THOUSAND OAKS, CA. - A suite of digital works by artist T.C. Hengst will grace the walls of California Lutheran University’s art gallery for the first exhibit of 2011.

Digital Imagining will be displayed in the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture from Monday, Jan. 10, through Saturday, Feb. 5. An opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22.

The works, created over a period of several years, are printed in large formats to show off their complex layering and intriguing composition.

Hengst’s early illustration training was primarily in airbrush, continuous tone, and pen and ink. The Thousand Oaks resident began using the computer for digital illustration in the late 1980s, using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as his primary illustration media.

A 1972 alumnus who joined the university’s faculty in 2001, Hengst is the chair of the multimedia department. He has taught scores of students in digital illustration and graphics techniques.

Hengst earned his graduate degree in medical and biological illustration from the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and later taught in the Hopkins graduate program for nine years. He has illustrated more than 60 medical and surgical texts and his illustrations have appeared in more than 100 scientific journals.

The gallery, located in Soiland Humanities Center, is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Parking is available in the parking lot on Mountclef Boulevard south of Olsen Road.

CLU’s Art Department is sponsoring the free exhibit. For more information, call Michael Pearce at (805) 444-7716 or visit http://www.callutheran.edu/kwan_fong .