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 Release Date: December 17, 2007
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 Wallace Artwork Debuts in Baltimore

Young Harris College is pleased to announce that art professor Rusty Wallace has been invited to show his work in downtown Baltimore.  The exhibition opens January 8, 2007 and runs until February 9 at Maryland Art Place, a not-for-profit center for contemporary art.  For more information about the Maryland Art Place, please visit http://www.mdartplace.org/exhibitions/upcoming.html

Wallace will be showing primarily work that he has been developing for the past five years, comprised of drawings, paintings, sculpture, photographs, and a few new video pieces.  He has let the work evolve due to the need for it to be shown as an entire group.  To that end, it has been necessary to let it amass, much like a writer writing and rewriting, until a book reveals itself.  Only two of these individual works have been previously shown – one at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2003), and the other at The Carnegie Museum of Art (2001). 

The group of works will be presented as a collection of interdependent elements that play off of and contextualize one another.  About 80 individual works will be included in this exhibition.     

Founded in 1886, Young Harris College is a private, core liberal arts college focused on university preparation.  Historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, a primary goal of Young Harris College is to provide a quality education for the whole person: intellectually, socially, culturally, and spiritually.  To learn more about Young Harris College and the transition to four-year status, visit us at www.yhc.edu.

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