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8/9/04

PRINTS, PAINTINGS IN 'SEXY BEASTS' EXHIBITION AT BRUSH GALLERY

CANTON – "Sexy Beasts," an exhibition of prints by Lawrence Brose and paintings 
by Michelle Dussault, will be in St. Lawrence University's Richard F. Brush Art 
Gallery August 18 through September 25. 
	Two events associated with the exhibition are scheduled. On Tuesday, 
September 7, the films DogFortCindefuckinrella (Dussault, 2003) and De Profundis 
(Brose, 1997) will be screened in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center, 
beginning at 7 p.m. On Wednesday, September 8, also at 7 p.m., there will be a 
gallery discussion with the artists. Both events are open to the public, free 
of charge.
	Brose is the executive director of the CEPA Gallery, a center for the 
arts in Buffalo, New York, as well as an internationally exhibited filmmaker 
and digital printmaker. This exhibition of large-format Iris prints is drawn 
from Brose's film De Profundis, which in his words, explores the "transgressive 
aesthetics of Oscar Wilde and contemporary queer culture." Art critic 
Roberto Tejada wrote of Brose's work, "During these times troubled by the 
current state of the globe, where difference is gravely threatened by an 
anxiety manufactured in the name of an overarching national identity and the 
beckoning ideology to unite, these prints are a challenge for us to consider 
the repercussions of being socially marked and potentially targeted – hence 
vulnerable to profile and censure."
	Dussault, of Tampa, Florida, is a graduate of Rhode Island 
College with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee at 
Knoxville. She has received a number of grants and awards for her work. 
Dussault states, "As a heterosexual woman raised by closeted homosexual 
parents, I have felt loosely associated with a kind of homo-mulatto-esque 
'race,' a concept somewhere between culture and biology that I would like to 
strip down and see lying naked on the floor. The ambiguous orientation of 
explicit imagery in my paintings suggests an unorthodox position and tells a 
slightly different story, one in which heterosexuality is as strange a concept 
as it was for me growing up in a homosexual matrix."
	For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact 
the gallery at 315-229-5174.

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