Nancy Spero/Leon Golub: Contemporaries will be the first exhibition at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit's newest gallery at Wayne State University.

From Saturday, Sept. 13, to Wednesday, Nov. 26, the exhibition promises to engage its viewers with works of artists Spero and Golub, who have had long and distinguished careers as painters and printmakers.

A lecture about the artists will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Detroit Institute of the Arts at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13. The lecture is free with museum admission.

Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m -5 p.m. Saturday.

"This exhibition is devoted to the instability and elasticity of the term contemporary," says Jane Blocker, WSU visiting professor of art and art history and curator for the exhibition.

Spero and Golub are known nationally and internationally for their expressive figures and powerful images and for their commitment to representing important issues of their times.

A central figure in feminist art, Spero critiques the representation of women with images from art history, mythology and mass media. These images combine to produce subtle, delicate and yet powerful works of art.

Golub's monumental paintings serve as disturbing settings in which gestures and grimaces make vivid the psychology of dominance, violence, masculinity and fear. Paintings selected for the exhibition reveal the psychological impact of Golub's work.

The exhibition is supported by the W. Hawkins Ferry Endowment Fund and the Detroit Institute of the Arts Department of 20th Century Art.

For more information call Sandra Dupret, gallery curator, at (313) 577-2423.