Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Artistic images of a veteran Mississippi State photography teacher are being featured in five showings that take place from Massachusetts to Colorado, including one now in Meridian.
Works by Marita Gootee, a professor in the art department and member of the university faculty for some two decades, include:
--"Wall Flower," one of 96 selections for the "Photography Now!" exhibition at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Mass. It was chosen from more than 1,000 entries submitted by some 270 artists in 40 states. The exhibit will be featured Sept. 8-Oct. 22.
--"On the Beach," a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid image--one of several she created earlier this year at the Polaroid Studio in New York City--accepted for the 13th annual National Juried Art Exhibition of the Krempp Gallery in Jasper, Ind. The show, which includes all visual art mediums, takes place Sept. 6-29.
--Two eight-by-10-inch, silver-print negative contacts from a pinhole camera of the same dimensions accepted for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's "Refresh Print Biennial 2: 2006 Exhibition." The exhibition of 60 works by two dozen artists will be featured Sept. 14-Oct. 5, and is scheduled to travel nationwide during 2007 and 2008.
--Seven 20-by-24 Polaroid images accepted at the Meridian Museum of Art. They are part of "Art Around Mississippi," a monthlong invitational showing that concludes Sept. 2 at the facility located next to the Meridian-Lauderdale County Public Library.
--Several of Gootee's hand-tinted colorizations of black-and-white images from her "Shifting Landscape" series, part of a current display at the Lincoln Art Center in Ft. Collins, Colo.
Gootee holds a master of fine arts degree in photography from Indiana State University.