“Recent Works,” a collection of mixed media art by Dickinson State University Assistant Professor of Art Marilyn Lee, is on display at the Dickinson State University Art Gallery during January.

The exhibit is Lee’s attempt to address a love of her native South with her ambivalence about some of its attitudes towards outsiders. Outsiders, according to Lee, include not only non-natives but also members of certain groups including African Americans, homosexuals, women and Hispanics. The images Lee uses reflect the landscape and artifacts of the South, which she finds both beautiful and complicated. Lee considers herself primarily a photographer but currently is working on projects that incorporate handmade cast paper painted and combined with photographs printed on copper using a photo-emulsion process. She also uses photo-transfers and patinas on copper.

Lee earned her bachelor’s degree at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga., and her master’s in photography/printmaking at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tenn. She has shown her work widely and received numerous awards, including “Juror’s Choice Award” at the Badlands Art Exhibit in both 2003 and 2004.

A reception with the artist will be held in the gallery on Sunday, Jan. 7 from 2-4 p.m.

Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend free of charge.

The DSU Art Gallery is located in Klinefelter Hall and is open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Support for the gallery comes from Dickinson State University, private donations and the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which is funded by the state of North Dakota and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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