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Works by two Central Illinois-based artists to be featured at I space
Melissa
Mitchell, News Editor
217-333-5491, melissa@illinois.edu
Mary Antonakos, I space coordinator
312-587-9976
10/11/2004
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CHAMPAIGN,
Ill. — Central Illinois-based artists Roger Blakley and Harold Boyd will exhibit
their latest work in two new shows on view Oct. 15 through Nov. 20 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• “Roger Blakley: New Works” consists of wall-mounted
and freestanding cast bronze sculptures by the artist, a retired professor
of art at Illinois. Many of the
sculptures’ components are cast from fruit and seed pods, but
the complex constructions – finished in shiny, bright hues of
automobile paint – hardly resemble anything found in nature.
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• “Harold
Boyd: Tributes” features works on paper by the retired Illinois
State University art professor. Boyd’s watercolors – populated
by caricature-like Buddhas, moon-faced girls and other figural forms
that are at once amusing yet disconcerting – reflect the artist’s
interest in the duality of human nature.
The exhibition is accompanied by essays by Marcel Franciscono, a U.
of I. professor emeritus of art history.
An opening reception is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 15 at the gallery,
230 W. Superior St., Chicago.
I space gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
