Lavishly colored paintings of Cheryl Warrick on view at Messiah College
January 16th, 2009
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GRANTHAM, Pa. (Jan. 16, 2009) — On view Feb. 6- March 13, the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery at Messiah College will display artwork by Boston-based artist Cheryl Warrick. All displays, on view during normal gallery hours, are free and open to the public. The Aughinbaugh Art Gallery is located on the lower level of Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on the college’s Grantham campus. The gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
About Cheryl Warrick
Warrick is the recipient of various accolades including Presentation Print, Print Club of Cleveland and Residency Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland. Her work is included in many museums and corporate collections. The collection features intricately layered and lavishly colored paintings. Warrick’s work employs many of the visual traditions of western landscape painting, African pattern making, and American quilts to create a work of visual art. Though designed in complex layers, each painting evokes a simple narrative drawing viewers in to examine each piece.
About Aughinbaugh Art Gallery
Located on the lower level of the Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on Messiah College’s Grantham campus, the M. Louise Aughinbaugh Art Gallery exhibits the work of internationally recognized artists from around the world, as well as faculty and students. Gallery programming supplements campus classroom instruction by bringing practicing artists to campus to demonstrate techniques in classes and by organizing special evening lectures and afternoon gallery talks. The gallery also functions as a hands-on teaching laboratory for students in the college’s course on museum studies.
About Messiah College
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 2,800 undergraduate students in more than 60 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.