MECC Displays Adams Exhibition

View from the Amalfi Drive Christina's Cove

Currently on display in the Slemp Gallery is an exhibition of paintings by Rosemary Uccello Adams, Associate Professor at Northeast State Technical Community College in Blountville, Tennessee. The Slemp Gallery is located in the Wampler Library in Robb Hall on the Mountain Empire Community College campus.

Ms. Adams received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Painting and Printmaking and her Master of Fine Arts degree from East Tennessee State University. Additional studies have been at Indiana University, State University of New York, St. Rose College, Albany, NY.

Eleven galleries have represented her work from California to New York. She has had twelve solo exhibitions, nine invitational exhibitions, sixteen group exhibitions, and numerous juried exhibitions. She was awarded best in show at the Kingsport Annual Exhibition, and a merit award at the First Tennessee Art Exhibition.

The exhibition, Orgy of Color – Journey to My Roots, consists of acrylic paintings based on views she has seen while traveling in Italy and Greece. When asked about her work she stated, "The focus of my paintings is a personal journey of events and places that I have visited that are dear to me. The paintings are often a personal painting journal of my feelings about these events and places. Rather than have the viewers become preoccupied with my story, I prefer the viewers use their own imagination in allowing the art works to stimulate something within leading them to respond to the art work with their own memories or feelings."

Light is very important to her work. She quoted Arthur Dove as saying, "We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun, we can only express the light we have in ourselves." Ms. Adams wants others to continue to see the light in themselves and in her through her art work.

This exhibition will be on display in the Slemp Gallery through March 28, 2003. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The hours on Friday are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you have any questions please contact Alice Harrington, 523-2400, ext 247.

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