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9/26/05

BRUSH GALLERY AT SLU EXHIBITS TWO ARTISTS' DRAWINGS

CANTON - The exhibition "Homeland.Wonderland: Drawings by Chika Okeke-Agulu and Marcia Kure" will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from Thursday, October 6, through Thursday, November 3.

A lecture by the artists will be given on Thursday, October 6, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center. The event is open to the public, free of charge; it is funded by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for Fine Arts.

Okeke-Agulu is an assistant professor of art history at Pennsylvania State University. He has published articles and reviews in African Arts, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and Glendora Review. He contributed to edited volumes such as Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The Nsukka Artists and Contemporary Nigerian Art and The Grove Dictionary of Art. In addition to writing catalogue essays, Okeke-Agulu has co-organized several exhibitions, including the "Nigerian Pavilion at the First Johannesburg Biennale," 1995; "Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1995; and "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2001.

Kure is a native of Nigeria, and now lives in Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and her works have been exhibited in Nigeria, the United States and Germany. Kure has participated in many group shows in Africa, Europe and North America and has done studio residencies in Germany and the U.S. She was awarded the Uche Okeke Prize for Drawing (1994) the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists (1999) and was included in the Multichoice Africa "African Artists of the Future" calendar (2002).

For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact the gallery at 315-229-5174.

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