ATLANTA -- The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is proud to debut Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance Sunday, September 17 through December 17. This groundbreaking exhibition explores a new art movement focused on highly skilled figure painting harkening back to the Old Masters of Europe. The opening will be held Sunday, September 17 from 4:00 until 6:00 p.m. in the Skylight Gallery. The ceremony is free and open to the public.

Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance brings together over 40 contemporary paintings and drawings by 22 artists. These New Realism artists intend to lead contemporary art into the future. With its attention to detail and beauty, slow painting is very rapidly gaining recognition as a bold new movement and is being lauded as New York’s new FAST.

Artists include: Richard Maury, Jeffrey Mims, Francisco Roa, Jacob Collins, Renée Foulks, Grayon Parrish, Olivera Pudar, Kamille Corey, Adrian Gottlieb, John Morra, Jimmy Darrell Sanders and Christopher Pugliese.

The museum will be open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m. Guided tours Sundays at 2:00 p.m. The museum will be closed to the public on October 19-20 and November 11. Free and ample parking is available. Admission: $5 per person; museum members, children under 12 and the Oglethorpe community are free. For more information please visit www.oglethorpe.edu (keyword: museum) or call 404.364.8555.