Gina Westergard, a Kansas University metalsmithing/jewelry design associate professor, joins local painter and installation artist Diana Dunkley, internationally acclaimed painter and installation artist Suzann Victor, and painter and coordinator for the exhibitions, Ian Collins, in two exhibitions in Australia that will run through Feb. 4.

The two venues are the TAP Gallery in Sydney and the Loumax Gallery, in Katoomba, Blue Mountains.

The artists have been invited to show together because they share similar aesthetics in their works and express cohesion from different viewpoints. The exhibits, titled “4 PLAY,” will provide an opportunity for Australians to see contemporary art from the United States in a forum that exchanges ideas and forms international relationships between artists and galleries.

Gina Westergard is exhibiting several metal vessels, or reliquaries, and Diana Dunkley is exhibiting a series of paintings and a performance piece exploring her ethnicity and her concern of being a Kansan, over the Australian appropriation of “Land of OZ.” The piece is called “MMWW (which stands for “Middle-age Middle-class White Woman”): OZ Phase.”

The Loumax Gallery will have an opening reception Friday.

For more information, call 864-4401.