MCC-Longview Cultural Art Center gallery opening the 2010 Fall Arts Series

The MCC-Longview Cultural Arts Center gallery is opening its 2010 Fall Art Series with an exciting new exhibit by Martha MacLeish.

Opening on Aug. 25, MacLeish’s exhibit, entitled Recent Work, will offer a glimpse into her ability to create art that seamlessly floats between two and three dimensions.

“Her work, which includes painting, sculpture, architecture and raw materials, discovers its strength in its ability to create multiple tensions. There is a lyrical and metaphorical beauty found in the work but also an incredible feeling of actuality or relativity. The art oscillates effortlessly between the completely recognizable and the experiential gesture,” MCC-Longview gallery curator Dan Reneau said.

MacLeish is head of the Fundamentals Studio at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, in Bloomington. She received her BFA and BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art.

MacLeish has had solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago and throughout the states. Recently MacLeish has been an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Park, Ill., the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia and at the Toos Neger Foundation in Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

The exhibition opens Aug. 25 and runs through Oct. 2.

Recent Work by Martha MacLeish

The gallery hours: 12-4 p.m.

Wednesday – Saturday

MCC-Longview Cultural Arts Center

500 SW Longview Rd, Lee’s Summit.

You are also invited to a reception and artist’s lecture at from 5-8 p.m. on Sept. 3. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m.

The 2010 Fall Art Series

Martha Macleish – Recent Works: A solo exhibition – Aug. 25-Oct. 2

Kathy Disney – Photography of Haiti – Oct. 20-Nov. 20

MCC-Longview Student Exhibit – Nov. 29-Dec. 8

For more information contact: Daniel Reneau at daniel.reneau@mcckc.edu or call 816-604-2200.