Penn State School of Visual Arts Co-Sponsors Inside Outside the Ecstatic Body Exhibition and Lecture with HUB-Robeson Gallery
January 28, 2008
Helen Redman, painter, and Don Schule, sculptor, will give a free public lecture, "Healing the Body," at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 7, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art. The lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition, Inside Outside the Ecstatic Body, which includes the sculpture of Don Schule, works on paper by Helen Redman, and paintings by Micaela Amateau Amato. These three artists explore the human body and its capacity to communicate, transform, and heal itself, both physically and spiritually. This exhibit will be on display through March 2nd, 2008 in Robeson Gallery, on the bookstore level of the HUB. Also, on Febuary 7, there will be a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Gallery. Redman and Schule's lecture is co-sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts' John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholar's Lecture Series and the HUB-Robeson Galleries. These events are open to the publid and admission is free.
Through his sculptures, Schule explores the corporeal make-up, structure, components, nature, function and energy of the human body. By making comparisons with the cellular nature of plants, he expresses the universality of all living things. His figures are composed of wire, twigs, and other materials that express the organic nature of his work. He is a sculptor and martial arts master who has practiced ancient Asian traditions for over fifty years. His sculpture and drawing corresponds to his practice of Chi Gong healing. Schule received his BFA and MFA from the University of Minnesota, and founded the sculpture department at Wichita State University. Before his retirement in 2005, Schule taught sculpture and drawing for 33 years.
Redman’s colorfully graphic paintings and works on paper depict the history of the inside and outside of her own body as she has experienced pregnancies, menopause and advancing age, disease and surgery of a bowel obstruction, and adhesions caused by a ruptured appendix. The selected drawings and paintings in this show range from 1964-2006. None were started with art in mind, but rather exploded from the inside-out. Redman lives and works in Southern California. She has taught at the University of Colorado and the University of Iowa. She co-founding Front Range Women in the Visual Arts in Boulder, Colo., in the 1970s, and served as the first president of the San Diego Women’s Caucus for the Arts in the 1990s.
Amato’s “Ants and Luminous Insects” are gouache paintings on paper and canvas that depict otherworldly, spiraling patterns of microscopic insects and parasites that serve as a contradictory metaphor for the outsider in society, and the environmentally and spiritually diseased body. Amato is a professor of art and women’s studies at Penn State.
Robeson Gallery is open during the spring semester from noon-6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, noon- 4 p.m. Friday-Sunday, closed Mondays. For more information on this and other exhibitions, contact the HUB-Robeson Galleries at (814) 865-2563, or visit our Web site at www.sa.psu.edu/usa/galleries.
Images:
Helen Redman / Don Schule / Micaela A. Amato
Contact: Ann Shostrom, ashostrom@psu.edu; Bethany Van Velsor, Gallery Publicist, HUB-Robeson Galleries, 814-865-0775, bav11@psu.edu