Through Sept. 28

Krantz Art Gallery
First & Chestnut • 213-2518

Persistence pays off, at least that’s what our parents told us when we didn’t want to study — but once again, the parentals were correct. For artist and musician Patrick Donley, persistence has paid well. As a bass player and lover of the outdoors, Donley evolves his passions for music and nature into visual art. He finds parallel meaning in his art, both music and visual. “It was through art history classes that I began to understand the connections between art and life,” Donley says. The newest installation consists of three-dimensional sculptures that mix everyday, seemingly unimportant materials and diverse color combinations as tools to piece items in an asymmetrical, geometrical pattern. A viewer cannot help but dissect the individual components while taking in the entirety of the piece. —Allison Ray