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Lake Forest College Alumni Spotlight Exhibition featuring Colin Thomson '71 and Edward West '71

Lake Forest College invites the public to attend the
Sonnenschein Gallery’s opening reception on Thursday, September 5 at 7:30 p.m.
to kick off the 2013-2014 season with the Alumni Spotlight Exhibition featuring
painter Colin Thomson ’71 and photographer Edward West ’71.



Thomson was born in London, England and moved to New York in
1955. He graduated from Lake Forest College in 1971and earned his MFA from Yale
University in 1977. His paintings and works of art on paper have been exhibited
internationally and are included in museum, corporate, and private collections
around the world.



He describes his work in the following way, "My
painting ideas develop through drawings and watercolors. Sources include
Islamic textiles, graphic design, architectural plans, maps. cartoons, and the
landscape. An overall sense of playfulness belies a more serious investigation
of light and space, color and drawing. The paintings create their own location,
a meditative and natural parallel to the world I am experiencing. each one
looks for a voice, a context for the individual parts, joining thought and
action, material and idea.”

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West has been a practicing artist for over 30 years. He is a
1971 graduate of Lake Forest College and received his MFA from the Rochester Institute
of Technology in 1973. His creative work includes photography, collage, and
installation. West's work has been exhibited and collected by museums and
galleries, corporations and private individuals all over the world. While his
work is concerned with the formal arrangement of visual elements, its ultimate
source is always a relationship with another person. He notes, "As a
photographer, my desire is always to enter the mental space of the person being
imaged-to photograph the gravity of how thoughts can inform gestures.”



The Sonnenschein Gallery is located on the third floor of
the Durand Art Institute on the North Campus of Lake Forest College. Gallery
hours are Mon/Wed/Fri 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sat/Sun 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Admission is always free and open to the public. For more information visit www.lakeforest.edu/artgallery

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