Weifang Gong's 'Doors Across Time' through Oct. 10 at Hillestad Gallery

            "Doors Across Time," an exhibition of work by Weifang Gong that features a series of fabric panels and columns imprinted with imagery inspired by door patterns found in China and America, is on display through Oct. 10 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

            A public reception with the artist will be at the gallery from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 10.

            Exploring ideas symbolized by doors and doorways, Gong's work partitions the gallery, allowing the viewer to pass through and around the individual pieces. Gong, an alumna of UNL's Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design, completed the collection as part of her thesis work, with Wendy Weiss, professor emerita of textile design, serving as major adviser. Gong received her master of arts in textile design in May.

            Originally from Shandong, China, Gong combined the traditional paper printing techniques of woodcuts and silk screening with textile dyeing and discharge processes to print her personal imagery on silks and cottons. Her illustrations are based on self-portraiture as well as door motifs, and depict what Gong described as "a story of my study and growth" in a "multicultural space of imagination."

            The Hillestad Gallery is part of the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design in the UNL College of Education and Human Sciences at UNL. The gallery is on the second floor of the Home Economics Building on East Campus, on 35th Street north of East Campus Loop. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and by appointment. Admission is free. Visitor parking is available near the building and metered stalls are located in the Nebraska East Union lot. For more information, call 402-472-2911 or visit http://go.unl.edu/hillestadgallery.

Writer: Leah Sorensen Hayes, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery