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For Immediate Release: March 29, 2009
GSU’s Cash Street Café to host art exhibition
GRAMBLING, La. -- Grambling State University’s Cash Street Café will host an exhibition of art works by Simsboro native De Shadrick “Tae” Talbert from March 30 - April 29.
Each art major at GSU develops a proposal in their junior year that helps to focus the work they produce during their junior and senior years. During the senior year the works are submitted for jury by a faculty panel and the best works by each student are chosen to be included in the senior exhibition.
Talbert has been interested in art since he was a small child. He has early memories of drawing every day and often got in trouble for drawing in class at school. Talbert’s work explores the symbolic use of color and limited values that are constricted to shapes and planes to describe the form of his subjects.
Some of the portraits are of friends and relatives and some portray distinguished African Americans. Talbert states, “I want to portray people who have had a strong influence on society or on me personally.” He uses the computer to simplify values and manipulate photographs. He then creates drawings that use structural lines to establish the relationship of one part of the figure to another.
According to Talbert, “Each painting is done using colors that for me symbolize some aspect of the subject’s personality or accomplishments.” The finished image is a symbolic but somewhat realistic portrait of the subject. For this reason Talbert labels his work as “Symbolic Realism.”
The public is invited to attend reception for the artist will be held on March 31 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., in Cash Street Café, which is located on Robinson Street at the back of McCall Dining Hall, or enjoy lunch at the café while viewing Talbert’s work. Café hours are 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Monday through Friday. Accommodations are available for people with special needs. For more information please call 318-274-2274.
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