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BIDDEFORD, Maine

Artwork by Debra Yoo on display at Campus Center

A collection of paintings by Debra Yoo, will be on display at the University of New England’s Biddeford Campus Center from May 3 to May 31, 2014.

Yoo earned a degree in fine arts and the humanities from the University of Chicago. She has been represented by galleries in Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati and Maine. Her work hangs in numerous private, government, and corporate collections across the United States and internationally, including the U.S. Department of State, Fidelity Investments, and United Airlines.

After focusing on still life painting for almost twenty years, Yoo moved to Maine in 1996 to pursue her growing interest in landscape painting. She has taught painting and drawing for the continuing education departments of Maine College of Art and the University of Southern Maine. This summer she will teach a workshop titled “Examining Your Painting Process” at Rock Gardens Inn in Sebasco Estates, Maine.

Yoo stated, “I am drawn to intense color and light as well as the tension that strong diagonals and ‘negative space’ create in a composition…What engages and fascinates me the most are compositional relationships that develop as I am painting and are only fully apparent to me when it is finished.”

The exhibit is free and open to the public.  UNE’s Campus Center is located at 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, Maine.  Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  For more information, contact Diane Noble.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.