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MAG exhibit celebrates painting, poetry n unusual exhibit created especially for the Memorial Art Gallery pays tribute to the kinship between painter and poet. Titled Custer, Crazy Horse, and The River of Electricity: A Painter's Response to Poetry, the exhibition showcases 22 paintings by California artist Deloss McGraw in response to unpublished works by William Heyen, professor of English and poet-in-residence at SUNY College at Brockport. In conjunction with the exhibit, McGraw and Heyen will give a lecture and reading on Tuesday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in MAG's auditorium in celebration of National Poetry Month.
MAG's exhibition, which remains on view in the Lockhart Gallery through Sunday, June 25, is the latest of several collaborations between McGraw and Heyen. "I'd heard about Deloss McGraw before--this artist who loved poetry and painted it," said Heyen. But it wasn't until 10 or 12 years ago that he actually encountered McGraw's work in the home of his friend and publisher, the late A. Poulin, Jr., of BOA Editions, Ltd., in Rochester, to whose memory the exhibit is dedicated. Impressed with the artist's "vibrancy of color and depth of humor," Heyen sent McGraw several of his books. One of McGraw's paintings graced the cover of Pig Notes & Dumb Music, published by BOA in 1998. Then came Crazy Horse in Stillness, another BOA publication. "When Del saw this, and saw another so-far unpublished collection of poems about Custer and Crazy Horse, the kindling in him caught fire," Heyen said. "Thus, the exhibition." The University also recently acquired from Heyen and his wife, Hannelore, an extensive collection of works by 20th-century poets and novelists that are now housed in the new Plutzik Library. (See the story, Contemporary-Writing library is unveiled.)
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