February’s exhibit offers works by professor and photographer, Ted Flemming.

The opening reception will be 11:00am-1:30pm, this Sunday, February 8, in the West Murphey Gallery. All are invited to attend.

A bit about Ted’s work
There are about 10,000 species of birds in the world, and they are perhaps our best known and most beloved vertebrates. In size they range from tiny hummingbirds to stately ostriches and occur in virtually all habitats, both terrestrial and aquatic, on Earth. They have inspired many artists to celebrate them in poems, songs, and paintings for centuries.

In February’s Murphey Gallery art show, Ted’s goal is to rekindle your love of birds through a series of digital bird photographs most of which he’s converted into painterly images. These images occur in four groups—hummingbirds, tropical birds, local birds, and aquatic birds—that reflect his interest and experiences with them.

Ted is a retired Emeritus Professor of Biology from the University of Miami. His long-term research specialty was the ecology and behavior of tropical nectar- and fruit-eating bats. But being nocturnal, bats are hard to photograph, and instead he focused on bird photography in retirement. The results of his efforts and artistic approach to bird imagery will be on display.