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Ronaldo Johnson
"Romanian Border"
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Adelphi University Galleries Present Ronaldo Johnson's "Painting with Pictures"
The exhibits will open September 5, 2002
Garden City, NY
August 6, 2002
Adelphi University is pleased to present "Painting With Pictures," an exhibition featuring the paintings and collages of Ronaldo Johnson, in two of its New York galleries. The exhibit will be on view from September 5, 2002, at both the University Center Gallery on the principal campus (South Avenue, Garden City; directions) and at the SOHO Center Gallery located in Adelphi University's Manhattan Center (75 Varick Street, NYC; directions).
There will be a reception at the Manhattan Center Gallery on Sunday September 8 at 5:00 PM. The artist will also be present at a reception at the University Center Gallery on Sunday September 8 at 1:00 PM Gallery hours for both exhibits are Monday through Saturday (8:00 AM to 7:00 PM) For more information about either exhibit, please contact Richard Vaux in the Department of Art and Art History at 516.877.4460.
Ronaldo Johnson states: "The paintings I am bringing to Adelphi are gathered up, both physically and psychically, from where I live. The fixed and fluid, the visible and invisible, interpenetrate. The door between inner and outer weather is always open. In the blink of a photograph memory is blanked and in the surges and patterns of open painting memory is released. In this tension a pulse comes forth that, when felt, subjects the quiet viewer to a thoughtless pleasure some might call beauty."
Tom McAnulty, Associate Professor of Art at Adelphi, says, "...the work is so realized in itself that all issues dim in the art of looking....in the enjoyment of seeing the work of a painter in such total control of his medium that he is willing to let it go and find it again in the gesture.These are moving works that affirm the solitary search of a painter free to explore, create, and, more importantly, remember."
Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, is the first liberal arts institution of higher education on Long Island. Through its seven degree-granting academic units (School of Nursing, School of Social Work, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Honors, College of Arts & Sciences, School of Education and School of Business, ) the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as professional degrees and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls over 7,000 students from 37 states and 60 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and off campus centers in Manhattan (NYC), Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a practical commitment to liberal arts in tandem with rigorous professional preparation.
Media Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Lori Duggan Gold
Vice President for Communications
p - 516.877.3693
f - 516.877.3266
e - duggangold@adelphi.edu
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