Exhibit Title: "Pegan Brooke: Paintings Beverly Rayner: Constructions" "Selections from the National Institute of Art and Disabilities" Date: Oct. 26 to Nov. 25 (to Dec. 18 for "Selections from the National Institute of Art and Disabilities") Where: Memorial Union Art Gallery Memorial Union University of California, Davis New Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed weekends Special Hours: 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 Reception: 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 Artists: Pegan Brooke, Beverly Rayner San Francisco Bay area painter and art professor Pegan Brooke will be represented by a survey of paintings from 1989 to the present. The paintings include several recently on exhibit at the Oakland Museum and several recent works being shown for the first time. Since the late 1970s, Brooke has shown her work in many exhibitions and received critical acclaim for her symbolistic landscape painting. She has exhibited her work at the Saxon-Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, the Fuller Goldeen Gallery in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Oakland Museum. Brooke recently has begun a series of small paintings that are derived from either natural objects or industrially made items that she has collected on walks in inner-city locations or near her studio in Bolinas, Calif. Brooke is an associate professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she is chair of the graduate Department of Painting and Sculpture. She received her master's degree in fine art from Stanford University in 1980 and was a visiting instructor at UC Davis in 1984. Santa Cruz artist Rayner constructs small, intimate assemblages of found photographs and an array of discarded objects. Bay area art critic Alfred Jan likened Rayner's work to that of California Funk artists of the 1960s, such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and George Herms. Rayner is concerned with creating enigmatic and mysterious images that suggest the frailty of fixed emotions or conditions. Rayner, who received her bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Jose State University in 1985, has shown her work at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica, the Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael, and other galleries in Northern California. Appearing concurrently in the MU Art Gallery's entrance will be an exhibition of works by four participants from the National Institute of Art and Disabilities in Richmond, Calif. The exhibition will feature linoleum prints by Thomas Handy and hand-built ceramics by James Heartsill, Michael Sutton and Jerry Williams. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.