The Downtown Gallery presents the work of
Melissa Vogley Woods and Linda Gall,
March 26- April 12, 2008


Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University, School of Art’s Downtown Gallery located 141 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio presents the work of Melissa Vogley Woods and Linda Gall, March 26 – April 12, 2008. A reception will be held on Thursday, March 27 from 5-8 PM and Melissa Vogley Woods will give a gallery talk on April 11th at noon.

Linda Gall is a painter whose work was described this way by the artist Michelle Weinberg in a recent catalog “An intimist who makes history paintings, Linda Gall compresses vast human events and landscapes onto easel size canvases. The figures in her work time travel from middle American backyards to war-torn landscapes in remote regions. It's as if all earthly scenarios and stories can be balanced on the tip of her paintbrush, as she telescopes effortlessly between the swashbuckling wide-screen to the miniaturist's obsession to detail.”
For more about Linda Gall, please check out her website http://www.lindagall.com <http://www.lindagall.com>

Melissa Vogley Woods is a textile artist who “With the use of paint and fabric, printed pattern and patchwork, I combine layers, interrupted, salvaged and quilted. My work is figurative in nature; the characters are reminiscent of copperplate etched toile figures, in which the scenes romanticize the condition of the working classes as quaint, as history romances the past. Sharing of a visual plane without existing together the figure and fabric, quilt and stitch create the story expressed as survivors of internal and external histories. Quilts silently reflect politics, self, society and like the Quilt pattern, history is remembered, copied and yet it still changes to suit the needs of the current time. The quilt gives up its secrets in tiny clues, missed stitches, mismatched sections and repairs, as the quilt survives and is mended so are we.”
For more about Melissa Vogley woods, please check out her website http://melissavogleywoods.com

The Downtown Gallery is located on 141 East Main Street in Kent, Ohio.
Downtown Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm. (330) 676-1549. http://dept.kent.edu/art/galleries