LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Artist Dan Gustin, an associate professor at the renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will present a public exhibition of a variety of his paintings and drawings in the Rider University Student Center Art Gallery from November 7 to December 8, 1996.

The exhibit will feature figure compositions which represent dreamlike scenes with figures familiar to the painter in strange and fantastical situations. The compositions are very long, extending in length up to 13 feet. Also on display will be Gustin's landscape paintings, which are smaller than the figure compositions and portray the landscape of Tuscany, Italy, which is where he teaches during the summer at the International School of Art.

Gustin's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions nationwide, including the Lyons Weir Gallery in Chicago, the Bowery Gallery and the Marilyn Pearl Gallery in New York, and the Rockford Museum in Illinois.

Gustin will be present at the exhibition opening reception on November 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the gallery. Regular gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Friday though Sunday, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The exhibition is funded in part through a grant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information, contact Dr. Deborah Rosenthal of Rider's Fine Arts Department at (609) 895-5589.

Rider University's Lawrenceville campus is located five miles south of Princeton and three miles north of Trenton on Route 206 in Lawrence Township. The campus is one-half mile south of exit 7A of Interstate 95.