[FAC] FRESNO STATE DEAN'S GALLERY

[Carol A. Hartman]

California State University Fresno
Department of Art & Design, College of Arts and Humanities
5225 North Backer Avenue, CA65
Fresno, California 93740-0065

Presents

Remnants: Conversations with the Past
A work of original etchings and poetry
by Murleen Ray
Honors Art Exhibition and Symposium

Location: CSU, Fresno Dean’s Gallery
Date: December 3, 2008 – February 4, 2009
Receptions: 	Thursday, December 11, 2008, 4:00-7:00 p.m. (ArtHop)
		Thursday, January 22, 2009, 4:00-7:00 p.m. (ArtHop)
Symposium: Monday, December 15, 2008, 5:45-7:00 p.m.
Open: Thursday, December 3, 2008 – February 4, 2009 (while campus is open)

The honors art exhibition, Remnants: Conversations with the Past,
represents the culmination of Murleen Ray’s senior undergraduate honors
studies presented to the public through a solo exhibition of original
art and poetry.  Ms. Ray engages the public in an evocative and
metaphorical “conversation” through her striking use of iconic imagery
and lyrical poetry. Through an interplay of images and words, Ms. Ray’s
work speaks to how we translate the experience of someone who is no
longer present, and how we “read” the scattered remnants of human
historical past. Using modern poetry and centuries-old printing
techniques, she engages us in a conversation with an imagined past. 
Using the forms of printmaking, poetry, book, sculpture, and video, the
artist invites the public to consider how context affects meaning and
understanding; via visual media and language arts, she asks us to both
reflect on what we know, and to consider what we don’t and how our own
imagination comes into 
play in every way we interpret experience. In this way, context becomes
an essential aspect of meaning, approaching and infiltrating the
“borderly edges” that exist between the artist and the poet, the poet
and the public, and the public and the art. 
The reception Thursday, December 11, and Ms. Ray’s Powerpoint
presentation on Monday, December 15, as part of the College of Arts and
Humanities 2008 honors program, offers students and the community two
interesting opportunities to meet the artist and to discuss her work.  

DEAN’S GALLERY HOURS: 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Closed
12:00-1:00 p.m. for lunch.
LOCATION: College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Gallery (old Music
building, near University High School), CSU, Fresno.  Accessible from
Maple or Woodrow Ave., North of Shaw. Free parking in lot A during
reception only. 
INFORMATION: Carol Hartman, Gallery Director, 278-2121, or Murleen Ray,
murleenray at csufresno.edu.
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Carol Hartman, Gallery Director
Conley Art Gallery, Dept. of Art & Design
California State University Fresno
5225 North Backer  CA65, Fresno, CA  93740
Phone 559-278-2121