‘Vanishing Point’ print exhibit to open at Cal U gallery
CALIFORNIA – “Vanishing Point,” Print Installations by Kate Temple and Desire Alvarez will be held Monday through Nov. 5 in the Manderino Gallery on the third floor of Manderino Library at California University of Pennsylvania. The opening reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16. Two artists from NYC will visit Cal U to discuss their work at an opening reception in the Manderino Gallery.
The exhibition will include colorful printed installation pieces on hanging fabrics and transparent papers. The public is invited to meet the artists after the Gallery Talk at 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16.
Kate Temple and Desire Alvarez met in 1995 in New York City while working at the Lower Eastside Printshop. Since then they have exhibited together in a number of shows. Both are attracted to the distinctive drawing mark and color aura of printmaking and use the medium on a large scale in their installation work. Their work intersects in and around ideas of nature/culture, spirit and the poetic voice.
Researchers into the realm of the imagination, they unearth compelling and dynamic images and metaphors that speak about their struggle to understand how nature exists both within and outside of manmade culture and activity.
Although they work primarily in installation and painting, each artist has developed a unique body of drawings, prints and etchings.
Temple received her bachelor’s of fine arts degree in printmaking from Carnegie Mellon. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums.
Her installation Elemental Correspondence was featured in the book, “Installations: Mattress Factory 1990-1999,” published in 2001.
She is represented in corporate and private collections and has won numerous awards for her work. She was the recipient of a 1999 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Artist and writer Desir?e Alvarez is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Willard L. Metcalf Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the annual non-fiction award from Denver Quarterly, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, and a fellowship from CORK 2005 European Capital of Culture.
She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including shows the at Housatonic Museum, El Museo del Barrio, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Queens Theater in the Park, Dorfman Projects, International Print Center New York, Wesleyan University, as well as recent exhibitions in France and Ireland.
Alvarez holds a bachelor’s degree in art from Wesleyan University and a master’s of fine art degree from the School of Visual Arts. She teaches at CUNY, New York College of Technology. Born in downtown Manhattan, she lives and roller blades there with her dog, Bingo.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Department of Art and Design, The College of Liberal Arts and the CUP Student Activities Board with special thanks for continued support from Dean Douglas Hoover and the staff of the Manderino Library.
The public is welcome to celebrate our region1s creative excellence during gallery hours on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m. The gallery is closed Fridays.
For more information, contact gallery director Maggy Aston at 724-938-4563, or aston@cup.edu.