Artist Dana Saulnier to Speak at Texas Tech

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DATE: Feb. 22, 2013
CONTACT: Lindsay Bradshaw, lindsay.bradshaw@ttu.edu
(806) 742-2136

Artist Dana Saulnier to Speak About His Paintings at Texas Tech

With more than 20 years of teaching painting, drawing and theory, and artistic displays in more than 50 exhibitions nationwide, many consider Dana Saulnier to be one of America’s finest painting experts.

Texas Tech University’s School of Art will continue its lecture series by hosting Saulnier at an artist’s talk at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in room B-01 of the Art Building. The presentation will cover his work and philosophy on painting, as well as his own history and process.

A reception in the Folio Gallery of the Art Building will follow the lecture, where the exhibition “Findings: Dana Saulnier’s Studies” will be on display from Feb. 26 – March 10.

Saulnier makes large-scale paintings born of sets of drawings and smaller studies, and is well-known for his “night paintings,” originally attempting to structure the experience of losing a loved one to memory loss, but now says he has been creating “night paintings” for a while without calling them just that.

“I think this is because of something more fundamental to the work,” Saulnier said. “This becomes clearer if we think of ‘night’ as a plenum wherein we find ourselves differently. We experience darkness distinctly from how we experience light.”

Saulnier is a professor of painting and drawing, and is the head of painting at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He also is affiliated with First Street Gallery in New York.

Folio Gallery hours are 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday and noon – 4 p.m. Sunday. The Art Building is located at 2802 18th St. On weekdays, paid parking is available on the fourth floor of the Flint Avenue Parking Facility, and is free on weekends. Admission to the Saulnier exhibit is free.

The exhibitions, speakers and related programs at Landmark Arts and the Texas Tech University School of Art are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Helen Jones Foundation and The CH Foundation. Additional support comes from cultural activities fees administered through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.

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CONTACT: Joe Arredondo, director, Landmark Arts, (806) 742-1947, or joe.arredondo@ttu.edu.