Leesa Rittelman will discuss current exhibit in Art Gallery by German artists March 27

Dr. Leesa Rittelman, a professor of Art History at SUNY Fredonia, will discuss the Art Gallery exhibition “Works on Paper: Mordmüller and Rohrmann,” at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 27 in room 235 of Rockefeller Arts Center.

This is an international exhibition of work by Rainer Mordmüller and Thomas Rohrmann, from the University of Osnabruck in Germany. It is on display at SUNY Fredonia until April 7.

The opportunity to host the international exhibit came about when Timothy Frerichs, a professor of Visual Arts and New Media at SUNY Fredonia, taught at the University of Osnabruck through a Senior Fulbright Lecture Award in 2007.

“I renewed contact I’d had with Mordmüller and Rohrmann in 2001-02 through my initial Fulbright Scholarship,” Frerichs said. “While teaching at the (Osnabruck), Thomas Rohrmann and I discussed strengthening our contact and developing an exchange of student work. We hope to continue to build on this exchange, potentially doing some faculty exchanges as well.”

Frerichs said most all of the works in the current exhibit are etchings, some with additional drawings. Processes include line etching, aquatint and softground.

A companion exhibition in the Emmitt Christian Gallery, located on the second floor of Rockefeller Arts Center, features work from students at the University of Osnabruck chosen by Mordmüller and Rohrmann. The student works include collage, lithographs, etchings and relief (woodcut).

Students at SUNY Fredonia will have their work on display at Osnabruck in the fall, Frerichs said.

A grant from the Carnahan-Jackson Humanities Fund allowed for the purchase frames for the exhibition, which kept the cost of shipping from Germany at a minimum.

The exhibit runs through April 7. Gallery hours are 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.