FAU Galleries Reception Celebrates Opening of "Me, Myself and I"

BOCA RATON, FL (December 22, 2004) - Florida Atlantic University's University Galleries recently held an opening reception for the exhibition "Me, Myself and I," which is on display now through January 29. Attendees were given a tour by FAU's University Galleries Director Rod Faulds, exhibition curators Paul Laster and Renee Riccardo and some of the 30 visiting international artists whose work is on display.

The exhibition presents a lively selection of contemporary work made over the past five years by a group of emerging and recognizable artists who are investigating the historically rich realm of self-portraiture. They confront issues of self-identity and transformation, appearance and role-playing, race and gender, and reality and myth as both the subject and the creator.

Artists include Derrick Adams, Natalia Benedetti, Slater Bradley, Meg Cranston, Megan Cump, Richard Dupont, Anthony Goicolea, Julie Heffernan, Zhang Huan, Sofia Hultén, Carol Irving, Sissel Kardel, Shin-il Kim, Nikki S. Lee, Nina Levy, Tony Matelli, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Dave McKenzie, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Jessica Rohrer, Aïda Ruilova, Tomoko Sawada, Diana Shpungin and Nicole Engelmann, Guy Richards Smit, Josh Smith, Zak Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Mette Tommerup, Ken Weaver and Sherry Wong.

The exhibition runs through Saturday, January 29, 2005 in the Schmidt Center Gallery on FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road and is free and open to the public. The Schmidt Center Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m. The Gallery will be closed for holidays and the semester break from December 18, 2004 through January 4, 2005. Group tours are encouraged and can be arranged at alternative hours.

The University Galleries 2004/05 programs are made possible in part by Bank of America; the Palm Beach Cultural Council; Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; FAU Student Government, through student activity fees; and contributions from Friends of the University Galleries. For further information, please call the University Galleries at 561-297-2966 or visit www.fau.edu/galleries.

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