Malaysian Artist Hanna-Cheriyan Varghese to Exhibit at Princeton Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery

Princeton, NJ, March 15, 2007–Malaysian artist Hanna-Cheriyan Varghese will exhibit her art in a show called “The Cry of My Soul” at Princeton Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery from Monday, April 16 to Friday, May 25. Varghese has worked with different mediums including oil, metal-tooling, and woodblock printing, but her current passion is painting with acrylic on canvas and batik-dyeing on fabric. Of her work she says, “For a long time I was searching to find a way to paint biblical/spiritual themes. The artwork by Asian Christian artists in Image (a quarterly magazine of the Asian Christian Art Association) inspired me to express my own faith and spirituality in tangible terms. That is the cry of my soul.”

Varghese’s work has been exhibited in China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Korea, and the Philippines. She is a past recipient of grants from the China Christian Art Association and the Asian Christian Art Association. She serves as coordinator of the Malaysian Christian Artists’ Fellowship.

An artist’s reception for Varghese will be held on Monday, April 16 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m in the Erdman Art Gallery. To view her artwork, visit www.awrc4ct.org/artwork/hanna/main.htm.

The Erdman Art Gallery is in its seventh year of presenting local and national artists for the benefit of the community. The gallery is located in Erdman Hall, 20 Library Place, at the Center of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 2:30 to 9:00 p.m. The exhibit and artist’s reception is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Mary Grace Royal at 609.497.7995 or coned@ptsem.edu.