Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery announces Strains Familiar, sculpture and drawings by Emily Schuhmann. The show runs January 5th- February 1st 2015. The playful and richly colored work utilizes scientific imaging tropes from anatomy, cartography, microbiology and botany to create new dialogs and designs.  This is the first local solo show of Schuhmann’s, a Louisville native and enamellist, whose work has be publicized and featured in juried craft shows nationally including American Craft Today.  The artist writes, “My sculptures and drawings derive from acts of studying, thinking, looking, and repetition. In finding rhythms, parallels, and surprising relationships our understanding is enhanced, convoluted, beautiful, formed and unformed. I want my work to fall somewhere in this middle. Sometimes my connections make sense, other times they echo like a half remembered nursery rhyme - the sounds soothing familiarity, the mind filling in the unknowns.“ The opening reception is Friday January 9th from 5-7pm.