WAUKESHA – Painter Nancy Lamers is exhibiting recent work in the Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha from October 14 through November 15. The gallery is located across the lobby from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in the Fine Arts Center on campus at 1500 N. University Dr. Admission is free and open to the public. To view the work, stop in weekdays between 9:00 a.m. and noon or phone ahead to University Relations at (262) 521-5445 for a showing.
Lamers will present a lecture on her work at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 23, in the gallery. The public is welcome, and there is no charge.
A dozen paintings are on display. In this show, “Spaces and Places,” Lamers explores landscapes and architectural features, especially archways and stairs, as she searches for intriguing views of a world filled with filtered light yet otherwise peacefully empty. With these visions flowing from both experience and an inner muse, she adopts a credo: “Paint now, analyze later.”
An associate professor of art teaching at Alverno College, Milwaukee, since 1990, Lamers earned her MFA in painting and drawing from UW-Milwaukee in 1987. She has spent sabbaticals in Italy in 1999 and 2000 and returned to work there in 2001. She also has taken study tours in Mexico and Greece.
She has exhibited her work in galleries throughout Wisconsin as well as in Colorado, Illinois, and Michigan and in Britain and Italy. In several of these showings, she has won awards, most recently at the Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Centennial Exhibition in West Bend in 2000. |
