INDIANAPOLIS.- The University of Indianapolis opens its 2008-09 gallery season with an exhibition featuring two distinctive artists. Katherine Sullivan: Body Electric and Steve Guiliani: From Here to There Eventually is now open in the university’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery.

The exhibition runs through Sept. 26 and features approximately ten large pieces from each artist. A reception is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5.

In a series of figurative images that engages the language of contemporary painting, Katherine Sullivan simultaneously represents the formal tensions inherent in the medium as the figures appear to be both still and moving, recognizable and abstract, spatial and flat, graphic and painterly. Sullivan received her BFA from the University of Michigan and her MFA from Boston University. She is currently an assistant professor of painting and figure drawing at Hope College in Holland, Mich.

Steve Guiliani’s exhibition originated from a dead ponderosa pine (compliments of the Colorado mountain pine beetle), a chainsaw, and a rough idea. The material helps dictate the design of Guiliani’s pieces, as he incorporates decay, stains, beetle holes, and cracks to bring out what the wood has to offer. Guiliani is a 1978 graduate of UIndy’s Department of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Colorado.