State exhibit to feature four from art

Four art faculty will be exhibiting their work in the second "Mississippi Invitational" through April 18 at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson.

Marita Gootee, Anne Hanger, Tim McCourt, and Mark VanBuskirk join 15 of the state's most significant contemporary artists in the Mississippi Chemical Corp.-sponsored exhibition.

Gootee, who teaches photography, will be exhibiting ink jet prints produced from digital photographs. She joined the MSU faculty in 1985.

Hanger, who has been teaching design here since 1996, will exhibit 15 small collages created from bits and pieces of her old paintings she decided to recycle into new works.

McCourt will show a pair of drawings and paintings. His paintings deal with the spatial and temporal components of light, perception and space; the drawings were inspired by his move from California to Mississippi this fall.

VanBuskirk joined the MSU faculty in 1997. Following the Mississippi exhibition, his work will go to the FAN Gallery in Philadelphia, Pa., where he is having a one-person show in June.

For more information on the exhibition, telephone the museum at (662) 960-1515.