Sept. 9, 2002
For Immediate Release
To: News Directors and News Editors
From: Veronika Brown, Coordinator of Media Relations, 342-5444

The Bry Art Gallery at the University of Louisiana at Monroe is currently showing a one-person exhibition of paintings by Christina Gray of Monroe. Gray received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from ULM in 1998 and a master of fine arts from
Louisiana Tech in 2001.

The ULM Department of Art offers former graduates an opportunity to reprise their thesis exhibition in the Bry Art Gallery.

Gray's exhibition is a selection of works showing oil paintings on Arches and other papers, as well as paintings on canvas. Her imagery falls into two basic categories: a juxtaposition of human figures in landscape settings where emphasis shifts from
image category to image category and is punctuated by the balancing of contrastive complementary colors, plus a series of studies of plants, fruits and vegetables which are presented ins somber colors and from unusual points of view.

This 16 piece exhibition will be on view through September 19. At. 2 p.m. on closing day, Gray will present a gallery talk to ULM students.

The Bry Art Gallery is open to the public free of charge from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.