The University of Evansville (UE) presents “David Unsupervised,” an exhibit by David Gamble, on display at the Melvin Peterson Gallery through Saturday, February 26. The Melvin Peterson Gallery is located on Lincoln Avenue across the street from the UE campus.
The gallery is open to the public from noon until 3:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; and from noon until 6:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
A public reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, February 3, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The reception will be held in the Melvin Peterson Gallery. Gamble will also conduct multiple workshops for art students while visiting.
The exhibit and reception are part of the Emerging Contemporary Artist Lecture Series, sponsored by the Efroymson Family Fund and the UE Department of Art.
David Gamble has over four decades of balancing art and business in the ceramics industry. While making clay art and teaching, he also developed products and designed marketing campaigns. Gamble has conducted hundreds of workshops in North America, and he has participated in five clay symposiums in Eastern Europe. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree and contributes an educational focus to the kilns and pottery wheels for Skutt Ceramic Products.
“The glaze surface has always interested me more than the sculptural possibilities in clay,” said Gamble. “I layer and multi-fire glaze combinations as if I were using oil paints. I have found I am able to produce what many might consider glaze defects, with some control. This allows me to achieve interesting surfaces, depth, and imagery like I were painting.”
For more information, contact the UE Art Department of Art at 812-488-2043, email art@evansville.edu, or visit the gallery’s Facebook page.
