"Perspectives: Rural and Urban" is next Gallery exhibit

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10-21-2003
"Perspectives: Rural and Urban" is next Gallery
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"Perspectives: Rural and Urban" is next Gallery exhibit
Summary:
(October 21, 2003)-The next exhibit in the University of Minnesota, Morris Gallery of Humanities Fine Arts,
“Perspectives: Rural and Urban,” brings together the work of two artists from opposite ends of the country, who also
draw upon different environments for inspiration in their artwork.
A public reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, will open the exhibit, which will continue through
December 6. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Andrea Hoelscher’s work consists of a series of mural sized panoramic photographs, which she has titled “Inner
Architectures.” Hoelscher describes her photographs as “imaginary spaces that extend horizontally like the sweep of a
person’s eyes as they move around a building.” She photographs buildings as a collector, borrowing from the broad
range of architectural styles and surfaces to make her own world. Hoelscher then builds these new spaces digitally by
placing portions of the buildings and interiors side-by-side and allowing the viewer to make the architectural
connections.
In Hoelscher’s photographs, the urban landscape expresses “disorder and order, grandeur or devastation, and oppression
or dynamism.” Says Hoelscher: “In my work I show how I experience the dense symbolic terrain of the city.”
Hoelscher resides in Forest Park, Ill., where she is an assistant professor of photography at Massachusetts College of
Art. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and have been shown through out the United States.
Diana Jacobs presents a series of small hand colored etchings, titled “Views & Edges.” These prints were produced out
of Jacobs’ fascination with the rural landscape. Through her work and travels, she seeks out the obscure and unobserved
areas and then re-describes these areas through her etchings.
Jacobs states: “There is an exhilaration about flight that lifts the soul as much as the body. My first experience in a hot
air balloon was over the Loire Valley in France. It was a point of view where the horizon disappeared and the sky and
the land became one. My fascination with the landscape grew.”
A resident of Los Angeles, Calif., Jacobs has focused in the last 15 years on her studio work. Her mixed media and print
work has been internationally exhibited and shown through out the United States.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the North Parking Lot directly across the street
from the HFA building.
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