Jundt Features Gu Students, Alumnus

An exhibit of art by a Gonzaga University alumnus and another of current GU art students are featured this spring at the Jundt Art Museum on campus.

The shows, “Gregory Gibbons: Dogs, Birds and Bedrooms” and the “Student Annual,” both open Friday.

Gibbons, a 1976 GU art graduate, not only expresses his artistic side through painting, but also through cooking. Before settling in Seattle and after graduating from Gonzaga, Gibbons became a successful restaurateur, owning and operating Santa Fe Cafes.

In 1984, he opened a studio to balance his hectic commercial lifestyle and allow a time of reflection, said Pete Tormey, a GU spokesman.

Gibbons portrays dogs and birds as creatures that share privacy with man - in bedrooms.

“Alone or within bedroom settings, dogs are perceived as quiet companions; birds, remote observers, unless tamed and caged,” the artist has said. His exhibit depicts “images and environments that celebrate the idea of privacy or solitude.”

A preview and artist’s reception for Gibbons will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at the Jundt, after which he will discuss his work with a slide presentation in the lecture hall.

“Student Annual” is an annual faculty-adjudicated exhibition featuring a variety of student works including ceramics, drawings, paintings and prints.

Both exhibits continue through April 18.

In GU’s Arcade Gallery, 16 etchings by David Hockney, a renowned British artist, are on display.

Through his art, Hockney pokes fun at pop culture, music and politics.

That show will be open through May 9.

The museum exhibits are free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Elsewhere in Spokane

“Cartooning Glasnost,” an exhibit of cartoons and graphics from the former Soviet Union, is on view at the Spokane Art School, 920 N. Howard.

The original contemporary Russian cartoons and graphics satirize and chronicle the past several years of dramatic upheaval in the former USSR, said Sue Ellen Heflin, SAS director.

“Glasnost in Cartoons” is a window on the dramatic events that took place in the newly democratic Russia. The works depict the struggle for peace, freedom, human rights, a clean environment and other issues.

The exhibit comes to the Spokane Art School via Exhibit Touring Services, a program in Eastern Washington University’s art department.

SAS gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

“Jim Dine: The Foreign Plowman and Other Prints” is on display through May 1 in the Chase Gallery in City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

It is an exhibit of important large-scale prints by Dine, an internationally recognized artist, said Karen Mobley, city art director.

Wildlife and landscapes of Carolyn Gerhardt, a Seattle-area artist, will be featured at The Met, 901 W. Sprague, through April 16. Gerhardt, who paints exclusively in oils, has been a longtime exhibitor in the Pacific Rim Wildlife Show each fall.

Southwestern figures in mixed media and landscape paintings by Oregon artist Jessie Lee Geizler are being shown at the Twin Totems Art & Framing Gallery in Colbert.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

Watercolors by Spokane artists Marianne Brown and Linda Brisbois are being shown at The Met Gallery, 929 W. Sprague. The show’s theme is florals and landscapes.

In area galleries

“Portrait of Spirit,” black-and-white photographs by Billy Howard and narrative text by Maggie Holtzberg, depicts the stories of 25 disabled people in an exhibit in the Atrium at Washington State University at Tri-Cities in Richland.

According to Christopher Reeve, who wrote the exhibit’s foreword, “Portrait of Spirit” tells how disabled people are treated by others, how children react to them and what their daily lives are like.

The exhibit is free and open to the public from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. WSU Tri-Cities is located at 2710 University Drive in Richland.

“Splendors of Ancient Egypt” is showing at the Portland Art Museum through Aug. 16.

More than 200 rare works of art illuminating more than 4,000 years of one of the world’s greatest civilizations is detailed in the show from the Roerner and Pelizaeum Museum in Hildesheim, Germany.

One of the exhibit’s most imposing works is the life-size sculpture of Cheops’ vizier, Hem-iu-nu. The lifelike quality of the fleshy, middle-aged image and the air of calm authority that radiates from it are unmistakable, according to a gallery press release.

Included in the show are mortuary portraits that portray men in the prime of their life while women appear seductive and stylish.

Admission to the gallery, 1219 SW Park, is $13 for adults; $11 for seniors and students; $6 for students; or $31 for two adults and up to six children under 18 years old.

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