MADELON POWERS GALLERY AT EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TO PRESENT VAL SIVILLI - THE BODY PRINTED MAY 19 - JUNE 24, 2008

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa-To open its summer season, the Madelon Powers Gallery of East Stroudsburg University will present Val Sivilli - The Body Printed, an exhibit of unique prints, May 19 thorough June 24.

Summer hours for the gallery, located in the university's Fine and Performing Art Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg. are noon - 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The gallery is open to the public at no cost.

"During recent years, I have been creating many body prints," the artist noted. "The physical memory of the body itself, the actual PRINT of the body in real time, became a beacon for me, an obsession, if you will.

"I printed friends, my dead animals, lamb hearts, bones, crucifixes, and myself," she added. The objects became relics embedded on the canvas. The objects were painted, then the bodies of those objects, be it flesh, bone or plastic, were permanently remembered onto canvas."

A resident of Frenchtown, New Jersey, Sivilli has taught at Raritan Valley Community College, Bucks County Community College, The College of New Jersey, and Warren Community College, and also has present many workshops for elementary, middle and secondary schools.

Sivilli has served as special projects director for CREO, the creative voice of the river valley, a local arts publication in Bucks/Hunterdon Counties/Delaware River Valley. She was a founding partner of the Steamroller Gallery in Frenchtown, N.J. and a founding member of A.G.E.N.T. a local environmental education organization.

Her work has been exhibited extensively in New York City, New Jersey and the Delaware Valley. She earned an M.F.A. with a concentration in printmaking/painting from the Mason Gross School of the Art at Rutgers University, and a B.F.A. with a concentration in printmaking/ceramics/painting from Alfred University.

For more information about the exhibit, please call the Fine and Performing Arts Center Events Line at 570-422-3483.