January 18–February 5, 2013
UNC Asheville’s juried national exhibition, Drawing Discourse, will open with special events on Jan. 18 featuring renowned artist; Susan Hauptman. The exhibition features 33 works of contemporary drawing selected from among 1090 submissions by 369 artists.
Juror, Susan Hauptman received a B.F.A from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1970. Throughout her career, her deftly executed drawings portray her trademark self-portraits with a level of technical mastery. She has received numerous grants including two from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Hauptman’s drawings are in numerous museum collections including those of the National Portrait Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Norton Gallery, the Arkansas Art Center, the Minnesota Museum of Art, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Hauptman, will provide an opening lecture about her practice from 5-6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18 in the Lipinsky Lecture Hall. Hauptman’s talk will be followed by a reception in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery from 6–8 p.m.
All Drawing Discourse events are free and open to the public. For more information, email exhibit organizer Tamie Beldue, UNC Asheville Assistant Professor at tbeldue@unca.edu.
