April 16, 2007
Beverly McIver, a professor of art at Arizona State University at Tempe and a nationally acclaimed African-American painter, will be a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin-Stout April 23-24. She will present an artist talk at 4:30 p.m. April 23 in room 210 of the Applied Arts Building.
Art critic Irving Sandler says McIver extends African-American subject matter with her focus on autobiographical portraiture. He says her work has layers of meaning: “In creating these pictures, she has merged personal confession and social commentary, photography and painting, a realism and expressionism.”
McIver is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Her paintings are in corporate and museum collections around the country.
For more information, contact the Furlong Gallery at furlong@uwstout.edu or (715) 232-2261.
