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This fall David Lusk Gallery presents a collection of Dorothy Sturm’s mixed media paintings on paper from the early 1980s. In 1964, the David Lusk Gallery Memphis building (at 97 Tillman) was built to house the Oates Gallery, and there in 1980 Oates Gallery first exhibited many of these Sturm drawings. For that show Sturm, a long-time teacher at the Memphis College of Art, returned to the human figure after years creating enamel compositions. These story drawings and the building at 97 Tillman both come full circle in this exhibition.

A modern artist not afraid to experiment wildly, the …