USI Alumnus, Gehring, to lecture and jury 45th student art show

University of Southern Indiana art alumnus, Matthew Neil Gehring, returns to his alma mater on Thursday, March 19, to select artworks that will be featured in the 2015 USI Juried Student Art Show.

Gehring also will give a free public lecture discussing his own art at 6:30 p.m. in Forum II of the Wright Administration Building.

His talk, "Notes from the Field," describes his artistic journey from his days as a student at USI to being a practicing artist and art professor in New York. His visit is one of several special events linked to USI's 50th anniversary.

Gehring attended USI on a Society for Arts and Humanities Scholarship, earning a bachelor's of science degree in studio art in 1998. He participated in the Skidmore College Summer Program and the University of Delaware Master of Fine Arts Program on a full graduate assistantship. After completing his graduate degree in 2001, he relocated to the Northern California coast, teaching sculpture at Humboldt State University. In 2003, he accepted a faculty position in the Art Department at Syracuse University.

In 2003, he accepted a faculty position in the Art Department at Syracuse University. In 2007, he relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he currently lives and maintains an active studio practice and exhibition schedule.

He has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including recent one-person shows at the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York. Gehring's recent group exhibitions include Abstraction and its Discontents, Eight Painters and Family Style, all in New York.

His work has been featured or reviewed in publications including The New Criterion, Art Journal, Art Review and ArtWeek. He is currently an associate professor of visual art at SUNY Suffolk where he is head of Visual Art and the director of the Flecker Gallery. 

For more information contact Katie Waters at kmwaters@usi.edu or 812-464-1933.