Poems and Profanities: A multi-media art exhibition at IU Northwest

A piece by Mille Guldbeck, “Tool for Measuring the Color of the Sky.”

Internationally known artist, Mille Guldbeck, to have work displayed Oct. 7 through Dec. 18

Throughout the years, the two dynamic art galleries at Indiana University Northwest have displayed curated exhibitions by nationally and internationally recognized artists and makers.

This fall, the Gallery for Contemporary Art, will show Mille Guldback’s Poems and Profanities, a collection of work that explores reality, representation and perception.

Guldbeck says that her work is inspired by her passion for the intricate craft of painting and her “love of basic natural science.” Her show depicts “alternate realities built by human error and misunderstanding as they apply to the natural world and natural systems.”

The exhibit, which teases out methodology of printmaking, painting and drawing, is to Guldbeck, parable for how we respond to climate change. “For decades, scientists have been using doomsday rhetoric to warn the world about environmental degradation and climate change,” she said.

“But what if there were a different way to engage citizens on the issues of climate and nature? Artists have long engaged with the greatest challenges of each epoch, and today we see an uptick in the examples of artists engaging with the environmental problems we face.”

Guldbeck has an international profile; she completed her education in painting at the Jutland Fine Arts Academy in Denmark in 1985 and received an MFA in painting and printmaking at the University of Iowa in 1995.

Prior to that time, she lived and worked in Europe, completing degrees in anthropology, painting and printmaking.
She is now a Professor and Area Head of Painting and Drawing at Bowling Green State University.

She will be onsite at IU Northwest on Oct. 7 to give an informal artist talk at 4 p.m., followed by a formal reception to celebrate the opening of her show.

Poems and Profanities runs through Dec. 18. The Gallery for Contemporary Art, located in the Savannah Center (65 W 33^rd St, Gary, IN 46408), is open Monday through Thursday from 12-5 p.m.

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