First Thursday ArtTalk in April @ Bemis April 5, 2007

From the website:

WHAT: First Thursday ArtTalk
WHO: Visiting Artist Mark Gilbert and Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence Matt Wycoff
WHEN: Thursday, April 5, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 12th and Leavenworth

For centuries, artists have been grappling with ways to capture and communicate the essence of the human condition as well as to render nature’s ever-changing phenomena. During the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts’ First Thursday ArtTalk in April, Visiting Artist Mark Gilbert and Artist-in-Residence Matt Wycoff present works that provide modern contexts for these timeless subjects with equally startling and breathtaking results. ArtTalk takes place on April 5 at 7:00 p.m. and as always, is free and open to the public.

About the Artists:
After six years of working on a series of paintings depicting facial disfigurement and facial operations, Mark Gilbert has achieved great insight into the human face and its entire makeup. He is acutely aware of the inherent textures and elements that lie behind it both in terms of expressions and emotions, and he keenly understands the profound emotional power a portrait can convey.

Matt Wycoff’s current body of work is an on-going series of conceptual pieces that compress the distance between personal experience and universal human concepts. Through his art, he explores such intimate, yet all-encompassing ¬– themes as death, knowledge, fame, memory, language and humor.

Official Website: http://www.bemiscenter.org/get_involved/index.html?req=calendar%2Fevent&eventUniqID=5877-0--&month=4&day=1&year=2007