Jan. 20, 2016

Contact Joe Miller at 608-796-3757 or jemiller@viterbo.edu

EXHIBIT FEATURING THE WORKS OF ARTIST YOONMI NAM TO OPEN IN THE VITERBO UNIVERSITY GALLERY JAN. 27

LA CROSSE, Wis. – The drawings and prints of guest artist Yoonmi Nam will be featured in an exhibit entitled “for later, for now” opening with a reception at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27 in the Viterbo University Gallery.

Nam teaches printmaking and drawing at the University of Kansas, where she has been a faculty member since 2001. She has also taught lithography, intaglio, serigraphy, Japanese woodblock printmaking, and foundations drawing. Her art has been exhibited internationally, including in the U.S., Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Korea, Germany, Mexico, Bulgaria, and Paraguay.

“My work considers a sense of transience through drawings and prints,” Nam said. “I use images of man-made environments and the culture of cut flower arrangements as metaphors to evoke a sense of time that is both fleeting and eternal. I am interested in beauty, irony, impermanence, and the mundane and extraordinary way we structure our surroundings.”

Born and raised in South Korea, Nam earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from Hongik University in Seoul. She moved to America to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, from which she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking in 2000.

While at Viterbo, Nam will conduct an artist workshop on the moku hanga technique in Japanese printmaking from 12:50–2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27 in Fine Arts Center room 301. She will also give an artist talk that evening before the reception from 6:30–7:30 p.m. in Fine Arts Center room 301. Both events are open to the public.

The exhibit will run until Friday, Feb 26. There is no admission fee to the gallery, which is located on the third floor of the Viterbo Fine Arts Center. The gallery is open from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. when school is in session.

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