Date/Time
Date(s) - October 9, 2002
12:00 am

As part of the Department of Art’s Critic and Artist Residency Series, the Hatton Gallery at Colorado State University presents “Laurie Fendrich: Drawings” from Oct. 7-Nov. 15. An opening reception will be held from noon-1 p.m. Oct. 7. Fendrich will present a free public lecture titled “There’s No Such Thing as a Good Drawing about Nothing” at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Lory Student Center Theatre on campus.

“Laurie Fendrich: Drawings” features a selection of Fendrich’s most recent Conté crayon drawings alongside several rare works by Modern American artists of the 1930s and 1940s who have inspired Fendrich’s ongoing pursuit of abstraction. Based in New York City, Fendrich has long been influenced by the art movements of the early 20th century, such as Cubism and Constructivism, which were among the first to introduce abstract painting to Western audiences. Fendrich’s elegant drawings likewise explore the language of geometric abstraction, a subject the artist wryly describes as “a wallflower at the post-modern art party.”

Fendrich is an associate professor of fine arts at Hofstra University, where she teaches painting, drawing and contemporary art theory. She earned her bachelor’s in political science from Mount Holyoke College and her master of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fendrich has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, and she has lectured and written extensively on topics in contemporary art.