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1/19/04

TWO FACULTY MEMBERS EXHIBIT WORK IN SLU GALLERY

CANTON – "Lost/Found," an exhibition of works by Assistant Professor of 
Fine Arts Young Min Moon and Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Melissa A. 
Schulenberg, will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence 
University January 19 through February 21. A discussion with the artists 
will be held in the gallery on Tuesday, January 27, at 7 p.m., with a 
reception to follow; both are open to the public, free of charge.
	Moon joined the St. Lawrence faculty in the fall (2003), after teaching 
at the New College of Florida. A graduate of Ontario College of Art & Design 
in Toronto, he also holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and 
a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Over the past 
decade, Moon's work has been exhibited at academic and commercial venues in 
Toronto, Los Angeles, Boston and Seoul, South Korea. In addition to the exhibition 
in the Brush Gallery, an exhibition of his work will also take place this month 
at Emerson College in Boston.
	Moon says, "My work addresses the powerlessness of the immobile and 
voiceless.  Paintings in the recent series Immobile Parts for Sale are littered 
with unwanted bicycle parts, which are no longer capable of producing desired 
speed or power, yet celebrated by cheerful color spots and other formal 
arrangements. The representation of hands signing in the series Against Homogenizing 
Impulses addresses the ambivalent relationship maintained by a minority to any 
'official' language, artistic or otherwise.  While seemingly playful and joyful 
at the surface, my paintings convey subtle political messages without 
relinquishing visual pleasure."
	A graduate of Bowdoin College, Schulenberg joined the St. Lawrence faculty 
in 2002. She holds a master's degree in printmaking from Purdue University, and a 
Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Colorado. 
	Schulenberg states, "For the past decade, I have lived a nomadic life, 
crisscrossing my way around the country, a quiet observer of various landscapes 
and environments. Escaping to the mountains, coast, or prairie has provided a 
solitude that has kept me grounded and given me a sense of ownership in these 
temporary locales. I look for small treasures:  thorns, bones, tufts of deer 
hair. Observations of these organic remnants lead to intimate visual explorations 
and formal abstractions – I examine a seed pod, draw it as simply as possible, 
then put it away. Everything else is a direct result of the drawing or printing 
process and my memory of specific locations." 
	For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact 
the gallery at 315-229-5174.

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