Season Opens with Two Special Exhibitions        

	Winding Valley oil on canvas by Aldo Hibbard From the KSU Permanent Collection
	Bolivian votive painting, 1792 collection of Jim and Linda Alexander
	Untitled, 1953 by René Porto Carvero collection of Dr. and Mrs. Antonio G. Valdés Rodriguez

The College of the Arts has launched the new gallery season with two unique, specially curated exhibitions. The first, "Selections from the KSU Permanent Collection," opened on Aug. 25 and runs through Oct. 27 in the Fine Arts Gallery. The second,   "The Collectors’ Vision: Latin American Art in Georgia Collections," opened on Aug. 31and runs through Oct. 15 in the Sturgis Library Gallery.

"Selections from the Permanent Collection," highlights the university’s extensive collection of 19th- and 20th-century landscape paintings in the Hudson River School, luminist, impressionist and realist styles. The exhibition also includes examples of genre and still life painting. The entire KSU Permanent Collection includes more than 400 works and is valued at more than $4 million. The collection was first established with a gift of several works from the 1940 Venice Biennale donated by Marietta collectors Fred Bentley Sr. and J. Alan Sellars, both of whom subsequently contributed many more works to the collection.

"The Collectors’ Vision: Latin American Art in Georgia Collections," brings together works ranging from 17th-century colonial art of Peru to contemporary works by noted artists from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba. More than two dozen museums and private and corporate collectors have lent pieces to this exhibition. Three lectures are scheduled in conjunction with this exhibition: KSU Director of Galleries, Roberta Griffin, who curated the show, will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 7; Georgia State University Professor of Art Florencia Bazzano-Nelson will discuss the art of Lilana Porter at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 3; and art curator and writer Ana Fernanadez will discuss Cuban art since in the 1990s at 5 p.m. on Oct. 15.

Other highlights of the 2005-2006 gallery season include “Merging East and West: Chen Zhen’s Cross-Cultural Installations” (January 18-March 3) and “Juan Logan: Caught Off Guard” (March 15-April 18). For a complete listing of gallery events, visit the calendar.

All gallery events are free and open to the public. Both galleries are open 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays. The Sturgis Gallery is also open 1-4 p.m. on Saturdays. For more information, call 770-499-3223.

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