Department of Art & Design kicks off the school year with two exhibitions

MURRAY, Ky. – The Murray State University Department of Art & Design and University Galleries are pleased to announce two exhibit openings, each with an accompanying artist talk, beginning in August in the Clara M. Eagle Galleries and Mary Ed Mecoy Hall Gallery on the sixth floor of the Price Doyle Fine Arts Building on Murray State’s campus.

Fred DiGiovanni’s “Hands of Time Cento Anni” is currently on exhibit through Oct. 17 in the Mary Ed Mecoy Hall Gallery. DiGiovanni will also give an artist talk on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 5 p.m. in Price Doyle Fine Arts Room 623.

DiGiovanni graduated from Murray State with a double major in Art and Art Education in 1971. He was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in Elmont, Long Island, New York. After graduating from Murray State, he taught middle school art in the Louisville City School system and then in the Jefferson County Public School System. He taught for 27.5 years before retiring in 1999.

While at Murray State, he studied photography as part of his art education. In graduate school at the University of Louisville, he continued to pursue photography. After college, he studied at the Maine Photographic Workshop, Rocky Mountain School of Photography and with John Sexton and Bruce Barnbaum at their respective workshops. DiGiovanni has traveled to 48 states, Europe, China, New Zealand, Tahiti, Scandinavia, Africa, Canada and Mexico. He has exhibited his work in Kentucky and Indiana and has his work in several collections, including The World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero.

“Altered Logistics: Redux,” curated by D. Dominick Lombardi, will also be on view in the Clara M. Eagle Main and Upper Galleries from Aug. 27-Sept. 20. Lombardi will visit campus for an artist talk on Thursday, Sept. 19 at noon in Wrather Auditorium.

About the exhibition:

“Altered Logistics: Redux”

“A change in coordination or approach to something pre-set. Perception becomes surreality.”

Curated by New York-based D. Dominick Lombardi, the “Altered Logistics: Redux” exhibition places emphasis on collage as it best describes the method of combining previously unrelated elements that form a new message, emotion or narrative. This can be easily seen in 12 of the 16 artists’ works in the exhibition. In addition to these dozen artists, he selected four artists that focus more on that moment of change, when the cognitive reprocessing of intake and altering strikes. Additionally, on these two sides of the general concept, the exhibit has both analog and digital examples of art. With all of this considered in the curatorial process, this exhibition ends up being a complex visual experience, and one that Lombardi hopes brings new insights and inspiration to all who see it.

The “Altered Logistics: Redux” exhibition features work created by the following artists: Serdar Arat, Erick Baltodano, Joel Carreiro, Cless, Vincent Dion, Cecilia Whittaker-Doe, Don Doe, Yeon Jin Kim, D. Dominick Lombardi, Paul Loughney, Max-O-Matic, T. Michael Martin, Creighton Michael, Kevin Mutch, Margaret Roleke and Lydia Viscardi. 

The University Galleries visitor hours for fall 2024 are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission to the galleries is free and open to the public. For more information about the Department of Art & Design, visit murraystate.edu/art or follow them on Instagram @murraystateart.