Shenandoah University Prof. to Exhibit at BC



	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/05/2007

	Shenandoah University Prof. To Exhibit At Bridgewater College

	BRIDGEWATER, Va. — Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, assistant professor of art history at Shenandoah University, will exhibit "Virginia Byways, Panama Overlays: Tracings in a Traveled Landscape," Nov. 12 – Dec. 14 in the Cleo Driver Miller Art Gallery at Bridgewater College. The Miller Gallery is located on the second floor of the Alexander Mack Memorial Library. The Gallery is open 8 a.m. to midnight Monday Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, and 3 to 11 p.m. Sunday. An artist reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in the Miller Gallery. Following the reception, Kiefer will give an artist talk at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Hall. The reception, artist talk and exhibit are open to the public at no charge. Kiefer creates drawings, paintings, collages and assemblages in mixed drawing media on watercolor paper and in colored pencil over photographs. "Virginia Byways, Panama Overlays: Tracings in a Traveled Landscape" is an illustrated essay in which Kiefer explores what she calls "tracing" traveled landscapes. Beginning with Virginia, Kiefer addresses American traditions of sacred landscape, the sublime and the pastoral, and wends her way topically and chronologically toward her most recent works, "Nimrod Venerable Tree" and "Rock." The narrative then jumps to Panama, which she visited as a participant in the Shenandoah Global Citizenship Program in March 2007, specifically the town of Portobelo, where she did an artist residency at the Taller Portobelo Norte Summer Art Colony. Throughout the exhibit, Kiefer conveys process, experience and the power of place. She has exhibited her work at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Va., the Nelson Fine Arts Gallery in Lexington, Va., the Blue Ridge Arts Council Gallery in Front Royal, Va., the Shenandoah Arts Council Gallery in Winchester, Va., and the Blandy Experimental Farm Gallery in Boyce, Va. Kiefer has also exhibited her at numerous galleries in Ohio. An art historian with a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, Kiefer teaches drawing, modern art, history of photography, American art, contemporary art theory and criticism, and art appreciation at Shenandoah University.

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