NACOGDOCHES – Four of the five artists represented in “Silent

Transmissions” will be present for the Stephen F. Austin State

University School of Art’s opening of the show at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan.

28, at The Cole Art Center in downtown Nacogdoches.

The exhibition, which will be on view in the Ledbetter Gallery,

includes thought-provoking paintings, sculptures and installations by

Frances Bagley, Vincent Falsetta, James Marshall, John Pomara and Jay

Shinn, explained Charlene Rathburn, SFA galleries director and curator

of the exhibition. Bagley, Marshall, Pomara and Shinn will attend the

opening.

Bagley, whose sculptures are included in public and corporate

collections in Texas and Arkansas and in the National Museum of Women

in the Arts in Washington, D.C., is the recipient of an artist grant

from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Legend Award from the Dallas

Visual Art Center and the 2010 Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows

Museum in Dallas. She also received an award in the 2008 Kajima

Sculpture Exhibition in Tokyo, the only American to have done so.

Paintings by Vincent Falsetta, professor of art at the University of

North Texas, are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts

Houston; Galleria Cavallino in Venice, Italy; Neiman-Marcus in Las

Vegas and Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, to name a

few. On the artist’s website, he writes that his distinctly abstract

paintings “tend to suggest waves of sound, water, light or seismic

activity.”

The ceramic pieces by Marshall included in the exhibition are from “The

Liminal Object,” a series he says “investigates the potential for an

ordinary object to move into other dimensions.” Marshall’s work is

included in over 250 public and private national and international

collections. The artist is the head of ceramics at Santa Fe Community

College.

John Pomara is a professor of art at the University of Texas at Dallas.

His paintings, created by pulling industrial enamel across aluminum

panels, have been exhibited at the Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas,

the Dallas Museum of Art, the Meadows Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts

Houston, and in exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles

and London.

Jay Shinn, who has studios in New York City and Dallas, works in a

variety of media, but his paintings, sculptures, prints and

installations all deal with geometric shapes and perspective. His work

is included in collections of Microsoft Corporation; the State

Department in Washington, D.C.; Hilton Hotels; Fidelity Investments and

the DFW Airport, among others.

“Silent Transmissions” is a joint presentation of the SFA College of

Fine Arts and School of Art and will run through Saturday, March 31.

Regular gallery hours are 12:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free.

The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E. Main St. For more information,

please call (936) 468-1131.