The University Of Iowa: Stanley Museum Of Art Offers Sneak Peek Inside New Building

Iowa City IA

15 April, 2022

12:48 PM

Description

Press release from The University of Iowa: April 13, 2022 The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art allowed media inside on April 12 to meet the artist painting a mural in the lobby and to take a brief tour of the gallery spaces. Odili Donald Odita, an abstract painter and professor of painting at Philadelphia's Temple University, is creating a mural in the lobby that will be visible from the street level and will be the first work visitors will encounter when they enter the building. Odita's mural is a response to one of the museum's collection highlights, Jackson Pollock's 1943 "Mural." Odita spent time in Iowa City as a child when his parents were graduate students at the UI in the 1970s. His work draws upon a range of influences, including conceptual art, West African textiles, and the politics of space. The museum will open to the public on Aug. 26. This press release was produced by The University of Iowa. The views expressed here are the author's own.