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Brooklyn Campus Brooklyn, N.Y. - Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will present a diverse array of artworks in its three galleries, including a sound-based project by an installation artist, illustrations by a Turkish artist, and multimedia works by graduate students in the Campus’s media arts program. All exhibitions will take place from November 6 to December 15 in the Campus’s Humanities Building, Resnick and Salena galleries, and are free and open to the public. The Humanities Building Gallery, within the lobby of the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, will feature an installation by Tim Spelios, which involves ladders of various sizes holding speakers simultaneously playing bass solos taken from different tunes. A sculptor and musician, Spelios has exhibited in New York galleries and such venues as PS1, The Drawing Center, The Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, White Columns, Sculpture Center and Smack Mellon. Originally from Chicago, he earned a B.F.A. at the University of Illinois before moving to Brooklyn. One of his sculptures was included in the 2004 Outdoor Sculpture exhibition on the Brooklyn Campus. The current work will be the first sound project in the Humanities Building Gallery. The Campus’s Resnick Gallery will showcase the comic illustrations of M.K. Perker, who was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied animation and started his professional career at the age of 16 as a comic book artist. Between 1990 and 2001, he contributed to major newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, as an illustrator, editorial cartoonist and art director. Perker's first book, a collection of short comic stories, appeared in 1998, followed by a second in 2000. Since relocating to New York City in 2001, his work has appeared in a wide range of publications, from The New York Times to MAD Magazine. Perker lives in New York City. Concurrently, in the Salena Gallery is the Media Arts Graduate Thesis Exhibition. Works by graduating students of the master’s degree program include animation, computer art, film, multimedia, photography and video. Hours for the Salena and Resnick galleries are from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; for the Humanities Building Gallery, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; closed weekends. For information, call Gallery Director Nancy Grove at (718) 488-1198. Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road. |
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