Artist Denise Stewart-Sanabria's work will be featured in her solo exhibition "Quantum Continuum," which opens Monday, Feb. 29, and runs through Friday, April 1, in the Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery at Coastal Carolina University. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

A lecture with the artist will take place at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, and a reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Both the lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

Stewart-Sanabria's life-sized charcoal drawings on plywood depict people in various conceptual situations. They are placed within an environment in both observational and interactive groupings. Many of them emerge or partially disappear into walls, as if the surrounding architecture is quantum theory multiverse portals. The human presence is intended to show an attempted civilization of the bestial, natural world of which humans are often reluctant to acknowledge they are a part of.

Born in Massachusetts, Stewart-Sanabria received her BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. A resident of Knoxville, Tenn., Stewart-Sanabria produces both hyper-realist "portraits" of everything from produce to subversive jelly doughnuts. For more information about the artist and to view a preview of her work, visit stewart-sanabria.com.

The gallery is located in Room 129 of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, located at 133 Chanticleer Drive W., Conway.

The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call James Arendt, gallery director, at 843-349-6409 or visit the gallery's website coastal.edu/bryanartgallery.