Country Days - City Nights, a solo exhibition of oil-0n-canvas paintings, by Myron Heise, will be on display at FDU's Edward Williams Gallery in Hackensack NJ from April 14 to May 23, 2003.

The exhibit, a forty-year retrospective, combines two diverse landscapes of the artist's life. His works show the contrast of concrete and farmland, of day and night, of life on city streets and in country villages.

Heise paints places that touch his heart: the rolling farmland around his birthplace in Bancroft, Nebraska, and the weekly card games in Bancroft's Shorty's Bar. These he contrasts with scenes portraying performances in Manhattan's smoky jazz clubs, people loitering or going about their daily jobs in Times Square, and other glimpses of life in New York City, the place where the artist now lives and paints. As different as the artist's country days and New York City nights are, they both preserve aspects of a vanishing American landscape.

Commenting on Heise's work, Scott Wolvin of Columbia University said, "There is an edge to some of his work, a haunting American-ness, a particular hue of understated lonely that is powerful."

The Gallery, in Edward Williams Hall at Fairleigh Dickinson University is located at 150 Kotte Place, Hacknesack NJ. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information call 201-692-2449 or 201-692-2675.

The exhibition runs through May 23, 2003.

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:30am-8:30pm, Saturday: 9:30am-2:30pm.

Contact: Joan Harvey at 973.443.8661.