Artist Jane Kaplowitz will host a lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21 in UNLV's CBC A108 on the UNLV campus as part of the UNLV Art Department's 2003 Visiting Artist Program, coordinated by art professor Robert Wysocki. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Kaplowitz, a well-established artist in the realms of drawing and painting, uses her commonly known work to respond to the changes in the social trends and behaviors of the rapidly evolving times.

With the use of film stills from easily identified films such as Gone with the Wind, Death in Venice, and Taxi Driver, her work holds a sense of pop culture, without the blatant connotation. Kaplowitz's palette consists of bright hues with an almost ghostly washed-out effect. She creates this by using acrylic paint and pastels, allowing the white paper beneath to show through. It is this illusion of the barely there paint, along with the expressiveness of her mark, that leave a strong impression on the viewer.

Kaplowitz received her BFA from Pratt Institute Brooklyn in 1971, and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in1973.