Self-taught painter Joyce Garner will be the Efroymson sponsored visiting artist at the University of Evansville in February. She will be exhibiting her paintings in UE’s Melvin Peterson Gallery from February 8 through February 27. She will also give a public lecture followed by a reception on February 11, at 6:30 p.m., in the gallery. The Melvin Peterson Gallery is located at 1935 Lincoln Avenue, on the corner of Lincoln and Weinbach Avenues in Evansville.
Garner’s exhibit of oil paintings is titled “Big Paintings†and comes from her ongoing series of table paintings, an extended allegory of people coming together around a table. Typically six to 18 feet, her paintings are monumental, dynamic, layered, and appropriately scaled and complicated for her theme of relationships between people.
“I want work that gives me a place to go,†says Garner about her paintings.
Garner, a native of Kentucky, owns a contemporary gallery in Louisville, Kentucky.
For more information on the exhibit and the Melvin Peterson Gallery, call 207-650-6073.
