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1/21/02

ADIRONDACK-INSPIRED ARTISTS' WORK EXHIBITED AT SLU GALLERY

CANTON - Works by New York City artists Bruce Gundersen and 
Jerilea Zempel, both of whom draw inspiration from the Adirondack 
region, will be exhibited in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at 
St. Lawrence University January 21 through February 13. The 
exhibition, "Out of the Woods and Into the Fire," was curated by 
noted Adirondack photographer Nathan Farb.
	A public reception will be held for Gundersen and Zempel 
on Thursday, January 31, at 4:30 p.m. in the gallery.
	On Thursday, January 31, and Friday, February 1, from 
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Griffiths Arts Center sculpture patio, 
Gundersen and Zempel will conduct artists' workshops, called 
"Fire and Ice." According to Farb, "They invite students and 
faculty to create a piece in one of the traditional Adirondack - 
but less recognized and certainly less curated - art forms: ice 
sculpture. The artists will create two ice towers based on the 
destruction of the World Trade Center."
	Gundersen was a significant and early "player" in New York 
City's performance art movement, and gradually shifted from that 
to live in and create works from the woods. His modern 
interpretations of Adirondack furniture are "often touched with 
ironic elements central to American art of the last 30 years."
	Zempel, a professor at Fordham University, creates work 
that is "confrontational, humorous and elegantly simple." Describing 
her own work, Zempel states, "My art education was replete with 
worshipful attitudes toward art history and its official list of 
heroic sculptures, all of whom were guys. What better homage 
could I offer than to build replicas of their masterworks in a 
kind, biodegradable material and then place these icons out of 
doors and allow them to slowly melt into the earth, enriching 
the soil as they disappear? I built the sculptures from hundreds 
of bricks of manure." 
	For more information, or to arrange individual or group 
tours, contact the Brush Gallery at (315) 229-5174.

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