Volume 59, Issue 11  - October 30, 2006

Art professor to discuss work
By Hugo Rodriguez
Staff Writer

George Lorio, a sculptor and an associate professor of art at UTB/TSC, will present a seminar titled “Waterflow: the Movement of Light over Water,” at 1 p.m. Friday in Cardenas Hall South 122/124.

The faculty research seminar is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts.

Lorio will present pictures of his large wood sculptures along with commentary about their imagery of water.

“I am drawn to lyric associations of water; it is life sustaining, cleansing, refreshing, powerful, illusive and mutative,” Lorio writes in his College Art Association presentation statement. “I see it as a mystical part of the landscape. For the past two decades, I have used water as a recurring motif in my sculpture. … This aquatic substance has been my vehicle of physical exercise … and spiritual exorcism.”        

Lorio will present his work at the College Art Association annual conference, to be held Feb. 13-17 in New York City.