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NJCU’s Visual Arts Gallery to Feature Works by Three Renowned Designers Jan. 19-28; Reception, Lecture on Jan. 21

An exhibit featuring approximately 100 works by designers Louise Fili, Gerard Huerta, and Daniel Pelavin will be shown Monday, January 19 through Wednesday, January 28 at New Jersey City University in the Visual Arts Gallery, 100 Culver Avenue in Jersey City.

Gallery hours are 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and by appointment. An artists’ reception will be held on Wednesday, January 21. The reception will immediately follow a 1:00 p.m. lecture on the creative process by Mr. Huerta and Mr. Pelavin. Admission is free and open to the community.

he exhibit features works ranging from sketches and preliminary studies to final art and prints that have been created over the past three decades.

For further information call Ella Rue, NJCU marketing manager, at (201)200-2296 or e-mail her at erue@NJCU.edu.

Louise Fili
Prior to founding Louise Fili Ltd., a company that specializes in logo, package, restaurant, type, book, and book jacket design, in 1989, Ms. Fili served as art director for Pantheon Books, where she designed more than 2,000 book jackets, and as a senior designer for Herb Lubalin. Recently inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame, Ms. Fili has received awards in every major design competition and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Biliothéque Nationale. With Steven Heller, she is the co-author of Italian Art Deco, Dutch Moderne, British Modern, Deco Type, German Modern, Design Connoisseur, Deco España, Typology, and Euro Deco.

Gerard Huerta
A designer of letter forms who has worked in a broad variety of typographic styles, Mr. Huerta founded Gerard Huerta Design in 1976. He has created logos and logotypes for Swiss Army Brands, MSG Network, CBS Records Masterworks, Waldenbooks, Nabisco, Calvin Klein's Eternity, and the Type Directors Club; the mastheads of such publications as Time, Money, People, The Atlantic Monthly, PC Magazine, Us, Conde Nast's Traveler, Working Mother, and The National Law Journal; and corporate alphabets for Waldenbooks, Time-Life, and Condé Nast. He has been featured in many publications, including Money Magazine, The Penrose Annual, How Magazine, Step-By-Step Magazine, and Graphis Typography 1: Masters of Typography. He is a graduate of Art Center College of Design.

Daniel Pelavin
Mr. Pelavin's work over the past three decades has encompassed illustration and typographic and icon design for numerous international clients. Mr. Pelavin and his work h ave been featured in numerous books and magazines. He is an instructor of illustration, design, and lettering and has lectured widely on his craft to design organizations and colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has also authored many articles on design practice and education. Mr. Pelavin credits high school industrial arts classes and studio apprenticeships as his most valuable source of training and inspiration. Mr. Pelavin has maintained a studio in New York City since 1979.

News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.