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October 25, 2002
Colourful England in Colour: Artist Talk at Avram Gallery

November 7 Event with Photomontage Specialist David Ferry

Contact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Southampton College's Avram Gallery will hold an Artist Talk with photomontage and printmaking specialist David Ferry entitled "Colourful England in Colour" on Thursday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. A reception for the artist and exhibit will begin at 4:00 p.m.

Ferry will explain his fascination for the surreal and the comic, and describe his influences using video clips and slides. The talk will conclude with his new 30-minute video work "The Window Seat."

The Avram exhibition is the first major show of Ferry's in the United States. It will draw on two aspects of the artist's oeuvre - his artistbook works and original lithographs of the British scene and his discreet photomontage descriptions of locations that were made while he was a visiting professor and artist at Southampton College in 2001. Both cycles of work draw on his fascination for the interpretation of a particular place or historical incident that combine irony and hilarity with equal measure.

Ferry, a native of Blackpool, UK, studied art at the Blackpool College of Technology and The Camberwell School of Art and Crafts in London before earning a Masters degree from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. His first one-person London exhibition was at the 1984 International Contemporary Art Fair at the Barbican Centre. A touring exhibition of his recent book arts and prints began in 1999 to coincide with the publication of "Some Aspects of our National Heritage," a catalogue that focuses on the satirical element of tourist literature.

Ferry's works are in the collections of the Joan Flasch collection of Artists Books at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Polish Book Arts Museum in Lodz, The Universities of Oxford and University College London, public galleries and museums and in many major corporate collections including British Airways, Marconi Instruments, Nuclear Electric, G.E.C. and Rothchilds Investments.

The exhibit runs through Friday, December 6. The gallery is open weekdays from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. or by appointment. Call Director Beth Giles for more information (631)287-8234.

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