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OPENING-DAY PERFORMANCE AND GALLERY TALK
DIALOGUES: PAUL BEATTY/WING YOUNG HUIE


SUNDAY,
MARCH 7, 1999,
3 PM

FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION
GALLERY 7



Paul Beatty presents a short spoken-word performance before joining Wing Young Huie in a dialogue about their work, moderated by exhibition curator Douglas Fogle. A reception follows.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS
PAUL BEATTY
Paul Beatty
Beatty lives and works in New York. He received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in psychology from Boston University. He is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank (1991) and Joker, Joker, Deuce (1994), and the novel The White Boy Shuffle (1996), published by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. He is currently completing his second novel.


WING YOUNG HUIE
Wing Young Huie
Huie lives and works in Minneapolis and graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Minnesota. His work has most recently been exhibited in Unfinished History at the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in fall 1998 and winter 1999. His book Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood (1996) was published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.


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