Guest Artist Marat Paransky to Present Lecture
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The department of art in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will host guest artist Marat Paransky, who will give a lecture at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in room 213 of the Fine Arts Center.
Paransky’s most recent exhibition, Gray Zone, will be on display at the Bottle Rocket Gallery, in Fayetteville. The show opened Saturday, Feb. 8, and will run until Saturday, March 1.
Grey Zone is a mixed media installation that combines art, history and science to represent the debate on nuclear power plants and the issues and controversy that surround them. Paransky received inspiration from family memories of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Kiev, Ukraine, where Paransky was born. The environmental dangers from the accident caused his family to move from Kiev when he was just two months old.
Paransky received a bachelor of fine arts in drawing and printing and bachelor of arts in political science from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. He earned a master of fine arts in visual arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass.
Contacts
Darinda Sharp, director of communications
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-3712,
dsharp@uark.edu
Audra King, communications intern
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-3712,
aek001@uark.edu
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