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Dominican University will present a solo exhibition of paintings by Jeffery Cote de Luna from Wednesday, November 7 to Friday, December 21 in the O’Connor Art Gallery on the fourth floor of Lewis Hall, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest.

The show, titled Jeffery Cote de Luna: Recent Work, will feature the artist’s dramatic shift from figurative painting to monochromatic abstraction. The paintings are computer-manipulated reworkings of master paintings by artists from the Renaissance through the modern period. Through precise calculations and manipulations, Cote de Luna reduces the tones of each painting into a single pixel of color which he then physically reproduces with oil and wax on linen-wrapped panels.

Cote de Luna is professor of painting and drawing at Dominican University as well as chair of art, art history and design. He received his bachelor of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his master of fine arts from Yale University School of Art.

The exhibit will open with a reception on Wednesday, November 7 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and will feature live music by A Yellow Purple Blue. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School for Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.