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Date: 8/27/01
Contact: Christina Chapple 5
Editors: Photo accompanies release
CLARK HALL GALLERY HOSTS THEN AND NOW
HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's Clark Hall Gallery will open the fall
2001 season with an exhibit by sculptor Gerald Cannon, "Then and Now."
An opening reception is scheduled for 4-7:30 p.m., Thursday, August 30, in the gallery.
The exhibit will be on display through September 26.
Cannon, professor of digital art at Loyola University in New Orleans, is best known for
his narrative sculpture that reflects the dark side of southern humor and for his work as a digital
artist working with the latest in technology, said Clark Hall Gallery Director Don Marshall.
"Each piece in the exhibition is like looking at an image from a dream," Marshall said.
"There is a story behind everything Cannon creates, but he allows the viewer to use his or her
own imagination and become a co-author with the artist."
Cannon recently was selected to participate in the Triennial exhibit at the New Orleans
Museum of Art and the Florence Biennial in Italy.
"We are thrilled to have this exhibition at the university," Marshall said. "This is an
opportunity for our students and the entire community to see a retrospective exhibition that
includes some of his earliest work as a sculptor in the late 1970s up to his most recent work as an
artist using computers and technology."
Cannon will give a free lecture and demonstration at 4 p.m. on Thursday, September 13,
in the Digital Arts Center in East Stadium. A web catalog of the exhibit is online at
www.selu.edu/clarkhall. A catalog containing 24 color postcards of the artist's work is available
through the gallery. For additional information, contact Marshall at 985-549-2193.
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