Sussel Gallery - Art Expo - COW
Matthew Kolodziej and Jaime Carrejo will present solo exhibitions at The College of Wooster Art Museum in Ebert Art Center, 1220 Beall Ave., Oct. 27 through Dec. 6. Kolodziej, an associate professor of art at The University of Akron’s Myers School of Art, will present seven paintings and a wall drawing in the Sussel Gallery, and Carrejo, a former visiting assistant professor of art at Wooster, will present an installation, Our Own Worst Enemy, in the Burton D. Morgan Gallery. The opening reception is Thursday, Oct. 29, from 6-8 p.m., with both artists giving gallery talks during the opening; Carrejo at 7 p.m. and Kolodziej at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
A member of the faculty at the University of Akron since 2002, Kolodziej received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant this year, and was included in a recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Chicago, and his MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Carrejo is currently an adjunct professor of art at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver. A native of El Paso, Texas, he received his BA from the University of Texas El Paso and did post-graduate work at Louisiana State University before receiving an MFA from the University of South Florida.
As an integral part of The College of Wooster, the mission of The College of Wooster Art Museum is to support and enhance the college’s goals of teaching, research, and service through exhibitions, scholarship, collection preservation, and public engagement.
The College of Wooster Art Museum is open Tuesday through Friday, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. All receptions, lectures, exhibitions, and performances are free and open to the public. Group and class tours are also available. The museum will be closed Oct. 3-6 for fall break. The next exhibition, which runs Jan. 12 through Feb. 28, is titled, War Work: Artists Engage with Iraq and Other Wars, and features works by Sandow Birk, Combat Paper, Daniel Heyman, John Reesieuw, Ehren Tool, and Megan Vossler.
For more information, call 330-263-2388 or visit artmuseum.wooster.edu.
