[319] DRIED, CRACKED, WET, DRIPPING AND BLOOMING’ EXHIBIT COMES TO MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 24, 2009
CONTACT: Eric Snyder, gallery curator, 615-898-5653

‘DRIED, CRACKED, WET, DRIPPING AND BLOOMING’ EXHIBIT COMES TO MTSU
(MURFREESBORO)—The Todd Gallery at MTSU will present "Dried, Cracked, Wet, Dripping and Blooming: An Exhibition of Work by Charles A. Gick" beginning March 2 through March 20. Gick, an associate professor of art and design in Purdue University’s Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has exhibited his interdisciplinary installations nationally and internationally. Regarding his work, Gick has said, "My hybrid installations explore the intersections between memory, the body, our emotions and the sensory experience that we share with the natural environment, attempting to expose the fertility and futility of human communication." Per Gick, works such as "Water Witching," wherein the artist appears as a source of water over a parched table of mud and glass containers, “metaphorically represent the complexities of language and communication, involving a physical production of objects in the place of words.” The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Todd Gallery, housed within the Department of Art at MTSU in the Todd Building, is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each Monday through Friday, and closed on all university-recognized holidays. For more information, please call Eric Snyder, gallery curator, at (615) 898-5653.