NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@alpha.nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

3/14/2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - Northwestern State University's will hold its annual Faculty Art Exhibit through March 23 in the Orville Hanchey Gallery.

Faculty with works in the exhibit are Bill Bryant, Brooks DeFee, Rivers Murphy, Clyde Downs and Michael Yankowski. Watercolors, sculpture, abstracts, mixed media and alternative media will be on display.

Bryant will exhibit watercolor paintings of the southwest all completed from
sketches. The works on display will include "San Felipe," "White River," Blue Mountain" and "Southwest Landscape."

DeFee will show new works exploring the effects of rice emulsion, an alternative medium he developed, in combination with acrylic paint to focus on surfaces. He will display "Fragonard," "Watteau" and "Bonfires on the Cane."

Murphy will exhibit two welded steel sculpture floor pieces, "Millennium One" and "Temptation Tree."

In his works on display, Downs will focus on landscapes of recent years and turning down new avenues toward abstraction. He will show "High Plains Variation #23," "Susie," "It's Been a Very Hard Year," and "The Flower Eater."

For the exhibit, Yankowski is showing mainly three-dimensional painted works
which feature Christian iconography in combination with other objects

Yankowski will display "War Chest for the New Millennium," "Canticle of Sorrows," "Codex," "St. Sebastian," "Mystery is the Message," "Corpus Christi" and "Unfulfilled Wishes."

The Hanchey Gallery is open weekdays from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

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