BURGEONING ARTISTS EXHIBIT SCULPTURE,
PAINTINGS, AND DRAWINGS AT HAVERFORD
Michael
O'Keefe: Head, bronze, 2003
Two young artists will be featured
in a new exhibit at Haverford College. The works of Nicholas Cairns
and Michael O’Keefe will be on display at the College’s
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, April 2-May 2, 2004.
Cairns will show approximately 30 pieces,
a mix of sculpture, paintings and drawings focusing on still lifes
and human heads. “The head is a world unto itself, and presents
many artistic possibilities,” he says. “By nature, it
has a presence that makes painting or sculpting it interesting.”
O’Keefe’s works include 12
pencil drawings and 18 plaster and cast bronze sculptures. They are
all figurative pieces, he explains, “informed by the human form
and psyche. They reflect my attachment to the history of art, which,
in my understanding, has a direct connection to the human figure.”
Nicholas
Cairns: Head, oil, 2003
Cairns, the son of sculptor and Haverford
Professor of Fine Arts Christopher Cairns, received a bachelor’s
degree in religion from Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH in 1998 and
studied sculpture and drawing at the New York Studio School and the
Art Students League, both in New York, NY. He has exhibited at South
End Open Studios in Boston, the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, and
Station North Arts District Open Studios in Baltimore, where he currently
lives.
O’Keefe graduated from Muhlenberg
College in Allentown, PA in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in
art, and briefly attended the New York Studio School that same year.
In the fall of 2000 he was an assistant in Haverford’s department
of fine arts. He now lives and works as an artist full-time in Brooklyn,
NY. This is his first official gallery exhibit.
Located in Whitehead Campus Center, the
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and
noon-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. An opening reception for this exhibit
will be held Friday, April 2 from 5-7 p.m. at the Gallery. Nicholas
Cairns and Michael O’Keefe will give Gallery Talks Monday, April
19 at 4:15 p.m.
