Media Alert

Media Contact:
Steve Christensen
Manager, Communications
Loyola University Chicago
312-915-6164

What:
The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) presents art historian James Yood in conjunction with the black and white photography exhibit, Land and Sea: DoDo Jin Ming. An adjunct full professor in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yood will discuss Land and Sea and place the artist in the context of the sublime landscape in his lecture, The Sublime in Nature: DoDo Jin Ming in Context.

When:
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Lecture)
6:30 p.m. (Reception and tour of the exhibition)
Admission to the event is free to LUMA members and $5 for non-members

Where:
Loyola University Museum of Art
820 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Why:
In Land and Sea, DoDo Jin Ming focuses on the drama of the natural world and the awesome power of nature in both her seascapes series, Free Element, and her landscape series, Behind My Eyes. In his lecture, James Yood will explore Ming's photography as a contemporary counterpart to the older tradition of painting in the "sublime" movement popularized in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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