Exhibit Title: "Visitations: Works on Canvas by Judith Lowry" Date: Through May 27 Where: C.N. Gorman Museum 1316 Hart Hall University of California, Davis Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and by appointment The C.N. Gorman Museum celebrates campus cultural days this spring with a one-woman exhibition of acrylics on canvas by artist Judith Lowry, who is of Mountain Maidu descent. Titled "Visitations," it is Lowry's first solo exhibition. Lowry's paintings, which are narrative and allegorical figurative works, are life-sized with the largest measuring 67" x 100". Her painted figures are naive, in the style of early Italian painters, and depict the changing roles of native women through history. "Fortune," for example, is a mythical meeting of the Virgin Mary and a Mayan female deity at a Chinese restaurant. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and the Mayan deity reading their fortunes. The Mayan deity points an accusatory finger at the Virgin Mary after she realizes that colonial Christian practices displaced indigenous female deities. Lowry continues her commentary on the changing roles of native women in "Lost in the Translation," a depiction of a young native woman outfitted in western wear a la Dale Rogers, armed with a child's bow and arrow. The young woman nervously points her suction-cup tipped arrow at a vision of two identical angels holding flaming swords. The angels are depicted to represent angels that guard the Garden of Eden. Lowry lives in Humboldt County. She received her master's of fine art from California State University at Chico. Lowry's solo exhibition is part of Native American Cultural Days at UC Davis and is sponsored by the UC Davis Native American Studies Department, the Women's Resources and Research Center and the Cross-Cultural Center. It is supported by the California Arts Council's multicultural grant program.