The Purdue Exponent

Union to display artwork throughout the week

Jamie Teibel/ Summer Editor

WORKS OF ART: "Low Tide," by Carolina Pedraza, is one of many pieces in the Purdue University Galleries collection of art exhibited at the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in the Purdue Memorial Union.

By Jamie Teibel
Summer Editor

This summer, while walking through the Purdue Memorial Union, stop in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery to take a look around. From May 21 through Aug. 5, the Purdue University Galleries are presenting "Recent Acquisitions," an exhibition of artwork bought by or given to Purdue throughout the year.

The gallery program was created in 1978 and has been collecting ever since. "All of the artwork is part of the University’s permanent art collection which currently has 5,550 objects," said Mike Atwell, assistant gallery director.

According to Galleries director Craig Martin, artwork by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, contemporary Mexican artists and traditional African sculpture will be on display.

Atwell said this year is unusual because the Gallery was given 19 African pieces from a collector and was also given and purchased a number of Mexican pieces from three individuals.

Atwell also said the Gallery has many modernist paintings, drawings and prints. "What we have been doing this year is acquiring more contemporary pieces to expand the collection," he said.

Atwell hopes a mixture of students, alumni, friends of the University and the community will come to look at the collection.

An opening reception for the exhibit will be from 4:30-6:30p.m. Friday. Both the exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Summer hours for the Ringel Gallery are 1-5p.m. and 7-9p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1-5 Sunday.


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