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Urban Legends and Rural Myths

"Urban Legends" and "Tippecanus Rex" are a joint project supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts


March 9 through April 26, 2009 
Stewart Center Gallery

Purdue Galleries reviewed nation-wide entries for an exhibition of contemporary art that inspires NEW myths, imagined histories and tall tales. Artwork was selected for the exhibit by Elizabeth K. Mix, contemporary art historian at Butler University, Tess Cortés, gallery coordinator of the Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, and Purdue Galleries director Craig Martin.

The artists:


Milana Braslavsky (Reisterstown, MD)

SuttonBeresCuller (John Sutton, Ben Beres, Zac Culler - Seattle, WA)

Kristen Gallerneaux (Detroit, MI)

Ronald Gonzalez (Johnson City, NY)

Gary John Gresl (Brown Deer, WI)

Joe Johnson (Columbia, MO)

Joshua Kaplan (Astoria, NY)

Colin Kim (Sunnyside, NY)

Judith Klausner (Somerville, MA)

Beauvais Lyons (Knoxville, TN)

Florence Alfano McEwin (Green River, WY)

Tiff Mich (Safety Harbor, FL)

Rob Millard-Mendez (Evansville, IN)

Catya Plate (Brooklyn, NY)

Michael Wong (Minneapolis, MN)