An exhibition catalog with essays by David Cohen and Robert Storr is available.

A companion exhibition titled Melissa Meyer: Sketchbooks, Artist’s Books, and Works on Paper, will be on display at McCabe Library August 27­­–October 5.

Co-curated by Andrea Packard, List Gallery Director and William Carroll, a New York City-based independent curator, Melissa Meyer: Paintings and Works on Paper 1975–2005 demonstrates Meyer’s high level of accomplishment during the past thirty years and elaborates the dynamic connection between the artist’s works on paper and her paintings.

The exhibition will travel to the Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design where it will be on view February 11–March 19, 2008.

To view works in the traveling exhibition, visit Grackle World.

An exhibition catalog is available.

Celebrated by Hilton Kramer and other critics as one of the leading figurative artists revitalizing the contemporary painting scene, John Dubrow distills lessons from tradition while offering a distinct contemporary perspective. He has won national acclaim for his large-scale oil paintings, which evoke the complex structures, spaces and figures of the city. Ranging from delicate strokes to massive blocks of color, his virtuoso application of paint and expressive use of proportion unify his ambitious compositions. Curated by Andrea Packard, List Gallery director, this exhibition will also include a selection of his portraits.

Born in 1958, Dubrow received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently represented by Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, NY, his work has been acquired by distinguished public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Harvard University, the National Academy of Design, New York.

The artists represented in this exhibition explore patterns in nature and art–linear webs, repeated marks, and woven grids. On display will be sculptures by Elizabeth Duffy, paintings by Louise Hamlin, sculptures by Duncan Johnson, and paintings by Esmé Thompson. All four artists live and work in Vermont's upper valley and exhibit their work nationally.

Brian Meunier's new sculptures in clay continue his career-long interest in hybrid forms that elicit our sense of wonder in the mysteries of both nature and human creation. Meunier calls this ongoing series Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing after the title of a cosmography treatise by the 13th-Century Persian physician Abu Yahya zakariz'ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini. Those familiar with Meunier's more abstract and enigmatic forms in wood will recognize his continuing gift for creating evocative contrasts and expressive surfaces in his new body of work in clay. However, even as he explores the descriptive possibilities of clay and more recognizable subject matter, Meunier pursues enigmas rather than answers. He invites us to share in his puzzlement, wonder, and reverie.

A winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown arts Workshop, and the Ford Foundation, Meunier has also received the James Michener and Eugene M. Lang Fellowships, among other awards from Swarthmore College. A graduate of the University of Massachusettes, Amherst, Meunier received an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. He has had one person exhibitions at the Noyes Museum of Art, Ocean City, Barbara Oakum Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Cavin/Morris Gallery, New York, and Janet Fleischer Gallery, Philadelphia, His works are represented in distinguished collections such as the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Philadelphia Convention Center, and the Joseph Pulitzer Foundation. Recently, he installed a major sculpture commission in Tuscon Arizona entitled Tuscon Polyrhythmic. Meunier is professor of Studio Art at Swarthmore College.

Curated by Andrea Packard, List Gallery director, Painting Structures brings together 7 distinguished American artists for whom architecture is a primary inspiration. Each artist portrays arrangements of built structures in order to express his or her distinct synthesis of visual perception and subjective experience. From Sharon Horvath’s visionary portrayals of Shea Stadium to Kevin Wixted’s abstracted cityscapes based on Florentine architecture, each artist uses specific architectural forms to explore the expressive possibilities of painting. Harmonizing specific observations and imagination, Painting Structures reveals the poetry of the spaces we inhabit in body and spirit.