Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Denise Cook
(706) 379-5237, bdcook@yhc.edu

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. - Young Harris College's Campus Gate Art Gallery will host "Transient Spaces," a mixed media installation by Michael Lent. The exhibit opens Thursday, Oct. 1, with an opening reception at 7 p.m. and will be on display through Friday, Oct. 30. Campus Gate is located at 5149 College Street on the Young Harris College campus. The reception and the exhibit are free and open to the public. For more information contact the Campus Gate at (706) 379-5256 or campusgate@yhc.edu.

Michael Lent is an intermedia artists working with drawing, text, video and installation. He explores time-based and new media as a method of art making. Lent's artwork has been featured in galleries and museums across the United States and in Italy. He earned his B.F.A. in sculpture and painting from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., and his M.F.A. in interdisciplinary arts at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt.

Lent is fascinated by formal elements, such as line and shape, and their influence across media. He has recently focused his work on color, its abilities to transform and its repercussions on image and idea, its use as a medium, and the materials from which it is made.

He is passionate about his materials, which makes the physicality of his work at least as important to him as the elements that inform it. He is interested in how basic elements like color and light come together in digital media and how they can be reexamined or redefined in more traditional media. He strives to master color by shaping form, line, light and space through the use of his hand, ink and technology as tools.

Lent's work is based on a tradition of artists and thinkers who have worked continually to not only hone a craft, but to challenge notions in ways of working.

For more information about the artist, visit www.michaellent.net.

About Young Harris College
Founded in 1886, Young Harris College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college located in the beautiful mountains of north Georgia. Historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, Young Harris College educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal arts education. Long known for nurturing students during the first two years of college, Young Harris College received accreditation in 2008 to grant bachelor's degrees. The College currently has approximately 700 students across four divisions-Fine Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social and Behavioral Science-and plans to increase enrollment to 1,200 over the next few years. The historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., is currently undergoing major campus improvements to accommodate the College's growth. For more information, visit www.yhc.edu.