UDALLAS MEDIA ADVISORY: NATURA NATURATA: Nature Already Created
Irving, TX (01/23/2019) — The University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of "NATURA NATURATA: Nature Already Created," an exhibition of works by artists Aaron Foster and Taryn McMahon. Both artists use printmaking, drawing, digital collage and photography to create immersive installations reflecting their connection with and exploration in the natural world. Informed by visits to ecological sites and mediated through the art-making process, nature "out there" is brought into the gallery for us to encounter new. "NATURA NATURATA" opens Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., and runs through Feb. 26.
WHO: Aaron Foster and Taryn McMahon
WHAT: NATURA NATURATA: Nature Already Created
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 1, 2019
5:30 - 8:30 p.m. through Feb. 26
WHERE: Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery
Both Foster and McMahon are current faculty members at the Kent State University School of Art. Foster is an assistant professor of print media; he received his MFA in printmaking and book arts from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. His work is exhibited both nationally and internationally.
McMahon received her MFA from the University of Iowa and is an assistant professor of studio art at Kent State University, where she specializes in printmaking. Her work has received numerous awards and residencies, and she has had solo exhibitions at The Print Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Lexington Art League in Lexington, Kentucky.
About the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is located in the Art History Building at the corner of Gorman Drive and Haggar Circle on the University of Dallas campus at 1845 E. Northgate Drive in Irving. The gallery, which is part of the university's Haggerty Art Village, is free and open weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. For more gallery information, visit udallas.edu/gallery or call 972-721-5087.
About the University
The University of Dallas, located in a metropolitan area of nearly 7 million people, is a leading Catholic university widely recognized for academic excellence by well-known publications, organizations and accrediting bodies. It offers distinctive individual undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in the liberal arts, business and ministry that are characterized by an exceptional, engaged faculty, a commitment to shaping principled, well-skilled leaders and academic rigor in the Catholic intellectual tradition. For more information, visit udallas.edu.
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Image credit: (Left) Arron Foster, Winters Diet, 2018, Serigraphy, 30 x 22 inches. (Right) McMahon, Closed System 11, 2018, lithograph and silkscreen, 15 x 11 inches
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