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Rubin and L Galleries
October 6 - December 10, 2005
Beverly Penn lived in El ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Texas for nine years in the 1970s and 80s, and for four of those years was a student in the Department of Art at the University of Texas at El ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½), where she trained as a metalsmith and sculptor and earned her BFA in 1982. Beverly Penn: Weeds includes the artist's latest sculptures, which have the type of grand presence that defines an interior space.
This exhibition was part of a series at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ that focused on presenting current work by esteemed graduates of the Department of Art. It also represented the second time in the recent past that ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ and El ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Museum of Art have collaborated on an exhibition, the first being Crossing Over: Photographs and New Video Installations by Willie Varela in 2002. For Penn's exhibition in El ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, her walk-through sculpture Garden Experiments from the Edge of Paradise was installed in the Museum's Gateway Gallery and ten more modestly scaled pieces are on view at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½'s Rubin Center. This hared exhibition illustrated an intersection in our institutions' respective missions, which is to support artists who live or have lived in this region.
