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By Diane Blowers 8:07 PM Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Paul Catanese, the featured artist at Wright State University’s Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries through Jan. 8, calls his work “a hybrid.”

The Chicago artist uses the definition to describe his combining of technology with “traditional” and “new media.”

Through Jan. 8, the Stein Galleries will exhibit “Relics and Constellations,” which includes several bodies of work done during seven years, including “Misplaced Reliquary,” a modified Nintendo Gameboy Advance system, and the “Aquifers” series, delicate, yet stark relief prints created with computer-controlled milling machines.

Curated by Tess Cortés, the gallery coordinator for the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, the exhibition shows how Catanese’s work takes on many forms — virtual, physical or new combinations of both.

He incorporates such implements as intaglio printing, computers, digital video and overhead projectors.

In “Forgotten Constellation,” overhead projectors magnify and illuminate small containers of bones, feathers, teeth, hooks and small piles of carefully placed fragments to create what might resemble a lighted map of a lost or imagined civilization, cast onto the wall.

“Paul’s work stands out as an ideal example of how artists today are using both new and traditional tools in their art-making process,” said Cortés.

Catanese, an associate chairman and associate professor in the department of interdisciplinary arts at Columbia College in Chicago, is president of the New Media Caucus, a College Arts Association affiliate society.

The galleries, located in the A132 Creative Arts Center at Wright State University, are free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursdays and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

For more information, visit www.wright.edu/artgalleries.

Contact this columnist at dsb@donet.com.

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