Join us for the opening reception on:
Thursday, November 14, 2013 | 7-9pm
at Murphy Gallery of the University Y
7:30 p.m.: Discussion with the artist and Glynnis Collins, Executive Director of Prairie Rivers Network
Murphy Gallery of the University Y will open an exhibition featuring a unique collaboration between the local painter, Kim Curtis, and Prairie Rivers Network to benefit efforts to keep water resources clean, healthy, and diverse for the people and wildlife of Illinois. To learn more about how you can get involved, come to the opening reception on Thursday, November 14 at 7 p.m.
The show features works from the artist’s series, Thirtyseven, which documents the fascinating wetland area along the San Francisco Bay area’s highway 37. In Thirtyseven, the artist suggests elements of landscape–abstract forms, when viewed at different angles, suggest something familiar to us: waterways, tall grasses, a fisher’s dock. In the words of the artist, captures a “sense of immediacy,” something that is both “familiar and unintelligible” to us.
Original paintings by Kim Curtis will be available for purchase throughout the life of the showing at the Y. A portion of any proceeds will benefit Prairie Rivers Network’s advocacy for clean, healthy rivers lakes and safe drinking water on behalf of the people and wildlife of Illinois.
On view in Murphy Gallery at the Y from November 14 through January 19, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. daily.
www.universityymca.org/art
Sponsored by Prairie Rivers Network, Students for Environmental Concerns, and Red Bison. Art @ the Y is an initiative of the University YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL. All Art @ the Y events are free and open to the public.