FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 6, 2002

CONTACT: Cira Pascual Marquina, (515) 271-1994
Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119

ANDERSON GALLERY'S FALL EXHIBITIONS TO FEATURE WORKS BY CLIVE KING, WADE CARTER, WILLIAM POTTER AND LUCIO POZZI

Clive King
Sept. 7 - Oct. 4

This exhibition features recent work by Welsh artist Clive King whose large-scale drawings explore psychological responses to visual narratives. He gleans his imagery from autobiographical sources – travel and heritage, grief and frustration, subjective psychological history, collective and partial memory, childhood fears – but typically takes only bits and pieces of his experiences to represent them as inconclusive wholes. Viewers are left to construct their own possible narratives, extrapolating a larger context of meaning from ambivalent fragments.

Syntagm :: Paradigm | Wade Carter :: William Potter
Oct. 12 - Nov. 7

Syntagm :: Paradigm features the work of Wade Carter and William Potter, both of whom are interested in language. For Potter, language is primarily a matter of structures in which syntax is given full play. Potter is interested in the shifting language of form, combining sculpture and painting to explore the malleability and pictorial grammar of the two media. His three-dimensional paintings investigate the intriguing relationship between the work and the installation space. He remarks that "the constructions either resist or embrace the picture plane." Like language itself, Potter's pieces are in a constant state of "shifting, piercing, reconfiguring, and unfolding;" they evolve physically and conceptually through the process of refining an idea.

Carter is also interested in language, but emphasizes "the word" in his work. His paintings reflect an ongoing investigation and manipulation of surface in an effort to elicit content "drawn from personal and collective experience." Combining collage with traditional and experimental methods of painting and drawing, Carter creates internally complex works in the making of which direct interaction with materials plays a significant role.

Lucio Pozzi INDOOR GAMES
Nov. 16 - Dec. 19

Lucio Pozzi's work is democratic, collaborative and experimental in nature. He calls himself "a painter who pursues painterly concerns in other media as well," and his exhibitions often include video, installation, photowork, and performance. In his Anderson Gallery exhibition, he will collaborate with a group of students to build a site-specific piece that uses four basic colors and juxtaposes large-format photos of infants with images of war.

Born in 1935 in Milan, Pozzi studied architecture in Rome, where he practiced for almost a decade. He came to the United States at the invitation of the Harvard International Summer Seminar in 1962. Pozzi's numerous solo and group exhibitions include one of the first "Projects" solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; installations at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; a large retrospective at the Museum of New Art, Detroit; Documenta 6, Kassel; and the Venice Biennale (U.S. pavilion). His work also is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others.

Lucio Pozzi INDOOR GAMES is supported in part by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council. In-kind support is provided by Perry Paint and Glass, central Iowa's official Benjamin Moore supplier.

ADDRESS
Anderson Gallery
Harmon Fine Arts Center
Drake University
25th Street and Carpenter Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50311

TELEPHONE
(515) 271-2268

WEB SITE
www.drake.edu/andersongallery

GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday through Sunday
Noon to 4 p.m.
Free admission to the Anderson Gallery and its programs

DATES

Clive King
Sept. 7 - Oct. 4, 2002
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 6, 5 - 7 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Friday, Sept. 6, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture by Clive King: Thursday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m., Harmon Fine Arts Center, room 336

Syntagm :: Paradigm | Wade Carter :: William Potter
Oct. 12 - Nov. 7, 2002
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 11, 5 - 7 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Friday, Oct. 11, 5:30 p.m.

Lucio Pozzi INDOOR GAMES
Nov. 16 - Dec. 19, 2002
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 15, 5 - 7 p.m.
Artist Gallery Talk: Friday, Nov. 15, 6 p.m.
Performance: Friday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by Lucio Pozzi: "The Next 475 Years of My Life and Work," Thursday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m., Harmon Fine Arts Center, room 336