Reception and Colloquium Scheduled for "Patterns"

A reception for Patterns, an exhibit of mixed-media work by Dianne Francis-Salva, will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, at the Handwerker Gallery of Art. The following Thursday, March 25, Francis-Salva will host a 7:00 p.m. colloquium at the gallery to discuss her work. All Handwerker Gallery events are free and open to the public.

Francis-Salva is a Park graduate fellow in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. She also teaches art to middle and high school students at the Alternative Community School in Ithaca. She received her B.A., with a concentration in studio art, from Wells College. Her work has been exhibited at the String Room Gallery at Wells, the Lincoln Gallery and the Phoenix Art Gallery in Auburn, the Skaneateles Art Festival, and the Clinton House Artspace in Ithaca.

"For the past six years I have been working on developing an interdisciplinary, multicultural curriculum with my colleagues at the Alternative Community School," says Francis-Salva. "We, as a classroom community, made connections between divine geometry, symmetric and asymmetric/irrational generation in organic growth and organization, art, and architecture. I created the body of work [in the exhibit] by combining traditional oil painting and block and stencil printmaking with the more contemporary tendency to collect, categorize, and juxtapose visual imagery as textual considerations acquired by Xerox, color photocopies, and computer-generated imagery."

Patterns will be on display through March 26. Located on the ground floor of the Caroline Werner Gannett Center, the Handwerker Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Thursday until 9:00 p.m.; Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; and Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.