Handwerker Gallery to Feature the "Mad Sally" Paintings of Joy Adams

A reception for Mad Sally's Marvelous Adventures, a display of paintings by associate professor of art Joy Adams, will be held in the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday, September 7, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. In addition, Adams will give a gallery talk on Thursday, September 14, at 6:00 p.m. The exhibit, which features some of Adams's most recent paintings as well as a retrospective of her work, will run through Saturday, September 30. All events are free and open to the public.

"Sally springs from my imagination as a multifaceted mad woman," Adams says, commenting on paintings with such titles as Mad Sally Showing Me Her Big Pink Dress, Rest on the Flight into Trumansburg, and Mad Sally with Strings on Things. "She is the devil on my shoulder, whispering her confidences in my ear. She is more comfortable than I am in her topsy-turvy world, where she invents her scenes with wicked, bitchy glee. Sally resides quite happily in her own painted skin."

Adams, who received her master of fine arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, has had solo exhibitions at the Center One Gallery in New York City as well as the Mercer Gallery in Rochester and the Cedar One Gallery in Corning. She has taken part in collective exhibitions at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, the Organization of Independent Artists, Art in General, and the Alternative Museum - all in New York City - and at the Arnot Museum in Elmira.

Her work is in the following collections: Grace Hartigan, New York City; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; the State University of New York College at Brockport; Senator Richard M. Lugar, Indianapolis; SUNY College at Potsdam; and Corning Glass, Corning.

The Handwerker Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Caroline Werner Gannett Center. Hours during exhibitions are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (Thursday until 9:00 p.m.); Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; and Sunday, 2:00-6:00 p.m.

For more information call the gallery at 274-3018 or contact Jelena Stojanovic, gallery director and assistant professor of art history, at 274-3548.