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David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center artist-in-residence Berrisford Boothe ’83, associate professor of art at Lehigh University, will give a lecture at the center 12:15 p.m. tomorrow and attend a 5 p.m. public reception.
He will talk about Drawings Over Time, an exhibition of his works on display at the center during Black History Month. Open to the public, tomorrow’s events are sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Development, the Experimental Printmaking Institute, and the Williams Visual Arts Building.
Boothe teaches painting, drawing, and African-American art at Lehigh, where he is one of the architects of the new design arts major. He earned a B.A. from Lafayette and an M.F.A. in 1986 from Mount Royal Graduate School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
In Drawings Over Time, the artist embraces the tradition of abstract expressionism and responds to it with a series of innovative, mixed media, non-objective and expressionistic drawings. Over the years, Boothe has worked in diverse media such as textile, painting, virtual drawing systems, and digital printmaking, demonstrating the far-reaching impact of abstract expressionism on contemporary art. Aesthetically, Boothe’s focus on process and the resulting individual works of art provide a historic continuum allowing him to reach from the post-war to the post-modern.
Boothe’s artwork has been juried into exhibitions and presented in solo and group shows at Moravian College, Gettysburg College, Lehigh University, Shippensburg University, the Fabric Workshop, the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, and Allentown Art Museum. He is a former artist-in-residence at Lafayette’s Experimental Printmaking Institute. He is represented by the Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia and the June Kelly Gallery in New York City.
Boothe’s paintings and prints are included in private collections as well as the public collections of major museums, educational institutions, and various corporate collections. He maintains a studio in Bethlehem.