The UTC Cress Gallery of Art is showing “Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image” Paintings by Rose Freymuth-Frazier (New York, New York) and “What Comes With the Territory” Paintings by Michael Vasquez (Miami, Florida) through Tuesday, October 12. Artists’ lectures will follow a public reception Tuesday, September 14, 5:30 p.m., Room 356 UTC Fine Arts Center.
Michael Vasquez and Rose Freymuth-Frazier will be on campus and in the community September 13 – 16 as part of the UTC John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series
These exhibitions are supported by The Friends of the Gallery. Admissions to the Gallery and all events are free and open to the public.
Rose Freymuth-Frazier paints portraits that allegorically depict a sense of what it is to be a woman in today’s world with its emphasis upon physical beauty and its dichotomous, often perilous view of the nature of beauty as being both “treacherous” and “good.” The viewer is left to interpret as the vulnerable conceal their secrets and the strong guard their vulnerability.
Michael Vasquez paints narrative scenes that are largely autobiographical as images of cathartic memory and actuality, Vasquez addresses with empathy the difficult realities often faced by an individual within a contemporary urban existence, exposing deep relationships, angst and misgiving, survival and beauty.
NEW Cress Gallery hours:
9:30am – 7:30pm Monday – Friday
1:00pm – 4:00pm Saturday – Sunday
The Cress Gallery is open during intermission for all Patten Series Performances.
Visitors to the Gallery may obtain a parking pass at the UTC Facilities Bldg, on Palmetto Street; parking is free in any lot after 5:00pm weekdays and all day on weekends.
The Cress Gallery is located in the lobby of the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street, 37403 (corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets). For more information contact ruth-grover@utc.edu or call 423-304-9789.
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