Photo submitted to Times Observer Descending Light, Distorted Mass. 38x63” Oil, adhesive, paper, panel by Dale Inglett.

Working in acrylic, oil, graphite, ink, adhesive, and paper, artist Dale Inglett makes images that suggest tectonic and atmospheric events, turbulence, eruptions, and upheavals: Parallels to events we are surprised to witness in our physical world.

The exhibition, “Dale Inglett: Other Skies,” opens Friday evening, Feb. 1, at the JCC Center Gallery in Olean, N.Y., with a catered reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

The opening is free and open to the public with a talk given by the artist.

“I use simple depictive techniques (linear and planar geometry; measuring and marking; tracing; laser-cutting) to examine dissolutions and distortions of form in my work,” said Inglett. “This is a layered process that at first embraces fluidity, chance and responsivity; and then shifts to an analytic, editorial mode. In this way, I seek to make images that are only just resolved, and that retain tensions between these disparate layers and elements.”

An Associate Professor of Art in The School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Inglett earned an MFA from The Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia. His works in painting, drawing, and video have been exhibited at venues including the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, N.Y., and the Georgia Museum of Art. His drawings were published in Manifest Gallery’s International Drawing Annual 8. Inglett has attended artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and was the recipient of an Electronic Media Finishing Funds Grant from NYSCA and the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, as well as a Strategic Opportunity Stipend from NYFA.

The public is invited to view “Other Skies” at the Center Gallery in the JCC College Center, 260 North Union Street, Olean, N.Y., through March 22. The Center Gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gallery is closed on weekends and all college holidays. Tri-County Arts Council works in collaboration with Jamestown Community College to produce this exhibition series.