Exhibit Title: "Irene Pijoan / Works on Paper" Dates: Feb. 25 to March 22 Where: Memorial Union Art Gallery 2nd floor, Memorial Union University of California, Davis Hours: 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday through Friday Reception: 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25 Gallery Talk: 4 p.m. Monday, March 4 Artist: Irene Pijoan Bay area painter and University of California, Davis, alumna Irene Pijoan will exhibit on campus for the first time since her 1980 graduate thesis show. In this new showing, Pijoan's recent works on paper will be displayed. Throughout most of the 1980s and early 1990s, Pijoan exhibited large-scale abstract paintings on canvas based on exotic botanical forms and geologic shapes. In 1994, she began a series of works on paper that combine painted and drawn abstract images, representational and figurative images and geometric cut-outs in the paper. Seventeen of her recently executed works on paper will be exhibited at the Memorial Union gallery -- the largest gathering of these works to date. Pijoan compares the compositions of this series of works on paper to a variety of visual and intuitive sources including the practice of meditation and Hindu descriptions of energy sources within the body. Pijoan also discovered during the development of these works that medieval Spanish illustrative manuscripts and 19th century French and Swiss paper silhouettes bore many similarities to her recent work. She has since looked to the older art works as sources for inspiration. Pijoan has been on the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute since 1983. Her work has been included in exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Long Island University, Corcoran Gallery, Oakland Museum and most recently at the Crocker Art Museum. The exhibit, reception and Pijoan's gallery talk are free and open to the public.