SUNY Oneonta to unveil pair of art shows

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January 27, 2012

Anonymous Daily Star The Daily Star Fri Jan 27, 2012, 02:30 AM EST

Two art exhibits will be premiered in the next week in the Fine Arts Building on the SUNY Oneonta campus.

A show featuring the drawings and wood sculptures of Oneonta native John Byam will open Monday in the Project Space Gallery. An opening reception for the exhibit will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.

"The Artwork of John Byam: As Near As Can Be" will include portraits of entertainers and world leaders based on newspaper photos and television images, acrylic-painted signs and wood sculptures.

The pieces on exhibit were purchased from Lettis Auction by Neil Rochmis, an antiques dealer in Franklin, in 1998.

Byam's work is "like lightning in a bottle," Rochmis said recently. "He made this work from his soul, not from any desire to promote himself."

The show runs through Feb. 29

The exhibit will be joined by "Robert Mirek: Bodies of Work" on Thursday in SUNY Oneonta's Martin-Mullen Art Gallery. The show's opening reception also will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.

Additionally, Mirek will give and artist's talk from 3:30 to 4:30 that day in Room 166 near the gallery in the Fine Arts Building.

Detroit-based artist Mirek has exhibited his work in London, Paris, Rome, Montreal, Barcelona, Havana and Moscow, among many other cities.

The SUNY Oneonta show will feature 61 low-relief sculptural objects from six series of work created with a range of mixed media: "Oil on Panel Series," "Wooding Painting Series," "Hematite Series," "Scorched Paper Series," "Rubber Construction Series" and "Upanishad Series."

According to Mirek's artist statement: "The current imagery can best be explained as simultaneous. The visual language that I'm speaking of is a form of self-dialogue that resides in objects, systems and scenarios that are at the edge of abstract."

Mirek's work will be exhibited through March 16.

For more details on the exhibits, call 436-3456. To see some of Mirek's work, go to www.lmstudio.com/mirek/index.htm.