Jan. 20, 1998
						Contact: Jane Ford
                                                         (804)924-4298

                 U.VA. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SHARON HORVATH 
                 TO EXHIBIT HER WORK AND LECTURE IN FEBRUARY

	"WORKS FROM ROME," an exhibition of the drawings of New York
artist Sharon Horvath, begins Feb. 2 and runs through Feb. 27 at the
Fayerweather Gallery of the University
of Virginia's McIntire Department of Art.  An opening reception will
be held Monday, Feb. 2, at 5 p.m.  
	Horvath, artist-in-residence in the McIntire Department of Art
from Feb. 2-16, will lecture on the evolution of her work in Campbell
Hall Room 160 on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 5 p.m.  Both opening reception
and lecture are free and open to the public.
	The exhibition debuts works Horvath created during a year-long
sojourn at the American Academy in Rome.  A 1996-97 recipient of the
Rome Prize, she recorded her fragmented impressions of the landscape
by incorporating architectural details, maps, figures, diagrams and
written notations in each drawing.  Many of the drawings are on
semitransparent mylar, a semi transparent plastic surface.   
	"The encyclopedic range of her vision in these new drawings
relates to her previous oil paintings, which recall imaginary or lost
Siennese maps or landscapes," said Dean Dass, associate professor in
U.Va.'s art department.  "On the face of it they are a human attempt
to compile knowledge in a direct or literal way, but at the same time
in the hands of both the early mapmaker and this contemporary artist,
the landscape has been thoroughly transformed into a fantastic and
independent creature."
	In addition to the Rome Prize, Horvath has received
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1992), the National
Endowment for the Arts (1994), and the Pollick-Krasner Foundation
(1994 and 1997).
	Horvath is represented by the Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New
York.
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