Bisignano Art Gallery Opens the 2025-2026 Season with a Journey of Visual Color and Texture
By University Relations
DUBUQUE, Iowa - Pause to explore a bold interplay of hue and texture as the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Art Gallery opens its first exhibit of the 2025-2026 season.
"In Search of Color: Tom Yunt" is free and open to the public Wednesday, August 20, 2025, through Friday, September 26, 2025, at the art gallery inside Heritage Center, 2255 Bennett Street.
"It is both a privilege and a pleasure to present 'In Search of Color: Tom Yunt,'" said Noah Bullock (C'21), coordinator of the art gallery. "Tom's artistic journey is a testament to lifelong creativity, a thread that has remained vibrant from his early days as a high school art student in Frankfort, Kentucky, through a distinguished 43-year career in media, leading into his dynamic second act as a full-time artist."
After retiring in 2019, Yunt rented a studio in the Millwork District to spend time drawing, painting, and creating multimedia and print works almost daily. A former advertising and marketing executive, Yunt is inspired by abstract expressionists of the late 1950s through the mid-1960s as well as graphic design, art direction, vintage posters, typography, Bauhaus-style design, and advertising.
"Tom's work carries the spirit of the Abstract Expressionist masters - Jackson Pollock's unrestrained energy, Mark Rothko's emotional resonance, Helen Frankenthaler's fluid lyricism - while simultaneously reflecting the precision, visual clarity, and conceptual ingenuity of a seasoned advertising and marketing professional," Bullock said. "His canvases are not just compositions of color and form, they are distilled moments of inspiration shaped by decades of observing, leading, and creating in both corporate and creative arenas."
A free pre-show reception for "In Search of Color: Tom Yunt" will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, September 8, 2025, in the art gallery. The reception will take place in conjunction with a performance by The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in John and Alice Butler Hall, Heritage Center. For more information or to purchase tickets to the performance, please visit www.dbq.edu/HeritageCenter.
Bisignano Art Gallery hours are noon to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. The gallery is also open in conjunction with all major events in John and Alice Butler Hall, Heritage Center.
