“Paintings on Paper” by Susan Chrysler White will be on exhibit at Unity Gallery, in the Library of Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield from October 4 through November 19th. The opening reception is Thursday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Susan Chrysler White’s brightly colored, large-scale acrylic and enamel paintings on paper are a visual delight. Her bilateral Rorschach-like images dominate compositions that alternate between dynamic abstract patterns, figures and organic forms such as moths, insects and flowers. Her main objective is to press further the exploration of boundaries between decorative impulses, emotions and philosophical sources.

Chrysler- White earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis. She taught at Cooper Union School of Art, University of Albany, Skimore College and other universities before assuming her current position as an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Iowa, where she is head of the Painting and Drawing Department. She received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fabric Workshop, Yaddo. In addition she received a Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchase Award and from AMACUP (Mexican Association for Arts and Popular Culture) most creative new project: Mexico for the Milagro del Dia Project.

Her work has been exhibited in various venues U.S. and abroad, including the Des Moines Art Center, the Drawing Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Galeria Atenea, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Temple Gallery, Rome Italy.

Chrysler White has also worked in the area of public art, She was commissioned by the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, to create several works including a large, suspended sculptural installation for their main entry. In the fall of 1999 and fall of 2000 she created 30 paintings and projected images for the Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. The presentations were broadcast on NBC Television

Unity Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. and 7:15–9:00 p.m., Saturday 9:45 a.m.&ndash 4:00 p.m., and Sunday 7:15–9:00 p.m.

For more information call 641-472-7000, ext. 5035 or email art@mum.edu.