TTU features oil painting exhibit

An exhibit of oil paintings on canvas by Alexander Stelioes-Wills will run through Sept. 24 at Tennessee Tech University’s Joan Derryberry Art Gallery located on the first floor of the University Center.

A teacher of drawing, design and painting at Mississippi State University, Stelioes-Wills incorporates bright colors and dramatic composition in his works to emphasize events happening during a particular moment in time.

His paintings feature domestic and landscape scenes taken from dream imagery and the artist’s childhood, but he tries to present them so that each viewer interprets them in terms if his or her own experiences.

After receiving bachelor’s degrees in history and fine arts painting from Washington University in St. Louis, Stelioes-Wills pursued painting at Indiana University, earning his master of fine arts degree in 1994.