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To mark the 25th anniversary of the Distinguished Speakers Series, a UB emeritus faculty member and internationally renowned artist has mounted an exhibition of sketches and notations he made while attending the lectures over the years.
The work by Harvey Breverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Visual Studies, is on display in the exhibit cases just outside the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. It will on view this week during Inauguration Week activities, and may be remounted for Distinguished Speakers Series presentations this year.
“The ‘on-site’ drawing series of sketches and notations attempts to document and fix a fleeting moment, a gesture, a mannerism, a glance…with a few rapidly defined lines,” Breverman explains. “The process seeks to capture the essence of a subject with enough indicated to retain a likeness.
“In elucidating character, the drawings stop short of ‘caricature,’ but instead suggest distinct personas engaging an audience,” he says.
The 2011-12 Distinguished Speakers Series opens on Sept. 21 with an address by former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. The talk in Alumni Arena is part of Inauguration Week activities marking the investiture of Satish K. Tripathi as UB’s 15th president.
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