circular paintings are like miniature islands that encompass the life of my invented female protagonist and her small world. The circle, saturated color, and pattern allow me to explore metaphors for isolation and belonging. Boundaries and openness, hope and hopelessness, home and homeland. Expansive waters separate and connect here from there, yesterday from tomorrow, and a woman and her island from the moon."
Dunn is an associate professor of painting at Michigan State University. She has shown her work in a variety of venues. Including recent solo exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center (Sioux Falls, South Dakota). In addition to the Hiestand Gallery at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). As well as First Street Gallery (New York, New York), and the Hooks-Epstein Galleries (Houston, Texas). She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University. And her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Missouri State University.