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Get Rowdy

October 24-November 30, 2002
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.

On Thursday evening, October 24th at 7pm, photographers Gary Goldberg and Sandy Wassenmiller will give a talk at the University Center to mark the opening for their exhibition called Get Rowdy. The show consists of 72 color and black and white photographs resulting from unrestricted access to the Dallas Cowboys football team at their training camp in Wichita Falls, Texas, where the couple live and work as professional photographers. The show will continue through November.

The exhibition consists of 36 images by each artist, but both approach the work from very different directions. Gary is an art professor at Midwestern State University where he has taught for 19 years. His photographs are straightforward toned black and white portraits of the players taken right after practice in front of a special portraiture backdrop.

Sandy works as a civilian photographer at Sheppard Air Force Base outside Wichita Falls, where she has been employed for the past 5 years. She works in color and her approach is based on crowds reaction to events and activities surrounding the players. Her work deals with the nature of fans and the public’s obsession with the game.

Both photographers are fine artists whose main artistic concern is documenting social phenomena related to various aspects of American and Texas culture and traditions. Anyone interested in photography as art, or the seemingly unrelated game of football, will find something appealing about the work of these two photographers. They will only be in town long enough to mount the show and give their public talk.

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