April 18, 2004 - A month-long exhibition of original oil pastel drawings, lithographs, acrylic on canvas, paper casting, and a bronze by internationally recognized  Navajo artist R.C.Gorman is drawing collectors and admirers alike to his first New England exhibition in the Eaton-Richmond Center Gallery at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH.  Running through May 16, the exhibition is open free to the public.  Gallery hours are weekends 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and weekdays noon to 8:00 pm.  An artist's reception and book signing is slated for May 13 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

Gorman's art reflects the racial memory and experience of an ancient people that remains timeless and universal.  His work is collected by discriminating private collectors and museums the world over, as often by lovers of contemporary art as by those specializing in Native American art.  In the fall of 1973 he was the only living artist to be included in the show "Masterworks of the Museum of the American Indian," held at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

His uninhibited free-flowing style and vivid color sense are what catches and hold the eye of the beholder.  Women predominate his drawings, and woman is the subject Gorman loves.  For years he has been painting portraits of the Indian woman -- an earthy, stoic, nurturing, enigmatic woman -- unglamorous, but beautiful.

His work includes many phases: a landscape series, surreal series, pottery, rug and masks.  All reflect the cultural traditions of his Navajo heritage.  Extensions of his mastery include etchings, silk screens, sculpture, ceramics and tapestries.  He is quoted as saying that these are "a depiction of something that is going away and won't return.  There are fragments of a beauty that was."

Gorman was born in Arizona on July 26, 1931.  He is a man of today in every sense, yet his racial memory and much of his experience lie with the ancient ways and traditions of his people and the cave painting and petroglyphs that remain motionless and timeless amid the ruins of the Anasazi in the land of of Navajo.

To view pieces on display at Daniel Webster College - CLICK HERE

For more information on Gorman and to see his artwork, visit  www.rcgormangallery.com or www.rcgorman-nizhoni.com.