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2004-08-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=1 Dan Ferro Dan Ferro received his B.A. from the University of California in San Diego where he studied photography, sculpture, and music. He studied commercial photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and moved to Iowa in 1989. With over 25 years experience as a photographer and independent software creative director and producer, the use of technology has become a central element in the exploration and development of his vision. Dan Ferro's website http://www.ferro7.com/fineart pink: from the "cooked" series 13" x 19" 2003 About the artwork: The twelve images in the "cooked" series are direct scans of cooking sheets and baking pans using a flatbed scanner. This work is an exploration of the transitional and disregarded; the unnoticed and commonplace. The images do not replicate what the human eye can see. They are abstract photographic images that explore visual possibilities using light and lens. artimages/08232004.jpg 225 338
2004-08-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=2 Mel Andringa Mel Andringa received his MA (1971) and MFA (1978) from the University of Iowa with an emphasis in Multimedia/Intermedia. In 1975, he founded The Drawing Legion, a performance art company that toured original productions in over 50 U.S. cities and the Netherlands. In 1990, Mel Andringa and F. John Herbert founded Legion Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization presenting contemporary art at CSPS, a 115-year old Czech meeting hall, in Cedar Rapids. Mel Andringa and Legion Arts webpage http://www.legionarts.org Jury Duty Installation and performance 2004 On his work, Andringa states, "I produce original performances that blend material from the lives of historical artists with my own experiences. These performances feature 'living pictures' and 'performed painting activity', and explore artistic process." artimages/08242004b.jpg 350 263
2004-08-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=3 Chris Martin Chris Martin received a BFA in Art and Design from Iowa State University and completed an MFA in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. He has run Chris Martin Furniture, where he designs and fabricates studio art furniture, since 1995, and he is also currently an Assistant Professor at the Iowa State University College of Design. Chris Martin's website http://www.chrismartinfurniture.com 1400R24 Club Chair Steel & Inner Tube Rubber 31"x 37"x 31" 2001 Chris cites Japanese aesthetics, the natural world and fantasy as influences on his work but states, "I have come to realize, however, that there is a deeper, underlying drive influencing my designs. The environment in which I grew up continues to inspire me. As a child I lived in Keokuk, Iowa, a heavily industrialized river town with huge smoke- belching factories, railroad tracks meandering through it, and a lock and dam that still amaze me. I am intrigued by the resiliency of nature and how she manages in some way, to take back what we try to claim from her...This is what drives my work: the manmade in unity with or in contrast to the natural." artimages/08252004.jpg 350 383
2004-08-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=4 Malinda Theisman Malinda Theisman received her BFA from Arizona State University in 1999. She earned her MA in 2004 and is currently working on her MFA in Painting and Intermedia at the University of Iowa, where she is a teaching assistant in the Intermedia Area. Incident Glass, Wood Furniture variable dimensions 2003 About her current body of work, Malinda writes, "Since my work is seated in a sense of curiosity concerning the nature of my perception, I often reference objects found in my immediate surroundings. These objects serve as reflections of my consciousness, as my perception of them changes in relationship to my condition. The conventions of illusionistic representation have proved insufficient in my attempt to create an inclusive image of an object through time, subjectivity, conditionality, and change. Therefore, I have explored diagrammatic methods of representation, including traced outlines and flat, map-like compositions as I look to supply a more full description of an object." artimages/08262004.jpg 225 343
2004-08-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=5 Peter Feldstein Peter Feldstein received M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in art from The University of lowa, where he currently teaches courses in photography. His work is represented by Olson-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines and Rico-Maresco Gallery in New York City. Feldstein received an individual artistÕs grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Iowa Arts Council Grants, and two Polaroid Collection grants. He was artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College. 1165 inkjet prints edition of 21 prints 10" 23" and 43" square About the artwork: Peter Feldstein produced these prints using a process called cliche verre, a method of drawing on a ground-coated transparent material such as glass or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper or scanning it and printing it digitally. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early part of the 19th century. Camille Corot was the best known of these. Feldstein has developed techniques for achieving a variety of lines, tones, textures and colors by experimenting with paint and inks and a wide assortment of tools for etching, scratching, rubbing and daubing. In this series, the original images are also manipulated digitally. artimages/08272004.jpg 350 350
2004-08-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=6 Jeff Easley Jeff Easley has been a professional woodworker since 1979. He spent five years working at the Amana Furniture shop building rocking chairs, dressers, china cupboards, hutches, and other furniture. He currently designs and builds custom commissions and produces speculation art furniture and wall sculptures. He has major public sculptures at the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls), which commissioned ten wall sculptures for its Commons Building, and Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, which received three of Jeff Easley's wall sculptures as a gift through the Iowa Sister State Program. Jeff Easley's website http://www.jeffeasley.net/ Cabinet with straight legs various woods 36"x70"x16" About the artwork: Woodworking is physically demanding and potentially dangerous, but Easley contends that "Wood is like frozen music. [It] has the ability to foster inner peace. It has a calming effect on people because it is so beautiful." Easley uses both machines to mill the wood and traditional joinery and finish techniques to fabricate his pieces. He chooses non-endangered woods and selects pieces for their natural colors and grain qualities. The woods are from different parts of the world and provide local economies with an alternative to slash and burn forest (mis)management. Some of the woods are plantation grown trees that shade coffee plant artimages/08282004.jpg 350 231
2004-08-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=7 Will Hildebrandt Will Hildebrandt received his BA in Art and Art Education in 1975 from Wartburg College, and earned his MA in Drawing from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979. He has exhibited extensively in Iowa, the Midwest, and the East Coast. He lives and works in Le Grand, Iowa. Palace Baths Pastel 2001 30" x 40" About the artwork: Palace Baths was produced based on sketches and photos made on a trip to Spain in 2000. Will Hildebrandt uses a variety of drawing media: colored pencils, pastels, pen and ink, and watercolor, as well as mixed media collage and assemblage techniques. He states that his images are representational and have elements of mystery, symbolism, and the human condition, and he seeks to represent parts of the world that are often overlooked by most people. artimages/08292004.jpg 350 233
2004-08-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=8 J.R. Cambell J.R. holds a B.S. in Environmental Design and Master of Fine Arts degree in Textile Art and Costume Design from the University of California at Davis. He conducts his research/creative activity in digital capture, image development and surface application to textile art and design as an associate professor in Textiles and Clothing at Iowa State University. He explores the visual, cultural and technological aspects of digital textile printing as he creates connections between two-dimensional print design and three-dimensional forms. He regularly shows artwork in national and international juried exhibitions. J.R. Cambell's website http://homepage.mac.com/jrcamp/portfolio/JRPortfolio.html Antonplant Kimono Digitally printed polyester georgette kimono 48" x 54" 2000 J.R. Campbell states: "As a human culture, we are each in contact with textiles at almost every moment of our lives. Textile concepts have become inherent in our way of thinking and patterns of speech (ie., the Òstring theory of the universeÓ, Òhanging by a threadÓ, the Òmoral fabricÓ of the country, etc). Textiles are an excellent medium for the expression of identity and transmission of new ideas. We can attach imagery to the surface of cloth and instantly give the image new meaning. We begin to associate with the image, perhaps wear it, walk through it as it is draped in a passageway. We might see it as having a spiritual significance, a functional purpose or an expressive or symbolic ability." artimages/08302004.jpg 350 319
2004-08-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=9 Dan Attoe Dan Attoe was born in 1975 in Bremerton, Washington. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1998, and just finished his MFA in Painting at the University of Iowa. He has shown extensively in Iowa, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and internationally in Paris, Naples and Tokyo. Dan makes a small painting every week day and "puts something" on a larger one. In addition to his paintings, Dan also makes tents. Indiscriminate Love oil on board 7" x 7" 2003 About his images, Dan says, "My paintings are short stories and games. The characters and spaces they inhabit are varyingly real and imaginary. They all come from a wide range of research in popular culture, travel, rural life and people I know or have made up. Humor, mystery and specificity are some of my favorite things to play with...Having grown up in small towns and ranger stations in the west and Midwest with two brothers, much of my formative experience is in dealing with specifically male politics. Subsequently, much of the issues dealt with in my work are rooted in masculinity or issues of the middle class. These things range from confronting femininity, power struggling, and working, to looking for a sense of purpose." artimages/08312004.jpg 350 353
2004-09-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=10 Peter Thompson After receiving an MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1986, Peter Thompson spent six years teaching at Auburn University in Montgomery, AL. He returned to Iowa in 1993 to join the faculty of Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, where he teaches painting and digital art. Peter Thompson has exhibited his work all over the US and in Canada. Peter Thompson's website http://www.public.coe.edu/~pthompso/ Table at Connally's oil on canvas 26"x32" 2003 About the work, Thompson writes: I have been painting the human figure in context for over a decade. Bar interiors comprise one of the contexts for the figure that has recurred throughout that time. The setting seems an ideal one for capturing a slice of human experience. It is a setting in which an ordinary moment might be made remarkable. Not through explicit narrative or human interaction, but through perception and spatial organization. The contrasts of light and shadow can be used to define space and to obscure it. There is a tendency toward disorientation in a bar (for more than one reason) and I have tried to capture that shifting reality in my wor artimages/09012004.jpg 350 302
2004-09-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=11 Suzanne B. Aunan An Iowan since 1972, Suzanne B. Aunan is a self-taught artist who has enjoyed painting as far back as she can remember. Born in New York City, she grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Suzanne attended the University of Iowa, majoring in Medical Technology and later graduated from the Physician Assistant Program.Ê She worked as a P.A. at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and was also a full-time mother of four.Ê Now with all her children in school, she is enjoying a career as an artist. Suzanne paints detailed compositions using acrylic, gouache and watercolors, sometimes adding pencil or ink pen.ÊHer work has been purchased by collectors world-wide. Suzanne B. Aunan's website http://www.sbaunan.com/ Old Capitol acrylic, pencil, and ink on board 34" x 41" 2004 About the artwork, Suzanne writes: "The Old Capitol is the center of life and activity at the University of Iowa.Ê Built in 1840, it acted as the State of Iowa capital until Iowa's government was moved to Des Moines in 1857, and the Old Capitol was given to the University of Iowa.Ê Built of Devonian limestone quarried from the Iowa River in North Liberty, along with native Iowa oak, the Old Capitol is also a beautiful monument." In this painting, Suzanne has shown the annual Easter egg hunt, dogs and their friends playing Frisbee, a proud family taking a photograph with their new Iowa graduate, picnickers, students heading to class, joggers, tuba players representing the annual December outdoor tuba concert, and the artist herself with her husband, Tom, sitting on the steps on their first date. artimages/09022004.jpg 350 328
2004-09-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=12 Matthew Kluber Matthew Kluber received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1991. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College. Matthew Kluber has shown throughout the United States, and his work is held in public collections in Texas, Oregon, Illinois, and Iowa. Firewire Picture: Deeper Into Movies Alkyd on Aluminum with Digital Projection 44" x 96" 2003 About his work, Matt writes: My recent work attempts to find a new pictorial space in abstraction by creating a dialog between the Color-field and Op painting of 1960's & '70's with the new visual idiom inherent in digital technology. The traditional object of the painting is transformed physically (via color change) and conceptually by a digital projection playing across the surface. The resulting union is a kind of "hyper color-field." artimages/09032004.jpg 350 265
2004-09-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=13 Ina Loewenberg Ina Loewenberg has lived in Iowa City for more than 36 years. In addition to her most recent career as a photographer, she has been an internal auditor at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, a tax preparer for H & R Block, and a philosophy teacher at Coe College. from the From Farm to Subdivision series color photograph 10"x14" 1995 Ina began making photographs when she was 55 years old and states that she "was essentially self-taught but [received] significant help and guidance from more proficient friends." Since she began making work, Ina Loewenberg has shown regularly throughout the region. She specializes in three different subject areas: portraits, including self-portraits, still lifes, and documentation of construction projects, of which this photograph is an example. artimages/09042004.jpg 350 234
2004-09-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=14 David Dahlquist David Dahlquist received his BA degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MFA degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. David runs Dahlquist Clayworks, where he designs and fabricates tile, functional ceramics, sculptures, and large-scale architectural commissions. He is included in the Iowa Arts Council's Public Art Artists Roster. David Dahlquist's website http://www.rdgusa.com/what/dahlquist/dahlquist.html Arabidopsis Genomic Rug Porcelain tile 2003 About the artwork: This tile floor is installed in the lobby of the in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory Business Incubator on the Iowa State University Campus, a building dedicated to developing businesses oriented towards the plant sciences. The genomic sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana (wall cress or mouse-ear cress) provides the inspiration for this pattern. While it has little agronomic significance, the small flowering plant is a star in plant biology because of its suitablity for doing research in genetics and molecular biology. The floor links the themes of genetic research, crop farming, and the long-standing interrelationship between humans and plants. artimages/09052004.jpg 225 290
2004-09-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=15 Judith Eastburn Judith Eastburn received a Master of Sciences in Microbial Genetics in 1969 from the University of Iowa. She subsequently earned an MFA in Printmaking and Photography in 1982 from the same institution. She has taught photography in England, Iowa, and Missouri and has shown her work throughout the Midwest for the last twenty-seven years. She currently lives in Des Moines, where she teaches art and photography at Dowling High School and photography at Grandview College. Levens Hall, Cumbria gelatin silver print 10" x 10" 2000 Judith Eastburn writes, "I believe we are profoundly affected by the landscape of our childhood. It establishes our sense of space and how we fit into it, and we recognize as familiar those places encountered later in life which resemble it. I was born in Iowa, and grew up in the southeast corner near the Mississippi River in an area of limestone bluffs and wooded ravines. Visiting my grandparents meant drives to central Iowa through gently rising and falling open fields. These are the landscapes which serve as my point of reference when I photograph in other parts of the world. I think Iowa and its openness made me aware of the horizon and sensitive to smaller variations in the land's surface." artimages/09062004.jpg 350 347
2004-09-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=16 Bunny McBride Bunny McBride received his M.F.A. from Alfred University. He is head of the ceramics program at the University of Iowa, where he teaches beginning and graduate-level courses. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Archie Bray Foundation, and his work has been exhibited internationally. ash-glazed pitcher About the artwork (ash-glazed pitcher):
The earliest examples of ash glazes are from Shang Dynasty China (c. 1500 B.C.). As the name suggests, ash glazes are derived from wood or vegetable ashes. They were likely produced accidentally, the result of ash from the kiln fire being carried on a draft, settling onto the pots, and vitrifying in the intense heat. Three and a half millenia later, ash glazes are still used to add subtle and pleasing surfaces to decorative and functional ceramic pieces. artimages/bunny.jpg 225 350
2004-09-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=17 Sue Hettmansperger Sue Hettmansperger received her MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1972. Her work is shown internationally, and she has had solo exhibitions in South Dakota, Iowa, Chicago, and New York City. She is currently a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa, where she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for the past twenty-six years. Chimera series oil on linen 27" x 24" 2003 About the Chimera series, Sue writes: "In negotiating our lives on earth, human bodies and minds map their internal experiences and perceptions to the natural world. Operating under a set of assumptions that conform to human perception, we may often lack empathy for the dimension of our environment. The work reflects an ongoing interest in this arena: the complex relationship of humans to their environment, molecular organization, botany, and the physics of space." artimages/09082004.jpg 350 393
2004-09-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=18 Daniel Weiss Daniel Weiss was born in 1959 in Mason City, Iowa. He was nurtured by large, industrious families on both his mother's and father's sides. He and his nine siblings were schooled by Catholic P.B.V.M. sisters in his hometown. He currently enjoys a balance between his work as an art instructor and educator and as a studio artist exploring the construction of forms that have that have roots in both the folk traditions of his Belgian and Volga German heritage and the fine art and abstract traditions of modern American Art. Reader wood, paint, book, nails 27.5" x 14" x 1.53" 2003 About the artwork, Daniel Weiss writes that "the nature of these objects begins in an upbringing by parents who were children of European immigrants. It was their practical need to give new life to used paper, boards, and clothing. An aesthetics of redemption is about my tribe and the house I grew up in. Not having my parents' similar struggle to provide, my inheritance of this practice finds its reasoning in my seeking the beautiful...These current works belong to my neighborhood and its place in time as evidenced by the hardware store palettes of certain decades and the lumber cuts of other ones. It is good when a neighbor sees his old dining room boards in one of my pictures. I believe this to be the good story of a human art -- that it originates in and maintains a sense of environment -- that it is grounded by some sort of dialogue between people and place." artimages/09092004.jpg 225 423
2004-09-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=19 Tom Stancliffe Tom Stancliffe makes large-scale metal sculptures that integrate visually and thematically with their surroundings. Stancliffe considers the particular site where he is working, striving to create pieces that echo and complement the architecture, site plan, and landscape in which they are situated. Stancliffe often wins public art commissions and has major pieces in Iowa, Dallas, Texas, and Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He is currently a Professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Dikhotomia (work A and work B) welded bronze dimensions variable 1995 Dikhotomia is located at the Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University campus. Stone columns support two bronze sculptures that represent a dialogue between horticulture and agriculture, two of ISU's most important areas of research. Work A and Work B provide a dramatic gateway for visitors strolling through the garden. Dikhotomia is part of the ISU University Museums Art on Campus Collection. artimages/09102004.jpg 350 220
2004-09-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=20 Jay Chesterman Jay Chesterman holds a Bachelor of Science (1995) from Morningside College. He states that he mostly photographs when he is travelling because "It seems to be the only time I can slow down enough to observe the unique things in life." He mostly concentrates on culture; the pastimes and subsistence of people. He looks for subject matter in everyday occurrences and uses his camera to capture the found art that exists all around us. Chesterman says that "art exists everywhere; one only has to be aware." untitled color photograph artimages/09112004.jpg 350 234
2004-09-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=21 Doug Shelton Doug Shelton received his art training at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art. He is a long time Des Moines artist and an accomplished painter who has documented his unique imagination on canvas for many years. Described loosely as surrealistic, his paintings are filled with whimsical and mysterious symbols, settings and characters. Each work can suggest many intriguing story lines or anecdotes to the viewer, but all stem from the artist's experience and stream or consciousness...All of his works are exquisitely painted and he often crafts and ornaments unusual frames that serve as extensions of the piece. Doug Shelton's website http://tucsonartistgroup.com/Gallery/Doug_Shelton Unlimited Possibilities second floor of Parks Library, oil on linen 18' 3" x 22'9" 1996 Unlimited Possibilities celebrates Iowa State's future as a premier land-grant university. Based on the Library Murals designed by Grant Wood, both in process and intent, this mural was commissioned by University Museums and ISU External Affairs. It was Iowa State's contribution to Iowa's Sequicentennial celebration, and it celebrates Iowa State's past and future vision as the best land-grant institution into the next century. The [mllural's title] refers to the life of the student as well as the life of the University. In contrast and complementary to the Grant Wood designed murals in the Parks Library, which depict mature adults in society, [Shelton] focused on student learning activity. The mural is divided into two sections - on the left is an agricultural setting, and on the right is a classroom setting. This can be viewed as town and country, city and rural, nature and civilization... (excerpted from Art on Campus information sheets from the ISU Museums, available at http://www.museums.iastate.edu ) artimages/09122004.jpg 225 297
2004-09-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=22 Rachel Marie-Crane Williams Rachel Marie-Crane Williams received a B.F.A. from East Carolina University in Greenville in 1993. She attended Florida State University, where she earned her M.F.A. (1995) from with a concentration in painting and drawing and her Ph.D. in Art Education (2000). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art Education Department of the University of Iowa. Dr. Williams has worked extensively with incarcerated women, teaching art, theater, and writing courses in prisons in Florida, London, and Iowa. She is author and editor of Teaching the Arts in Prison (2003, Northeastern University Press).
Wisdom and Wild Hares aqueous media on paper 36" x 44" 2001-2002 About the artwork, Rachel Williams writes: Wisdom and Wild Hares was about turning 30 and coming to the realization that there are certain deep rooted flaws all of us face in cycles in our lives. The rabbit is a symbol I use in my work a great deal. When I was a child I had rabbits. One in particular had a gruesome overbite. His teeth did not meet each other so they never got ground down. They would grow and grow and even begin to curl. Each month I would literally have to clip his teeth. It made him sort of insane and me squeamish. For me, rabbits represent the frailty of the human psyche and our constant attempt as human being to maintain ourselves and our relationships with others in spite of guilt, jealousy, anger, frustration, love, and selfishness. We are always thumping, digging, watching nervously, and grazing. artimages/09132004.jpg 225 279
2004-09-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=23 Gail Chavenelle Gail Chavenelle's schooling and careers have been diverse. She has a BA in literature and a Master's Degree in computer education. She has been a teacher, curriculum designer, and has sold and administered computer systems. Now, she has found a unique voice in metal. Mentored by a generous blacksmith and critically supported by working artist friends, she is currently studying art history and showing her work on a regular basis throughout Iowa. Gail's work is featured online and in galleries nationwide. Gail Chavenelle's website http://www.chavenellestudio.com/ Con Brio One piece 20 gauge sheet metal, rusted 60" tall 2004 Beginning with childhood paper dolls, chains, pop-out books, and greeting cards, Gail Chavenelle has been intrigued by paper sculpture. She loved the forms, but wanted the works to be more permanent. Instead of a sheet of paper, Gail works with sheets of 20 gauge steel. Gail cuts one-piece sculptures from single, flat sheets, folding and bending them into 3-D forms. Her pieces bound, fly, or dance in the wind on the tensile strength properties of this material. In addition to public sculpture, Gail makes accessible, affordable art, sized for the ordinary sized spaces in which we live. artimages/09142004.jpg 225 300
2004-09-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=24 Alex Brown Born 1966. Lives and works in Des Moines, IA.
I make paintings from found photographs culled from a fairly wide cornucopia of sources; travel brochures, coffee table books, album covers, postcards, etc. Anything possessing an interesting palette and suitable subject are normally my parameters when choosing what to paint. I generally tend to stick with the more traditional subjects of landscape and portraiture painted in a contemporary or fractured manner. Castle oil on canvas 90" x 60" 2003 Most recently, I have been employing a second image in order to define the primary image. This secondary image serves as a sort of grid system itself, but refracts the image in an interesting and more often than not, interesting way. There frequently arises a third image, a sort of conversation between the synthesis of the two formative images. I find this condition of an image resting in the limbo between abstraction and representation ultimately the driving force behind my work. artimages/09152004.jpg 225 340
2004-09-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=25 Jim Shrosbree Jim Shrosbree earned an MFA from the University of Montana. He has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, theÊIdaho Commission on Arts and Humanities/NEA and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest) Visual Artist's Fellowship. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. His solo exhibitions include: I Space, Chicago; Revolution, Detroit and New York City; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis; William Traver Gallery, Seattle, and Ron Judish Fine Art, Denver. Jim Shrosbree has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center in the Fall of 2004 e9 (transx) chemistry glass, nylon, glue, paint, plastelene, wire 64"x2"x17" 2002 An excerpt from Jim Shrosbree's artist's statement: If something is perfect in the mind, then to bring it forth through the hand and the eye can extend that perfection into the reality of the visual world. The inside and the outside, however, do not truly exist as a duality and are not separate, but unified. It is out of this oneness that perfection arises. Perfection lies hidden between the artist and work and the work and the viewer. To invoke this value means giving up surrendering control over what one may be too comfortable with to reveal a deeper reality. Obviously, it is not realized exclusively through working. One comes to the process with what one is with a certain capacity for experience. Being curious about the world through creative work involves, essentially, an investigation into the nature of the Self, into consciousness and the structure of what one is made of: energy, pattern, intelligence and the connection with origin. Curiosity is a gift which is fulfilled through the ability to listen. Listening to the quietest messages focuses the attention at the moment a "thing" is manifested. artimages/09162004.jpg 350 263
2004-09-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=26 Michael Groesbeck Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with an emphasis in communications for Radio/Television and Photography. He has run his own photography studio, Portraits of Iowa, for the last eight years. He has also been a part of Very Special Arts of Iowa, an organization of disabled artists, for the over 15 years. The group curates shows that are displayed at the Iowa State Fair every year and are lent to businesses throughout Des Moines the remainder of the y Michael Groesbeck's website www.portraitsofiowa.com Web of Life digital photograph 800 x 600 pixels 2003 About his photographs, Michael says: When I look for subjects to photograph, I look into the beauty that radiates to all of us. I use to draw and sketch before my disability (Muscular Dystrophy) worsened. So I redirected my abilities into my photographic works of art. I look at pieces and try to shoot them in a way that captures the inner imagination we all have and the beauty that it emits. I look for details others may overlook and bring that out as well. I have shot 35 mm film for over 7 years and have since moved into the digital age within the last year. Within the pieces I have chosen are a basis of Nature and the beauty that it has to offer. artimages/09172004.jpg 350 263
2004-09-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=50 Gillian Brown and Inga Frick The viewers enter through a dark corridor into an entirely blackened space and find themselves surrounded by a watery void. Slowly a dark swimming figure becomes visible in the bottom corner of one wall. Two adjacent walls in the room have been covered with plexiglass, creating a darkly reflective surface. As the swimmer traverses the width of one plexiglass screen, she is mysteriously both reflected off the surface of the plexiglass onto the second screen and she is also mirrored into the depth of the second screen. The two screens create of third illusory screen which recedes into the background. A seeming trefoil structure joined at the center radiates out in three directions. Through the alchemy of reflection, a single swimmer has become three swimmers who start at the periphery of the screens and slowly make their way to the center. Here they meet in unexpected explosions of reflected light which disappear as the increasingly inchoate, yet symmetrical shapes merge into each other. As the swimmers converge on their shared inner edge, the remnants of their annihilation form an increasingly abstract Rorschach until their limbs are read as simply smaller and smaller emissions of light. This dramatic disappearance is followed by the relative silence of dark, moving water accompanied by a low, repetitive drone. each/other video installation 1998 Because of the multiple reflections, the whole environment, including the floor and back wall, shimmers with reflected waves, and the viewer is encompassed by the same watery substance as the swimmers. As the swimming triplets move slowly toward each other and toward the shared edge of their planes, they are accompanied by a spoken text from The Visible and The Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a low droning soundtrack underneath the text. The text operates as a sort of metaphysical poetry, a tumble of subliminal suggestions that can be picked up at any point, without significant loss of continuity ... a sea of floating meaning. Enigmatic movements within the text meld with the motions of swimming and sea to produce crosscurrents and undertows within the medium of comprehension. artimages/09182004.jpg 350 241
2004-09-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=51 Mary Kline-Misol A native of Des Moines, Mary Kline-Misol earned both her BFA and MFA from Drake University, where she studied under Jules Kirschenbaum. Kline-Misol now maintains her studio in Panora, where she has spent the last decade working on painting in series. Large-scale still-lifes of exotic objects, friends, relatives and people she's met travelling, flowers and elements of nature, and a series of real and fictional characters relating to Charles Dodgson's Alice Through the Looking Glass have all been themes explored in her work. Mary Kline-Misol's website http://www.angelfire.com/art/MKMisol/ The Lady and The Dragon acrylic on canvas 60" x 40" 2001 The Lady and the Dragon is from the series "Conjure: The Story Puppets." The Wayang Golek Pole Puppets have a strong tradition in Java and Indonesia. Traditionally they are used in plays which run from dusk to dawn, representing scenes from the Hindu Vedas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The characters depict episodes from the texts that teach a moralizing lesson about the battle of good and evil.This series of paintings include the pole puppets, juxtaposed with traditional Vanitas objects, such as extinguished candles, botanicals, and time pieces, that serve as reminders of the transitory nature of life. The Vanitas theme is one of the oldest approaches to still life painting. Elements of still life occur in Egyptian tomb paintings, and it is used today as a formal exercise and a vehicle for the painter to exercise skill in composition and lifelike rendering of detail and texture. artimages/09192004.jpg 225 340
2004-09-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=52 Marcia Joffe-Bouska Marcia Joffe-Bouska received her BA in Art and Art Education from Clark College (1973) and her MA from Northern Illinois University (1977). In addition to showing work throughout the Midwest, her art is represented in public and private collections throughout the region. Her glass mosaic, Missouri River Transit, part of the Icon Interpretive Sculpture Project for the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery Bicentennial, is located at Dodge Riverside Golf Club in Council Bluffs, IA. She has taught art workshops to people of all ages, many through the Iowa Arts Council's Artist in Schools and Communities program. She has lived and worked in Council Bluffs, Iowa since 1977. Auriferous mixed media 15.125" x 6.5" x 4.5" 2002 Marcia Joffe-Bouska writes: My sculpture developed from a series of artworks whose reference was the garden. Early pieces combined unearthed fragments with various elements of refinement. The resulting synthesis suggested a function both protective and primal, as the sculpture seemed to recall ritual pieces from another culture. My current work continues to explore this transcendent and symbolic aspect of art and reveals my interest in cultural icons. My combination of organic forms with natural and found objects, traditional and nontraditional art media, creates a tension between image and the associations suggested by the incongruous materials used. artimages/09202004.jpg 225 474
2004-09-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=53 Jill J. Jensen As a photographer and artist, Jill J. Jensen has displayed her color photographs in solo and group exhibits since the 1970s. Her work is found in galleries and private collections across the United States, including a display at the offices of the Iowa Department of Economic Development in Des Moines, Iowa. She has won top awards at the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum in Mason City, the Charles City Art Museum, and the Polk County Heritage Gallery in Des Moines, among others, and she was a member of The ArtistsÕ Gallery cooperative in West Des Moines, Iowa. Her photographs have been published in books and magazines, as greeting cards, and in other print and multimedia materials. Her work has also been shown at the Ambroz Art Center and CSPS in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jill J. Jensen's website http://www.jjjensen.com/ Buzzin' In 35mm Kodachrome 800 x 526 pixels 1997 Jill J. Jensen writes: "Buzzin' In" was captured early one late summer morning in the flower gardens at Noelridge Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I prefer to work in the light of early morning or late afternoon, the hour or so just before and after sunrise and sunset, when everything is golden, clear, and draped with interesting shadows. In the mornings, the dew may still be on the plants. Insects and animals may be slower to stir and, therefore, more susceptible to image capture. In the evenings, clouds and atmospheric phenomena evolve quickly as the sun changes position in the sky, which changes the quality of the light on whatever is the subject of the photograph. artimages/09212004.jpg 350 230
2004-09-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=54 Jane Robinette Born and raised in Des Moines, Jane Robinette has lived in Iowa most of her life. Since she was a young girl, she has written poetry and prose and combined her words with color or images. Her love for the written word took priority for many years. After earning degrees in social work and law, and holding jobs for several years in each area, she left her law job in April 1998 to begin the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project (www.lucidplanet.com/IWA) and to do more creative work of her own. Jane Robinette's paintings are shown at galleries in Des Moines and Ames, and her website has images and audio clips of her poetry. Jane Robinette's website http://www.janerobinette.com/ Imagine acrylic & ink on paper 13-3/4" x 13-3/4" (framed) 2004 Jane Robinette writes: My love for color, rhythm, and language led me to begin making "poem-paintings" small-scale, colorful, abstract paintings that incorporate my own handwritten original poetry. Acrylic paint quickly changes consistency when exposed to air, which helps create interesting shapes and textures when I scrape it across paper. Many of the poems contain a voice that is mysterious, heartfelt, thought-provoking, and inspiriting; a voice that I find is speaking to me as much as to the ultimate viewer/reader...Sometimes I wonder why my poems need color and texture and why my paintings need words and lines. Of course, this is not entirely true, but somehow they call for one another. My job is to create the space for their interplay. This acrylic scraped poem-painting invites the viewer/reader to explore the layers of paint and of life. artimages/09222004.jpg 350 342
2004-09-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=55 David Kamm David Kamm earned his MA (1986) and MFA (1988) in printmaking from the University of Iowa. He has shown his work extensively in the Midwest and abroad. Collections that hold examples of his work include the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction in Cuernavaca, the Vatican Collection of Modern Art, the Print Consortium of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and the Gallery Coordinator at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Pages from a Small World print collage 7.5" x 5.25" 2002 About his artwork, David writes, "I am trained as a printmaker and my work frequently reflects aesthetic concerns inherent in printmaking processes. Those include the concepts of image transfer, serial imagery, and multiple image manipulations that leave a visual record of the creative process." Pages from a Small World is an intimate, modestly scaled collage. The source materials for the piece are David's prints, cut into pieces and recombined to make a new artwork. artimages/09232004.jpg 225 323
2004-09-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=56 Anonymous Incarcerated Women The artists who made Women of Strength are all incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. In collaboration with Rachel Williams and Jane Parsons, they designed, sewed and painted a multi-panel mural incorporating the likenesses of Mother Hale, Marilyn Monroe, Mother Theresa, and Nilak Butler, among others. detail from Women of Strength mural fabric and paint dimensions variable 2002 Art can be a transformative activity for anyone, but it can be especially important for people who live incredibly circumscribed lives inside the walls of a prison. Arts programs give inmates the chance to develop their artistic skills and to feel productive during their period of incarceration. Prisoners who make art or write build self-esteem and self-knowledge and refine their ability to reflect their thoughts and emotions through images or the written word.
This project was funded by the Iowa Arts council and is permanently exhibited in Unit 9 at the ICIW. artimages/09242004.jpg 225 337
2004-09-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=57 Robbie Steinbach Since Robbie Steinbach attended graduate school at the University of Iowa in the mid-1980s, most of her work has examined women's lives. Robbie's images make the work and lives of women visible, highlighting the complexity of their lives and their ambiguous status in our society as their roles change, but many traditional expectations remain. She completed a series of portraits that culminated in the 1998 book Lifework: Portraits of Iowa Women Artists Robbie Steinbach's website http://www.robbiesteinbach.com/ Angel on the Pont Vecchio gelatin silver print 14" x 11" 1999 After transitional on a body of self-portraits, landscapes, and images of women done in Tuscany and Umbria, Robbie continues to make portraits of women in her new home of Taos, New Mexico. artimages/09252004.jpg 225 331
2004-09-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=58 Emily Martin Emily Martin has been making artists books since the late 70's, when she was in graduate school at the University of Iowa (MFA, 1979). Since then she has produced narrative paintings, sculpture and books. Most of her earlier books were one of a kind sculptural books, but she began producing limited edition books in the late 80's, using images from her paintings and drawings. In 1995, Martin began the Naughty Dog Press, producing books using text either alone or in combination with visual imagery. Emily Martin's website http://www.emilymartin.com/ Slices letterpress printing 8" diameter 2004 artimages/09262004.jpg 350 228
2004-09-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=59 Marilyn Annin Marilyn McMurry Annin was born in 1938, and has spent about equal thirds of her life in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. She painted for many years, but in the 1980s, switched to sculpture, mostly in the form of rigid garments. Marilyn Annin's website http://www.marilynannin.com/ Striving for Perfection sculpture 55" x 40" x 30" 1990 Annin began working in three dimensions in a casual way, experimenting with common materials found in the house or the junk yard. Her appreciation for these ordinary objects grew as she worked with them more. Her material experiments eventually led her to begin making rigid sculptured garments out of bottle caps, wire, pins, and cast-off fabric. Her garments act as metaphors for attitudes and customs in our culture and employ elements of portraiture, landscape, and satire. artimages/09272004.jpg 225 353
2004-09-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=60 Karen Chesterman Karen Chesterman earned her MFA from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her has been shown extensively throughout the Midwest, and her work is held in both private and institutional collections. She works full-time in her studio in Sioux City, Iowa and is represented by the Olson-Larsen Gallery in Des Moines. Karen Chesterman's website http://www.olsonlarsen.com/artists.cfm?artist_id=675&cmd=display Lotus oil on canvas 48" x 42" 1999 The most immediate element of Sioux City artist Karen Chesterman's recent work is the use of vibrant color. Color, vaporous and dense, layered, mobile, sometimes suggesting images but never resolving itself, is the dominant force in Chesterman's work. Chesterman describes her current paintings "as accumulations of thought and decision-making." She leaves traces of a painting's evolution, sanding or scraping layers of paint to reveal the subtle relationships woven into the accumulated strata of color and marks. She says, "What is visible on the surface is not always the most important aspect of the art." artimages/09282004.jpg 225 313
2004-09-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=61 Jan Zelfer-Redmond Jan Zelfer-Redmond earned her B.A. from Briar Cliff College in Sioux City and her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and juried shows. Jan mounted a major one-woman show at the Sioux City Art Center recently. Ms. Zelfer-Redmond maintains a studio in Sioux City, Iowa. http://www.olsonlarsen.com/artists.cfm?artist_id=686&cmd=display Notebook VII oil on canvas 44" x 52" About the artwork, Jan Zelfer-Redmond states: Most often, when I paint, I am responding to ideas which I've heard or read, that seem to verbalize exactly those unfiltered thoughts that were in my subconscious mind and not yet vocalized by me. My paintings start with a pre-verbal, intuitive and spontaneous process in order to recreate that area of ghost-like discovery. It is seldom that I begin a painting with any idea in mind of what that painting will look like when it is finished, but it is also seldom that I begin a painting without an idea in mind. artimages/09292004.jpg 350 297
2004-09-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=62 Jill Schrift Jill Davis Schrift has been teaching in the art department at Grinnell College since 1988. Schrift holds an M.A. in ceramics from Purdue University, where she studied with Scott Frankenberger and Marge Levy. She also has a Masters of Science in teaching from the State University of New York at Potsdam. During the academic year Schrift works primarily in ceramics. In summer, she lives in France and works on pastel drawing and collages. Homage to Anhur II stoneware 15" x 9" diameter 2002 About her pots, Jill Schrift states: "My ultimate goal is to create ceramic works that are soulful and expressive. I draw inspiration from the classical forms of the past and strive to express these forms in my own idiom that speaks to contemporary culture." artimages/09302004.jpg 225 316
2004-10-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=63 Mark Petrick Mark Petrick received his BA in Fine Art from the University of California at Berkeley (1977), where he also did Graduate Studies in Architecture & Design. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1983). He lives in Fairfield, Iowa. Mark Petrick's website http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?id=16417 Sidewalk Poster Display, Ram Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, 1999 from the series an India -- Photographs by Mark Paul Petrick, 1998-2002 quadtone carbon pigment inkjet print 7.5" x 7.5" 2002 About the artwork, Mark Petrick writes: I went to India to look at common things: temples and houses; people sitting, walking, working, worshipping; rivers and mountains; streets and shops; goddesses and gods; signs, pictures, and patterns; the sunrise; the places and happenings of each day; and to make pictures of them. The pictures in an India are not really the result of hard labor, but of perseverance: of walking and taking the steps to move to new places, of walking some more and continuing to look with care at the obvious...These are pictures of a loved one, India, that have been collected and choreographed to convey some sense of her complexity, dignity, charm, ordinariness, contrariness, majestic depth, and mundane squalor: the confluence of the plain, the savory, and the hard to swallow, creating the unfathomable flavor of her beauty. artimages/10012004.jpg 350 350
2004-10-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=64 Sarah Grant-Hutchinson Sticks, Inc. owners Sarah Grant-Hutchison and Jim Lueders began their business in the late 1980s, creating nativity sets and small art pieces for a handful of galleries. With its vibrant designs and excellent craftsmanship, Sticks grew and now employs a crew of more than 70 artisans and sells work at galleries throughout the US. Their business also includes custom installation work that expands their playful aesthetic and vivid palette through large interior spaces. Sarah Grant-Hutchinson's website http://www.sticks.com/ Detail: Iowa State University Day Care Center installation About the artwork:
Sticks makes furniture and sculptures from birch and poplar, often incorporating natually aged and dried driftwood that's been found along riverbanks. Each piece is made by a team of artisans who use a woodburning technique from the thirties to etch the wood and then paint it using a broad range of vibrant colors. This sculpture is part of an installation at the Iowa State University Day Care Center in Ames. Sticks worked with the ISU Architectural department, Child Development, Landscaping, and ISU Administration on the design to create a visually rich, stimulating environment to delight both the children and the adults who care for them. artimages/08222004.jpg 225 345
2004-10-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=65 Vicki Adams Vicki Adams was born in 1931, near Blockton, Iowa. She has received her BFA (1974) and MFA (1978) from Drake University. Random Collection handmade paper and resin 12" x 18" 2000 Vicki Adams is a papermaker and a print artist. Her handmade paper incorporates recycled paper, plant materials, and dyes to produce sensual textures and subtle color variations. Random Collection is an example of her sophisticated use of paper as a sculptural material. Adams has taught and shown her work extensively. She is a member of the Artists' Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Valley Junction West Des Moines, and also is associated with the Octagon in Ames and the Wiederspan Gallery in Cedar Rapids. artimages/10032004.jpg 350 239
2004-10-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=66 Robert Atwell Robert Atwell was born in 1973 in Nevada, Iowa. He has received both a BFA (1995) and MFA (2002) from Iowa State University.
Robert Atwell's website http://www.dotonawalk.com/ Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 12:32PM vinyl and alkyd resin on aspen panel 11.25" x11.25" 2004 Robert Atwell's work is created using a process that embraces both digital and analog sources. Beginning with a sketchbook, Atwell records spontaneously drawn marks inspired from experiences within visual and audio environments. He then draws and redraws, scans, digitizes, and prints these images, using them to build a visual dialog. Tradition and technology come together to create hybrid paintings, uniting the long tradition of abstract painting and the more recent advent of technological tools as art making devices. Final works come in the form of drawings, paintings, digital prints, and interactive installations. The day, month, year, and time become the titles of Atwell's work, marking another moment in history. artimages/10042004R.jpg 350 350
2004-10-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=67 Terri Parish McGaffin Terri Parish McGaffin has worked as a professional artist for many years, and has acquired a regional and national exhibition record. She has exhibited recently in Idaho, South Dakota, Florida, Colorado, and Illinois. Her work is in the collections of the Sioux City Art Center, Morningside College and the University of South Dakota, as well as many private collections. She currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Chicago acrylic and oil on canvas 48" x 60" 2003 Terri Parish McGaffin states: As a representational painter, it is my aim to create work that has both a specific quality and a universal quality. I follow an intuitive approach to content, and a more analytical approach to formal development. I am always engaged in the search for composition and relationships of value and color in the visible world, and engaged in the process of representing these things within the painted surface. artimages/10052004.jpg 350 279
2004-10-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=68 Laurayne Robinette Laurayne Robinette was born in 1928 in southern Iowa. She earned her BFA from Drake University in 1952, taught art for one year in Des Moines, married, had three daughters, started taking art classes at the Des Moines Art Center, and continued her art education over the next thirty-six years. Waterways oil on canvas 30" x 48" 2000 Robinette works mostly in oil. Her representational work is taken from observations of landscapes and interiors, while the non-representational work is produced by using nontraditional methods of applying paint to canvas or paper. Waterways bridges the divide between landscape and abstraction, incorporating the textures of water and trees to knit together blocks of pure color. artimages/10062004.jpg 350 224
2004-10-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=69 John Preston John Preston received his BFA in Painting from Maharishi International University in 1984. Painting full time, Preston has participated in many solo and group shows, and his works hang in a wide range of corporate collections. He lives and works in Fairfield, Iowa. Broken Storm oil on canvas 32" x 38" 2004 John Preston writes, "I've been painting the Iowa landscape for about twenty years. The motivation is nothing flashy, just simple attraction. The same motivation that drives all the big decisions in life: career, marriage, where one lives. Over time I've come to approach the landscape with a portrait painter's attitude. I'm not a native Iowan and was immediately taken with the weather and skies. They seem to form the personality of the landscape..." artimages/10072004.jpg 350 291
2004-10-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=70 Sara Slee Brown Sara Slee Brown received her BFA in art from the University of Michigan and her MA and MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa. Brown has exhibited extensively in the Midwest and her work is included in the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project. She has been active in local public art projects, including Overalls All Over and Herky on Parade and is the Graphic Designer for the Iowa City Public Library.
Three Bottled Treasures scanner art 5" x 9" 2004 About the artwork: Sara Slee Brown has been producing these scanner art pieces for the past year. She is fascinated with the process itself and the simple, clean contrasts, shapes and beauty that can be produced with a few cherished objects and her scanner. The sense of solitude and serenity these works evoke seems to go beyond the methods and materials used. artimages/10082004.jpg 350 196
2004-10-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=71 Janet Hart-Heinicke Janet Heinicke is a native Midwesterner and a seasoned artist. She holds advanced degrees in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and in painting from Northern Illinois University. She has a long history of work as a collegiate educator in Illinois and Iowa and most recently acted as the Fine Arts Exhibition Director for the Iowa State Fair. Experimental Skyline watercolor 16" x 20" 2003 Much of Heinicke's work focuses on close observation of the natural world, the forms found in rocks and trees, and long vistas that take in an expanse of hills and valleys. Scale, materials, surface, and texture are important to Heinicke. Experimental Skyline references an urban landscape, but her interest in scale and surface manifests itself in the juxtaposition of the abstract shapes in the foreground and the cityscape which sits behind them. artimages/10092004_other.jpg 350 228
2004-10-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=72 Joe Hall Joe Hall is a digital artist who lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa. Hall completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa in 2004. Exhibitions include participation in a group show at the Des Moines Art Center, and a solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea. Pink to Blue: 410 Web Pages with Color and Sound four Apple iMac computers This piece was featured in the exhibition "Iowa Artists 2001", Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, Iowa. artimages/10102004.jpg 350 232
2004-10-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=73 Deanne Warnholtz Wortman Wortman was born in 1943 in Sioux City, Iowa. She received her BFA in 1970 and MFAs in both Drawing (1976) and Intermedia (1998), all from the University of Iowa. (K2H) or The Song Of The Woman In the Red Dress performance, Dortmund, Germany 1998 Deanne Warnholtz Wortman states: My working process is very catholic in that it begins with a phrase, a word, an observation, an action, an object from daily life or with something I have read or heard or felt. These shred of information come unbidden and in a way mysterious to me but seeming to be connected somehow. The intellectual analysis comes after. But then I can explain it to you. I use all the tools at my disposal to express these ideas: narrative, action, object, space, environment, music, drawing, painting, video. The audience is an integral component participating by bringing its own shreds of information to the piece, collaborating with me on some level.I cannot separate my art activities from my other activities; it is all of a piece. artimages/10112004.jpg 225 338
2004-10-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=74 Marie C. Cook Helen Marie Casey Cook was born in 1918, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa) with a Kg-PRI certificate in 1938. Her specialties are watercolor painting and cut-paper silhouettes. She has done several commissioned paintings for local organizations and businesses. One of her favorite subjects is a large stone barn near Cedar Falls. Marie C. Cook's website http://www.lucidplanet.com/iwa/ArtistPages/cookm.htm Silhouettes by Marie #1 paper cuttings She writes: "It was in December of 1969 when my path crossed that of Lorene Rose Diehl from Waterloo and I began to cut silhouettes of people. It is basically a lot of practice and I have cut many. Some days I would do over one hundred. It takes four to five minutes and then there is the pasting on a 5X7 white card. In the first year or so I began cutting houses and finishing details in India Ink and diluted India ink." artimages/10122004.jpg 350 263
2004-10-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=75 Chris Fletcher Chris Fletcher received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1993 and his M.F.A. in 1997 from American University in Washington D.C. His works have been included in exhibitions in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Virginia. Recovery Room acrylic on board 18" x 24" 2003 About his process, Chris Fletcher says: "Isometric projection helps me to consider the dual function of any given shape. A shape may function both as a link in a two dimensional design and as a plane in a representation of three dimensional volume. Keeping shapes of color evenly modulated helps me to feel the character of the relationships between them better. These relationships include those of part to part, part to whole, part to group, group to group, and group to whole. The resulting images evoke things like wooden toys or figures, building blocks, architectural frame construction, wood joinery, and stages. These things may serve to embody the tenuous nature of appearances. However, they may also suggest hope and the process of growth." artimages/10132004.jpg 300 225
2004-10-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=76 Jenna Montgomery About the artist:
Jenna Montgomery was born in 1978 in Loma Linda, California. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 2000 and is currently pursuing her masters degree at the University of Iowa. the 47 Aimless Men Series: Manny intaglio and watercolor, 19" x 15" 2002 From the image:
L: "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this."
R: "Manolo 'Manny' de la Espada is a hard man, plagued by bad luck. He sells smuggled Cuban cigars and gambles away his earnings. The last time Manny was arrested, his poor wife, Lolita, killed herself out of despair." artimages/10142004.jpg 225 275
2004-10-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=78 Denis Roussel Denis Roussel obtained a diplome d'ingenieur (1999) in chemistry at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Chimie in Rennes, France. He will complete his MFA in photography at the University of Iowa in December. Denis Roussel's website http://www.sillymongoose.org/ Detail 3, Blood Experiment 1 Medium Inkjet print, 9" x 13" 2004 I've spent most of my life studying the sciences. Mathematics, physics and chemistry revealed to me hidden and limitless universes. I gained through them a greater awareness of the complexity and beauty of the world around me. Photography is another means of discovery and understanding. It allows me to question my self, and my interpretation of the world, may it be physical or spiritual. ...One can think of blood and dwell in its symbolic qualities associated with a myriad of concepts and emotions. In this project, however, the photographs are the objective record of simple experiments. Extracted from the body, blood is forced to interact with three elements, water, air and fire. Time passes and reactions occur that are guided by the physical and chemical properties of blood. The photographs depict the macroscopic realization of microscopic events. artimages/10152004.jpg 285 313
2004-10-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=81 Kelly McLaughlin and Joe Tekippe Kelly McLaughlin is a graduate student at the University of Iowa. She is pursuing an M.F.A in intermedia & video art, as well as a P.H.D. in American Studies. In both fields she is explicitly concerned with new media technologies. Her work often explores intimacy mediated by technology. Most recently, Kelly has been focused on creating installations that utilize video, the web, and software for authoring kinetic interfaces.
Joe Tekippe was born in 1980 in Marshalltown, Iowa. He received his BFA in intermedia and video art from the University of Iowa in 2003. He was inducted as a Kentucky colonel in the summer of 2004. He is currently living in Brooklyn, NY and working on his MFA in computer art at the School of Visual Arts. His recent work takes the form of choreographed interactions with bank tellers.
installation detail (gelatin screen), Interfascia site-specific installation 2000 InterFascia explores the human-computer interface as an artspace and draws an analogy between this and biological, technological, and interpersonal interfaces. Interfascia used interactivity authoring software to create a space that responds to the viewer's presence. Video cameras and microphones in the installation space relayed signals to computers that processed the live signals which triggered preauthored video and audio tracks and distorted live feed to be retransmitted into the space. Gelatin screens placed on top of each cube absorbed and diffused the visual data and provided a tactile surface for the viewer to interact with. artimages/10162004.jpg 350 233
2004-10-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=84 Jessie Fisher Jessie Fisher was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1971, and grew up in Wayzata, Minnesota. She earned her BFA at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. Fisher apprenticed with fresco painter Mark Balma, working on a large-scale fresco project for the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis campus. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in May, with an emphasis on Painting and a minor in Printmaking. Fisher currently works with several galleries in New York and Los Angeles and paints in her home studio in Iowa City.
Killing Well oil on canvas 36" x 48" Jessie Fisher's paintings present an idealistic and noble visage of the grotesque. Her figures, stoic and self-aware, dominate their canvas and the viewer's eyes. These creatures serve as icons of concealed knowledge; marked by their deformity, they cannot return to a state of innocence. In her search for truths, Fisher gives physical form to the the unseen; she goes beyond mere representation of the natural world and its inhabitants to remake nature itself. artimages/10172004.jpg 225 306
2004-10-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=87 Scott Seebart Scott Seebart attended the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting. Seebart completed a post-baccalaureate degree the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and he is in his final year of the MFA program at the University of Iowa. Scott Seebart's website http://www.jessiefisherscottseebart.com/ Cave oil on canvas 40" x 50" Seebart composes paintings that are sensual and visually complex. His flower-laden bushes and trees hover delicately between abstraction and representation. The figures in his arcadian landscapes are so quietly painted that they melt into their surroundings, and the landscapes themselves melt into pure abstract forms and rich strokes of color. artimages/10182004.jpg 350 275
2004-10-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=90 Kim Ambriz Kim Ambriz received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in Chicago where she studied photography. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2005. Boca del Caballo Lithograph with relief 20" x 15" Kim says: "As a Mexican artist who grew up in a very un-Mexican fashion, I seek through my work to connect to a past that I have always felt very detached from... My recent work is inspired by and references the style of the earliest painted Aztec histories as well as printed works by Mexican relief artists, and also alludes to cross-blood stories and trickster characters prevalent in Native American literature. I have appropriated the pictorial vocabulary of the Aztec manuscripts, altering existing figures as well as creating new symbols. Personal, repeatable symbols, which stand in for descriptions or text, connect my prints together as if they were pages in a book, a tale I create to act as my own history." artimages/10192004.jpg 225 304
2004-10-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=93 Terry Rathje Terry Rathje is working on his MFA at the University of Iowa. He is also currently a design instructor at Western Illinois University. How Can You Be Serious? license plates and scrap metal 2004 Rathje writes: my art is about rearranging reality. I spend half my time taking things apart and learning how they are made, and the other half putting them back together and learning about myself.
By observing and internalizing how the world is put together, the world inside and the world outside meet in some sort of strange juxtaposition that I really don't understand until the process is done. This meeting of the inside world and the outside world is at the heart of what I do. artimages/10202004.jpg 350 283
2004-10-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=96 Kate Carr Kate Carr received her Bachelor of Arts (1999) from 1994-1999 Marlboro College in Vermont. She is completing her MFA in the sculpture area at the University of Iowa and has shown work recently at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California, the Sioux City Art Center, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, and CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Untitled Branch wrapped crochet thread and tree branch 2004 About the artwork, Carr writes: my responsibility as an artist is to pay attention. Repeating an activity, a form, a material, is how I begin to understand my surroundings and identify my artistic interests and concerns. In my work, I continue to address the beauty and the possibilities of the ordinary by making what I see and experience a tangible manifestation of noticing. artimages/10212004.jpg 225 355
2004-10-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=98 Julie Leonard Julia Leonard graduated with an MFA in design from the University of Iowa in 2001. She now operates a binding studio in Iowa City and teaches Bookbinding and Graphic Design at the University of Iowa. She works on her own one-of-a-kind and editioned artist's books, as well as commissions and limited production and edition binding. Her work has been shown nationally and has been acquired by private collectors and special collections libraries. al pha bet French door 4 needle link stitch, letterpress printed linoleum, 4" x 10" 1998 Julia had this to say about book arts: "Making use of the book as an artistic medium is possible partly because of what we (Westerners) bring to the book, our collective connection with it ... Experiencing a book is a tactile, intimate and private activity. It requires time, a slowing down and settling in. Books can act on us as an icon or reliquary does, evoking a spiritual reaction a contemplative psychic space. For me, books speak of the past, of what is gone or perhaps never was: a kind of slow beauty, longing and melancholy..." artimages/10222004.jpg 300 220
2004-10-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=101 Robert Butler Rob Butler grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, and lived with his family in Germany. He discovered early on the excitement of diverse cultures and found that immersion in a foreign culture catalyzed his creativity. Rob earned his MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa in 2004, and he continues to pursue cross-cultural exchange as a visiting lecturer at the School of Communication in Riga, Latvia. Untitled: IX-XI Monotype 44" X 61" MMIII About his artwork, Rob states: In recent work, imagery is informed by being receptive to physical, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic events that occur during the process of print and art making. In the collaboration between the elements of process and myself, this dynamic sense serves as a catalyst to inform the next work. This dialogue, between artist and art, leads to serial work that provides a narrative for artistic processes, from the conceptual first work to the non-existential last. My purpose in my art work is not simply to communicate content and imagery with an audience, but to closely view my own actions, therefore placing my environment and myself under close observation, then reexamining those observations through the vehicle of print and art making. artimages/10232004.jpg 350 246
2004-10-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=104 Lael Sale Lael Sale moved from Texas to Iowa to pursue an MFA in painting at the University of Iowa. She will complete her degree in May 2005. Wall Blob I foam and oil on wood 4" x 6" x 4" 2004 About the artwork, Lael Sale writes: I make forms and spaces that are physical manifestations of my psychological and emotional states. Content is found through visceral relationships between the body and material. Pink and crimson oil paint, wax, sand, hair, and latex are experienced first sensually, and then realized intuitively. I am interested in the way these materials can be manipulated to mimic or reference the body, allowing a way for me to metaphorically gut the inside of my mind onto the canvas. artimages/10242004.jpg 350 260
2004-10-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=106 Melissa Newman Melissa Newman earned her BFA at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She was awarded her MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa in May 2003. Caterpillar oil and wood on panel 24" x 24" 2003 Caterpillar, an example of painter Melissa Newman's brand of hard-edged abstraction, plays with the viewer's sense of perception. She couples single-point perspective that mimics the way we perceive recession in space and painted representations of light playing off a flat surface with half-round molding which juts out from the painted surface into the viewer's real space. The shift between trompe l'oeil* devices and three-dimensional elements engages viewers in a visual and mental game; they are forced to question whether they can trust their eyes to perceive the veracity of what is before them.
*a French term meaning, literally, "fool the eye" artimages/10252004.jpg 350 349
2004-10-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=109 Astrid Hilger Bennett Bennett received her BFA in printmaking from Indiana University and has exhibited and taught at various locations throughout the country. She is a resident of Iowa City, Iowa. Seeking Scarlet art quilt Astrid Bennett makes large-scale art quilts, using hand painting, monoprinting, screen printing, batik, or immersion dyeing to create her compositions. She says, "I'm happiest with a brush in my hand, and art quilts allow me a large- scale, exuberant canvas. Although visually abstract, my work constantly mines the daily life experiences of family, society and the natural world, with a hefty dose of music to guide the hand." artimages/10262004.jpg 225 399
2004-10-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=113 Elaine Beck Elaine Beck earned her MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 2004. Her 2001 artwork, the Chair Project, an interactive, collaborative community project in Oskaloosa, Iowa, was featured nationally in the media, and she was awarded Best of Competition in the 2003 Des Moines Art Center Film+Video+DVD Competition. Elaine is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD program that combines her research interests: art, democracy, and community. Elaine Beck's website http://www.elainebeck.com/ still from the video Flat Black 2004 Elaine Beck grew up on a farm in rural Iowa. Flat Black documents the experience of her father and other individual farmers who were affected by the farm crisis of the 1980s. Beck's father organized a group of farmers in an effort to help each other survive. Her interviews with these men explore what they perceive as the causes of the crisis and effects of the it had on their families, their communities, and the men themselves. The documentary features hauntingly beautiful images of the Iowa farmscape and the rich soil for which the film is named. artimages/10272004.jpg 350 235
2004-10-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=115 John Beckelman John Beckelman graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from Illinois State University in 1978. His pieces have been exhibited nationally. He is currently Chair of the Art Department at Coe College. Narrow-Necked Bottle stoneware 30" x 10" 2004 John had this to say about his pieces: "These vessels are intended to evoke a sense of timelessness, stability and ease. Their forms and surfaces are inspired by early Neolithic storage vessels and their scale is an effort to induce a sense of quiet presence. Having worked with clay, in a variety of forms and formats and in all its varied physical states for close to thirty years now, I find that it's the elemental character and expressive potential of clay which continues to intrigue me. There is, indeed, an enduring, almost archetypal, appeal to clay, which is like no other material." artimages/10282004.jpg 206 310
2004-10-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=119 Joseph Miller Joseph Miller was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin and earned a BS in Graphic Design. He is pursuing an M.F.A. degree in Graphic Design (minoring in Photography) at the University of Iowa. Configuration 191/200 from the Sim City 200 Suite Road Maps + Tourist Guides from MN, IA, and Seoul, South Korea 48mm x 75mm 2004 Joseph Miller writes: The Intuitive Collage process is an exercise in seeing. This practice is concerned with finding, not creating, form. Magazine pages are cut into various geometric shapes with an Exacto knife. These pieces are then scattered on the floor to rest at random. Cropping tools are used to hunt these configurations and transparent tape is applied to splice ends. Type, texture, line, color, and image are embraced and taken simply for the sake of being perceived as beautiful together. As for meaning or associations, I leave the viewer to his/her own temperaments. artimages/10292004.jpg 225 351
2004-10-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=120 Greta Songe Greta Songe earned her BFA in painting and drawing from Louisiana State University in 2000. She is currently in her final year of the graduate program in painting in the UI School of Art and Art History. She has worked as a painting and book arts instructor with Iowa City youth through the Art Share program. Pom Pink mixed media on paper 42" x 37" 2003 Greta Songe's still-lifes consist mainly of fruits or vegetables arranged on densely patterned cloths. In her works, lumpen potatoes, stalks of brussels sprouts bristling with alien-looking heads, and ruby pomegranates sit as if for portraits. But her still-lifes push the boundaries of the genre. Like Cezanne's apples and lemons, Songe's fruits defy gravity but are always on the verge of succumbing to it. Her patterned surfaces lay parallel to the viewer. They never support vegetables from below but push them forward into the viewer's space. Her fruits levitate in front of their backdrops. Sometimes it is only their close relationship to the pattern on which they sit, snared within a plaid lattice or bouyed by a thousand dancing bubbles, that seems to keep them from dropping off the canvas onto the floor. artimages/10302004.jpg 350 311
2004-10-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=124 Catherine Cole Catherine Cole is a graduate student at the University of Iowa where she is working towards her MFA. She currently holds a BFA from the University of Louisiana. Alternative Space (detail) digital photo installation 2003 This is what Catherine had to say about her art: "An economy of materials is an integral subject of my installations and object making. I have an affinity for tape and rough edges. I am interested in the embellishment and recontextualization of what exists and/or of what has been discarded. The often obsessive, vulnerable and revealing nature of 'outsider' art largely influences my work, however, I am more intriqued by the idea of transforming the expectations of art within the gallery setting as the materials reveal evidence of use, functionality and history. Within the gallery walls, I seek and uncover spaces that otherwise go overlooked, covered-up or unused. I intend to transform the function of these spaces within the space and to draw attention to the inner workings, structures or networks behind the scenes. I am intrigued by the element of discovery, the shifts in scale, inhabiting generally uninhabited spaces and in expanding the possibilities and efficiency of the white cube." artimages/10312004.jpg 350 254
2004-11-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=126 Aaron Wilson Aaron Wilson has taught printmaking and foundations in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls since 1997. Prior to residing in Iowa, he completed his BFA at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio and earned an MFA at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Aaron has been the recipient of institutional and State grants, shown his work widely in national juried exhibitions, and has had solo exhibitions regionally, nationally, and in Canada. Aaron Wilson's website http://www.aaron-wilson.net Worser detail from the installation Parlor, Drawing and Mixed Media 36" x 40" 2004 Parlor is a mixed-media installation that seeks to visually depict post- September 11th, 2001 America. It combines fine art printmaking processes with digital imaging technology, sculpture, drawing, and painting. I am interested in the amalgamation of evident reactions like fear, terror, and war with other aspects of our cultural palette. Consumer, religious, and political entities have all responded to the horror of terrorism creating a web of relative effects. Auto loans with zero-percent financing, action figures of our President, Internet images of crying eagles, a reevaluation of our civil liberties, and an ongoing war on terror are all the result of a single event. -- Aaron Wilson artimages/11012004.jpg 225 229
2004-11-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=127 Neva Sills Deer Feed acrylic on paper 41" x 85" 2002 artimages/11022004.jpg 396 209
2004-11-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=128 Gillian Brown Gillian Brown earned a BA from Brown University and an MAE from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She earned her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She shows work all over the nation and holds a professorship at Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa.
Gillian Brown's website http://www.gallery51east.com/pastshows/GillianBrown/slideshow/index.html It's About Time(detail) from the blackboard series acrylic on canvas 78" x 66" artimages/11032004.jpg 350 235
2004-11-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=129 Jim Snitzer untitled color photograph artimages/11042004.jpg 446 352
2004-11-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=130 Anne Slattery Anne Slattery received her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and East Asian Studies from Oberlin College in Ohio. Anne is currently an MFA candidate in Printmaking and is working towards a certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Mobile/Planted (Part 3), monotype on paper 22" x 30" 2003 Anne has this to say about her art: "My work deals with issues of dislocation, individuals or objects misplaced within a landscape and how their presence changes the meaning of that location. In this series of work dealing with the wind-turbines of northern Iowa, the monolithic structures are foreign to their agricultural setting, yet appear to be growing out of the fields. Their height adds an unexpected verticality to a typically horizontal vista. I use my prints as a setting in which to tell stories, sometimes imposing a text directly on the print, other times employing the print as a backdrop for a book, thus providing the viewer with both an apparent visual and a more private textual experience." artimages/11052004.jpg 350 261
2004-11-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=131 Darrell Taylor with Deanne Wortman Deanne Wortman was born in 1943 in Sioux City, Iowa. He received his BFA in 1970 and MFA's in Drawing (1976) and Intermedia (1998), all from the University of Iowa.
Darrell Taylor is an intermedia and performance artist with BFA, MA, and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. He is co-artistic director of the performance group Habeas Corpus, and has exhibited artwork in exhibitions throughout the US and in Dortmund, Germany. He director of the UNI Gallery of Art and overseer fo the UNI Permanent Art Collection. Taylor co-teaches Queer Ballroom, an activist social dance project, at Arts a la Carte in Iowa City. Fall Line mixed media 2003 artimages/11062004.jpg 225 375
2004-11-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=133 Diana Behl Diana Behl receieved a BFA from Bowling Green State University in December 2001. She is presently an MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. record landing intaglio 5" x 12" 2003 "A record landing, recorded to remember. Recorded in order to reflect, to sort out the circumstantial relevance of objects seen and minutes passed. A calendar of events mapped out with a fleeting thought: how faintly the record resembles a blush, even a bruise -- flesh flushes after a moment of recollection." artimages/11072004.jpg 350 142
2004-11-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=135 Nadija Mustapic Nadija Mustapic is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Printmaking Department. After finishing her BFA at the University of Rijeka, in her native Croatia, she lived in Venice, Italy. She has exhibited in group shows in Croatia, Venice, and in international printmaking exhibitions. Topologies of the Inside (view of the outside and the projection) intaglio print on leather, wire, video, sound (installation) diameter of circle 12' 9" 2004 "Since my arrival to the US, I feel the need to use my memories and my national and cultural history to mentally, emotionally and physically engage myself in the creation of works of art through which I understand and abstract personal narratives of political realities and emotional structures. The line that separates my own memory from the collective one becomes more and more inconsistent. Consequently, remembering becomes an action, which requires empathy. Similarly, the content of my work, the process and the expectations of the product's communication with the viewer are steeped in ethical considerations that find their release through aesthetic applications. Topologies of the Inside is a piece about plugging the viewer into the visceral and raw 'real,' which mirrors the world out of joint, brutally coherent as such."
— Nadija Mustapic artimages/11082004.jpg 350 263
2004-11-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=138 River Branch River Branch received her B.A. in Psychology in 1990 from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. River has created seven films including Conditioned Love, from which this still is taken. Untitled 3, digital video still 800 x 533 2004 Conditioned Love is a digitally shot experimental documentary capturing the relationship between two Southern women who lived together for over forty years. Both women, now in their mid-nineties, stand in for a generation of women brought together across class and racial lines in the domestic space. Historically and culturally configured, Kitty and Matt's relationship has been both vilified and romanticized. The piece engages the viewer through a series of shorts, each stylistically & technically unique, storytelling a unifying element to the otherwise visually fragmented approach. artimages/11092004.jpg 350 233
2004-11-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=140 Ingrid Lilligren Ingrid Lilligren, named after a family friend who was an artist, was born in Springfield, Ohio. She earned a B.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls in 1980. She received her M.F.A. in 1986 from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California where she studied with Paul Soldner. After teaching at colleges in California, she moved to Iowa in 1993 and is an associate professor in ceramics at Iowa State University. Dee's Sniffer stoneware, porcelain, bamboo, horsehair 64" x 32" x 16" 2002 Dee's Sniffer, writes Ingrid Lilligren, is "an homage to my friend, the artist Dee Marcellus Cole. She is exactly as tall as this piece and her nose comes to the opening in the front. A small pouch with herbs hangs inside. Scent is a strong prompt to memory and is a component I have used in a number of pieces. Her work is playful and incorporated mixed media; she often makes use of children's cowboy boots for the feet on her pieces. Her personality is strong and feminine; she buys many of her clothes at thrift stores and usually wears a skirt. During a recent taping for a TV show, she was asked to drape one of her figures as the generalized forms that represented breasts were deemed potentially inflammatory to viewers, so I had to include breasts in this piece." artimages/11102004.jpg 225 356
2004-11-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=141 Brandon Buckner Brandon Buckner is in his third year of the MFA program in painting at the University of Iowa. His current paintings focus on building narratives from his own personal history and background. Presents oil on canvas 17" x 22" 2002 Presents, painted in 2002, is one of Buckner's early explorations in the formation and construction of open and ambiguous narratives. ÊBased on a photo taken from the television, the image from the shopping network QVC has been obscured using photoshop to create an unspecific idea of human beings. Buckner's goal was that the figures would become universal in a situation that is seemingly familiar. The relationship and situation between the figures would then become fodder for the viewer to use while concocting his or her own narrative or context for the figures. artimages/11112004.jpg 350 264
2004-11-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=142 Peggy Jester Peggy Jester is a native Iowan living in Urbandale, Iowa. She earned a BA from the University of Colorado and a MFA (1981) in painting from Drake University. She taught drawing and printmaking at the Des Moines Art Center for ten years and continues to work in her home studio. Peggy has exhibited locally and regionally since 1975. Art Figures in Motion (turning) monotype print 14.5" x 41" 2002 artimages/11122004.jpg 350 122
2004-11-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=143 Jessica Alaniz I am a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Community High School of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (2002). She is currently studying photography at the University of Iowa. One Orange Rose scanner and orange rose 2004 About the artwork, Alaniz writes: I have always played with computers and Photoshop to give my images the extra edge they sometimes need. My images are about the process; it's all an experiment. I find something common in my house and press it against the glass of my scanner. Sometimes the images come out looking very boring, other times I find something beautiful in their shapes and shadows. artimages/11132004.jpg 288 285
2004-11-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=146 Teresa Paschke Teresa Paschke is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in Ames where she teaches in the Fibers program. Her work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions. She recently returned from a residency at the Women's Studio Workshop in New York. Clouds Know No Boundaries dye, iron oxide, photography, graphite, layered cloth 19" x 41" 2001 Teresa Paschke writes, "My work in textiles utilizes surface design techniques of dyeing, embroidery, printing, and other methods of manipulating cloth. Recent compositions combine 'found' and fabricated cloth, pieced together and reworked to suggest a kinship between rational and organic order making reference to both culture and nature ... In particular, references to agronomy--caring for land and community, and domesticity--caring for home and family are intermingled to suggest complementary aspirations and to document ideas about place that are both public and private. Repetition often takes the form of stitches and serves as a metaphor for the experience of time passing. Layering, whether marks, images, or cloth, suggests memories that are barely visible yet always present. The iconography I use is personal yet common, making reference to things both familiar and cryptic." artimages/11142004.jpg 360 204
2004-11-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=149 Nichole Maury Nichole Maury received her B.F.A from the Art Institute of Chicago. She graduated with an M.F.A in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2004 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. How I Learned My ABCs: W is for Waterlogged screenprint 21.5" x 17.5" 2003 How I Learned My ABCs, a suite of 26 screenprints, explores systems of identity and structure. Emerging from an autobiographical context, these prints examine my evolution into "adulthood" as it is defined by the current social standards; age, morality, financial stability, and emotional responsibility. As a child I found sanctuary in the predictable, repetitive atmosphere of the classroom and the layers of propaganda that surrounded me there. In claustrophobic rooms covered in colorful illustrations, I was taught how to read, how to act, and who to be. Now adequately educated and self-sufficient, I still struggle with that same fundamental question, who should I be? I search my history for answers. Unfortunately, no diagrammatic donkeys or informative insects can help me now. artimages/11152004.jpg 225 283
2004-11-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=151 T. J. Lechtenberg T.J. Lechtenberg is in his third year of the MFA program in The Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the University of Iowa. His current work explores silent metal forming with sheet metal, and seeks to establish voluminous forms from the flat pierced metal sheets by pushing, pulling and forming the material. Folded Bracelet Aluminum 4" x 4 "x 2.75" 2004 Circles and squares are two of the most elemental of shapes in our visual vocabulary. A majority of my jewelry and hollowware objects branch out from these basic geometric shapes. Because of their familiarity I can freely push, pull, slice and chop the shapes to create more abstract forms, yet still feel grounded by the still recognizable shape. Regardless of the direction that the objects I make go, they remain ultimately simple, graceful and without excess. artimages/11162004.jpg 336 256
2004-11-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=153 Mark Neucollins 1096 (as of Oct. 16, 2004) particle board, matches, paint, light approx. 4' x 8' (dim. variable) 2004 artimages/11172004.jpg 375 281
2004-11-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=155 Andrew Evans and Wes High Watch Me tv monitors, couch, coffee table site specific installation 2004 artimages/11182004.jpg 375 283
2004-11-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=157 Lydia M. Diemer Rabbit (detail) mixed media 2004 Here are the tales, the first and middle thoughts of the lemon chiffon bits of my sister’s cousins, their phantom limbs (as in the marginalized hands of the city, any city), and the mutations of a little girl, all with a touch of scum from somewhere in the corner of my house, in a box full of pieces of my path.
And that box: I gather things (scraps, garbage I have found on the street, in my room, pockets, of a particular appearance- handled, stained, delicate, resilient, beautifully deteriorated, with the refinement of a clean break or an ugly businessman, I adore them), I hoard them, they lose specificity as they sit on a shelf, I remember something about each of them, yet it may only be related to a texture, color, shape, but also availability, accessibility, a level of attraction and a level of repulsion, all intrinsic, necessary questions before I grab it or take it.
These items appear nondescript, indistinct to better fit the purposes of their new home- the paper, the story, new relatives and relationships, a new language, instantaneous occurrences culled from disparate places. Before, during, after this transformation, identity is introduced in an object, figure, ground, mark, but disseminated by the formal circumstances of the composition, whispering to the viewer to see the formal significance of the scene, the compositional and conceptual roles of each spatial decision, with lingering uncertainties leading to: how did he chase the little girl into the background of the needlepoint hill, in the graphite grass of adult numeric maneuverings. artimages/11192004.jpg 350 240
2004-11-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=158 Belindah Mutuku Belindah Mutuku graduated from The University of Iowa with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design in May 2004. While in graduate school she worked extensively with non-profit organizations particularly health organizations including UNICEF in New York and ICARE in Iowa City, producing health promotional materials geared towards vulnerable populations. Her hope is to work for a non-profit that specializes in International Development, particularly in Africa. Mother, Worker, Educator ink and acrylic on paper 2003 The woman in traditional African society has always been of great interest to me. Her roles play a significant part in defining who she is in society. Mother, Worker and Educator illustrates the overlapping of these roles and how one cannot do without the other. In addition there exist cultural barriers that inhibit the African woman from reaching her potential, such as ownership of land, the right to culturally sensitive, accurate health information, and wife inheritance among others. artimages/11202004.jpg 225 310
2004-11-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=159 Ken Walker Ken Walker earned his BFA from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1999. He was awarded a Book Arts Certificate and his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2004. Visit his website, which showcases the many men who are Ken Walker. Ken Walker's website http://www.iamkenwalker.com/ Untitled Marine: (Paperwork) handmade paper 19" x 23.5" 2003 This paperwork is inspired by my experience in the water. Sitting there, eyes on the horizon, in the rain, looking for some clue from the ocean. Frequently alone, waiting for enough light to see or soon too dark to tell water from sky.
This paperwork is made from cotton fiber prepared and pigmented with pure pigments by the artist after being beaten. Layers or veils of colored paper pulp are couched one over the other on a colored base sheet during the sheet forming process. Only water is used during the process to “mark†the veils. Untouched by hand or tool. Water carries the palette of color and water is the brush. Each piece is then pressed and dried; I must wait two days to see the final result. It is well worth it! artimages/11212004.jpg 350 286
2004-11-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=161 Shawn Reed Shawn Reed received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in 2003. He is currently a graduate student in the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History's Intermedia program. untitled woodblock print artimages/11222004.jpg 225 277
2004-11-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=164 Jason Moore Jason Moore is completing his final year in the MFA program in printmaking at the University of Iowa. His work frequently incorporates animals as stand-ins for humans as he examines the frailty and shortcomings of humanity. An Offering woodcut 2002 artimages/11232004.jpg 225 334
2004-11-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=168 Jeanine Oleson and Ellen Lesperance Off the Grid (Florida VII) C-print 30" x40 " 2003 About the artwork, Oleson and Lesperance write: the Off the Grid project of performance-based large format photographs was initiated in 2001. As collaborators, we want to explore the gestures and performances of survival by setting up open-ended situations in the natural landscape where we perform as the only human presences in the actual frame and perhaps the world. We evoke images of pure escapism from contemporary life into pre-modern fantasy. During the performances, there is a tension between an intuitive, earnest intent and a self-conscious humor that comes from indulging in the fantasy of living outside of society while being absolutely rooted within it.
Guided by cultural politics, feminism, film theory, popular culture, revisionist history and ethnography, the content of the work also celebrates things commonly associated with the derogatory, including queerness and low brow culture, while always employing the oppositional aesthetic ideas of form and structure. By fusing New Age spirituality with the Hudson River School, out-of-date natural history displays with Feminist history, earnest vision quests with barely-off-the-interstate wilderness—a perverse hybrid emerges. artimages/11242004.jpg 360 249
2004-11-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=169 Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson is working on his MFA in ceramics at the University of Iowa. Serving Bowl Stoneware 6" x 14" x 14" 2003 artimages/11252004.jpg 350 223
2004-11-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=172 Lance Edmonds Let's Get Pacific (detail) photography 10' x 10' 2004 artimages/11262004.jpg 339 223
2004-11-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=173 Mgbore Okore Mgbore Okore is finishing her MFA in sculpture at the University of Iowa. Okore's work, which often employs ordinary magazine paper, brings a critical focus to bear on American consumer culture. She often utilizes materials which are disposed of in the United States, but are considered usable commodities in her native Nigeria,. Her work highlights our wastefulness with beautiful, graceful forms made of materials which Americans discard. paper sculpture dimensions variable 2003 artimages/11272004.jpg 288 435
2004-11-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=176 Paula Brandel Paula Brandel grew up in rural Minnesota, and her work frequently deals with the geography that was her formative visual milieu. Her abstract paintings reference structures that humans impose on the landscape, but she softens the rational geometry of roads and architecture with paint handling that allows the material to assert its own character on the canvas.
Barn acrylic on canvas 2004 artimages/11282004.jpg 350 349
2004-11-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=180 Mary Merkel-Hess Mary Merkel-Hess was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in an extended family near Gilbertville, Iowa. She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI and graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology and philosophy. She attended art school and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received a BFA in 1976. While there she studied with Ruth Gao and Mary Tingley.
In 1977, she began graduate work at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. She studied metalsmithing with Chunghi Choo and received an MFA in 1983. After graduation, she became a full-time studio artist. She gave up metalsmithing but continued to work in paper, developing her own techniques for making paper structures. She takes occasional breaks from studio work to teach and give workshops. Her work is exhibited widely and is held in many private and public collections. Kalo Reed and paper 36" x 22" x 15" 2002 artimages/11292004.jpg 225 355
2004-11-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=181 Michael Perrone Michael Perrone is currently a visiting faculty member of the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History. Pennsylvania (detail) acrylic on wood 36" x 48" 2003 About the artwork, Perrone writes: My recent paintings are based on imagery which I viewed/experienced while driving on highways in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, most notably on the New Jersey Turnpike, and more specifically on my way to and from New York. When I am driving I tend to clear my head and get lost in a meditative state. I am visually acute at these times, and see paintings everywhere. Additionally, with the recent work, I’ve been trying to challenge myself with regard to my conceptions of what a painting is and how it is made. I’ve been attempting to subvert my own notions of art, taste, and beauty, with the hope of expanding my technical and conceptual skills, and breaking down some long held beliefs. The idea of the artificial landscape has offered me a visually inspiring starting point, as well as an apt metaphor for approaching my specific process goal. artimages/11302004.jpg 350 273
2004-12-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=184 Christopher Miller Warm Front Looking North oil on canvas on panel 16" x 34" 2003 artimages/12012004.jpg 350 159
2004-12-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=185 Sandra Dyas Sandra Dyas's website http://www.sandydyas.com/ Maya, Rolly World, near Bellvue, Iowa gelatin silver print About the artwork, Dyas writes: What strikes me about compelling artwork is the passion that lies within it. Like great music, it must hold some brand of magical mystery ...soulful honesty.
My work reflects my life. Small town carnivals, abandoned houses, gravel roads, broken down little towns. I find it everywhere I go, not just here in Iowa. Robert Frank said that he wanted to describe what it felt like to drive into "the sad American night". It is the antithesis of the shiny new America we see on T.V. and in our media. It is a side of life that not everyone knows about, nor cares to. Tom Waits' music reminds me of the sort of photograph that I am fascinated with finding. I love the oddness of life, its beauty and its honesty. I take photographs because I am drawn to the spirit, hope and hopelessness of life. artimages/12022004.jpg 360 240
2004-12-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=186 Adam Krueger The Hole Project earthwork and performances 2002-3 artimages/12032004.jpg 225 329
2004-12-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=187 Lee Emma Running Lee Running received a MFA in Sculpture at the University of Iowa in 2005, and received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1999. Lee Emma Running's website http://leeemmarunning.org/ Bathtub wheat paste, bathtub 2004 Lee Running's work poses the question: What if the floral prints of old wallpaper, were indeed the flora of an interior natural world? These patterns are embedded in the walls of our lives. Past generations have left them there, covering them with layers of paint, but what if the patterns were revealed, forced into the light, or allowed to grow wild? artimages/12042004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=188 Arbe Bareis Apple, Horn, Vase oil on canvas 2004 artimages/12052004.jpg 350 274
2004-12-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=189 Darrell Taylor / Habeas Corpus Darrell Taylor is an intermedia and performance artist who holds BFA, MA, and MFA degrees, all from the University of Iowa. He is Co-Artistic Director of the performance group Habeas Corpus, and has exhibited artwork in many solo and group exhibitions including at the Beall Park Art Center in Bozeman, Montana; Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; and the Sites of Desire Project in Dortmund, Germany. At present, he co-teaches Queer Ballroom, an activist social dance project, at Arts a la Carte in Iowa City. A History of Yes performance 2003 artimages/12062004.jpg 235 340
2004-12-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=190 Olga Lomshakova Velasquez Diptych oil on canvas 2003 artimages/12072004.jpg 350 204
2004-12-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=191 Crit Streed Crit Streed is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Northern Iowa. The Geography of Drawing graphite on paper 22" x 30" The Geography of Drawing is one drawing from a series of performative acts focused on the physical process of drawing. Human imperfection renders the drawing as a form unplanned while the distinctive shape language feels to me as if I had dredged them from some remote place, where the integrity of my own physical presence in the act of drawing might connect with all organic structures.
The drawing act is deliberate and intense but the imprecision and inaccuracy of my own hand announces what we give shape to is always in concert with our limitations. It is the impact of imperfection on what is resolute that makes the drawing become perfect. artimages/12082004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=192 Jeremy Chen Jeremy Chen is a native of Iowa City. He is currently finishing his MFA in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. Quietly They Go Installation detail 2003 About the artwork, Chen writes: The body of work with which I am currently engaged explores longing. Longing is somewhere between pathos and beauty. And it seems to me that beyond want and need there is a certain kind of longing that is truly American. When I think about the United States and American culture, I think about this sense of longing. This shows up in various forms including sunny optimism, nostalgia for the past-- or the future, belief in progress, waiting for redemption, and audacious hope. I particularly want to explore simultaneous feelings of endless possibilities juxtaposed with ultimate human vulnerability. This becomes interesting to explore within a narcissistic culture flirting with infinite possibilities and a rejection of limits. artimages/12092004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=193 Andora Khan Annadora Khan was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She moved to Iowa at the age of fifteen. Annadora has an MFA in Drawing from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History in Iowa City. She has worked at the Information Arcade in the University Main Library for the last 12 years and run the day to day operations of this multimedia lab for the last 6 years. Annadora is a member of the Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea Manhattan and has a solo show planned for July 2005. Andora Khan's website http://www.annadora-khan.com/ Moonlight photography, digital collage dimensions variable 2000 artimages/12102004.jpg 300 350
2004-12-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=194 Marcia Wegman Marcia Wegman is an artist living in Iowa City. Her work has been featured in national arts magazines. Cornfield and Barn pastel on paper The Midwest landscape has surrounded me all of my life. Having spent most of my childhood in Ohio and my entire adult life in Iowa, it is the images of these vistas which periodically inspire me to try a new way of expressing this subtly beautiful landscape. I enjoy hiking in some wilder parts of the country so am also challenged by the unique forms of beauty found in each of these places. In the past I have worked in acrylic and collage. Now I am using the medium of soft pastel to capture the qualities of undulating hills, overlapping rhythmic forms, textures of trees and vegetation, rich colors, dynamic patterns, changing light, and, always the sky. The land remains constant, the colors transform subtlety from season to season, but the sky is an ever-shifting panorama of light, color and form. The possibilities are limitless. artimages/12112004.jpg 225 289
2004-12-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=195 April Katz April Katz is an associate professor who teaches printmaking at Iowa State University. She is currently serving as president of the Southern Graphics Council, the largest printmaking organization in the world. Katz exhibits her work extensively in juried shows throughout the country. She has presented workshops at Arrowmont and at Frogman’s Press. Her prints are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. From lithograph, acrylic paint 20†x 16†2004 Through juxtapositions, transparent overlays of paint and ink, shifts in space, grid-like structures and implied narratives I convey the sense of time’s passage along with personal and cultural memory. The images incorporated into my work refer to issues of identity and communication. I examine the factors that help to shape us as individuals. References to our biological foundation and to cultural and environmental roots are important elements in these prints that reflect my research into cellular biology and ancient Mesopotamian cultures. These themes are metaphorically conveyed through images that include cellular structures and scientific visual notations, clusters of chairs, figures, ancient writing and family photographs. artimages/12122004.jpg 214 266
2004-12-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=196 James Renier James Renier earned a BFA in printmaking and papermaking from the University of Iowa in 1983. He lives and works in Europe, and his course of production and discovery recently led to a museum exhibition in The Netherlands. James Renier's website http://www.e-sinom.com/ Second Chances sign (to be installed in a shop window) My project is a satirical look at the price we must pay for everything. The idea stems from one of the oldest advertising techniques: window signs. Through such signs we are attracted into shops and stores and enticed to purchase, often mindless products... I want to make consumers (passers-by) re-evaluate where their thoughts and money are flowing. I would not only like to question our position in a global economy, but also our loss of attention span. We see a summer sale sign, feel fortunate and go buy something...I wish not to make a protest but strive to tell a story in a way our cultures have done for centuries. Perhaps we will soon realize that we hold so many qualities within ourselves. We simply do not take the time to realize them. artimages/12132004.jpg 350 233
2004-12-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=197 Michael Close Michael Close will receive a BFA in Intermedia form the University of Iowa in the Fall of 2004. Michael Close's website http://www.myweb.uiowa.edu/mjclose/ train photographs 36" x 12" 2002 artimages/12142004_small.jpg 400 115
2004-12-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=198 Lauren Cook Lauren Cook is completing her MFA in film/video production in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Altitude Zero 16mm (film still) 5 minutes By dissecting and reconstructing the filmic corpus, Altitude Zero acts as a palimpsest of cinematic representation. artimages/12152004.jpg 360 241
2004-12-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=199 Bruce Morrison Bruce Morrison earned a BFA in 1975 from the University of Iowa. He majored in Photography and minored in Painting and Serigraphy. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Canada, as well as overseas. He lives with his wife Georgeann in rural northwest Iowa in the Tallgrass Praire pothole region. Bruce Morrison's website http://www.morrisons-studio.com/ Spring Run, photograph, Kodak EPP 6 X 7 cm 1996 Bruce Morrison favors the landscape as a subject in his photography, paintings and drawings. He uses large or medium format cameras to capture stunning images of the Iowa landscape. When painting or drawing, Morrison prefers a plein aire approach. Like the Impressionists, he works outdoors, painting the landscape he sees in front of him, usually on a smaller in scale than his photographs.
Bruce has a deep personal interest in the natural heritage of our remaining Tallgrass Prairie, and much of his work over the past decade has been deeply influenced by this subject. In addition to recording the beauty of the prairie, he has devoted much time and energy to furthering and encouraging Prairie reconstruction/restoration projects and education in northwestern Iowa. artimages/12162004.jpg 350 233
2004-12-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=200 William Pergl William Pergl received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1993. After completing his BFA, Pergl lived in Seattle and Chicago where he worked as an art preparator, mill worker, and custom cabinetmaker. In 1997, Pergl entered Cornell University's Master of Fine Arts program in Sculpture and received his MFA in 1999. Pergl is currently an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College where he teaches sculpture and drawing. Boat Buoy Island Installation View 2004 "My investigations and efforts in the studio revolve around the connections between the physical world and the world of ideas. I do not communicate a narrative or statement to my audience but rather provoke the viewer to respond to the objects directly; this leaves the interpretation of meaning up to the individual, yet I am not interested in presenting an ambiguous object. My interest is in complex relationships within a specific object and the ability of the single object to evoke emotional and intellectual responses relating to the human condition. Emotional and intellectual responses begin with the viewer bringing their thoughts and past experiences into experiencing the artwork. I ask my audience to bring themselves to my work by presenting them with an image that has a reference to the physical world, reveals a high level of craft, and has a poetic presence that does not explain itself." artimages/12172004.jpg 350 271
2004-12-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=201 Jane Robinette Born and raised in Des Moines, Jane Robinette has lived in Iowa most of her life. Since she was a young girl, she has written poetry and prose and combined her words with color or images. Her love for the written word took priority for many years. After earning degrees in social work and law, and holding jobs for several years in each area, she left her law job in April 1998 to begin the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project (www.lucidplanet.com/IWA) and to do more creative work of her own. Jane Robinette's paintings are shown at galleries in Des Moines and Ames, and her website has images and audio clips of her poetry. Jane Robinette's website http://www.janerobinette.com/ Palace of the Fields acrylic on matboard 12-1/2" x 14-1/4"(framed) 2004 Jane Robinette writes: My love for color, rhythm, and language led me to begin making “poem-paintingsâ€â€”small-scale, colorful, abstract paintings that incorporate my own handwritten original poetry. Acrylic paint quickly changes consistency when exposed to air, which helps create interesting shapes and textures when I scrape it across paper. Many of the poems contain a voice that is mysterious, heartfelt, thought-provoking, and inspiriting—a voice that I find is speaking to me as much as to the ultimate viewer/reader...My job is to create the space for their interplay. This acrylic scraped poem-painting invites the viewer/reader to explore the layers of paint and of life. This painting was inspired by and created for a new musical theatre production called Palace of the Fields. artimages/12182004.jpg 350 238
2004-12-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=202 Michael Groesbeck Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with an emphasis in communications for Radio/Television and Photography. He has run his own photography studio, Portraits of Iowa, for the last eight years. He has also been a part of Very Special Arts of Iowa, an organization of disabled artists, for the over 15 years. The group curates shows that are displayed at the Iowa State Fair every year and are lent to businesses throughout Des Moines the remainder of the y Michael Groesbeck's website www.portraitsofiowa.com Cross Pollination digital photograph 800x600 pixels 2004 About his photographs, Michael says: When I look for subjects to photograph, I look into the beauty that radiates to all of us. I used to draw and sketch before my disability (Muscular Dystrophy) worsened. So I redirected my abilities into my photographic works of art. I look at pieces and try to shoot them in a way that captures the inner imagination we all have and the beauty that it emits. I look for details others may overlook and bring that out as well. I have shot 35 mm film for over 7 years and have since moved into the digital age within the last year. Within the pieces I have chosen are a basis of Nature and the beauty that it has to offer. artimages/12192004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=203 Jim Shrosbree Jim Shrosbree earned an MFA from the University of Montana. He has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, theÊIdaho Commission on Arts and Humanities/NEA and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest) Visual Artist's Fellowship. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. His solo exhibitions include: I Space, Chicago; Revolution, Detroit and New York City; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis; William Traver Gallery, Seattle, and Ron Judish Fine Art, Denver. Jim Shrosbree has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center in the Fall of 2004 TWN TWR (detail) ceramic, flocking, paint 8" x 10" 2000 An excerpt from Jim Shrosbree's artist's statement: If something is perfect in the mind, then to bring it forth through the hand and the eye can extend that perfection into the reality of the visual world. The inside and the outside, however, do not truly exist as a duality and are not separate, but unified. It is out of this oneness that perfection arises. Perfection lies hidden between the artist and work and the work and the viewer. To invoke this value means giving up — surrendering control over what one may be too comfortable with — to reveal a deeper reality. Obviously, it is not realized exclusively through working. One comes to the process with what one is — with a certain capacity for experience. Being curious about the world through creative work involves, essentially, an investigation into the nature of the Self, into consciousness and the structure of what one is made of: energy, pattern, intelligence and the connection with origin. Curiosity is a gift which is fulfilled through the ability to listen. Listening to the quietest messages focuses the attention at the moment a "thing" is manifested. artimages/12202004.jpg 225 300
2004-12-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=204 Gail Chavenelle Gail Chavenelle's schooling and careers have been diverse. She has a BA in literature and a Master's Degree in computer education. She has been a teacher, curriculum designer, and has sold and administered computer systems. Now, she has found a unique voice in metal. Mentored by a generous blacksmith and critically supported by working artist friends, she is currently studying art history and showing her work on a regular basis throughout Iowa. Gail's work is featured online and in galleries nationwide. Gail Chavenelle's website http://www.chavenellestudio.com/ Musicians One piece 22-20 gauge sheet metal, rusted 24,30,48,60" heights 2002-2003 Beginning with childhood paper dolls, chains, pop-out books, and greeting cards, Gail Chavenelle has been intrigued by paper sculpture. She loved the forms, but wanted the works to be more permanent. Instead of a sheet of paper, Gail works with sheets of 20 gauge steel. Gail cuts one-piece sculptures from single, flat sheets, folding and bending them into 3-D forms. Her pieces bound, fly, or dance in the wind on the tensile strength properties of this material. In addition to public sculpture, Gail makes accessible, affordable art, sized for the ordinary sized spaces in which we live. artimages/12212004.jpg 225 278
2004-12-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=205 Dan Ferro Dan Ferro received his B.A. from the University of California in San Diego where he studied photography, sculpture, and music. He studied commercial photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and moved to Iowa in 1989. With over 25 years experience as a photographer and independent software creative director and producer, the use of technology has become a central element in the exploration and development of his vision. Dan Ferro's website http://www.ferro7.com/fineart prairie: from the “cooked†series 13" x 19" 2003 The twelve images in the "cooked" series are direct scans of cooking sheets and baking pans using a flatbed scanner. This work is an exploration of the transitional and disregarded; the unnoticed and commonplace. The images do not replicate what the human eye can see. They are abstract photographic images that explore visual possibilities using light and lens. artimages/12222004.jpg 350 233
2004-12-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=206 Mel Andringa Mel Andringa received his MA (1971) and MFA (1978) from the University of Iowa with an emphasis in Multimedia/Intermedia. In 1975, he founded The Drawing Legion, a performance art company that toured original productions in over 50 U.S. cities and the Netherlands. In 1990, Mel Andringa and F. John Herbert founded Legion Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization presenting contemporary art at CSPS, a 115-year old Czech meeting hall, in Cedar Rapids. Mel Andringa and Legion Arts webpage http://www.legionarts.org Footballs/Baked Potatoes Jigsaw collage 16" x 22" 2000 Mel noticed that many commercially produced jigsaw puzzles are cut frome one dye, producing pieces that are the same shape, no matter what images are printed on them. He began recombining pictures from different puzzles to make new images and new meanings that often play with or subvert the subject matter of the original puzzle pictures. artimages/12232004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=207 Dan Attoe Dan Attoe was born in 1975 in Bremerton, Washington. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1998, and just finished his MFA in Painting at the University of Iowa. He has shown extensively in Iowa, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and internationally in Paris, Naples and Tokyo. Dan makes a small painting every week day and "puts something" on a larger one. In addition to his paintings, Dan also makes tents. Christmas Ornament oil on board 7"x7" 2003 Of his artwork, Attoe writes: My paintings are short stories and games. The characters and spaces they inhabit are varyingly real and imaginary. They all come from a wide range of research in popular culture, travel, rural life and people I know or have made up. Humor, mystery and specificity are some of my favorite things to play with...Having grown up in small towns and ranger stations in the west and Midwest with two brothers, much of my formative experience is in dealing with specifically male politics. Subsequently, much of the issues dealt with in my work are rooted in masculinity or issues of the middle class. These things range from confronting femininity, power struggling, and working, to looking for a sense of purpose. artimages/12242004.jpg 350 349
2004-12-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=208 Malinda Theisman Malinda Theisman received her BFA from Arizona State University in 1999. She earned her MA in 2004 and is currently working on her MFA in Painting and Intermedia at the University of Iowa, where she is a teaching assistant in the Intermedia Area. Ascent Interior Latex Painting 9" x 14" 2004 About her current body of work, Malinda writes, "Since my work is seated in a sense of curiosity concerning the nature of my perception, I often reference objects found in my immediate surroundings. These objects serve as reflections of my consciousness, as my perception of them changes in relationship to my condition. The conventions of illusionistic representation have proved insufficient in my attempt to create an inclusive image of an object through time, subjectivity, conditionality, and change. Therefore, I have explored diagrammatic methods of representation, including traced outlines, and flat, map-like compositions, as I look to supply a more full description of an object." artimages/12252004.jpg 225 314
2004-12-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=209 Sandra Dyas Sandra Dyas's website http://www.sandydyas.com/ HOPE, Hope, Maine gelatin silver print About the artwork, Dyas writes: What strikes me about compelling artwork is the passion that lies within it. Like great music, it must hold some brand of magical mystery ...soulful honesty. artimages/12262004.jpg 221 296
2004-12-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=210 Chris Martin Chris Martin received a BFA in Art and Design from Iowa State University and completed an MFA in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. He has run Chris Martin Furniture, where he designs and fabricates studio art furniture, since 1995, and he is also currently an Assistant Professor at the Iowa State University College of Design. Chris Martin's website http://www.chrismartinfurniture.com Dragon Fly Torche’ Steel, Chichipata, Rice Paper 88" x 36" x 28" 2003 Chris cites Japanese aesthetics, the natural world and fantasy as influences on his work but states, "I have come to realize, however, that there is a deeper, underlying drive influencing my designs. The environment in which I grew up continues to inspire me. As a child I lived in Keokuk, Iowa, a heavily industrialized river town with huge smoke belching factories, railroad tracks meandering through it, and a lock and dam that still amaze me. I am intrigued by the resiliency of nature and how she manages in some way, to take back what we try to claim from her...This is what drives my work: the manmade in unity with or in contrast to the natural." artimages/12272004.jpg 225 338
2004-12-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=211 Katherine Parker Katherine Parker earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Iowa with an emphasis in intermedia. Apartment interior digital photograph dimensions variable 2004 artimages/12282004.jpg 324 243
2004-12-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=212 Will Hildebrandt Will Hildebrandt received his BA in Art and Art Education in 1975 from Wartburg College, and earned his MA in Drawing from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979. He has exhibited extensively in Iowa, the Midwest, and the East Coast. He lives and works in Le Grand, Iowa. Barcelona Alley Pastel 40" x 30" 2001 Will Hildebrandt uses a variety of drawing media: colored pencils, pastels, pen and ink, and watercolor, as well as mixed media collage, and assemblage techniques. He states that his images are representational and have elements of mystery, symbolism, and the human condition, and he seeks to represent parts of the world that are often overlooked by most people. artimages/12292004.jpg 224 336
2004-12-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=213 J.R. Cambell J.R. holds a B.S. in Environmental Design and Master of Fine Arts degree in Textile Art and Costume Design from the University of California at Davis. He conducts his research/creative activity in digital capture, image development and surface application to textile art and design as an associate professor in Textiles and Clothing at Iowa State University. He explores the visual, cultural and technological aspects of digital textile printing as he creates connections between two-dimensional print design and three-dimensional forms. He regularly shows artwork in national and international juried exhibitions. J.R. Cambell's website http://homepage.mac.com/jrcamp/portfolio/JRPortfolio.html Digital Shadows Digitally printed knit fabrics, stretched through wood frame 47" x 15" 2001 J.R. Campbell states: "As a human culture, we are each in contact with textiles at almost every moment of our lives. Textile concepts have become inherent in our way of thinking and patterns of speech (ie., the “string theory of the universeâ€, “hanging by a threadâ€, the “moral fabric†of the country, etc). Textiles are an excellent medium for the expression of identity and transmission of new ideas. We can attach imagery to the surface of cloth and instantly give the image new meaning. We begin to associate with the image, perhaps wear it, walk through it as it is draped in a passageway. We might see it as having a spiritual significance, a functional purpose or an expressive or symbolic ability." artimages/12302004.jpg 350 140
2004-12-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=214 Peter Thompson After receiving an MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1986, Peter Thompson spent six years teaching at Auburn University in Montgomery, AL. He returned to Iowa in 1993 to join the faculty of Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, where he teaches painting and digital art. Peter Thompson has exhibited his work all over the US and in Canada. Peter Thompson's website http://www.public.coe.edu/~pthompso/ East Side 2 oil on canvas 11" x 16" 2003 About the work, Thompson writes: I have been painting the human figure in context for over a decade. Bar interiors comprise one of the contexts for the figure that has recurred throughout that time. The setting seems an ideal one for capturing a slice of human experience. It is a setting in which an ordinary moment might be made remarkable. Not through explicit narrative or human interaction, but through perception and spatial organization. The contrasts of light and shadow can be used to define space and to obscure it. There is a tendency toward disorientation in a bar (for more than one reason) and I have tried to capture that shifting reality in my work. artimages/12312004.jpg 350 248
2005-01-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=79 Robbie Steinbach Since Robbie Steinbach attended graduate school at the University of Iowa in the mid-1980s, most of her work has examined women's lives. Robbie's images make the work and lives of women visible, highlighting the complexity of their lives and their ambiguous status in our society as their roles change, but many traditional expectations remain. She completed a series of portraits that culminated in the 1998 book Lifework: Portraits of Iowa Women Artists Robbie Steinbach's website http://www.robbiesteinbach.com/ Three Graces gelatin silver print 1999 14"x11" After transitional work on a body of self-portraits, landscapes, and images of women done in Tuscany and Umbria, Robbie continues to make portraits of women in her new home of Taos, New Mexico. artimages/01012005.jpg 350 235
2005-01-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=80 Jay Chesterman Jay Chesterman holds a Bachelor of Science (1995) from Morningside College. He states that he mostly photographs when he is travelling because "It seems to be the only time I can slow down enough to observe the unique things in life." He mostly concentrates on culture; the pastimes and subsistence of people. He looks for subject matter in everyday occurrences and uses his camera to capture the found art that exists all around us. Chesterman says that "art exists everywhere; one only has to be aware." Boy with Umbrella photograph 1997 11†artimages/01022005.jpg 225 340
2005-01-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=82 Matthew Kluber Matthew Kluber received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1991. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College. Matthew Kluber has shown throughout the United States, and his work is held in public collections in Texas, Oregon, Illinois, and Iowa. Firewire Picture: Deeper Into Movies Alkyd on Aluminum with Digital Projection 44" x 96" 2003 About his work, Matt writes: My recent work attempts to find a new pictorial space in abstraction by creating a dialog between the Color-field and Op painting of 1960's & '70's with the new visual idiom inherent in digital technology. The traditional object of the painting is transformed physically (via color change) and conceptually by a digital projection playing across the surface. The resulting union is a kind of "hyper color-field." artimages/01032005.jpg 350 175
2005-01-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=83 Jessica Alaniz I am a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Community High School of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (2002). She is currently studying photography at the University of Iowa. Leaf Scanned digital image, dried plants 2004 My images are about the process, it’s all an experiment. I find something common in my house and press it against the glass of my scanner. Sometimes the images come out looking very boring, other times I find something beautiful in their shapes and shadows. artimages/01042005.jpg 349 362
2005-01-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=85 Teresa Paschke Teresa Paschke is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in Ames where she teaches in the Fibers program. Her work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions. She recently returned from a residency at the Women's Studio Workshop in New York. Detritus: Composition III Photocopy, gold leaf, found cloth, layered 33†x 28.5" 2003 My work in textiles utilizes surface design techniques of dyeing, embroidery, printing, and other methods of manipulating cloth. Recent compositions combine "found" and fabricated cloth, pieced together and reworked to suggest a kinship between rational and organic order making reference to both culture and nature. Working within the context of landscape, my work contains many contrasts; nature/culture, urban/rural, public/private, male/female, concrete/abstract. In particular, references to agronomy--caring for land and community, and domesticity--caring for home and family are intermingled to suggest complementary aspirations and to document ideas about place that are both public and private.
Repetition often takes the form of stitches and serves as a metaphor for the experience of time passing. Layering, whether marks, images, or cloth suggests memories that are barely visible yet always present. The iconography I use is personal yet common making reference to things both familiar and cryptic. artimages/01052005.jpg 348 401
2005-01-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=86 Aaron Wilson Aaron Wilson has taught printmaking and foundations in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls since 1997. Prior to residing in Iowa, he completed his BFA at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio and earned an MFA at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Aaron has been the recipient of institutional and State grants, shown his work widely in national juried exhibitions, and has had solo exhibitions regionally, nationally, and in Canada. Aaron Wilson's website http://www.aaron-wilson.net Parlor installation 2004 Parlor is a mixed-media installation that seeks to visually depict post September 11th, 2001 America. It combines fine art printmaking processes with digital imaging technology, sculpture, drawing, and painting. I am interested in the amalgamation of evident reactions like fear, terror, and war with other aspects of our cultural palette. Consumer, religious, and political entities have all responded to the horror of terrorism creating a web of relative effects. Auto loans with zero-percent financing, action figures of our President, Internet images of crying eagles, a reevaluation of our civil liberties, and an ongoing war on terror are all the result of a single event. artimages/01062005.jpg 225 300
2005-01-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=88 T. J. Lechtenberg T.J. Lechtenberg is in his third year of the MFA program in The Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the University of Iowa. His current work explores silent metal forming with sheet metal, and seeks to establish voluminous forms from the flat pierced metal sheets by pushing, pulling and forming the material. Circle Teapot Sterling silver, Delrin 8 1/8" x 3 1/4" x 6†2003 Circles and squares are two of the most elemental of shapes in our visual vocabulary. A majority of my jewelry and hollowware objects branch out from these basic geometric shapes. Because of their familiarity I can freely push, pull, slice and chop the shapes to create more abstract forms, yet still feel grounded by the still recognizable shape. Regardless of the direction that the objects I make go, they remain ultimately simple, graceful and without excess. artimages/01072005.jpg 225 300
2005-01-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=89 Paula Brandel Paula Brandel grew up in rural Minnesota, and her work frequently deals with the geography that was her formative visual milieu. Her abstract paintings reference structures that humans impose on the landscape, but she softens the rational geometry of roads and architecture with paint handling that allows the material to assert its own character on the canvas.
redformhorn acrylic on canvas 2004 Her abstract paintings reference structures that humans impose on the landscape, but she softens the rational geometry of roads and architecture with paint handling that allows the material to assert its own character on the canvas. artimages/01082005.jpg 350 353
2005-01-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=91 Chris Fletcher Chris Fletcher received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1993 and his M.F.A. in 1997 from American University in Washington D.C. His works have been included in exhibitions in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Virginia. Spaceship Workshop acrylic on paper 9" x 11.5" 2003 Keeping shapes of color evenly modulated helps me to feel the character of the relationships between them better. These relationships include those of part to part, part to whole, part to group, group to group, and group to whole.
The resulting images evoke things like wooden toys or figures, building blocks, architectural frame construction, wood joinery, and stages. These things may serve to embody the tenuous nature of appearances. However, they may also suggest hope and the process of growth. artimages/01092005.jpg 350 253
2005-01-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=92 Robert Atwell Robert Atwell was born in 1973 in Nevada, Iowa. He has received both a BFA (1995) and MFA (2002) from Iowa State University.
Robert Atwell's website http://www.dotonawalk.com/ Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 10:37PM vinyl, enamel, and alkyd resin on aspen panel 11.25†x 11.25 2004 Robert Atwell's work is created using a process that embraces both digital and analog sources. Beginning with a sketchbook, Atwell records spontaneously drawn marks inspired from experiences within visual and audio environments, which he draws and redraws, scans, digitizes, prints and uses to build a visual dialog. Tradition and technology come together to create hybrid paintings, uniting the long tradition of abstract painting and the more recent advent of technological tools as art making devices. Final works come in the form of drawings, paintings, digital prints, and interactive installations. The day, month, year, and time become the titles of Atwell's work, marking another moment in history. artimages/01102005.jpg 348 348
2005-01-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=94 Julia Leonard Julia Leonard graduated with an MFA in design from the University of Iowa in 2001. She now operates a binding studio in Iowa City and teaches Bookbinding and Graphic Design at the University of Iowa. She works on her own one-of-a-kind and editions artist' books, as well as commission , limited production and edition binding. Her work has been shown nationally and has been acquired by private collectors and special collections libraries. Fifty-two words stiff leaf binding, laser print text, cut outs, japanese dyed papers 4"x10" (closed) 2001 "Making use of the book as an artistic medium is possible partly because of what we (Westerners) bring to the book, our collective connection with it ... Experiencing a book is a tactile, intimate and private activity. It requires time, a slowing down and settling in. Nooks can act on us as an icon or reliquary does, evoking a spiritual reaction a contemplative psychic space. For me, books speak of the past, of what is gone or perhaps never was: a kind of slow beauty, longing and melancholy. I am drawn not only to the stories within, but the texture of the type, the smell of the paper, the fell of the covers, the physical presence of the book. Drawing on these impressions, I am looking at the visual quality of writing, language in its physical form ... Text, visually, can weave its own stories. In much of my edition and one of a kind work I am using words and the book, its physical form and textual content, as image, in order to weave a meaning that can be sensed rather that literally understood." artimages/01112005.jpg 350 227
2005-01-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=95 Terry Rathje Terry Rathje is working on his MFA at the University of Iowa. He is also currently a design instructor at Western Illinois University. Even in The Driest Hole license plates and scrap metal 2004 My art is about rearranging reality. I spend half my time taking things apart and learning how they are made, and the other half putting them back together and learning about myself.
By observing and internalizing how the world is put together, the world inside and the world outside meet in some sort of strange juxtaposition that I really don’t understand until the process is done. This meeting of the inside world and the outside world is at the heart of what I do. artimages/01122005.jpg 348 149
2005-01-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=97 Vicki Adams Vicki Adams was born in 1931, near Blockton, Iowa. She has received her BFA (1974) and MFA (1978) from Drake University. Passages handmade paper, string dimensions variable Vicki Adams is a papermaker and a print artist. Her handmade paper incorporates recycled paper, plant materials, and dyes to produce sensual textures and subtle color variations. Random Collection is an example of her sophisticated use of paper as a sculptural material. Adams has taught and shown her work extensively. She is a member of the Artists' Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Valley Junction West Des Moines, and also is associated with the Octagon in Ames and the Wiederspan Gallery in Cedar Rapids. artimages/01132005.jpg 350 231
2005-01-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=99 Kate Carr Kate Carr received her Bachelor of Arts (1999) from 1994-1999 Marlboro College in Vermont. She is completing her MFA in the sculpture area at the University of Iowa and has shown work recently at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California, the Sioux City Art Center, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, and CSPS in Cedar Rapids. 2.5 miles (detail) rope, wrapped pillar 2004 My responsibility as an artist is to pay attention. Repeating an activity, a form, a material, is how I begin to understand my surroundings and identify my artistic interests and concerns. In my work, I continue to address the beauty and the possibilities of the ordinary by making what I see and experience a tangible manifestation of noticing. artimages/01142005.jpg 225 333
2005-01-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=100 Concetta Morales We Stick Together: Home/At Sea/Preserving Freedom, detail: At Sea, mosaic triptych at Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, Waterloo, IA 2002 artimages/01152005.jpg 350 263
2005-01-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=102 Robert Butler Rob Butler grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, and lived with his family in Germany. He discovered early on the excitement of diverse cultures and found that immersion in a foreign culture catalyzed his creativity. Rob earned his MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa in 2004, and he continues to pursue cross-cultural exchange as a visiting lecturer at the School of Communication in Riga, Latvia. Unintended Likeness of La Virgen de Guadalupe Digitally Informed Monotype 30" x 42" MMIII About his artwork, Rob states: In recent work, imagery is informed by being receptive to physical, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic events that occur during the process of print and art making. In the collaboration between the elements of process and myself, this dynamic sense serves as a catalyst to inform the next work. This dialogue, between artist and art, leads to serial work that provides a narrative for artistic processes, from the conceptual first work to the non-existential last. My purpose in my art work is not simply to communicate content and imagery with an audience, but to closely view my own actions, therefore placing my environment and myself under close observation, then reexamining those observations through the vehicle of print and art making. artimages/01162005.jpg 225 291
2005-01-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=103 Marcia Joffe-Bouska Marcia Joffe-Bouska received her BA in Art and Art Education from Clark College (1973) and her MA from Northern Illinois University (1977). In addition to showing work throughout the Midwest, her art is represented in public and private collections throughout the region. Her glass mosaic, Missouri River Transit, part of the Icon Interpretive Sculpture Project for the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery Bicentennial, is located at Dodge Riverside Golf Club in Council Bluffs, IA. She has taught art workshops to people of all ages, many through the Iowa Arts Council's Artist in Schools and Communities program. She has lived and worked in Council Bluffs, Iowa since 1977. Sentinels Glass mosaic 77" x 12" to 14" x 7.5" 2003 Her glass mosaic, “Missouri River Transitâ€, part of the Icon Interpretive Sculpture Project for the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery Bicentennial is located at Dodge Riverside Golf Club in Council Bluffs, IA. She has also taught art workshops to people of all ages, many through the Iowa Arts council’s Artist in Schools and Communities program. artimages/01172005.jpg 225 300
2005-01-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=105 Hanus of Prague Born and raised in Iowa and a self-taught, accidental artist, I am now in medical school and spending more and more time in Prague and Olomouc of the Czech Republic. Hanus has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, exhibited at the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, and had a one-person show at Legion Arts/CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Hanus works in tile murals, sculptures, watercolors and digital paintings. His tile murals have been placed in Prague and Olomouc, Czech Republic. He is currently working on a mural for Valletta, the capital of Malta. Hanus' work often depicts universal models of meta-identity and supraculture. He also likes to explore arts-infused social mechanisms to elevate public discourse, nurture critical thinking and enrich private/public lives through various cultural events. untitled (signature logo) digital image dimensions variable 2003 Due to my increasing residence in Prague, I have taken the name Hanus of Prague. My signature is a form of art in itself. Hanus was the clockmaker who created the glockenspiel clock for the town square in Prague, many centuries ago. In order to ensure that he did not duplicate his masterpiece for another town, the town elders of Prague had his eyes gouged out. My signature takes the basic H shape of my name. The bar is curved as in a smile but also represents the diacritic placed over the S in Hanus, that gives the pronunciation an SH sound (HA-noosh.) The eyes have been restored but are advanced and evolved, able to give perspective from a number of vantage points. This signature symbolizes the power I believe art has to offer new and insightful perspectives, void in the standard political, academic, religious, corporate and legal discourses that permeate society today. artimages/01182005.jpg 349 349
2005-01-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=107 Sara Fletcher Sara Fletcher grew up in Western New York State. She received her BFA in ceramic sculpture from Alfred University in 1998, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from Brandeis University in 2003. She is currently an MFA candidate in painting at the University of Iowa. Birds oil on canvas 22" x 25" 2004 Recently, my subjects, in addition to the light and architecture of the room, have been arrangements of animal sculptures. The animals are a way of making the imagination visible. They represent real animals and their mysterious inner workings, but even more, as sculptures, they reflect an act of imagination present in real space, with real light affecting its appearance. Paintings within the paintings, as well as windows and mirrors, offer opportunities for another level of imagined space. artimages/01192005.jpg 349 287
2005-01-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=108 Kristin Quinn Kristin Quinn earned her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1984 and her MFA in painting from Indiana University in 1988. She has been a Professor of Art at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport since 1989. Kristin Quinn's website http://web.sau.edu/art/quinn/default.htm Punchinello 44" x 36" 2000 I grew up in a house of optical phenomena. My father was a physicist with a specialty in optics (although neighbors claimed he worked at the Optical Department at Sears). Lasers, lenses, prisms, and holographs were plentiful; as were lessons on the natural world. In our house, a solar eclipse became a graduate level seminar. On long car trips, we passed the time with questions to stump Dad: Why was the sky orange, what caused hail, and how were tunnels built under the bay? (Incidentally, we refer to these questions now as "Tunnel Talk" questions).
I begin my paintings with questions like those of "Tunnel Talk" times. What is the color of amber, iron-ore, pollen? How can wind and water be suggested? The paintings gradually grow in layers. In the strata of paint, the shape of a microscopic protein hovers beneath a planet's elliptical orbit and decorative ironwork cancels out dense foliage. It is these strange alliances between the common and uncommon, natural and synthetic that I find compelling to paint. The compressions, connections, and contradictions of the layers shape the personality of the painting.This knotted, painted combination forces a continual shift of attention among the many levels. I compare this to a single moment in landscape and the competing levels of activity. When I stand on Devonian limestone on the levee of the Mississippi, the barges and riverboats pass, herons fly, behind, a train noisily rumbles and streetlights flicker on, the smell of diesel fuel drifts in while rain clouds build. It's the density of experience that continues to raise questions and excite me as a painter. artimages/01202005.jpg 226 279
2005-01-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=110 Thomas Knauer Thomas Knauer holds a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College, an MFA from Ohio University in Athens and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Dept. of Print Media, Bloomfield Hills, MI. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Drake University in Des Moines. Thomas Knauer's website http://www.fourinchesofego.com four inches of ego: or why everyone should be more like me [the only soldiers would be toys] book [page] 4†x 4†2003 Recently I have made political activity the central focus of my public design practice. Within the context of design as conversational, design necessarily occupies the space of a voice. Thus it is incumbent upon me as designer to determine what I can do with my voice. Within the context of the continued drive for design to maintain an apolitical position, to regard itself as a tool, I believe it is of vital importance the practitioners continue design’s history of social and political involvement and its long tradition of self-authored activity.
While I would never make so grand a claim as that anything I might do as a designer will change the world, at least I can use my voice to impact some part of it. To be honest, the way the world is going often scares me and I believe it is my responsibility to my role as a designer to give voice to my horror. When the communicators cease to care what they are saying, then we are all ultimately screwed. artimages/01212005.jpg 350 350
2005-01-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=111 Jay Ryan, Rafael Salas, Lydia Diemer 2003 artimages/01222005.jpg 150 337 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=112 Ryan Standfest, Kristen Martincic, Aeree Han 2003 artimages/01232005.jpg 150 344 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=114 Vibeke Schroeder, Jon Lee, Rob Butler 2003 artimages/01242005.jpg 150 340 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=116 Nicole Timmin-Bormann, Leo Lee, Mike Sudmeier 2003 artimages/01252005.jpg 150 340 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=117 Nichole Maury, Jon Glazier, Jon Mahnke 2003 artimages/01262005.jpg 150 349
2005-01-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=118 Nathan Mckee, Matt Clark, Neva Sills 2003 artimages/01272005.jpg 150 335 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=121 Kevin Heisner, Melissa Newman, Chris Kerr 2003 artimages/01282005.jpg 144 332 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=122 Catherine Cole, Melissa Newman, Melissa Grubbs 2003 artimages/01292005.jpg 150 332 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=123 Lyndia Diemer, Min Song, Steve Krakow 2003 artimages/01302005.jpg 150 335 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show, 2003
2005-01-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=125 Doug Hanson Doug Hanson is Chair of the Art Department at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, where he maintains a home studio and gallery. He also teaches classes in Mexico, exhibits his work internationally, and has worked with Potters for Peace, an international network of potters concerned with peace and justice issues. Doug Hanson's website http://www.cornellcollege.edu/art/faculty/hanson.shtml platters porcelain with soda vapor glaze approximately 17" in diameter 2004 For almost four decades I have devoted my art making energies towards works primarily in clay. I began that career as a sculptor who made a few pots. However, visiting internationally known potters, plus museums filled with pots while on a one-year Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in England reversed my production completely. Since that year I have made only pottery. Coming from the functional life of a Midwestern farm family may have had a hand in that decision.
Western and Eastern influences come together in the earthiness of the soda fumed skin on bare clay exteriors, but with a smooth functional glaze covering the interior surfaces. All these elements combine to form a cohesive whole, but equally important in my work is the consideration of the function of each piece as it is to be used in our eating and drinking. artimages/02082005.jpg 348 263
2005-02-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=132 Susan Coleman Susan Coleman was born in eastern Missouri, along the banks of the great Mississippi River. She received her BFA in drawing from Webster College, in St. Louis, and her MA (drawing) and MFA (painting) from the University of Iowa. Susan has shown widely in numerous venues throughout the Midwest and Eastern United States. Her work focuses primarily on landscape themes encountered in the local environment.
Susan has taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Kirkwood Community College (Iowa City Campus), as a visitor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and most recently at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where she has served as Gallery Coordinator and Lecturer for the Art Department since February 2000. Susan Coleman's website http://www.cornellcollege.edu/art/faculty/coleman.shtml Above River pastel 2004 For as long as I can remember I've loved drawing. Over time, the practice of sitting down to really look at something, has become part of me. Nature has been a source of inspiration since childhood. Drawing from nature encourages spontaneity and playfulness, because in nature there is more than one right answer.
The search for meaning is at the heart of my interest in landscape. Hope is rekindled by the creative spirit I see revealed in nature and the beauty of this world; rivers that continue to flow, and days that continue to dawn. Drawing from nature helps me recognize the sacred in the commonplace, something I'd prefer not to take for granted.
Metaphors as old as human memory are embedded in the themes of landscape. The mysteries of nature still exist, and are akin to the mysteries within us. The garden in the wilderness is as ancient as human imagination, and that yearning for a place of peace is as much a part of our inner world as the vague fear of unforeseen tragedy we glimpse in a nightmare, or on any evening newscast. Despite its long history in western art, I feel that the subject of landscape can serve as a fresh and relevant path for interpreting the human condition. Landscape can make reference to a larger journey. artimages/02092005.jpg 351 292
2005-02-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=134 Michael Clinard Michael Clinard is currently a graduate student at the University of Iowa with an emphasis in Photography and minor in Intermedia. video still from "Spurkatory" digital video 2004 Michael Clinard's video pieces explore the human condition, placing their characters (often played by Clinard) in awkward situations that expose the characters' flaws, inability to communicate, or moments of failure. artimages/02102005.jpg 350 263
2005-02-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=136 Shumpei Yamaki Originally from Japan, Shumpei Yamaki is working toward his MFA in Ceramics at the University of Iowa. untitled vessels 2004 My former experience in the Hip-Hop culture, Break dance, and Capoeira, the afro-Brazilian Martial arts, still exists in my body and soul blending with pottery wheel throwing techniques. When water flows on the surface of a pottery wheel, my hands dance to rhythm and my mind stretches into meditation. As I throw on the wheel, my imagination and feelings about clay and water takes me to a state of "second nature". The whole idea of learning street dance has taught me about how to share my voice with others visually and emotionally. I want to express the energy of my wheel-thrown pottery flowing internally and externally through my art. My total desire is that my visual form of pottery, three dimensional touch of surface, and nature of my work unite at the point where we all can communicate in same language. artimages/02112005.jpg 350 238
2005-02-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=137 Shelagh Gamble Shelagh Gamble was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved to Okoboji, Iowa at the age of 14. Shelagh began her pursuit of art under the direction of Hank Hall and ended up in the Art department of the University of Northern Iowa. Graduating with a BA in Art in 2003, Shelagh moved back to Okoboji where she began working in her home studio. Starting out as a ceramics artist through school, Shelagh recently has taken up painting and is now working with both mediums simultaneously. Transparancies Mixed Media 30 x 24 Jan 2005 Shelagh has this to say, "I am an artist interested in capturing the translucency of colors and the spontaneity of the everyday life... In each piece I use transparent colors with the light of the canvas, allowing the viewer to make their own assumptions about the layers and objects involved in the piece. My themes are derived from fashion, popular culture and the world around me, and are composed by materials collected, purchased or found... When a piece is finished it seems to shout "stop", however some pieces never seem to be done and are perpetually being reworked. In recent works of mine, I have been experimenting in color and materials. The creation of flowing translucent glaze colors mixed with the permanence of black rigid lines are recurring paradoxes in my recent pieces." artimages/02042004.jpg 350 277
2005-02-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=139 Carol Macomber Carol Macomber was born in 1938, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She received her B.S. from Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1960. Carol does black-and-white photography and alternative processes and is deeply concerned about nature. Her work is shown in the Artisan's Gallery in Iowa City, BlueStem Gallery in Parkersburg, Campbell-Steele Gallery in Marion, and Henry W. Myrtle Gallery in Cedar Falls. Prairie Cord Grass 2 cyanotype photogram 74" x 28" 2004 Carol has this to say about her work, " My background includes work in biology and photography. The cyanotype photograms that I make involve local botany and simple photochemistry. The antique technology lends a degree of authenticity that I find lacking in modern technologies and presents a dramatic way of seeing some remnants of the past." artimages/02052005.jpg 225 517
2005-02-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=144 Joleen Dentlinger Joleen was born in Storm Lake, Iowa. Her work with pen and ink began in the early 1980's. Joleen works as a graphic artist for Silk Screen Ink in Storm Lake and also does freelance work under her personal company name, Unique Inque. Her work has been seen at numerous businesses, galleries and art shows. Quiet Times pen & ink 36.5" x 29.5" 2004 About her work, Joleen has this to say, "History and its preservation rate very high in my heart, right behind home and family. With my drawings I can document places and things that touched me, whether it's an old farm house, an old Chicago hotel or an intriguing landscape. By working in pen and ink, I strive and accomplish depth, intensity, detail, "color" and texture - in just a subtly way - as simple as black and white." artimages/02062005.jpg 350 273
2005-02-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=145 Lily MicHaud Lily Michaud was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. She earned her BA in Art and Mathematics from Smith College, and her MFA in Photography from University of New Mexico. In recent years she has had a number of solo shows across the country. She creates photo-based installations in order to transmit experiences stemming from her spiritual practices. Michaud’s subjects are often overlooked elements of the everyday life. Whether photographing constellations made out of debris, or asking viewers to look again at being in their bodies, she shares her awe at the ordinary. Michaud manipulates the viewing environment to provide a relaxed, intimate experience. The play between the elusive subject matter, (meditative experience), and the concreteness of the photographic medium peak the viewer’s curiosity. Refreshing the sense of wonder that makes the everyday a portal to the Absolute. Michaud currently lives and works in Iowa City. Lily MicHaud's website http://www.lilymichaud.com Floris folia (slide from Spiritual Anatomy) silver gelatin image printed on glass (microscope slide) 8mm diameter artimages/02072005.jpg 350 350
2005-02-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=147 William Lieb William was born and raised in Spirit Lake, Iowa and attended Iowa State University, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1967. He practiced Architecture in Colorado and received many local, state, regional, national and international Architectural awards for design excellence. Following his retirement in 1993, he and his wife explored the world for five years on their sailboat and have now returned to Spirit Lake. For the past year William has had the opportunity to begin a career in sculpting, a life-long desire. So far he has participated in two group exhibitions, one at the Lakes Art Center in Okoboji and one at Arts on Grand in Spencer. Posting the Future painted wood and polyethylene sheet 23"h x 20"w x 6"d 2004 To quote William, "The main thrust of my work is to create art that engages and energizes the human spirit. In this journey I am renewed." artimages/02082005b.jpg 350 263
2005-02-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=148 Therese Murdza Therese Murdza is a painter, born and raised in Edgewood, Maryland and received her B.S. in Theater from Towson University in 1986. She works with acrylic and/or oil paint on stretched canvas, using pencil and water-based crayons to mark maps, make records and add line. The swaths and blobs of color and breakdown of image become music, are not music, perform within their frame, push the limits, and fly beyond it. Therese Murdza's website http://www.theresemurdza.com ochre I acrylic paint, pencil on canvas 54" x 72" 2004 Therese has this to say about her process, "Before I could tie my shoes, I played a small accordion... I studied piano and saxophone and then jazz and music theory in a music program my dad built at an otherwise limited public high school. And then, in college, I put down the instruments and took myself to the theatre, to new forms of moving, composing and materializing sounds in transitory space... After graduating in 1986, I distilled this playwriting into the efficiency of poetry. I found a welcomed pause in the quiet of the words on paper, whittling down the images and the bodies and emotions into as few words as possible... A move back to the city had me drawing on big paper and literally taking the words apart. Disintegrating the shapes of the words into lines. Freeing the movement to create energy there on the page, into the squares and out of the circles. I began painting images and concepts using elements--those circles and blobs and squares and moving lines--that I’m still exploring. I work on my own, influenced by a vibrant community of artists and activists, to paint the unpredictable musical form, the movement of bodies and words, the paragraphs and stories and sounds set free. It is this movement that I push into color and shape, both framed and unfettered." artimages/02092005t.jpg 225 362
2005-02-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=150 S. Bailey Jacobson S. Bailey Jacobson is an Intermedia B.F.A. candidate at the University of Iowa. In addition to studying video, installation, and performance art, she is an Art Education and English student. Bailey will spend the semester working as an Artist in Residence at United Action for Youth as part of Intermedia's Artist in Community course. Dartboard digital photos and found object collage 18'' diameter 2001 Since moving to Iowa in 2001 Bailey has explored concepts of artist and audience exchange, striving to engage the viewer in active, tactile, and emotional participation. Themes of intimacy and interpersonal relationships are integrated into her art pieces. Dartboard is a self-portrait in which Bailey invites the viewer to attack and interact with the artist's image. artimages/02102005s.jpg 350 239
2005-02-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=152 Louise Kames Louise Kames, a native of the Chicago area, teaches at Clarke College in Dubuque, IA. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art and art history from Clarke College. Source pastel on paper 23" x 18.5" 2002 In recent years her work has included drawings of organic imagery, roots and leaves arranged in an iconic manner as well as installations honoring personal history. Drawings of transitory organic forms and installation works present the viewer with timeless, meditative spaces. In many cases the still life subject of drawings has been reclaimed from compost piles and roadside clippings. Each diverse ecosystem she encounters, ranging from the excavated college parking lot to mountain pathways yields potent subject matter. The paradox that natural decay can be beautiful suggests a universal yet everyday cycle of death and resurrection. Kames is attracted to the flux between life’s fullness and death, and the traces of life after death. The time-charged transformative process yields form that is beautiful to the attentive eye. She experiences the sense of awe in perhaps unexpected places. In her artwork the experience is translated to formal arrangements that draw the viewer into that act of attention. artimages/02112005l.jpg 225 275
2005-02-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=154 Thomas Aprile Tom Aprile is a sculptor and tenured Associate Professor in the Sculpture Area at the University of Iowa. He received his BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1976 and his MFA from Syracuse University in 1978. VCCA Labyrinth glass blocks 12'x12'x6' 2004 Tom has this to say about his current bodies of work, "The terror and anxiety of the people who were trapped in the stairwells and floors of the World Trade Center moments before the collapse, is unimaginable. It must have been akin to the experience of the seven boys and seven girls who were trapped in Daedalus’s labyrinth with the Minotaur. For me, Ground Zero as it has become to be known where the World Trade Center once stood and Daedalus’s Labyrinth evoke a similar response of fear, anxiety and disorientation. Images of walls and labyrinths have occupied my drawings and sculptures and have led to a career-long exploration of other archetypal structures such as caves, stairways and mineshafts. As an artist and creator of metaphors, I am compelled to continue planning and drawing these structures. I need to build and draw labyrinths so that I may physically create the arena, in order to dig deeper into these disturbing experiences of terror, and thereby give others the opportunity to share my experience by exploring and getting lost in the endless paths and corridors and even perhaps to ultimately find peace at labyrinth’s end." artimages/02122005.jpg 350 271
2005-02-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=156 Anthony Plaut Anthony Plaut was born in Boston and raised in California and Washington DC. He grew up in Iowa where he attended Cornell College. Later he did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He now teaches art at Cornell College. He has been a participant in many group shows in the region including a number of “Iowa Artists†exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center. He is currently represented in by the Olson-Larsen Gallery in Des Moines. Weekly Counter Clock Wise mixed media 8" round x 3" deep About his current body of work Anthony writes, "This year I have embarked upon a new series of objects that merge many of my longstanding interest and abilities ... I categorize these recent pieces as ‘assemblages’ (3-dimensional collages) because they are comprised primarily of ‘found’ materials. Each of them has a mechanical aspect that is actuated by the human activity of winding a spring-driven motor. My hope for these pieces is that they appear, at first glance, to be one of two things: either a pile of miscellaneous junk or a commercially manufactured object. In both of these cases I hope that closer scrutiny leads to the realization that the sculptures are actually carefully crafted from familiar objects for a particular effect, albeit an effect that is difficult to translate into words. I want them to thrive like some poems do, with ideas of beauty, a bit of nostalgia, and an unspecified but familiar sense of something important and shared. The inherent beauty of collage and assemblage work is that it takes items from the ‘ordinary world’ and allows them to retain their individual associations, yet at the same time creates a new set of unexpected and unpredictable associations. This is the ordinary made extraordinary. I use puns and other plays of language as titles for the pieces. These linguistic supplements are, in a sense, another set of ‘collage’ elements because they pull a piece of language from one use and apply it to another in a way that allows both meanings to function simultaneously with or against one another." artimages/02132005.jpg 225 284
2005-02-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=160 Aoife Cassidy Aoife grew up in Ireland and left at 18 to travel the world, but has not made it too far. Aoife has spent quite a bit of time in Spain and studied for four years at the University of Iowa and now currently lives in Washington State. Lemon Yellow Orange Giant Tip oil on canvas 12"x12" 2004 Aoife has this to say regarding the work: "I work from microphotographs that I find from various sources and I use them as a brief guide to what I want to create, which is a little trip for myself and the viewer. There is an alter ego, but he is not ready to be fully revealed. He is busy in his lab. " artimages/02142005.jpg 350 342
2005-02-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=162 John Fender John Fender has taught graphic design since 1995 and been on the faculty of Drake University since 1999. He is head of the graphic design program and acts as the Design Director for the Anderson Gallery. Professor Fender holds an M.F.A., an M.A., and a B.F.A. degree, all from the University of Iowa. Getting Fat On Your Own Fear Inkjet print 30" x 40" 2005 About his work, John writes, "My work attempts to create a location, where there is no content, only a construct formed through interpretation ... I present ideas, objects, places or people as component factual elements and symbols, then place these artifacts into a context that forces one to create a relationship. I see art as an activity of inquiry, existing in an intangible space between social structures and the individual. Its purpose is to explore the moral and ethical underpinnings of our culture. In my art, I attempt to create situations that force an individual to question the assumptions one must make in order to achieve understanding. This work is a new direction for me where as much of my previous work was introspective and inward looking this work is directed toward the culture it reflects. It urges the viewer to construct the various cultural and political references into a narrative that comments on various concerns of mine. Specifically this work is based on my reaction to the current political and cultural decisions that are shaping the future of our world." artimages/02152005.jpg 250 333
2005-02-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=163 Jeffery Byrd Jeffery Byrd is a video and performance artist. He regularly presents work in galleries and festivals in major cities throughout the US. He has performed at Lincoln Center and the Alternative Museum in New York City, N.A.M.E Gallery and Links Hall in Chicago, Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art, Full Nelson Festival in Los Angeles, Philadelphia’s Nexus Foundation, Cleveland International Performance Art Festival and the Indianapolis Installation Festival. He has recently started building an international reputation with performances in Cardiff, Wales and Krakow, Poland. Byrd’s art explores the metaphoric potential of the human body and the relationships between reality and artifice through video, movement, original music and otherworldly vocals. Born and raised in Alabama, Byrd joined the UNI faculty in 1989 and is currently a Professor there. Raft of the Medusa performance 2001 artimages/02162005.jpg 324 245
2005-02-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=165 Marc Moulton Marc Moulton graduated with a B.A. from Weber State University, Ogden, Utah in 1985. He received his M.F.A in Sculpture just two years later from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Marc's pieces can be seen all over Iowa and in other states including Wisconsin and Utah. Marc is currently a Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. This particular piece is at the African-American Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. It is a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was just recently installed at the Museum. Trumpet stainless steel & high-pressure sodium lighting 20' x 5' x 5' 2005 artimages/02172005.jpg 350 290
2005-02-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=166 Laura Young Laura Young is a landscape and still life painter and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa where she is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. She has won numerous fellowships and awards and has been shown across the United States in museums, commercial galleries, juried and group shows, as well as internationally in Denmark and Nigeria. Still Life With Baguette oil on canvas 22" x 24" 2004 About her process, Laura writes, "I became involved in painting the landscape during an eight-month stay in Ife, Nigeria in l992-l993 after having been an abstract painter of city forms in New York ... I thought about landscape painting not only as a recording of natural phenomena, but also as a potential theater for metaphor. This latter aspect has continued to interest me the most. In l995 I moved to Iowa City and I continued to investigate various aspects of the landscape ... In 2001-2002 I have been in residency at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, Virginia at various times of the year. The landscape there which is enclosed by the Blue Ridge Mountains holds a familiarity for me not unlike the landscapes on the east coast of my childhood ... I became very interested in painting these darkening skyscapes as a response to the unspeakable tragedy of the September eleventh, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center ... In 2003 due to operations on both hands, I was forced to paint smaller in scale. I produced 8â€x10†landscapes on panel and one day I painted part of my lunch just for fun. I became fascinated with the interaction between me and the object and painted another small still life ... I am now interested in looking at other kinds of objects, particularly those that seem to appear during a specific experience or in a way at a specific site." artimages/02182005.jpg 350 316
2005-02-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=167 Deborah Boardman Deborah Boardman currently resides in Chicago. Boardman received her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1987 and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1984. She taught at the University of Iowa from 1988-1994. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught since 1997. Picturing Death Project mixed medium installation (CSPS/Legion Arts) 2001 About her work, Deborah writes, "I see my work as a space for symbolic thinking. In the Picturing Death Project, I have created a series of installations in which individuals may contribute personal narratives on death and dying in provided journals, and participate in small group workshops facilitated by professional grief counselors from the field of hospice. I am fascinated with imagined spaces and narrative. My current paintings cull narrative imagery from fairy tales and art history, including Watteau, Kenneth Noland, and George and Doris Hauman. They operate on the level of symbolic dream, in which multiple spaces and realities intermingle. My intention is to practice painting in such a way that allows me to connect to the Divine in both process and imagery, and thus regard my work as an ongoing and evolving picture of consciousness." artimages/02192005.jpg 350 235
2005-02-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=170 Richard Colburn Richard Colburn is a faculty member in the Photography area of the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa. The thrust of his work over the past twenty years has been documenting life in the Midwest. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been selected for numerous awards and grants. He is a graduate of Western Washington University and the University of Minnesota. Gaylne Repairing His Fences chromogenic color contact print 8"x10" 2003 Richard writes about Taking Stock, the series from which this picture was taken, "The series recognized the continuing depopulation of the region. The series describes the present. Those who live in the rural upper Midwest and what they do. It also describes the past through the most evident example of population decline - closed local schools. There are nearly one hundred images in this series to date about evenly divided between the school and contemporary life images. Although the subjects of these photographs suggest a division, they cooperate to describe contemporary life in the rural Midwest ... These are quintessential photographs in the "real" experience is transformed into an image bristling with all the characteristics of the medium. The physicality of the subject finds its analog in the visually visceral character of the prints which are packed with minute detail and offer so much information as to make one's eyes ache." artimages/02202005R.jpg 350 271
2005-02-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=171 Matt Moyer Matt Moyer received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Illinois State University in 2001. He had special graduate status at the University of Iowa last year. His has been seen in many states including Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico and in a few others. Filter Device clay, bolted to Reebar cage and steel table 32" x 10" x 10" 2004 About his work, Matt writes, "The examination of artifacts and implements from our past is the driving force behind my sculpture. My interest in industrial artifacts is the focus of this current work, and originates with my family having worked in the pipefitting union for three generations including my own. The longevity of industry, and its ability to change, adapt, and mold itself to an ever-evolving society intrigues me. The industrial artifacts that I find most interesting are those where a specific utility is not immediately apparent but rather slow to reveal it’s self. A sense of history, through layers of pealed paint, or the patterns of rust caused from an existence in a caustic environment reveals a great deal about not only the object but the people who used it, or worked in proximity to it. Though I am not always certain what the artifacts that interest me were used for, I remain interested in them for their shape, composition, surface, potential utility, but most of all the sense of it’s existence in time prior to the present. In my own pieces, I strive to engage the viewer to examine the nuances of each piece to determine for themselves what the object might be or may have been and how it might relate to something in their own they recognize in their own history." artimages/02212005.jpg 400 169
2005-02-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=174 Julia Ciaccio Julia Ciaccio was born outside of Chicago to her mother the painter, and
her father the pianist. With art flowing through her veins, she began painting at an early age. Challenging her love of the Windy City, she chose to study at the University Iowa to broaden her visual vocabulary. Julia will be graduating in May with a BFA, and will continue her studies of art and art history. Inner Explosion acrylic and oil on canvas 36" x 48" 2004 About her work, Julia writes, "I view my work as alive and growing. Each piece nourishes and evolves into the next, traveling through the world of abstraction. My visual vocabulary consists of a number of image generating techniques in both a representational and non- representational manner. Compositions are triggered by emotional responses therefore making my paintings highly personal. I am extremely passionate about painting and use it as a psychologist, an outlet for my emotions and feelings. Although non-objective, my paintings are rich with subject matter extracted from my life. My love affair with abstraction began with an encounter of Dada and Surrealism. My exploration through the history of Modern art inspires me to experiment and invent. I celebrate Automatism’s direct access to the mind, and Decalcomania’s festivity of paint. I pay homage to Josef Albers and his squares, and share the same devotion to subject matter as the Color Field Painters." artimages/02222005.jpg 275 368
2005-02-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=175 Cherie Sampson Cherie earned her B.F.A. from the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa in 1986. In 1997, she finished her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. Currently, Cherie is an Assistant Projessor of Art at Maharishi University of Management. Fresh Water-Root Hut environmental sculpture project, driftwood/fire 1994 About her work, Cherie writes, "My artwork encompasses a broad, interdisciplinary range from environmental sculpture and performance to digital and video art. I work primarily outdoors and in the natural environment making site-specific works with wood and other local materials at both remote and public locations. As an artist living in modern society, my work within the landscape comes from a desire to connect with the raw forces of nature and its seasons of generation, decay and renewal. I seek to ‘re-member’ in my art a primal link between human life, culture and nature, being aware of all aspects of an environment from sensory and elemental to historical ... Indigenous wood has been a primary medium because it signifies the spirit of a place for me ... My ritualistic performance is characterized by an extremely slow and deliberate pace in an embodiment of the imperceptible movement of seasonal time and change in nature. " artimages/02232005.jpg 350 229
2005-02-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=177 Chad Cooney Chad Cooney was born and raised outside of the city of Chicago. He is now currently working towards his B.A. in Photography at the University of Iowa. He is also an undergraduate Research Assistant for the Intermedia area at the university. Geoff as a Ghost photograph 8" x 10" 2004 About his work, Chad writes, "This photo was taken early last year when I had no access to digital equipment. The camera had no light meter and therefore, I had nothing to meter the scene by. This photo came from a series of other long exposure shots I had taken with that camera. Being able to set the camera and operate elsewhere in the scene while the shutter was open allowed me to add different effects to the scene. I try to produce work that is interesting to the viewer through the use of color, light, and the overall aesthetic of how each object visually interacts with the objects around it in the frame. I want the viewer to respond to the image in the whole, instead of different fragments that create a unified image." artimages/02242005.jpg 350 236
2005-02-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=178 David Boelter David Boelter received his B.A. from Buena Vista University in 1997 and his M.F.A in Sculpture (with a minor in Drawing) from the University of Iowa in 2000. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Art at Buena Vista University in Strom Lake, Iowa. IVIXMMIII polyester resin, pine, foam 11' x 4' x 4' 2005 About his work, David writes, "My work has always had a relationship with the human form, whether it was directly or implied. Much of the time, my own proportions and measurements are used. This seems natural to me as a way for me to directly relate myself to the world. With my new work, I wanted to develop a relationship between an underlying form and the skin that encompasses it. I do feel that materials and their fabrication is the core of my work. The privilege of being able to chose a material, and the decision of why to chose a material have always seemed to me to be as an important part of the work as the form itself. Many of my decisions are a direct result of my local environment and the craftsmanship of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s." artimages/02252005.jpg 350 263
2005-02-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=179 Laren Leland Laren received her B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Oregon. In May of 2006 she will complete her M.F.A. in Intermedia Art at the University of Iowa. She makes work in various media including: interactive video installation, book arts, drawing, and new media. Main areas of interest include intimacy, communication, and technology. Laren Leland's website http://larenleland.org furniture march net art 2004 Much of her work is made in collaboration with Kelly McLaughlin and Mark McCusker. She currently teaches Intermedia II and is a research assistant for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa. artimages/02262005L.jpg 350 262
2005-02-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=182 Lyndia Diemer Derived from a parlor game (draw the head, fold the paper with only a glimpse of what is present, hand it off to the next person to conceive a middle region, fold and pass for the entails and the end), in the grand tradition of Surrealism, these images rely on chance, the meeting of sewing machine and Bible, intestine and giraffe, the meeting of disparate minds (ranging from Copenhagen to Saint Claire Shores)on a scrufty page.
Lydia Diemer, curator of the Exquisite Corpse show and MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. exquisite corpse: 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show 2003 artimages/02272005.jpg 150 314
2005-02-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=183 Steve Strait Steven Strait received his B.S. from Northwest Missouri State University in 1976 and his M.F.A in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 1981. He continues to work at the University of Iowa Intermedia program as a Professional & Scientific Staff member. Wind Harp 1 (acoustic environmental sculpture) stainless steel, aluminum, wood 25'h x 50' diameter About his work, Steve has this to say, "The foundation of my work comes from my fascination with cosmology. This core element has generated a wide variety of works in different mediums, running a gamut from conceptual expressive works to documentation of Tibetan Buddhist practices. Works from my distant past have explored the nature of environment through acoustic constructs (these are activated by local elements such as wind, water, heat and light); and video expressions of physics principles (Entropy, Chainwaves, Virtual Space).
Current projects include: Digital paintings; Icons of Annihilation and pictograms of natural disaster. artimages/02282005.jpg 350 224
2005-03-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=374 Joshua Haringa This marks Joshua's final semester in the University of Iowa's Intermedia MFA program. Joshua came to Iowa by way of New York University's Film and Television BFA program and the University of Richmond's School of Law. Simultaneously, an MFA and PhD candidate, in the University's Communication Studies program, Joshua has made maintaining his perpetual adolescence a full-time profession. He explores his unresolved relationship with formal education and the academic institution through sculptural installation and performance art. Wal-Mart Study #2 installation 20' x 20' 2003 About his work, Joshua had this to say, "I like to make stuff." artimages/03012005.jpg 350 263
2005-03-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=375 Kangying Guo Kangying Guo is currently a M.F.A candidate at the University of Iowa Intermedia & Video Arts. Now she devoted the better part of her time and energy to everything she have explored: Video, installation, sound, writing, paintings in iowa city. Sight - Happiness of copy Video 12/2004 "This project is from the perception of my life: Every object and each event proceeds at its own incommensurate and mercurial pace. Western culture, traditional culture, commercial and popular culture, combined with socialist thinking proceed in variable speed. Views of the crazy development of China's urbanism form the background as I fold Chinese money with the portrait of Chairman Mao again and again theatrically, revealing prospects of life experience as foreground and displayed in context. artimages/03022005.jpg 350 233
2005-03-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=376 Richard H. Dutton Richard graduated with a B.S. degree from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri in 1960. In 1962, he received his M.A. from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Seasons, Winter watercolor, acrylic, gold leaf 38" x 36" 2004 About his process, Richard writes, "My art works are developed from on site sketching, painting and information gathering. I taught art history classes in college and this forms a basis for my work. I have always loved to travel and the images I gather are from historical and ancient places ... I use transparent watercolor on 140# and 300# watercolor paper. I also may include gold leaf and acrylic as part of the painting. The larger watercolors use a heavier 500# watercolor paper. The paint is applied in many layers during the development of the painting. The first coat is very fluid and subsequent layers are more and more exacting as the composition is developed." artimages/03032005.jpg 350 230
2005-03-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=377 Sharon Burns-Knutson I went to undergraduate school at UNI as a chemistry major. It was during the Vietnam War and because of this I became much more involved in my art classes. I finished a BA in painting. I wanted to go to graduate school right after I graduated, but was offered a job teaching in Iowa City Schools. I took the job because it housed the University of Iowa and the art department was a good one. I only applied for one job in Iowa and this was because Iowa City had a good graduate art program. I thought I would only teach for a year and then go back to school. I ended up teaching for 5 years before I attended grad school at University of Iowa in painting. I received a MA and MFA in painting.I went back to teaching 1/2 time and painting the other half-time. The mix was good for me. I liked the freshness of the young childrens work. I also have always liked how they do not like to linger too long on a project. I think our temperaments are in synch. Chickens Shopping in Oaxaca and My Boys Fighting in a Rowboat oil paint on a black Arches printer's paper 30"x44" My oil paintings are imaginary narratives about my life and common, ordinary things that are going on around me. They can be complicated and mixed up at the same time, much like dreams tend to be. People can be shown in their animal forms and animals may become anthropomorphised. One time someone asked me if I had been influenced by Kafka's Metamorphosis-a story about a man who turns into a cockroach. I told them no since I had never read the book. After reading the book I enjoyed the connection.I find myself getting involved in other art forms-like pastels,making clay pieces with picture writing on them, photography,stained glass, anything. Again, I am sure this has to do with my quick moving temperament. It is close to a child's. I enjoy playing:with paints,clay, whatever gets in the way. artimages/03042005.jpg 225 334
2005-03-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=473 Diane Naylor Raised in the rolling hills of Grant Wood County, Eastern Iowa, Diane attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and acquired her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) & then further her studies at the Maharishi University of Management (MUM). Diane Naylor's website http://www.dianesfineart.com/ Peaches oil painting 8.5"x14" 2004 About this body of work, Diane writes, "The current series named “Eternity†is based on utilizing antiques that house her paintings. The recent artwork has given way to fantasmic landscapes capsulated in a surrealistic old world where the land was the prime source of power. Several paintings are placed within a Black Forest Coo-Coo Clock from the early 1900’s. The paintings are in amber tones in harmony with the inlayed wood juxtaposed within the dark chocolate colored exterior." artimages/03052005.jpg 225 285
2005-03-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=474 Aaron Tucker His inventive use of charcoal drawing, prints, collages, and stop-animation have inspired me to use my BFA emphasis in drawing to explore the variety and originality that Kentridge has achieved ... I tackle a variety of subject matters ranging from emotion driven abstraction, to hyper-surrealism. My art critically analyzes current events and often attempts to blend the past and present. I combine age-old methods with modern technology to provide a timeless and timely atmosphere for my audience. Liberty is Glass digital collage 24"x37" About his work, Aaron writes:
" I create art that responds to injustices and applies my experiences to the many opportunities and problems I see facing our world today. My work can provide an open and honest place to encourage constructive criticism of our consumer culture and promote liberation among all people. I see liberty as a half full cup of bitter-sweet that you can throw in somebody's face and not say you're sorry. I relate to artists that have broken the boundaries and challenged themselves to be innovative. I specifically most identify with William Kentridge, an artist that approaches subjects of injustice and societal eccentricities in a similar way to my own." artimages/03062005.jpg 225 351
2005-03-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=476 Kathleen Van Hyfte Kathleen was born and raised in Davenport, Iowa. Her formal education was at the University of Iowa where she was a studio art major, graduating in 1973 with a BFA. She has been included in many juried shows in Iowa and Illinois. The Juggler acrylic on canvas 40" x 36" 2004 About her work, Kathleen writes, "The paintings which I have submitted have all been done within the last year. During this time, I have concentrated specifically on painting the figure ... My work with acrylics continues to be intriguing and I am utilizing more and more of the mediums in conjunction with my acrylic paints. There is so much to be learned about these new age pigments and I plan on discovering everything I can about them." artimages/03072005.jpg 225 320
2005-03-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=475 Mary Snyder Behrens Mary Snyder Behrens was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As an undergraduate, she studied at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee), and in Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 1982 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting and drawing from the University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee. Since 1990, she has resided in northeastern Iowa, where she lives on a farm with her husband (graphic designer Roy R. Behrens), and a surfeit of curious creatures, both wild and tame. Trammel Box (Vest) cloth, thread, twine, pin, nails, tar over metal form 3.75"h x 2.5"w x 1"d 2005 About her work, Mary writes, "Drawing. Arranging. Making. My materials and methods have changed over the 25 years since art school, over the 47 years of my lifetime. I have no great allegiance to any particular style, method or material. These change and evolve. What has remained constant is my fidelity to certain shapes and patterns and certain formal sensibilities that are employed in the arranging of these to form a dialogue within the parameters of the page. Many of my visual emblems are metaphors of memory, both wonderful and the horrible. They are inextricably tangled up with the experiences of my waking life and become for me, the larger universal paradigm within which we all struggle to coexist." artimages/03082005.jpg 238 350
2005-03-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=477 Shawn Skabelund Shaw Skabelund graduated in 1987 with a BFA in Drawing from Utah State University. From there, Shawn traveled to the University of Iowa where he earned an MA (1989) and an MFA (1990). He currently teaches Figure Drawing and Installation art in the School of Art at Northern Arizona University.
Pioneer Spirit installation 10'h x 49'w x 46'd 2004 About his work, Shawn writes, "My installations, which juxtapose the present and the past, the living and the dead, the natural and the artificial, reflect my desire to create art that gives viewers time and space to think about the local communities, economies and ecosystems they inhabit. My hope is that my art will initiate questions about issues as varied as responsibility, compassion, preservation, conservation and diversity. To prepare for each piece, I research the history of the place where it is to be displayed to learn how the interaction between the wild and the human has determined the direction and cultural makeup of the local community. This research, what I call "collaborating with a place," helps me understand what I want to say in my work and what I want to share with my audience." artimages/03092005.jpg 350 230
2005-03-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=478 Roy R. Behrens Roy R. Behrens is currently a professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa, where he teaches graphic design, illustration and design history. Vision of Grace digital montage 7.5" x 5" 2004 About his work, Roy writes, "I've taught at various art schools and universities for more than 33 years. I find few things more satisfying than to be a strong, contributive force in the careers of gifted young people. As a person who delights in teaching (although it is always a challenge), I purposely make no distinction between my classroom teaching and my "studio work" (which, in my case, is an amalgamation of research, writing, exhibiting and designing). I learn from students every day, and then use what I gain from them to inform and strengthen whatever I do. Specific techniques and styles of art are faddish, and of little or no importance to me, while the form of a work is enduring. To quote an old blues song: "It ain't what you do, it's how what you do it." Whatever I work with (students, words, letterforms, books, or image forms), I am determined to make it the finest I can at the moment." artimages/03102005.jpg 350 246
2005-03-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=479 Jon Winet Jon Winet is Associate Professor and Area Head of Intermedia in the School of Art & Art History at The University of Iowa. He also directs "The Daily Palette" and wishes to thank all the participating artists in-and visitors to- the project, as well as the production staff without whose tireless efforts the Daily Palette would not be possible.
Over the past twenty years, Jon Winet has worked with Margaret Crane to produce hybrid intermedia work that revolves around the language and images of the information age, focusing on the psycho-social dynamics of contemporary urban life. Click for America & The Globe http://www.america-the-globe.net/dw/ The Globe sculpture with red carpet and theatrical lighting 69"h x 54"w x 7.5"d 2004 "The Globe" is from "2004-America & The Globe," a collaborative multimedia project commissioned by DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas. The project focused on the U.S. presidential elections and democratic practice in the nation. artimages/03112005.jpg 350 233
2005-03-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=480 Aoife Cassidy Aoife grew up in Ireland and left at 18 to travel the world, but has not made it too far. Aoife has spent quite a bit of time in Spain and studied for four years at the University of Iowa and now currently lives in Washington State. Autumn Leaf oil on canvas 5'x6' 2004 Aoife has this to say regarding the work: "I work from microphotographs that I find from various sources and I use them as a brief guide to what I want to create, which is a little trip for myself and the viewer. There is an alter ego, but he is not ready to be fully revealed. He is busy in his lab. " artimages/03212005.jpg 350 297
2005-03-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=481 Vanessa Partridge Vanessa Partridge is completing her undergraduate studies this summer with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design. Next year she will be living in Wuhan, China teaching college English courses. Balloons Installation 2003 "This project was created by filling my third story attic apartment with 1600 blue balloons. My Intermedia classmates crawled through the space and then, when given the cue, used safety pins to pop all of the balloons.
I was intrigued that my audience would not know their surrounding and see and feel the beautiful balloons through natural light. But that was all I knew.
The audience’s reaction created new dimension and completed the installation. They became childlike, giggling, and interacted with each other on a playful level. Bystanders stood outside the apartment as the balloons were aggressively popped and remarked that it sounded like a large popcorn machine." artimages/03222005.jpg 200 298
2005-03-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=482 David Thole David Thole is a student at the University of Iowa and a major in Computer Science, with heavy emphasis in Mathematics. David uses his knowledge of computers to create these 3-D images. David Thole's website http://www.thedarktrumpet.com/ Glow Ball digital image 1280 x 1024 pixels 2004 About this piece, David writes, "As with most of my images, there isn't much of a rhyme or reason to why I create these. Most of my abstract images are just what come into my head at the time. I'm really big into symmetry and relatively simple objects (although I spend a good deal of time on the objects, even though simple)" artimages/03232005.jpg 350 280
2005-03-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=483 Missy Fauser Missy Fauser received her BA in Art and Psychology at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in May of 2002, and her MA in Art Therapy from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in November of 2004. Heuristic Vortex acrylic on masonite 24" x 24" 2003 "This piece was done over a few months as I completed a heuristic research project for my grad class ‘Foundations in Human Science Research’. I was exploring my process as I unearthed some of the feminine archetypes I had been repressing for many years. I painted on a piece of masonite for one and a half hours, once a week for three months. What was left was a vortex which I like to think I held around myself for protection during the rough times." artimages/03242005.jpg 350 345
2005-03-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=484 Bailey Jacobson & Katherine Parker Katherine Parker earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Iowa with an emphasis in intermedia.
S. Bailey Jacobson is an Intermedia B.F.A. candidate at the University of Iowa. In addition to studying video, installation, and performance art, she is an Art Education and English student.
Fabulous color copy on paper 8.5" x 11" 2005 Posters for art events are artworks in and of themselves. Intermedia Research Assistants Bailey Jacobson and Katherine Parker collaborated on this deceptively simple poster for Intermedia's semi-annual "Open House." Katherine's signature style, which meets at the intersections of drawing and painting, naive art and high end contemporary figurative practice is complemented by Bailey Jacobson's careful choice of design, font selection and color palette. artimages/03252005.jpg 250 326
2005-03-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=485 Benjamin Chait While studying architecture I pursued conceptual design as a manifestation of my vision. In my early experience the expression of art was not a traditional practice in architecture; the guiding principle from which I rebelled was that of form following function. When I moved into my own realm of work, the guiding principle of my architecture became committed to both my expression and to the experience of those interfacing with my work ... Window-autumn printed digital image 56" x 33" 2003 "As my interests turned more in the direction of pure artistic expression, I found that my underlying principles did not change. I continue to be intensely interested in the singular and unusual. Within my body of work in photography and image making, I seek to present the unique elements that I observe - such as the art of the architecture around us. Details that may have become a transparent background to many become paramount in my interpretation. I have chosen large format presentation to emphasize the particle in the whole. Images range from 16x20 to 30x40 inches, often times even larger.
Large format material constitutes my work as an image maker and reflects both my interpretation of the world around me and my presentation of this world to the community in which I live.." artimages/03262005.jpg 225 360
2005-03-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=486 Maria Hernandez I first began taking photo booth pictures in 1993 at the urging of a fellow student and good friend. I value the photo booth because of its history, the sense of nostalgia inherent in the finished product, and the wonderful tension I experience from simultaneously being in a very private, yet obviously public space. Somewhat related to the photo booth strips, yet conceptually independent in their intent and process, is another body of work I call "Icons." Iconic Medallion mixed media This work arose from a period of personal crisis and deep depression that lasted nearly three years. The images of me were initially made using the photo booth and Polaroid, which were then used as a template for healing the inherent expressions of anger, longing, loneliness, and passion. My mentality in creating these images is one where if the exterior world could not accept or recognize the complexities which I know to exist within me, then I can attempt to release the inward sorrow by doing the only thing I can do as a artist - I must create a space for myself in which I can once again be a whole person. It is paramount that this space be a sacred realm, as I believe myself to be deeply spiritual. Many of these images are influenced by my Catholic upbringing. As an adult, however, I have rejected much of the Catholic dogma, thus numerous images also contain symbols outside that tradition." artimages/03272005.jpg 350 314
2005-03-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=487 John Schirmer John has carved wood professionally for 25 years. His career began in northern Michigan, where he created from scratch hand-carved wooden signs for villages, businesses, and private residences. Evolution woodcut 11"x18" "The woodblock print is an art form that began in antiquity. After experimenting with other media, my deep appreciation for carving wood and printmaking in general, led me to the wood cut as a means of expression. The design is transferred to a block of wood that is then carved. When the carving is complete the block is inked, the paper is applied and it is pulled through a press. Each original print is colored by hand." artimages/03282005.jpg 400 174
2005-03-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=488 Kathy Thor My background is conventionally grounded in drawing and painting; however, my work is often described as quirky or surprising. I make sculptural work that blends both animal and human forms. My sculptures have evolved into three-dimensional canvases incorporating unconventional materials. Imp Man clay 48" x 20" x 20" The work centers around lo-fired, brightly colored ceramic pieces. Along the way I may use animal remains such as hair, bone or horn, found objects such as glass, beads, jewelry, and taxidermy eyes, or building materials such as chicken wire, re-bar, fiberglass, feram insulation and concrete. The juxtaposition of these materials helps accentuate the blurring of human and animal forms while exploring the emotional state. artimages/03292005.jpg 180 397
2005-03-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=489 Warren Staal Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, Warren had previously run his own graphic design and printing company before coming to the University of Iowa to earn a BA in Communication and a BFA with an emphasis in Studio Art. Warren currently works for University Relations at the University of Iowa, where he holds the position of Associate Designer. Stille Nacht Silver Gelatin Print 11" x 14" 2005 "My work is an introspective look through the Freudian shadows of life. The Freudian concept of 'das Ich' (understanding of the psychological 'I') and how my search to make sense of who I am, where I come from, and where I am headed. All the lives I have come into contact with; a working quid pro quo relationship with those who have taught me many a valuable lesson, as I too have left with them, an imprint of my experiences in life. As an information gatherer, experiencing various environments and the cultures, religions & traditions, through the eyes and language of the most obscure, I create through various media, an external representation of the unique; things or people I have had the privilege of being juxtaposed to." artimages/03302005.jpg 350 235
2005-03-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=490 Stephen Silva Stephen Silva was born in upstate New York. He studied film production at New York University. He currently resides in Iowa. Lonetree photographic print 16x20 2004 About his work, Stephen writes, "My work reflects my interest in space – as it is in nature – land, water, sky - and how humans construct, arrange and inhabit it. Much like the work of painters Edward Hooper and Andrew Wyeth, I am drawn to the spaces between things – between objects and people, between what is organic and what is artificial, between the accidental and the intentional." artimages/03312005.jpg 225 339
2005-04-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=491 Catherine Adams The sources from my images come primarily from the Berlin-Potsdam palace gardens. The decaying sculptures from this past era of pleasure and statesmanship caused me to return to photography after a decade of not using a camera. In my 18 years of experience with the history of art, no works—except for those of Michelangelo—so moved me by their mythic, yet human, gestures. Cobwebbed and scuffed, they lunge toward one another or huddle into their isolation. They both inspire and frighten me. The Fruit Giclee 16.5" x 32" In my images, I attempt to draw baroque and neo-classical beauty close to pain, isolation, violence, and memory. In this way, I can study the lessons of the past and the concerns of the present. For instance, in returning to 18th century mythological painting, I explore the tales of mortal women often abused by ancient myths or by contemporary interpretation or forgetfulness. My aim is to inspire the viewer to physically touch the flesh and stone depicted, but also to hold back in trepidation because all is fragile in this world. Pleasure is a taunt relationship between past and present moment, between fingertip of self and surface of another. artimages/04012005.jpg 450 150
2005-04-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=492 Aaris Sherin Designers operate as cultural intermediaries; the nature of visual communication straddles traditional artistic and commercial media and resides in a space connecting production and consumption. My work lives in the place between art and design, informed by both and residing in neither - alternately stepping further into one sphere and then the other, but always returning to the gray area between the two. This is a place that mimics the contemporary human condition in its combination of gradation and blurs. I am more interested in the concept than the object; embracing a commitment to a set of ideas, a working process, and an outlook on the world that transcends the final artifact, the product, the saleable item. Whether writing, working in professional practice or making art, my work is unified because I am consistently informed by this conception of my creative process Shadow Pot 2 ceramic sculpture 5.5" x 9" 2003 This body of work deals with reproduction and multiplicity. The process of slip casting makes it possible to produce numerous identical objects. Using the same process that industry uses for mass-market production allows me to reference both art and commercial goods. The work in this series to operates as combination of two and three-dimensional porcelain collages and challenges the viewer to consider ideas of artistic choice, repetition, authenticity and juxtaposition. artimages/04022005.jpg 350 285
2005-04-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=493 Lila Borg Rohrer Lila received her Masters Degree in Art Education from the University of Iowa. She currently resides in Victor, Iowa.
Zeus Pitches the Sun Into Place ink monoprint 11 x 15 2002 About her work, Lila writes, "My work is apolitical: I offer the images and the viewer makes the story. I feel that what I have to give the world of art is energy and spontaneity. If the work allows, I also work a bit of whimsy into paintings or collages. I consider myself a designer, whether pouring inks, brushing color or making collages. I combine disparate found images with prepared and oriental papers and, sometimes, words from ads. My favorite reappearing guy is my bungee jumper and Zeus, who pitches the sun into place. I'll try anything. I am convinced that nothing is wasted, not even failure. Because I taught for many years, I was inhibited by students who were product-oriented. Now, I'm retired, so stand back." artimages/04032005.jpg 275 335
2005-04-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=494 Margaret Stratton Margaret Stratton's work in photography and video has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. She has taught photography and digital imaging at the University of Iowa since 1986. Margaret Stratton's website http://www.margaretstratton.com/ Presentations House, from the series: "Women's Bathrooms" photograph 2004 "I make photographs all the time. For me photography is a lifestyle. When I am on the road I always have my camera, and like all travelers, I am careful with my equipment. I usually have to go to the bathroom, and taking my camera with me is a safety precaution. I have found that bathrooms, at least women's bathrooms, are very lively, sometimes vibrant places, and are among the most interesting spaces I have visited in my far-flung travels. I am happy to say that multi-tasking comes naturally, and that cultural investigation is ubiquitious, thus this ongoing series of images. Basically, if you are an image-maker you are always discovering pictures where ever you find yourself" artimages/04042005.jpg 350 257
2005-04-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=495 Julie Quick-Alcorn Chippewa charcoal 14" x 18" 2005 "I enjoy releasing the inner beauty of humans. Native Americans epitomize the strength and spirit of the best of humankind. Their respect for the earth and all of creation is unparalleled. The treatment these people received was sorrowful and disgraceful ... yet they reacted with dignity and truth. I strive to honor their spirit and reflect their strength and reverence." artimages/04052005.jpg 225 343
2005-04-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=496 Douglas Eckheart Douglas Eckheart attended Concordia College in Moorhead and received a B.A. degree in 1965. He earned an M.F.A. in 1967 from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Douglas is currently a Professor of Art at Luther College in Decorah.
Harvest Aglow oil painting 24" x 36" 2005 About his work, Douglas writes, "My paintings explore the delicate balance between nature’s mysterious cycles and subtle moods. I utilize these themes and concepts as a way to organize thoughts, create visual patterns, and develop color shapes. My work should not be considered photographic realism; colors are exaggerated, moods expressed and form modified to portray nature as a life giving force – a personification of the spirit in the land’s inhabitants and its creator. I define this process as the use of color, light, texture, and shape to visually interpret or transform nature in the same way a poet uses linguistic metaphor, or a musician uses tonal sounds to communicate feelings or moods. My “tone poems†reflect a desire to create visual poetry.†artimages/04062005.jpg 350 248
2005-04-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=497 Andrew Crooks Andrew Crooks is an Iowan artist who earned his B.F.A. degree in Fine Art Photography at the University of Northern Iowa in the Spring of 2005. He is represented in the permanent art collections of Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and Rod Library, UNI. Crooks will enter graduate school in the Fall of 2005 to pursue an M.F.A. in Photography at the University of New Mexico. Andrew Crooks's website http://www.andrewcrooks.com/ Poppy Field (Indoors) chromogenic color print 20" x 20" 2005 "When a person encounters a photograph, they often think of it as an impartial record of fact. It is my belief that, even when the photograph seems to show unequivocal truth, it’s purpose or meaning can be shaped by the photographer. Things may not be as they seem. I express this idea by mixing painted backdrops, three-dimensional props, and real life subjects. The backdrops act as a synthesized reality, juxtaposed with real-life objects and people. The organic, human presence in these photographs provides contrast to the synthetic backdrops, pulling your eyes back and forth between natural and contrived elements. The sober expressions on people’s faces contrast my overt, sometimes hokey props and brightly colored backdrops. Unlike some images that try passing a contrivance off for truth, I amplify the contrast between the two worlds. By mixing reality with fiction, I highlight the maker’s power to shape an image, and ultimately create a new reality." artimages/04072005.jpg 342 261
2005-04-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=498 Justine Zimmer Sculptor/arts activist Justine Zimmer received her MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the University of Iowa in 1999. In 1997, she co-founded Studiolo, an Iowa City Fine Art and Craft Gallery which closed in 2002. Catherine 36 x 20 x 20 in She is the creator of "Dorothy," the tornado sculpture at the Dubuque Street entrance of the pedestrian mall, representing the "Cultural Epicenter" of Iowa City. She has exhibited her work in juried competitions and invitational exhibitions throughout the United States. Justine is well known locally for her efforts in the drive to save and restore the historic Englert Civic Theater. artimages/04082005.jpg 225 365
2005-04-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=499 Doug Russell Doug Russell moved to Kansas City in 1999 after a two year teaching position in Bursa, Turkey. He holds an MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa and a BFA in painting from Columbia College. He has shown in Kansas City at The Michael Cross Gallery, The Morgan Gallery, The Late Show Gallery, and at The Framing Girl Gallery. He currently teaches at Central Missouri State University and Maple Woods Community College. When not working, he's out exploring the world on his bicycle or puttering in his garden. Necessary Reductions 16 mixed media 14 x 20 in. "My work is an intuitive dialogue with character and surface. Within the chaotic and worn surfaces of our industrial and natural landscapes, I search for an underlying pattern of order and hope. By staining, scrubbing clean, marking, layering, splattering, dissolving, obscuring and revealing, I examine how moments of great beauty and clarity are the result of a continual and often seemingly random flux of action upon object. I look in my work for a point of both saturation and emptiness, wherein one may find strength in stillness." artimages/04092005.jpg 359 248
2005-04-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=500 Anne Perkins "I attended the Harrow Art School taking an evening course in basic painting and drawing for many years. When we arrived in Iowa City I was able to continue my training at the University of Iowa Art Department on a part time basis. Eventually I felt confident enough to work on my own in a studio in the basement of our house. A great influence in Iowa has been the feeling of space, the clear skies and sun and atmosphere of encouragement to explore and develop new ideas." Autumn Leaves #2 mixed media "My work is mainly abstract with color defining the space and form. The inspiration comes from places, landscapes I have seen and many different influences in my life, which include people, conversations etc. Color to me is very important and a great stimulus in what I paint.
I use charcoal on large paper to help free my thinking and working. My career in England was Occupational Therapy, always with a particular interest in art and painting." artimages/04102005.jpg 250 320
2005-04-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=501 Dani Henke Dani Henke grew up in Wapello, Iowa, in the southeast corner of the state and is currently a graduating senior at Iowa State University.
Untitled wood with metal bearing 12" x 12" x 33" "I've spent most of my time [at Iowa State] in the ceramics studio. Something about the massive transformation from soft and pliable to hard and brittle fascinates me. Even in my beginning ceramic classes, many of my pieces incorporated other media. I took classes in fabric manipulation, wood carving, and metals to gain a better understanding of the materials I choose to incorporate with ceramics. I've always had a love for art, and have been drawn to working three dimensionally. Texture... it's all about texture." artimages/04112005.jpg 350 237
2005-04-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=502 Corrine Smith "My subject matter is a combination of organic and geometric form. The blending of the two reveals ambiguous spatial relationships with a compostion. The thoughts and decisions I am making are the pulling together of my own artistic expressions. I rely on my personal experiences of the world to create. My largest source of applicable information is from the preceding painting. Posture Series #31 mixed media 18" x 24" One of my considerations is to create a powerful composition. I am interested in the place between form and space and I often reverse the positive with the negative. Rendering the dimension of organic and geometric form is the underlying structure of my work. Consistently dealing the this notion, my forms are stylized and function as flat shapes instead of realistic representations. The more familiar I become with these froms, the more possibilities I discover. I am interested in the concept of opposites.
The use of opposites can create a dynamic quality revealing high contrast and tension. I am always striving for an aesthetic surprise. My inner feelings are a key element of my color and medium choice.
My work is growing in closer touch with my being. The evolution of my art is a slow, natural, additive process. My art is a reflection of my life. The attitudes, symbols and complexity of my life have become visible is my art. I do not precieve any of my work as a end in itself. From each piece springs new ideas. My goal, to date, is to keep an open mind, expand my perception and continue to create. " artimages/04122005.jpg 350 263
2005-04-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=503 loana Mamali loana Mamali has graduated in architecture from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Since 1990, when she and her husband, a social psychologist, are living in the USA, she worked as a drafter-designer. Hibiscus Water Color 18x24 2004 After enjoying five years in Iowa City in 1995 they moved in Dubuque, Iowa. loana is an amateur artist, using watercolor medium. She is participating in Roundtree Gallery-Platteville, Wl exhibitions. In April 2003 she also displayed as 'Artist of the month' some of her paintings to Clare Bank, Platteville artimages/04132005.jpg 250 357
2005-04-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=504 Larry Menderhall Photography has been one of my main interests in life, it began as a high school hobby and transformed into an important job skill during my newspaper career. After leaving journalism and taking art classes, I began concentrating on landscape photography. I currently work for The University of Iowa as a Program Assistant.
Superior Morning photograph 2004 Waiting for a sunrise with only the dew and a few chirping birds for company or following a sunset in a wilderness area is a very precious experience. For me these quiet places are a respite from the chaotic pace of life, which seems to leave us all wondering whether we are coming or going.
I didn't feel this way when I began landscape photography. The landscape was simply something to shoot. But that changed as my appreciation for these quiet places grew. It also changed my approach to photography I began looking for places that were quiet rather than just pretty. My enjoyment comes when I'm successful in communicating the quiet of a particular location in a photograph. artimages/04142005.jpg 350 220
2005-04-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=505 Margaret R. Polson Untitled mixed media, 35.3 x 27 in. "My interest in layering visual material can be given effective expression through foil stamped printmaking, an innovative fine art printmaking process. I believe that this approach is a metaphor for life. We experience an event, than as we encounter other experiences, the meaning of the first grows deeper or is given fresh intepretation. Giving visual form to these deepening experiences is a challenge. Rendering the object or experience as completely as possible helps; then it is a matter of learning what to leave out. A telling line, shape, or color can awaken a mood, an event, or an observation without the entire object being present. When this occurs, the visual form resonates with a strong sense of tightness and the artist and observer share in the recognition." artimages/04152005.jpg 250 349
2005-04-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=506 Tina Delia Almost from the moment I first picked up a camera, I have been utilizing self-portraiture as my favorite means of expression. As a one-time theater student, I was trained to use my physicality to express myself emotionally. Enmeshed photograph 10 x 8 in. In effect, I photograph “the outside of the inside of me.†Naked, inside and out. I recently found it necessary to expand my process to include one additional figure. I tend to shoot on impulsive inspiration and I began to find it impossible to express everything in my head with only my own form with which to work. However, regardless of whose form I am utilizing, my preference is not to show faces or, when including them is unavoidable, to blur them or show only the profile. My intent is to allow the viewer the opportunity to inhabit the prints. To place themselves inside of them. To find or learn something about themselves that might otherwise not have occurred to them. Just as I learn something new about myself with every picture I make. artimages/04162005.jpg 255 323
2005-04-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=507 Kee-Ho Yuen Brooch 3x3x1 "We are living in a world that is changing at an extremely fast pace. We are witnessing great developments ar changes in science, economy, social structures and many other fields. However, regardless of these develop and changes, I believe basic human emotions remain the same. I use my work to express my fascination with the psychological nature of time and how perceive it. I try to express in my pieces that beauty and youthfulness will eventually become yesterday's news. We live in a society that overly glorifies beauty and youthfulness. In the brooch (see image of baby brooch), I integrate the ABS plastic (made from a 3-D printer) gold, silver, brass and aluminum by using the same lazertran paper transfer technique that I use in the "Egon Schiele" necklace. I want to point out in this piece that the love for food and sex is just part of the nature; but 1 human beings there are some things more important beyond those natural instincts." artimages/04172005.jpg 350 291
2005-04-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=508 Tom Wegman Tom and Kathy Wegman met in 1969 and have been married since 1987. Their Artistic focus on beading is a of their common interest in collecting Native American crafts Tom began beading ten years ago, Kathy five, then, they have developed a strong artistic partnership. They have shown their work together at the Smithson Craft Show in Washington, DC, 13 Moons Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and the Snyderman Gallery in Philadelpr PA. Although they both create beaded sculptural objects, Kathy and Tom have styles each their own Beaded Spool mixed media Tom and Kathy collect antique American Indian beaded pieces, Mexican folk art both new and old. The two display pieces at craft shows as well as buy pieces from other art shows such as the outdoor show in Iowa City. They enjoy shopping at antique shops and shows both for old pieces to add to our collection as well as looking for items to bead. artimages/04182005.jpg 350 298
2005-04-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=509 Elizabeth Shriver Elizabeth Shriver is a native lowan and a 1987 graduate of the University of Iowa. Three Sectional Vase ceramic About her work, Elizabeth writes, "My interest in ceramics dates back to my first studio ceramics course in 1985. I work with clay to create an array of graceful, organic forms. These pieces are made though a variety of hand-building methods such as slab-building, coiling, pinching, and forming with molds. Rarely relying on glaze, I use textures, stains and colored clay to add visual and tactile interest. I am drawn toward neutral earth tones, and my work reflects the natural landscape, plant and undersea life that are my inspiration. The curving lines of nature inherent in my work generate an illusion of movement, giving each piece an almost lifelike quality. A successful piece is one that begs to be touched as well as explored visually." artimages/04192005.jpg 225 374
2005-04-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=510 Louise Rauh Louise Rauh has received a BFA, an MA, and an MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the University of Iowa. Fire Poppy aluminum 5.5 x 5.5 x 2.8 in "I see landscape in all types of surface. I tend to isolate small portion of these and then expand upon the minutia to fill my pieces. Life in transformation, with inevitable growth, deterioration and regeneration are articulated as seasons and situations pass. Working with several layers of color on a deeply etched or hammered surface I attempt to narrow the line between delicacy and durability. My intention is to convey a visual impression of fragility grounded in the inherent strength of materils used." artimages/04202005.jpg 350 302
2005-04-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=511 Elena Yeo Elena Yeo has earned her B.F.A. from New Mexico State University, New Mexico and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 2000. She is currently teaching at a community college in Arizona. Unseen Path ceramic and wood 34" x 24", 2004 "The human form is always the foundation of my art. I use the human figure as a symbol because it can direct or evoke individual and shared human experience. In many of my prints, I integrate Chinese pictographs with human forms. The Chinese characters that I choose are based on Tao and Buddhism philosophies that favor universal compassion, individualism, freedom, modern familial roles and personal happiness. In my work, the marriage of handmade papers, ancient Chinese pictographs and human figures nestled in the womb of a circle reflects my understanding and acceptance of the inevitable, harmonious and continuous nature of life. My life is a circle, a concept as well as a process." artimages/04212005.jpg 225 331
2005-04-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=512 International Collage Research And Production Team From February 27 to April 23, 2005 the International Collage Research and
Production Team has set up a temporary laboratory at Arts Iowa City. Located at 129 E. Washington Street [on the lower level of the historic Jefferson Building], the laboratory is the site of creative research and production by the team and the visiting public. Click Here For International Collage Research and Production Team webpage http://www.icrapt.com/ In a press release they write: "As part of their artists' residency the team invites the public to participate with and observe the Midwest Regional research and production unit on Fridays and Saturdays from 12-4 pm until April 23.
The International Collage Research and Production Team is a small group of individuals (originally based in Basel, Switzerland but now scattered around the globe) who are devoted to inquiry into collage as art form, cultural phenomenon, and modern lifestyle.
Their cross-disciplinary mission is to produce collage objects, activities and situations while studying the cultural impact of objects in society. Like superheroes, each artist/researcher in the group draws upon specific skills that help the team conduct its research. Areas of study include clothing collage, mental collage, sound collage, video/film collage, software collage, collaborative collage, traditional collage, collage preservation, collage dissemination, urban and rural collage tactics, non-adhesive collage, and modular collage. The exhibition includes installations, performances, sound, video, sculpture and works on paper.
The International Collage Team will begin a parade in the pedestrian mall at 6 pm, Friday April 22nd. The parade will filter around the downtown area from 6 until 7pm with various factions of the team arriving from other locations. Following the parade, a closing reception will convene in the Arts Iowa City gallery, Jefferson Building Basement from 7 pm until 9 pm." artimages/04222005.jpg 500 185
2005-04-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=513 Susan White Susan White is on the Painting faculty in the School of Art & Art History at The University of Iowa. Anatomy of Sharing acrylic and enamel on canvas 82" x 66" 2004 About the work the artists writes: "Presented on a painted field, these emblems are at once anatomical and spiritual as they slip back and forth between references to the body and images of Buddhas and Virgins of Guadalupe. The images can also become botanical, insect-like, or mutations of some hybrid futuristic organism. These equivocal figures mark the precarious intersection between my intentions and the unique constellation of responses brought to the work by the viewer. The controlling objective of this new body of work is to press further into the exploration of the boundaries between the decorative impulse and the much darker, emotional, philosophical sources." artimages/04232005.jpg 225 296
2005-04-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=514 Craig Dietrich Charing Cross digital photograph 36" x 27" 2005 The collaborative new media team Mary Agnes Krell + Craig Dietrich is currently in a year-long production looking at the incidents and accidents of urban fabric in America and Europe, of which the included photograph is part. The project catalogues and redefines the nature of the lens in a century where technology obsoletes before a photo can be printed, depicting through site and sound the robust natural collisions of human form, skyscraper, and sidewalk structures. artimages/04242005.jpg 350 263
2005-04-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=515 Cathy Palmer Cathy Palmer received her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Dakota in 1995. Today, she is living and working in Sioux City, Iowa. Her work has been seen all throughout Iowa.
Violations, Deviations, Exceptions oil on canvas 40" x 47" 2003 About her piece, Cathy writes, "These paintings - through layering, destroying, seeking and renewal - are trying to capture the vibrant feeling of nature and its innate spirituality. There is evidence of struggle, while striving to maintain a feeling of spontaneity and soul. The mystic language of color and abstraction is paramount because of its embodiment of things non-limiting and mysterious." artimages/04252005.jpg 225 265
2005-04-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=516 George Walker George Walker currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa. Sail on series Mixed media 2004 About his piece, George Walker writes, "The Imagery I have used in my paintings is derived from a great interest in early Greek and roman history. For over fifty years I have continued to visit the Countries that border the Mediterranean Sea and were once part of that earlier period. What I paint is not a literal interpretation, but rather, a very personalized version of all that I have absorbed during this ongoing fascination into another time in history." artimages/04262005.jpg 325 271
2005-04-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=517 Ed Noveshen Noveshen is a stone carver, who has been drawing and practicing several forms of art all of his life. At age 27 he discovered the art form of sculpture, he stumbled upon his new love interest accidentally. He was standing beside a stone that I thought resembled a cat. Turning to his human counterpart he says," That looks like a cat." So then he carried it home and carved it with a flat head screw driver and a claw hammer. As he recalls, there is a good chance that it looked more like a cat before he got his hands on it, but in any case he learned a lot about his relationship with stone. Woman Sculpture 1992 Ed studied off and on at universities, but learned the majority of what he knows through talking to other artists and experiencing things for himself. "I enjoy the process of stone carving, that's why I do it. The whole process relaxes and soothes me." Carving without any apprehension of a finished product, he focuses on the sound the stone makes, through this communication he is guided by the sounds and instructed on what to do. This process often results in a shape or form that sometimes makes sense but most often does not. Regardless, the hope is that people enjoy the art and use it to bring warmth and meaning to their lives. artimages/04272005.jpg 180 455
2005-04-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=518 Donald Colin As an artist with a deeply rooted respect for both the Eastern and Western traditions of Craft, I find "use" to be a very important aspect in most of my work. Whether I am creating a functional object, a sculptural object not intended to function in a traditional sense, a piece of jewelry for everyday use, or a site specific piece, my intention is for the work to engage the viewer, not just visually, buy physically. I favor working directly with my hands, or with hand tools. !t is natural for my hand-on working methods to translate into a tactile experience for the viewer, or participant. Scarlet Fold Fan Sculpture 1993 A frequent trend in my jewelry work is the tendency towards miniature site specificity, or as I like to refer to it: body specific. A body specific piece (or sculptural wearable piece) does not typically come with a pedestal, as a small-scale sculpture typically does. Instead a body specific piece interacts with the human form. artimages/04282005.jpg 150 438
2005-04-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=519 William Nowysz William currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa Landscape Watercolor 1994 William Nowysz writes,"Watercolors as a snapshot. Whenever traveling I started to do fast impression watercolor sketches to record the moment, generally of buildings and landscapes. The same scene different days and times of the year, changes of mood and light. Capturing these changes in the Iowa landscapes, that are subtle, dramatic and beautiful allows me to know the place I live better." artimages/04292005.jpg 350 144
2005-04-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=520 Bekah Ash Bekah Ash received her B.A. in Art Education from the University of Iowa, and continues to live in Iowa City, while teaching in Washington, Iowa. Red Chair Girl oil on canvas Bekah paints fictional characters with oils on canvas. Each piece begins with a charcoal drawing on the canvas to help her get a feel for the character and composition. This drawing serves as a foundation for each painting, but doesn't often make it to completion. Usually the first painting won't work out, in which case, Ash will begin a new drawing directly on top of the old, resulting in different layers of under painting showing through the finished top layer. This relationship between the layers of paint ironically adds another level to what is already happening with the characters in her work. artimages/04302005.jpg 350 237
2005-05-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=521 Gene Anderson Gene Anderson received his degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois in 1958. He is a licensed architect in Illinois and Iowa, and has been an Iowa resident for most of his life. Bang/Flying Mobile Mixed Media 40" x 36" x 22" "In the past several years, my work has found focus on defining basic forms that relate ti unconscious memory and sessitivity at the core of human experience. Through my travels in Africa, Europe, and the United States, I have observed and studied prehistoric, ancient, medieval, and recent forms that humans have produced to express their feelings. In most cases, these forms relate on a subconscious level and are felt to be positive, humanistic, peaceful, uncommplicated, refined, and resolved. Consequently my work is evolving into a very basic expression of human scale forms." artimages/05012005.jpg 250 334
2005-05-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=522 Alicia Brown Alicia currently lives and works in Iowa City. Beautiful Love mixed media 12 x 14 in. "I view my work as dances that speak to image, color, light, shape and rhythm. I usually have no pre-determined subject in mind—it evolves in the process of creating. An 'emotional tone' within the work must resonate with me as I allow the work to emerge. Major influences are the movement and dynamism that lies in all life, and in my personal explorations I like to work with this subtlety and complexity. Ultimately, each work is an expression of my person, sometimes straightforward, sometimes elusive and each carrying with it the stamp of my experiences." artimages/05022005.jpg 250 363
2005-05-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=523 Alexander Bojadschan Toy water color 38.5" x 28.5" Alexander Bojadschan explores the bueaty of St. Petersburg city by using the two contrary elements that are intermingled on canvasses: the transparent brightness of southern sun and the mysterious theatrical charisma of St Petersberg. Southern cheerfulness ignited with the cool south explodes into beauty that penetrates the senses. In order to capture the complete essence of St. Petersberg, Bojadschan uses a principal well know from collage technique, of merging different contexts that were torn from their original context in order to create a unified partnership. The marriage of the different materials are then combined with different painting techniques that create a breathtaking composition. artimages/05032005.jpg 250 365
2005-05-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=524 Judy Gray Born and raised in the Quad Cities, she attended the University of Iowa while raising her family, later getting a degree in art from Augustana College. Uprooted to Denver CO, she began a fun filled work schedule while continuing her studies at the Denver Art Student League, The Colorado Institute of Art, and Loveland Academy. I Wish I Were A Cowboy pastel 2002 "My work is impressionistic in both creation and outlook. Capturing a feeling or a moment in time with the varied uses of color have become a passion, an accomplishment to be honed and worked. This process is a concept of both refinement and simplicity. Art is within the emotions of us all, we are surrounded by it in all that we do. It is my purpose to affect an emotion in my art, your art, and in our meeting." artimages/05042005.jpg 225 357
2005-05-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=525 Gretchen Caracas Gretchen Caracas is a graduate of the University of Colorado and studied at the Brooklyn Museum School and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. An adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History from 1973 through 1992, Gretchen has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Spain, and Italy. Summer Painting acrylic on canvas 1994 Her subject is the landscape of her two homes-one in Ibiza, Spain and the other in Iowa City. While some of her paintings depict urban scenes, many represent garden-like interiors. She often combines elements from her studio with fruits, vegetables, household objects, and, on occasion, animals to form still life vignettes. Whether inspired by Spain or Iowa City, the paintings communicate Caracas's intimate familiarity with and emotional attachment to her environment. artimages/05052005.jpg 270 310
2005-05-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=526 Adam Fleming Stump wood, stone, copper 2002 "Sculpting is telling a story as it relates to the space in which we live. Not all spaces are created equal. Some sculptures are meant for a holy place; a window or entry into a home, a garden, a library or music room, or perhaps quite literally a holy place of mediation or a chapel. Other pieces find a less sublime spot in the world. Your desk, for example, needs a caution against excessive worry, or your bathroom, between the mirror and the scales, a reminder to laugh each day. All of these are the things, which make us successful and beautiful. If I do not retain a sense of playfulness, my reward is bitterness, frustration, and defeat, but if I recognize my smallness up front, the humbling, imperfect business is not a curse but a strong sense of my place in this world. a place of peace and laughter. I hope that my work serves as a reminder of these ideals: truth, humility, and vulnerability through playfulness-that is, simplicity." artimages/05062005.jpg 225 340
2005-05-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=527 David Fleming David currently resides in Fairfield, Iowa. For more of his works, he can be contacted at martige@iowatelecom.net. July Fourth Tulips acrylic on board 2004 "What interests me is the intensity that isolated objects assume when approached as subjects for drawing or painting. There is nothing still about the life of a vase of flowers on a table. Perhaps this is why there are so many awkward angles, vivid colors, and unstable perspectives in my paintings—a coffee cup just won't sit still. Simplicity of form, line color-yet with an infusion of life. If I can make the viewer see the familiar in a new way, then I'm happy. Particularly if it gives them a new sense of life, some new sense of intensity that is joyful. I like working in acrylic because it demands that you paint quickiy. You have to be alert because it dries so fast. But this also allows for almost instant repainting and layering." artimages/05072005.jpg 225 302
2005-05-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=528 Abdala Faye Abdala currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa. Where Am I Standing acrylic on board 2004 "Art is my voice and fingers, the tools I use to manifest the depths of the unknown and the subconscious mind. My art is the connection between the known and unknown, or conscious and unconscious-translating my perception of this crossroad. Therefore, it respects no boundaries, no conventional representations. In respecting the way of inspiration, there is no place for convention becase its sole purpose is to reflect creativity and respect the process of art, which is free. My art has no identity but its own, meaning it does not fit one category or definition, whether this is style, medium, or measurement, it transforms with time as I do my work and display, therefore, where I've been, who I am. This is who I am right now." artimages/05082005.jpg 250 288
2005-05-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=529 Manuel Coradin I believe that an artist's work is a reflection of his inner vision. I am constantly searching for light or truth to reveal my inner vision more clearly.In the process of assessing each of my pieces, I rely on intuition and feeling rather than intellectual analysis. My forms not only contain or imply the processes within, but they reveal and celebrate their unforlding nature. Bottle Making Machine ceramic 2001 In my work, I find that juxtaposed, abstract, organic, and geometric forms emerge, while concentrated areas of color appear to penetrate the pieces. The interaction creates a dynamic relationship between surface and form. I find that through observation, exploration, and experimentation, I get new and unique objects. For me, it is most rewarding to explore new possibilities that I have not previously imagined. When I take risks my work becomes more interesting. artimages/05092005.jpg 330 315
2005-05-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=530 Naomi Kark Schedl Naomi Kark Schedl received her B.F.A and M.F.A. in Painting from School of Art at Yale University. Other post graduate work has been done at American University, University of Iowa, and Penland School of Art and Crafts. She is currently living in Iowa City, Iowa.
Two Trees = Five Doors oil, photographs 48" x 46" 2002 About her work, Naomi writes, "My paintings have moved from river landscapes to woodlands which now include figurative aspects. I am also interested in social comment. Encroaching Woodland [another piece] is a comment on the destruction of woodland for a development. I therefore used a strong diagonal line for the window in contrast to the movement of the foliage. Similarly, Two Trees = Five Doors is an ironic comment on cutting down trees. In both I have used the reality of photographs against the hand of the artist and the enjoyment of the painting process." artimages/05102005.jpg 340 308
2005-05-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=531 Keith Achepohl Before retiring in the spring of 2004, Keith was the head of the University of Iowa printmaking program. He has been appointed to many visiting artist and lecturer positions in the last forty years. His work is in more than 80 museum, institutional and corporate collections around the world. Beach Seen 262 ink drawings, chine coile onto intaglio prints 8 x 8 Keith Achepohl's prints are investigations of nature that feature layers of rich textures and earthy hues. Many of his prints reflect his extensive exploration of the Mediterranean region, which he visits yearly as part of his duties as director of the University of Iowa Summer in Venice program. This is especially evident in his recent work, which centers on the sea. Plant life and shells float on textured backgrounds that resemble beaches and water. The dream-like quality of these works is amplified in several instances with the appearance of a hand, face or foot among the oceanic elements. This disembodied figure is labeled Narcissus in one work, an allusion to the Greek god who was in love with his own image. artimages/05112005.jpg 350 327
2005-05-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=532 Charles Barth Charles received his undergraduate degree from Chicago State University. He holds a Doctorate in Art Education from Illinois State University and continued post-doctoral studies at the University of Iowa. He was Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids from 1972 to 2003. Atras Decada Hombre Fuerte Hay Una Mujer Mas Fuerte color intaglio 24 x 18 My prints involve images from Mexico and popular cultures such as Kitsch, current fads and fashions, pop stars, t.v. images, films, rock music and disco. The images are expressed in a "fantastic" style and are abstracted, exaggerated and satirized. I am interested in color and light and try to express the 'brassy' sights and sounds of the environment. The end result involves bright or garish colors, exotic images and feeling of light moving over the surfaces. I have a strong interest in art history and often incorporate historical art images and symbolism. artimages/05122005.jpg 250 336
2005-05-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=533 Larry Zox Zox received his education at Oklahoma University and Drake University. He studied with George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has received grants from the National Council of the Arts and the Ester and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation. He has been an Artist-in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Dartmouth College, and Yale University. Blue & White gouache and acrylic on arches paper 40 x 60 A native of Des Moines now living in Connecticut, Zox is an abstract artist who utilizes color and space in a unique way. He utilizes color combinations with references to nature, music, or the city that surrounds him. But often there is a black section that is placed in the work for the sake of the painting’s aesthetic alone. The work ranges from the harmonious to the unexpected. All the work is done with a tremendous amount of technical control. artimages/05132005.jpg 350 213
2005-05-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=534 Amy Worthen Amy Worthen is a well known Des Moines printmaker and scholar in the art of printmaking. Her engravings, often architectural in content, combine humor, history and a dedication to expressing the full effect of the printmaking medium. All of her compositions are rendered in fine line detail. She is perhaps best known for her Capitol and Terrace Hill series which combine local landmarks with fanciful characters and perspectives. Amy is currently working on prints influenced by her time spent abroad in Italy. Iowa Alphabet Q hand-colored engraving 4 x 3 Amy is known nationally and internationally and has been exhibited in shows in major cities all over the U.S. and included in several shows in Europe. artimages/05142005.jpg 212 287
2005-05-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=535 Blair Benz After taking a BA in Psychology from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979, Benz returned in 1987 for another BA with a major in Art, and then in 1991, he graduated with an MA with a major in drawing. Between 1987 and 1996, he also served as Acting Director of the Gallery of Art and Adjunct instructor in the Art Dept. at UNI in Cedar Falls as well as Art Director for the North American Review.
Untitled (42) charcoal on arches paper 7x6 With imagery suggesting 19th century prints, Blair Benz demonstrates highly polished skills in the difficult charcoal medium. In this series of refined, small pictures, he offers some masterful works.
Works of Blair L. Benz have been shown in the Gallery of Art in Eugene, Oregon, in the Mayor’s Choice Exhibition in the Metropolitan Galleries in Cedar Falls, in the Iowa Artists Exhibit at the Des Moines Art Center, and in the Midlands Invitational 2000 at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. artimages/05152005.jpg 275 311
2005-05-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=536 Carola Wincenti Carola holds a Master of Photography degree from the Foto-Akademie Munich, Germany. She has worked as a free-lance photographer since 1986. Her collaborative efforts have led her to work with a host of organizations, including museums and newspapers. Because of the diverse nature of her work, Carola’s photographs have been used in a variety of publications, including art books and scientific journals. Her work has been exhibited in Munich, Rottach-Egern/Tegernsee, and Berlin, Germany. It has also been exhibited in Massachusetts and Iowa. Blue Line fujichrome 43 x 43 "In the unmanipulated beauty of nature I found the possibility to bring forth a new aspect in my photography. The works are images of structures and colors that nature and time have painted. New growth, the relativity of size or simply the fascination of nature in a moment of transition is represented in these pictures." artimages/05162005.jpg 350 343
2005-05-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=537 Gary Bowling In 1983, Bowling left the security of academic life at Westmar College for full-time studio work near Lamar, Missouri where now —working from photographic notes —he produces his large oil paintings which go regularly into exhibitions throughout the country. Although, occasionally, he still conducts workshops, Bowling focuses on his canvases. This ability to maintain a rigorous schedule is manifested in his exceptionally long lists of exhibitions, publications, and professional credits. Study: April 1, 2004 oil on paper 26 x 41 One of the Midwest’s most prolific painters, Gary Bowling recently moved away from the roadways and farm fields of Iowa into deeper, less populated territory. These latest works invite the viewer to enter them as an early explorer or Huckleberry Finn might have, finding a path along clear streams rushing through lush, sun-sprinkled woodlands or winding into open marshlands. artimages/05172005.jpg 350 215
2005-05-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=538 John Vruwink John taught all facets of art for over 30 years at Central College in Pella, Iowa, and is now retired. He received his B.A. from Central College and his M.F.A. from Drake University. He also studied at the Rietvelt Academy in Amsterdam and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. His work has been shown at the Des Moines Art Center, The Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City, and the Brunnier Art Museum in Ames in addition to several other venues throughout the Midwest. Gather Up the Fragments Form #8 blow glass, mixed media 52 x 20 x 10 John’s sculptures are created of the unlikely combination of stone, steel, and glass. The glass component is suspended from or attached to a hunk of limestone, creating a visual balance between the opposing sculptural forms of rough limestone blocks and smooth, curvilinear pieces of blown glass. artimages/05182005.jpg 225 378
2005-05-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=539 Byron Yron Burford Born in the South, Burford came to Iowa to study with Grant Wood before World War II, then left to serve in the U.S. Air Force, and later returned to take his M.F.A. in Iowa City, where he settled down to capture his semi-remembered, semi-imagined world through paintings and prints and to teach decade after decade of grateful students. Two Showgirls giclee 18 x 13 If America holds a living counter-part of Frederico Fellini, it is Iowa’s venerable visual artist Byron Burford. Both larger-than-life creators, ebullient bon vivants, observers of the human condition, and both deeply fascinated with the worlds of circuses, legendary entertainers, and jazz, these giant talents both captured the innocence, lyricism, gaudy diversity, and pathos of their generations before and after World War II. artimages/05192005.jpg 250 346
2005-05-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=540 Suzanne Skon Suzanne, an Des Moines native, now lives in Minneapolis. Her work has been shown at Premier Gallery, Gallery 96 Art Center, the Minneapolis Insitute of Arts, as well as at several other venues in the Midwest. She also serves on the board of the Studio@700 Artists’ Affiliation. Suzanne has a B.A. from the University of Iowa and studied at the University of Minnesota Split Rock Arts Program. Wild Lupine acrylic, oil on board 34 x 44 Suzanne’s research of roots at the Department of Natural Resources and her field observation of flowers provided a scientific starting point for her creations. Spidery clusters of roots take on earthy colors, which balance the vibrant hues of flower varieties such as blazing stars, blooming sallys, and lupines. In several works, she juxtaposes delicate flowers and roots with images of heavy, decorative ironwork. artimages/05202005.jpg 350 267
2005-05-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=541 Mary Koenen Clausen Mary resides in Tipton, Iowa and has a B.F.A. from the University of Northern Iowa. She was part of the “Iowa Artists†show at the Des Moines Art Center in 1991 and has been in group shows in Kansas City, Boston, and New York as well as at the Davenport Art Museum and Augustana College in Rockford, Ill. Mary has had solo shows at Quad Cities Arts, Iowa City-Johnson County Arts Association, and Maharishi International University in Fairfield. Two Angels mixed media 41 x 30 She gathers her material from Italian magazines, 17th and 18th century Bibles, antique books, among other sources. Mary also uses photographs of her surroundings in her work. Her home and studio are full of paintings, photographs, wall hangings, dolls, and other collected objects, an environment that reflects the complexity of her works. artimages/05212005.jpg 250 376
2005-05-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=542 Jeanine Coupe Ryding Jeanine Ryding earned her BA at the University of Iowa, then took her Meisterschuler (MFA) in Berlin and taught in print departments in various college and universities before settling in Chicago where she enjoys wide respect in her field and pursues an evolving series of unique expressions in printmaking. Targets collage 12 x 9 In her new prints, Ryding no longer deals with single actions of figures in space, but rather abstract images derived from nature and from human tools. In her 2003 statement, she writes: I collect seeds, buds, blossoms and leaves … (which resemble) the human made world of diagrams, plumbing, and tools . . .(and) provide an endless parade of forms and functions . . . I am interested in bringing the 4th dimension (movement) into a 2 dimensional medium. Shapes swing, recede, draw nearer, or sway. Some are playful . . . and others more ominous and sculptural. In several her elegantly complex prints, the viewer, if relaxed, may have a sense of motion. artimages/05222005.jpg 225 319
2005-05-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=543 Pat Edwards Pat Edwards, an independent artist living in Iowa City, paints in oil and chooses familiar subjects, ranging from intimate backyard views to large canvases of country hillsides. Her smaller images prompt memories of peaceful summer days, and her manner of portraying light and shadow often suggests the mood and time of day. Both large and small works can be read easily from a distance, but they also reward the viewer who studies them at closer range. Some Trees oil on canvas 10 x 10 Pat earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in art from The University of Iowa. In addition to teaching, she also serves as an artist-in-residence through the Iowa Arts Council. Her work was recently featured in a one-person exhibition at the Dubuque Museum of Art and has work included in several corporate collections including Farm Bureau, Hubbell Realty, and Sprint headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. artimages/05232005.jpg 315 323
2005-05-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=544 Dan Powell Dan Powell currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, but taught photography at the University of Northern Iowa for several years. black & white photograph selenium toned 8 x 13 Dan's recent work is inspired by several trips to Europe where he studied the antiquities of Greece and Italy. His black and white photographs of partial ruins and statuary provide a base for such series as Traces In Passing and Classical Measures. Dan will often manipulate his images to a degree by sepia toning and other techniques. Both the black and white image and the toning accentuate his subject matter. Recent prints have taken on a diptych format, with two distinct images almost read as book pages. One image will often appear blurry or obscured while the other is in distinct focus. There is a mystery to his photographs that imply myth or stories from long ago, but they also contain a modern day narrative open for interpretation. artimages/05242005.jpg 350 266
2005-05-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=545 Carlos Ferguson The steady productivity of Carlos Ferguson since his BA degree from Grinnell College through his MA and MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa is impressive.
In less than a decade, he has completed a demanding program of study and produced a large body of work, as well as fulfilling teaching assignments at Berea College in Kentucky, Ithaca College in New York, Arrowmont School of Art and craft in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He now paints full-time in his studio in Northfield, Minnesota.
Series #1, Untitled I cyanotype & gum bichromate 8x8 From the small, lofty views in his earlier work delicately detailed scenes of interstate clover-leafs, distant landscapes, quiet winter streets set in solid walnut frames of his own construction, Ferguson’s recent vision has expanded. His large new oils depict the distant Busch Gardens under a moist sky, an urban swimming pool with swimmers’ heads bobbing in reflected blue light, a diner’s view of a large restaurant, or a passenger’s perspective from the back of a metropolitan bus. artimages/05252005.jpg 315 316
2005-05-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=546 Joseph Patrick Joseph Patrick is an artist from Iowa City and a long time professor of art at the University of Iowa. Glow oil on linen 48x32 His watercolors and oil paintings draw their inspiration from the life and landscape of Oaxaca, Mexico where he and his wife Genie spend their summers. In his oil paintings, Joe highlights hidden beauty in the tarps and boxes prevalent in outdoor Mexican markets. The domestic side of Mexico comes through in his watercolors, which feature patios and gardens full of plant life rendered in his exacting style. Joe describes his work “as being like stages for human action... past, present and future.†He wants to convey an awareness of time, both passing and standing still. The Mexican streets, buildings and gardens become metaphors for the lives passing through them. Joe received his B.F.A. from the University of Georgia and his M.F.A. from the University of Colorado. He has taught at the University of Iowa since 1965 and served as head of the drawing program at the School of Art and Art History. artimages/05262005.jpg 225 357
2005-05-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=547 Sarah Grant Schooled first in Colorado, then at the University of Iowa, where Sarah earned first her BFA in Intaglio Printmaking in 1976, her MA in printmaking in 1978, then her MFA in painting in 1980, Sarah is a talented designer and skilled in a range of techniques beyond those usually apparent in her paintings. Over a period of 20 years, she has taught as guest artist and mentor in many public schools and colleges in Iowa. Arrangement acrylic on paper 20 x 20 A “colorist†with a lively sense of design, Sarah produces abstracts depicting a decorative record of emotional journeys —sometimes sunny, sometimes turbulent —almost always dynamic. These works consistently appeal to both young and mature collectors.
Her honors and commissions include: Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant nominee finalist; Visiting Artist Residency for the Iowa Arts Council; Kirkwood Hotel Mural Commission; and the Jerome Foundation Invitational Grant. Sarah’s works hang in over 23 permanent collections. artimages/05272005.jpg 325 327
2005-05-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=548 Gary Olson Olson has been the subject of a one-person exhibition at Central College and has been included in the Iowa Artist Exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center. He received his M.F.A. from George Washington University and his B.A. in Art Education from Central College in Pella. Untitled XXXXVIII assemblage, mixed media 19 x 15 Gary Olson is a teacher and artist from Mitchellville, Iowa. He creates collages or box constructions that mysteriously layer bits of wire, mesh and objects that together create a "floating drawing." His works are abstract studies but often incorporate found objects such as chalk, fishing lures and dice that function on both a formal and symbolic level. artimages/05282005.jpg 275 328
2005-05-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=549 Bill Innes A 1988 graduate of Drake University with a BFA and majors in graphic design and printmaking, Bill showed his work in exhibitions consistently beginning as early as 1978 and has been with Olson-Larsen Galleries since 1994. His work attracts a diverse range of admirers; from veteran art patrons to young first-time collectors. Trees By The Water oil pastel/stick 25 x 20 Within the last several years, Bill Innes has moved into a subtle and progressive series of images while exploring variations in technique, usually in his favorite medium of oil pastels. From simple, densely layered mound like forms —almost childlike in simplicity but not in execution —he moved to images of fish, palm trees, and increasingly abstract landscapes that contain simple land forms, bulbous clouds, and aspen trees with white trunks. In addition, Bill has created still lifes depicting elaborate flower bouquets using his characteristic palette of rich blues, yellows, greens, and reds. artimages/05292005.jpg 275 361
2005-05-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=550 Dan Mcnamara Dan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work has been seen in exhibitions in Des Moines and Minneapolis and can be found in several private collections. New American Paintings featured his work in the 2000 Midwest Edition. Circus Scene I oil pastel on paper 30 x 23 A Des Moines native, Dan create’s lush monoprint landscapes. Using a subdued palette consisting mostly of various shades of green, he depicts river and pond banks lined with rocks, tranquil bodies of water, and towering trees. Each work radiates a certain sense of serenity and harmony within nature.
Dan says of his work “I am a firm believer in the study and reflection on the work of the masters so as to build upon a firm foundation. In my own work I strive for balance and harmony coupled with past and present ideas regardless of the subject matter.†artimages/05302005.jpg 248 338
2005-05-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=551 Genie Patrick Genie received her B.F.A from the University of Georgia and her M.A. from the University of Colorado. Genie has shown her work extensively in Iowa and surrounding regions and is included in the collections of Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International and The Iowa Medical Society. Late Light oil on linen 40 x 60 Genie Patrick is an independent artist from Iowa City. All of her work is based on landscape - that of Oaxaca, Mexico where she spends her summers or the rural areas around Iowa City where she lives the rest of the year. Her oil paintings capture the effects of light and atmosphere on lush, Mexican hills or young corn in the fields of Iowa. The build up of glazed layers of paint render all of her subjects with a soft and simplified tranquillity. artimages/05312005.jpg 350 231
2005-06-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=235 Dan Mason Dan Mason received his Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the University of Iowa. He currently teaches at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota. His work is in the corporate collections of Norwest, Star Tribune, General Mills, Dayton Hudson, and Unisys, to name a few. Seaward Hill IV oil on linen 45" x 54" He creates images in which architecture and landscape interact. These are settings that suggest scared sites, temple precincts, city squares, and landscape vistas. Both the landscape and architectural elements are radically simplified, to express an underlying geometry and sense of order.
These paintings are also experiments with form, color, texture, and light. Mason considers these as colorists paintings, because of the role of color as a subject in itself. The forms are defined by laying down oil color in the form of glazes. Many thin, transparent layers of oil color are applied in order to arrive at the final color and surface. “I’m looking for harmony and dissonance,†says Dan of his work. artimages/06012005.jpg 350 291
2005-06-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=236 Mark Peterson Mark Peterson brings formal training in traditional disciplines to his own work as a painter. Originally from West Des Moines, Peterson earned his B.F.A. in painting from Drake University in Des Moines under the influence of Jules Kirschenbaum, at the same time he worked as studio assistant to Jack Wilkes. Confirming his skills in drawing and painting through his work with these two exacting masters of realism, Peterson then spent the Summer of 1996 at the Taller Cultural School of Art in Santiago de Cuba. There in workshops and discussions, he interacted with artists from Cuba. Returning to Iowa, he served as instructor of art at the Des Moines Art Center and at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Structures II mixed media on canvas 36" x 34" Of his paintings, Peterson writes: Structures in my work are not objects immediately readable, nor do they exist in a place you can visit. My hope is to draw viewers into the paintings with these techniques (of shadow, texture, and reflection) and then free them of responsibility to figure it out. In creating the objects and compositions, I use small pieces of distressed paper torn into random shapes. I then arrange these pieces on a small color field until the composition feels complete, then paint into the objects and background defining new spatial relations. I find this way of working results in more organic and spontaneous images. artimages/06022005.jpg 300 319
2005-06-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=237 Sheryl Ellinwood After "a strict religious upbringing, coupled with a 12 year business career, raised ... doubts about values ...practices ...and underlying beliefs of the society that had instilled those values," Ellinwood turned to art. Assisted by scholarships, she graduated from the University of Toledo with a BFA in 1991. Then, with a graduate fellowship to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, she pursued her MFA, graduating in 1994, Coming to Iowa to visit her father, she liked the area around Lake Red Rock and decided to settle and build her studio where she sustains herself as a professional glass-blower part of each year, then concentrates on her art as a sculptor the remaining months. The Birth of Faith steel, glass, mixed media 40" x 6" x 5" Sheryl Ellinwood writes: "First and foremost, art is communication, not a display of technical mastery, but the conveyance of an idea." artimages/06032005.jpg 225 581
2005-06-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=238 Betty Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons received both her B.F.A. and M.A. from the University of Iowa. Her work has been included in the Des Moines Art Center's Iowa Artists Exhibition as well as other regional galleries and museums. Untitled X watercolor 16 x 20 Betty Fitzsimmons is an artist and art educator from Des Moines. Betty's art, whether it takes the form of a mixed media work on paper or a handmade book, symbolizes human interaction on a spiritual and unconscious level. Drawn to native cultures, Betty often derives inspiration from Indian folktales and history. In her works she will often blend cultural ideas into her own artistic interpretation. She describes her work as a search for depicting "the spiritual characteristics of two individuals that strike me as equal--equivalent--but who on the surface are dramatically different." Her longtime interest in Robert Scott's exploration of the Antarctic has produced several series of artwork inspired by the explorer's diaries and journals. artimages/06042005.jpg 350 256
2005-06-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=239 Timothy Frerichs Born in Forest City, in 1965, Frerichs earned his BA with Departmental Distinction at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, then took an MA at the University of Iowa and stayed on to earn his MFA in 1991. He went to the Universitaet Osnabrueck in Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. He a Visiting Artist at Truman State University in Kirksville, and is now an Assistant Professor of Art at Central College in Pella. Chestnut (4) collage on handmade paper, encaustic, white pencil 18 x 19 Of his work, Timothy Frerichs writes: "My imagery has developed out of my interest in historical and cultural views and perceptions of nature."
His drawings clearly follow from these interests in nature and attitudes pertaining to it. His recent collection of forty botanical studies, mounted as a composite, derives from a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation for study in the Linnaeus gardens at Uppsala University in Sweden. Frerichs appeals to those interested in botanical subjects and drawing as a tool of observation, and those who value the art of the line, calligraphic or representational. artimages/06052005.jpg 350 340
2005-06-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=240 Jane Gilmor Professor Jane Gilmor says that certain works are intended "to create a ritualistic ambience not unlike that of some bizarre roadside shrine. I am interested in both the construction and deconstruction of myth and in the deeper relationships between myth, experience, and culture.†Jane Gilmor, more than most artists, satisfies our universal human desire to encounter something different, unusual, and fascinating. Jane received both her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her BS at Iowa State University in Ames. She has served as Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids for almost three decades. Blind Backpack mixed media 36" x 14" The shrines and constructions of Jane Gilmor have appeared in over 74 exhibitions and more than 30 collections. The lists of her publications, lectures, special installations, awards, and honors fill pages. Wherever her unique works appear, they attract adults and children, and individuals without any experience interacting with artists, as well as discriminating art collectors. Her pieces sometimes include the words of people in diverse and extreme situations. Moving from large and complex installations in public spaces, the artist recently is creating pieces appropriate to private settings. artimages/06062005.jpg 240 320
2005-06-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=241 Steve Herrnstadt Those familiar with the nature photography of Steven Herrnstadt will find interior visions from his creative psyche in this current show. Long concerned with government affairs, Herrnstadt offers access to his creative Yin/Yang, the darker side of his awe-inspired depictions of our natural planet Earth. With technology finally capable of experiments he began decades ago, Herrnstadt uses archival inks and paper to produce lasting images originating from manipulated FS70 Polaroid film, peeled back for insertions of photos and etched in elements. His process results in a combination of collage, photography, and printmaking. Scanning at 3200 pixels per inch, he uses Photoshop for color and contrast checks. Then a computer serves instead of a dark room for large size images from an Epson 7500 or 9500 printer. Sacred Trust Badlands (207) photogiclee 23" x 28" His message in these new works, obvious in several, puzzling in some, is left to the discomforted viewer. Warnings? Probably. Strong images? Definitely! While revealing another side of his emotional and technical artistry, Herrnstadt intends to continue nature photography as a major part of his total artistic out-put. Associate professor of art at Iowa State University, Herrnstadt lives and teaches in Ames, but travels widely to select his photographic subjects and to shape his world view. artimages/06072005.jpg 350 272
2005-06-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=242 Matt Hornecker Possibly the Midwest’s most distinguished sculptor, Mac Hornecker is certainly Iowa’s most accessible, versatile, and productive. From his studio near the campus of Buena Vista College in Storm Lake where he taught with the Art Department from 1971 to 2001, or from his home in Arkansas, Hornecker brings forth works of wood, steel, stone, bronze, aluminum, and combinations thereof with expertise. From small pedestal pieces to massive works destined for rolling lawns on private estates or signature squares in corporate office parks, this sculptor has produced steadily for over three decades. Falling Rocks painted aluminum 19" x 10" x 17" Asked about his inspiration, Hornecker states: “My work is built around my interest in the history and topography of the landscape. Rivers, land forms, rocks, trees, and the way they effect one another as well as man and vice versa are constant themes. There is a play of tensions and balances.â€
He adds: “The weather is the most important!†and so must it be in his considerations about the integrity and permanence of all his major works. Hornecker is a sculptor with intentions for works lasting centuries, not decades. artimages/06082005.jpg 300 317
2005-06-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=243 Thomas Jewell-Vitale Thomas Jewell-Vitale, Professor of Art at Loras College in Dubuque, returned to his Alma Mater in 1976 almost a decade after leaving: first to pursue religious studies at Gregorian University in Rome, then to study figure drawing at Academie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, and finally to take a BA and MA in Studio Art from the University of California at Berkley. In 1955, he took a sabbatical post as Professor of English at Eichi University in Amagasaki, Japan. Jewell-Vitale’s art evolves from and certainly adapts to a wide variety of local and international settings. Sottomare oil/wax on paper 17" x 14" From a distance, Thomas Jewell-Vitale’s abstract works do not seem abstract. Harmonious colors and soft textures invite the viewer with a sense of familiarity and comfort. Close up, the viewer studies the images expecting to see something more apparent. One feels, indeed, that something is there, only thinly concealed and slightly below the surface, waiting to be known.
Thomas writes: “I make paintings in which shapes are tied intimately to their surroundings…Their edges are not fixed boundaries, but fingers which probe, revealing a myriad of allegiances: hiding, nestling, isolated, adrift, consumed…†artimages/06092005.jpg 275 327
2005-06-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=244 Karen Kurka Jensen Karen, a native of Minnesota, now calls Iowa home, where she lives with her husband, children, and grandchildren. She studied sumi-e from masters in the Chinese art form for over 15 years. She has exhibited and sold her paintings throughout the Midwest, and has been honored with several awards in Minnesota , Wisconsin, and Iowa. Brule Peaks ink on paper 17 x 26 Karen conveys life’s inner and outer beauty through her medium of natural materials: pine soot ink, rice paper, bamboo brush and grinding stone, and her adaptation of the basic Chinese sumi-e painting techniques. artimages/06102005.jpg 350 240
2005-06-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=245 Jack Wilkes Dedicated and restlessly searching, Jack Wilkes is a teacher, painter, and explorer in concrete images and abstract ideas. After studying at the Cleveland Art Institute, Jack finished his BFA in Art Education at Drake which included a Certificate in Art Therapy; and he was both painting and teaching before he completed work for his MFA in painting from Drake in 1983. Teaching at Simpson College, Iowa State University, serving as Artist-in-Residence at the Des Moines Art Center, then Drake, he exhibited the first of his series of paintings and served in residencies, special projects, and workshops, some as far away as New Smyna Beach, Florida and Verenna, Italy. Now painting full time, Wilkes heads an active family and participates in school/community affairs when he isn't in his studio. Instrument of Sound oil on canvas 78" x 60" As Wilkes summarizes: My work . . .has revolved around sign, symbol, allegory, and architecture. I gravitate to historical, social, and spiritual references in both object and architecture in trying to understand the power these objects . . .possess and provide. artimages/06112005.jpg 275 333
2005-06-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=246 Jules Kirschenbaum Jules Kirschenbaum was a former professor of art at Drake University where he taught for over 25 years. His work has been shown on a national level and has been awarded several prizes and fellowships throughout his career, including a Fullbright scholarship, the Sawyer Prize for Painting and the Grumbacher Gold Medal both from the National Academy of Design. Jules' work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. Meditations On Death S Mallarme acrylic on canvas 62" x 44" 1975-77 Jules' paintings are predominantly large scale still lifes that include objects of all kinds including bones, books, mannequins, mirrors and other elements that held symbolic importance for the artist. He was inspired by history, philosophy and architecture and references to these disciplines were made frequently in the objects he selected to paint. The denseness of his compositions and the precise manner in which the objects are painted create a complexity that draws the viewer in to inspect each level of detail. artimages/06122005.jpg 266 350
2005-06-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=247 Thomine Wilson Thomine Wilson is a native Iowan who can't wait for tomorrow to come, but doesn't want to leave yesterday behind. It is her love for the old and the new that have been the inspiration behind Designs By Thomine. Feminine Touch web-rhinestone pendant Timepieces from the past have been added to contemporary finds to create wearable art with distinct personality.
Each piece is unique, and is designed with sentimentality and expression. Time is the central theme, reminding us of new possibilities and the potential for reinvention. Custom pieces can also be made from family heirlooms or combined with other jewelry to create art reminiscent of the past, to represent life's work or hobbies, or as a simple reminder of the comic and eccentricity in all of us. artimages/06132005.jpg 300 332
2005-06-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=248 Katherine Lock Now living in Brooklyn, New York and associated with the Guggenheim Museum, Katherine Lock has Iowa connections in both Iowa City where she graduated with honors in painting and the Des Moines Art Center where she served in a variety of roles from 1993 through June 2000. Restored oil on canvas 18" x 18" The highly personal paintings of Katherine Lock offer combinations of shapes and colors which are immediately distinctive as statements without obvious artistic derivations. Two-dimensional shapes, isolated linear arabesques and brushed textures blend pleasantly with muted, harmonious colors in medium-size oils on canvas.
She says of her work: I develop a personal vocabulary of objects. The objects are recognizable, ordinary things that begin to describe a tangible idea and end as a painting a sort of reverse interpretation. The materiality of the painting becomes its own language that is relinquished of traditional contexts and functions to describe relationship, balance or counter-balance, and intrigue. artimages/06142005.jpg 310 308
2005-06-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=249 Bobbie McKibbin Former Des Moines Register visual arts critic Eliot Nusbaum commented more than a decade ago about McKibbin’s “intuitive sense of place.†He wrote “McKibbin is interested in investigating the character of the landscape and what makes each of these locations unique . . .(doing it) through . . .(a) feel for the place, accomplished with a multitude of sense(s) other than visual but which in the end enhance the visual sense. As a result, we get a strong feeling of McKibbin’s reaction to the physical world —and a good starting point for us to start feeling that world.†Steaming Pool 3-Yellowstone, Wyoming pastel 35" x 25" This intuitive and illuminating spirit of McKibbin lifts each rendering of a specific place to a reassuring confirmation of both the beauty of nature and value of an artistic depiction of it. Fortunately, McKibbin has chosen to remain in the Midwest and create excellent work appreciative private buyers can still afford.
A variety of publications are available at Olson-Larsen Galleries about Bobbie McKibbin, who was born in Philadelphia, who graduated with an MFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and who has served for two decades as Professor of Art at Grinnell College, Iowa. artimages/06152005.jpg 247 350
2005-06-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=250 Barbara Fedeler Barbara Fedeler holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Drake University, Des Moines. She also has studied at Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. She currently serves as a Lecturer in Art at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Before taking that position, she served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, North Iowa Community College, Mason City, and Loras College, Dubuque. Toward Elkader charcoal on paper 17" x 48" Working in willow charcoal, Barbara Fedeler's landscapes reflect her interest in the varied terrain of northeastern Iowa. She is intrigued with the area’s geological history, the cycles of time and seasons, and the vagaries and the permanence of nature.
The panoramic format she uses encourages a fluid movement across the vistas and through the sculptural relief of land forms. Willow charcoal is a malleable media capable of high tonal contrast and textural manipulation. artimages/06162005.jpg 400 140
2005-06-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=251 Wendy Rolfe Wendy Rolfe studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Le Atelier D’ Etampe in Paris. She produced art in New York City for several years before moving to Iowa. Along with other demands, the artist maintains a daily schedule in her studio, set on 600 acres near Dubuque. Isadora with Black Birds mixed media 15 x 19 x 4 Wendy Rolfe creates with a unique visual vocabulary and creative juxtapositions. After 9/11, she entered a new period in which her works became more prayerful in context and essence. Although her feminine mythic symbols continue, she is working with more urgency and clearly spiritual themes.
Influenced by primitive tinwork from New Mexico (1840-1940), imaginative work enriched with decorative elements and innocence of spirit, Rolfe uses more tin, decoupage, wire and beads, painted glass, even candles in her wall collages. Seeing creation as both feminine and masculine, she explores spiritual hidden selves and vast landscapes of the soul, and the softening aspects, which persist despite what she sees as a time fraught with harsh, moralistic appeals to God, prayers linked destruction, war, and despair. Rolfe presents prolific and personal symbols, which, she insists, must be processed through each viewers own life experiences and attitudes. artimages/06172005.jpg 279 325
2005-06-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=252 John Li An artist, teacher, writer and scholar, John Li attended the School of Art
at the University of Iowa. During those years, Li studied with Muricio
Lasansky and James Lechay, who were renowned artists in the University. Dancing lithograph 25" x 19.3" At the University of Iowa, Li was initiated to a different system of learning
and creation, and gained deeper understanding of tertiary educational
ideals, local art developments and the latest art activities. It was during
his time at the University of Iowa that he began to blend together Eastern
and Western artistic representations in his creative works. What we see
today is actually the result of unceasing efforts in this direction over the
past decades. artimages/06182005.jpg 243 325
2005-06-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=253 Priscilla Steele Priscilla received her M.A. in Printmaking and her M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1990 and 1992 respectively. Spring Amaryllis #2 mixed media "I like drawing almost as large as I am. My mixed-media drawings are observed directly from life. They demand energy and engagement with both the subject and materials. Using both my hands, I work with traditional and less conventional materials including: pencil, charcoal, pastel, shellac and tar. The combination of materials allows the drawing process to take on a tactile, "call and response" quality. In every drawing I hope to create a variety of marks that records the range of my thoughts and emotions as I explore the organic structure and tension that permeate any living thing, as it exists in space. I am most satisfied with a piece when passages of urgent or sweeping gesture lead into quietly meditative areas and delicate detail that, together, can be read as a rich and coherent whole." - Priscilla Steele - artimages/06192005.jpg 215 350
2005-06-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=254 Michael Brangoccio In two decades since his MA from the University of Northern Colorado, Brangoccio has accumulated over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in 35 group shows in Florida, Maine, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, and California. Now working in Des Moines, the artist leaves no doubt about the intensity of dedication and energy behind his unique work. Calling acrylic on canvas 63" x 59" Brangoccio's original content and textures create picture worlds like no others. A well-trained draftsman comfortable with formal composition, Brangoccio juxtaposes objects, sizes, and relationships to arrest attention, to provoke questions, and to prompt observers into finding personal meanings for his canvases.
Intentionally symbolic, Brangoccio's works present puzzles. Certain objects reoccur and present contradictions and inconsistencies of size, placement, object-selection. Elephants float. Bears roam in unlikely settings. Miniature airplanes seem aggressively out of place. Even in those few canvases which fit within the boundaries of realism, there is a hint of mystery, of something more-to-be-known. With Brangoccio's paintngs, a viewer must address enigmas and engage both left and right sides of the brain. artimages/06202005.jpg 301 310
2005-06-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=255 William Barnes Growing up in California, William Barnes attended UCLA before studying painting at Drake with Jules Kirschenbaum. He then studied with Byron Burford in Iowa City, whose course in materials and techniques introduced him to egg tempera and casein, his major media since. Soon after his Iowa City period, signs appeared of what has become Barnes' signature style - landscapes noted for their "loneliness" by a local critic alternated with still-life studies of odd combinations of small objects. Recently, after sojourns in Tucson and Santa Fe, Barnes is bringing a warmer, more relaxed ambience to his exotic works. Study For Love Notes II acrylic on rag paper 8" x 8" Of the many Midwestern artists focusing on landscape and still-life compositions, Barnes creates compositions which seem to contain some mystery or situation beyond the sum of the visual parts revealed. Although obviously aware of artists of the past, Barnes approaches but skirts any direct links with the surrealist or trompe l’oeil genres. Occasionally defined as a “magic-realist,†Barnes remains at the edge of that definition, or slightly outside it. His early realistic work with simplified forms and subdued coloring suggested Hopper without deriving directly in any way. Early collages contained figures —unlike later work —in situations and settings reminiscent of illustrations for 19th century French or German novels. artimages/06212005.jpg 320 321
2005-06-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=256 Richard Black Richard Black is a highly regarded printmaker who has made a significant contribution over the years to the arts in Iowa. For thirty years he was a professor of art at Drake University where he founded the Drake University Biennial Print Symposium. The symposium brought nationally known artists to the state to demonstrate and lecture on the art of printmaking. Black himself has been the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center and has been honored with the DRAKE AWARD for excellence in teaching and artistic achievement. Black's works are included in many museum collections and have been shown in invitational and competitive exhibitions all over the country. Genesis Two: Sodom/Gomorrah intaglio 18" x 13" Using the intaglio process, Black creates prints that have a collage-like feeling. Tightly rendered textures and color patches are layered and structured to create overall pattern. The work appears to be abstract, but when closely examined recognizable forms sometimes emerge. These images are enigmatic and are woven into the intricacy of the print, there for the viewer to decipher. Black's works are often inspired by tales and interpretations from The Old Testament. artimages/06222005.jpg 259 345
2005-06-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=257 Tilly Woodward Tilly Woodward is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Central College in Pella and is the Director of the Pella Community Art Center. Tilly’s career includes involvement in many community outreach projects throughout the state. Her work is in the collections of the Des Moines Art Center, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Meredith Corporation, and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Double Hand Grass Sunflower oil on board 4" x 6" Tilly creates small glimpses of lush flowers and grasses. Her oil on board paintings show human interaction with nature as a hand tangled in grass or holding a flower blossom.
Tilly writes: “…I have pursued a series of highly detailed oil paintings that explore longing and loss, emotional landscapes that are often configured as intimate views of items from my garden, presented in hand. When I paint I think of the beauty of the garden, a small landscape, as well as mudras, gang signs, offerings, prayers and fairy tales.†artimages/06232005.jpg 350 247
2005-06-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=258 Ellen Wagener Ellen Wagener served as Adjunct Professor and Visiting Artist in several Iowa colleges; however, as demonstrated by her rapidly growing numbers of exhibitions and of works in private and public collections, her primary focus is creating her serenely still landscapes. One October Sunset pastel 12" x 12" The pastels of Wagener are distinctive, evocative, and popular with both urban and rural collectors. Although she often does her studies on site —sometimes from the top of her van —and her finished studio works are easily recognizable as rows of corn or beans, her landscapes seem to exist in an endless twilight or dawn of a time not quite now. Her well-tended fields are devoid of human forms; and, above them, vast skies —clouds stretching to distant horizons —glow with a slightly eerie light.
After attending Marycrest in Davenport and the University of Iowa, Wagener finished her formal study at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. and returned to settle in the small town of DeWitt where she is deliberately surrounded by nature. Believing in the power of the landscape to transform, she says of her work: “My mission as an artist is to present the ordinary in a way that avows majesty in quietness. I don’t seek the spectacular.†artimages/06242005.jpg 269 273
2005-06-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=259 Ken Smith Ken Smith, originally from Des Moines, is a photographer from Riverside, Washington. Ken uses medium and large format photographic equipment to produce his still life images. He works primarily in black and white, though sometimes incorporates split-toned or hand-colored images and has just started digitally printing his work Ken Smith's website http://www.kensmithart.com/ Black Locust hand-colored silver print 20" x 16" Although his subject matter is simple, Ken creates a strong sense of tranquillity and focuses on the beauty of nature. He chooses these subjects because, for him, they have a recurring theme of permanence and change. Ken remarks, “when I do my work well, it may be that those who view it discover not something new, but the essence of something they already deeply know, a kind of innate recognition of human connectedness. A validation and celebration of existence.†artimages/06252005.jpg 250 333
2005-06-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=326 Dennis Dykema Dennis Dykema is rooted in the rolling countryside of northwest Iowa and his paintings catch the energy of the fertile land. However, a viewer won't locate a specific place from his images, and a European viewer may see a kinship to Van Gogh's later landscapes. Working primarily on medium-sized oils on paper and large oils on canvas, Dykema produces bright and boldly textured paintings that appeal to a wide range of collectors.
First attending Northwestern College in Orange City, IA for his BA, then Morningside College in Sioux City, and then the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls for his MA, Dykema settled into Buena Vista College in Storm Lake where, except for sabbatical studies in England, at Notre Dame and the University of Iowa, he has taught for three decades. Monet's Dream: Part 3 oil on paper 22" x 30" Dykema maintains six gallery affiliations, and in the past decade, participated in over 32 selected exhibitions. His medium-sized works whether oils or acrylics on canvas or paper pass quickly from gallery into private and institutional collections, as yet a majority of them in the Midwest. artimages/06262005.jpg 350 260
2005-06-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=327 Dave Gordinier David is an Iowa native, now living and working in Mesa, Arizona. He attended Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids and received his BFA from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. David has had one-person exhibitions at Kirkwood Community College, Coe College as well as Mercy Hospital, all located in Cedar Rapids. Red Mountain On The Salt River Reservation oil on canvas 10" x 15" David approaches his subjects in a traditional manner, painting in a realistic style that concentrates on the way light defines an object or space. His landscape works are inspired by both the drama and serenity of the western vistas he sees near his home as well as secluded roads and streams near his former home of Cedar Rapids. David’s own collection of pottery and vases provides the subject matter for his still life paintings. artimages/06272005.jpg 350 233
2005-06-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=328 Gary Horn Gary Horn is a Des Moines native who now lives in New York City. He teaches studio art to middle school and high school students at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art in addition to his teaching jobs at the Academy of Mt. Saint Ursula and the New York Sta te Summer School of the Arts. Untitled 8 oil and metal leaf on panel, 16" x 12" Gary’s oil paintings of flowers and still lifes have a strong traditional feeling to them with some contemporary elements. In the floral paintings, the image is drawn on panel and metal leaf is applied around the design and varnished. The paintings change dramatically depending on the light due to the many layers of transparent glaze over the underpainting. With these, Gary is responding to philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s view on the contemplation of nature. Gary writes: “The work of art no longer represents the singular flower but the universal qualities of the flower that always exist.†artimages/06282005.jpg 250 330
2005-06-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=329 Steven Lauterwasser Steven Lauterwasser is a Cedar Rapids, Iowa native early in his career whose work has been shown several times at Wiederspan Gallery in Cedar Rapids. His paintings are in the collections of St. Lukes Hospital in Cedar Rapids and Dipavali Corporation. O'Hara's Bridge II oil on canvas board 5" x 5" Steven paints small oils of Iowa’s rural roadways, including curves in the road and upcoming bridges. Steven is drawn to the solitude and character of these Level B roads. He writes that he’s “always looking for the next bend or scenic hillside… These roads speak to me, and I strive to make that evident in my paintings.†artimages/06292005.jpg 290 300
2005-06-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=330 Cornelis Ruhtenberg With roots in northern Europe, training in Germany, early artistic success in New York, and sojourns in Pennsylvania and Italy, Cornelis Ruhtenberg now lives in Des Moines and is unquestionably one of the Midwest's most creative and distinguished living artists.
That her work holds broad appeal in subject matter and excellence of execution is evident by the long list of permanent collections and major museums owning it. From the Berlin Museum in Germany, to the Hirshorn and National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., to the Palm Springs Art Center, to the Springfield Museum of Art in Missouri, the Des Moines Art Center, Oklahoma City Museum, Denver Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and to the Sheldon Memorial Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska, Ruhtenberg's paintings fascinate viewers of various ages and cultural backgrounds. Heaven, Transfiguration acrylic 60" x 86" Her portraits, still-life studies, and figure compositions follow a realist tradition centuries old, yet evolve beyond patterns to speak directly to contemporary viewers. These expressions offer a distinctive and uncommon harmony, elegance, and imagination. artimages/06302005.jpg 350 243
2005-07-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=333 Carol Macomber Carol Macomber was born in 1938, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She received her B.S. from Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1960. Carol does black-and-white photography and alternative processes and is deeply concerned about nature. Her work is shown in the Artisan's Gallery in Iowa City, BlueStem Gallery in Parkersburg, Campbell-Steele Gallery in Marion, and Henry W. Myrtle Gallery in Cedar Falls. Northern Sea Oats cyanotype photogram on cloth 48" x 22" Carol has this to say about her work, " My background includes work in biology and photography. The cyanotype photograms that I make involve local botany and simple photochemistry. The antique technology lends a degree of authenticity that I find lacking in modern technologies and presents a dramatic way of seeing some
remnants of the past." artimages/07012005.jpg 350 196
2005-07-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=334 John Fender John Fender has taught graphic design since 1995 and been on the faculty of Drake University since 1999. He is head of the graphic design program and acts as the Design Director for the Anderson Gallery. Professor Fender holds an M.F.A., an M.A., and a B.F.A. degree, all from the University of Iowa. Programming War Inkjet print 30" x 40" 2005 About his piece, John writes, "My work attempts to create a location, where there is no content, only a construct formed through interpretation ... I present ideas, objects, places or people as component factual elements and symbols, then place these artifacts into a context that forces one to create a relationship. I see art as an activity of inquiry, existing in an intangible space between social structures and the individual. Its purpose is to explore the moral and ethical underpinnings of our culture. In my art, I attempt to create situations that force an individual to question the assumptions one must make in order to achieve understanding. This work is a new direction for me where as much of my previous work was introspective and inward looking this work is directed toward the culture it reflects. It urges the viewer to construct the various cultural and political references into a narrative that comments on various concerns of mine. Specifically this work is based on my reaction to the current political and cultural decisions that are shaping the future of our world." artimages/07022005.jpg 244 325
2005-07-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=335 Marc Moulton Marc Moulton graduated with a B.A. from Weber State University, Ogden, Utah in 1985. He received his M.F.A in Sculpture just two years later from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Marc's pieces can be seen all over Iowa and in other states including Wisconsin and Utah. Marc is currently a Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Whisk stainless steel & high pressure sodium lighting 10' x 4' x 6' artimages/07032005.jpg 240 320
2005-07-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=336 Aaron Wilson Aaron Wilson has taught printmaking and foundations in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls since 1997. Prior to residing in Iowa, he completed his BFA at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio and earned an MFA at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Aaron has been the recipient of institutional and State grants, shown his work widely in national juried exhibitions, and has had solo exhibitions regionally, nationally, and in Canada. Aaron Wilson's website http://www.aaron-wilson.net Archetype, detail from the installation Parlor Drawing and Mixed Media 36" x 40" 2004 Parlor is a mixed-media installation that seeks to visually depict post September 11th, 2001 America. It combines fine art printmaking processes with digital imaging technology, sculpture, drawing, and painting. I am interested in the amalgamation of evident reactions like fear, terror, and war with other aspects of our cultural palette. Consumer, religious, and political entities have all responded to the horror of terrorism creating a web of relative effects. Auto loans with zero-percent financing, action figures of our President, Internet images of crying eagles, a reevaluation of our civil liberties, and an ongoing war on terror are all the result of a single event. artimages/07042005.jpg 274 350
2005-07-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=337 Peter Feldstein Peter Feldstein received M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in art from The University of lowa, where he currently teaches courses in photography. His work is represented by Olson-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines and Rico-Maresco Gallery in New York City. Feldstein received an individual artistÕs grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Iowa Arts Council Grants, and two Polaroid Collection grants. He was artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College. 1172 inkjet print 22" x 22" About the artwork: Peter Feldstein produced these prints using a process called cliche verre, a method of drawing on a ground-coated transparent material such as glass or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper or scanning it and printing it digitally. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early part of the 19th century. Camille Corot was the best known of these. Feldstein has developed techniques for achieving a variety of line, tone, texture and color by experimenting with paint and inks and a wide assortment of tools for etching, scratching, rubbing and daubing. In this series, the original images are also manipulated digitally. artimages/07052005.jpg 315 315
2005-07-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=338 Mark Petrick Mark Petrick received his BA in Fine Art from the University of California at Berkeley (1977), where he also did Graduate Studies in Architecture & Design. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1983). He lives in Fairfield, Iowa. Mark Petrick's website http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?id=16417 Ayyappan Pilgrims at Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, Tamil Nadu quadtone carbon pigment inkjet print 7.5†x 7.5†1998 About the artwork, Mark Petrick writes: I went to India to look at common things—temples and houses; people sitting, walking, working, worshipping; rivers and mountains; streets and shops; goddesses and gods; signs, pictures, and patterns; the sunrise; the places and happenings of each day—and to make pictures of them.
The pictures in an India are not really the result of hard labor, but of perseverance—of walking and taking the steps to move to new places, of walking some more and continuing to look with care at the obvious...These are pictures of a loved one, India, that have been collected and choreographed to convey some sense of her complexity, dignity, charm, ordinariness, contrariness, majestic depth, and mundane squalor—the confluence of the plain, the savory, and the hard to swallow, creating the unfathomable flavor of her beauty. artimages/07062005.jpg 300 300
2005-07-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=339 Anamika Holke Anamika is a senior studying studio art at the University of Iowa. This is
her first experience working with video and time-based media. 60 HZ (214) photogiclee 28" x 23" His message in these new works, obvious in several, puzzling in some, is left to the discomforted viewer. Warnings? Probably. Strong images? Definitely! While revealing another side of his emotional and technical artistry, Herrnstadt intends to continue nature photography as a major part of his total artistic out-put. Associate professor of art at Iowa State University, Herrnstadt lives and teaches in Ames, but travels widely to select his photographic subjects and to shape his world view. artimages/07072005.jpg 286 350
2005-07-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=340 Carola Wincenti Carola holds a Master of Photography degree from the Foto-Akademie Munich, Germany. She has worked as a free-lance photographer since 1986. Her collaborative efforts have led her to work with a host of organizations, including museums and newspapers. Because of the diverse nature of her work, Carola’s photographs have been used in a variety of publications, including art books and scientific journals. Her work has been exhibited in Munich, Rottach-Egern/Tegernsee, and Berlin, Germany. It has also been exhibited in Massachusetts and Iowa. Deepscape Fujichrome photograph 43" x 43" Carola’s photographs are intriguing views of nature. Whether close-ups of engravings found on a canyon wall in Colorado, a decaying willow tree in Bavaria, or a shaded lane in New Orleans, her photographs provide a one-of-a-kind perspective. Her large, color photographs are taken with a Hasselblad 6 x 6 camera and are digitally laser printed on Ilfochrome/Fujichrome paper and fixed under/on an acrylic plate. Carola also creates black and white silver prints.
She says of her work: In the unmanipulated beauty of nature I found the possibility to bring forth a new aspect in my photography. The works are images of structures and colors that nature and time have painted. New growth, the relativity of size or simply the fascination of nature in a moment of transition is represented in these pictures. artimages/07082005.jpg 315 317
2005-07-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=341 Jules Kirschenbaum Jules Kirschenbaum was a former professor of art at Drake University where he taught for over 25 years. His work has been shown on a national level and has been awarded several prizes and fellowships throughout his career, including a Fullbright scholarship, the Sawyer Prize for Painting and the Grumbacher Gold Medal both from the National Academy of Design. Jules' work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. Toy Series: Plane acrylic & mixed media on canvas 36" x 44" Jules' paintings are predominantly large scale still lifes that include objects of all kinds including bones, books, mannequins, mirrors and other elements that held symbolic importance for the artist. He was inspired by history, philosophy and architecture and references to these disciplines were made frequently in the objects he selected to paint. The denseness of his compositions and the precise manner in which the objects are painted create a complexity that draws the viewer in to inspect each level of detail. artimages/07092005.jpg 325 274
2005-07-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=342 Jill Schrift Jill Davis Schrift has been teaching in the art department at Grinnell College since 1988. Schrift holds an M.A. in ceramics from Purdue University, where she studied with Scott Frankenberger and Marge Levy. She also has a Masters of Science in teaching from the State University of New York at Potsdam. During the academic year Schrift works primarily in ceramics. In summer, she lives in France and works on pastel drawing and collages. Homage to Sati II stoneware 17" x 18" 2004 About her pots, Jill Schrift states: "My ultimate goal is to create ceramic works that are soulful and expressive. I draw inspiration from the classical forms of the past and strive to express these forms in my own idiom that speaks to contemporary culture." artimages/07102005.jpg 271 310
2005-07-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=343 Robert Atwell Robert Atwell was born in 1973 in Nevada, Iowa. He has received both a BFA (1995) and MFA (2002) from Iowa State University.
Robert Atwell's website http://www.dotonawalk.com/ Thu, Apr 22, 2004, 7:22PM vinyl, enamel, and alkyd resin on aspen pane 11.25†x 11.25†2004 Robert Atwell's work is created using a process that embraces both digital and analog sources. Beginning with a sketchbook, Atwell records spontaneously drawn marks inspired from experiences within visual and audio environments, which he draws and redraws, scans, digitizes, prints and uses to build a visual dialog. Tradition and technology come together to create hybrid paintings, uniting the long tradition of abstract painting and the more recent advent of technological tools as art making devices. Final works come in the form of drawings, paintings, digital prints, and interactive installations. The day, month, year, and time become the titles of Atwell's work, marking another moment in history. artimages/07112005.jpg 300 300
2005-07-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=344 Terri Parish McGaffin Terri Parish McGaffin has worked as a professional artist for many years, and has acquired a regional and national exhibition record. She has exhibited recently in Idaho, South Dakota, Florida, Colorado, and Illinois. Her work is in the collections of the Sioux City Art Center, Morningside College and the University of South Dakota, as well as many private collections. She is currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Showmen mixed media on canvas 42" x 46†2003 Of her work, Terri writes: "As a representational painter, it is my aim to create work that has both a specific quality and a universal quality. I follow an intuitive approach to content, and a more analytical approach to formal development. I am always engaged in the search for composition and relationships of value and color in the visible world, and engaged in the process of representing these things within the painted surface." artimages/07122005.jpg 325 300
2005-07-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=345 Sara Slee Brown Sara Slee Brown received her BFA in art from the University of Michigan and her MA and MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa. Brown has exhibited extensively in the Midwest and her work is included in the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project. She has been active in local public art projects, including Overalls All Over and Herky on Parade and is the Graphic Designer for the Iowa City Public Library.
Solitary Conch scanner art 10" x 7" 2004 About the artwork: Sara Slee Brown has been producing these scanner art pieces for the past year. She is fascinated with the process itself and the simple, clean contrasts, shapes and beauty that can be produced with a few cherished objects and her scanner. The sense of solitude and serenity these works evoke seems to go beyond the methods and materials used. artimages/07132005.jpg 225 321
2005-07-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=346 Joe Hall Joe Hall is a digital artist who lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa. Hall completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa in 2004. Exhibitions include participation in a group show at the Des Moines Art Center, and a solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea. Untitled, Intermedia: live and on tape CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa artimages/07142005.jpg 325 246
2005-07-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=347 Will Mentor Born in 1958 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Will Mentor would go onto to receive his B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design in 1981. Will is now a resident of Iowa where his piece "Bionic Farm" was shown at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines. Mini Capsee oil and acrylic on canvas 48" x 48" 2002 artimages/07152005.jpg 300 305
2005-07-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=348 Richard Kelley Richard was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1944. In 1967, he received his B.A. from the University of Iowa and later received his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Cincinnati in 1969. Ship Graveyard oil on canvas 45" x 44" 2003 "I increasingly feel that the deeper an artist burrows into himself, the greater become the odds of his saying something profound. I have no desire to be well-rounded artistically. The risks that I have taken and contemplate taking relate to this 'burrowing' process of getting ever deeper into my art. The resultant imagery has always been, in my mature work, metaphoric to the themes of impermanence and decay..."
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2005-07-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=349 Joe Biel After being born in Boulder, Colorado, Joe Biel would go on to receive his B.F.A. in Painting and Art History from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Two years later in 1990, he earned his M.F.A. in Painting at the University of Michigan. Strike acrylic on canvas 12" x 12" 2004 artimages/07172005.jpg 330 323
2005-07-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=350 Brandon Buckner Brandon Buckner is in his third year of the MFA program in painting at the University of Iowa. His current paintings focus on building narratives from his own personal history and background. Finding Home stoneware, porcelain, Braille text 32" x 25" diameter artimages/07182005.jpg 225 332
2005-07-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=351 Julius Schmidt Born in 1923 in Stamford, Connecticut, Julius Schmidt would go on to receive his B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been shown in galleries all across the U.S. Julius was the head of the Sculpture Department at the University of Iowa from 1970 - 1993. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa. Untitled (B-03-01) bronze 16 5/8 in. 2003 artimages/07192005.jpg 250 323
2005-07-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=352 Bill Hamilton William Francis Hamilton II was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He is the son of nationally-known artists Gene and Carlie Hamilton. In addition to learning from his parents, Bill attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and also mentored under internationally-acclaimed artist, Jim Buckels.
Hamilton spent two years touring and painting the countryside of the Republic of Georgia, where he was given a solo exhibition. His latest works feature a series of paintings depicting vintage San Francisco signs. Hamilton has also painted Georgian landscapes, California coastal and urban scenes, and flower gardens. In addition to oil painting, Hamilton works in found scrap metal to create abstract sculptures. Collaboration #! oil on canvas, 38" x 57" 2004 Hamilton spent two years touring and painting the countryside of the Republic of Georgia, where he was given a solo exhibition. His latest works feature a series of paintings depicting vintage San Francisco signs. Hamilton has also painted Georgian landscapes, California coastal and urban scenes, and flower gardens. In addition to oil painting, Hamilton works in found scrap metal to create abstract sculptures. artimages/07202005.jpg 350 232
2005-07-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=363 Shannon Kennedy Shannon Kennedy earned her BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon and then went on to earn MA and MFA degrees in Painting from the University of Iowa. She currently teaches at the University of Iowa as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Painting and Drawing department. Diptych oil on canvas 29" x 34" 2004 "My work is inspired by my everday life and by the profound experience of being in the world. I am in search of outer images which correspond with inner psychological, spiritual or metaphysical experience. I often compose using two figures in a dramatically simplified space. I am interested in the implied meaning of a third unnamed element that develops as a result of the spatial or contextual relationship of the figures. In my work there is a search for the point at which abstraction and representation can be made to meet. I emphasize formal relationships in an effort to infuse my domestic images with a heroic or monumental quality." - Shannon Kennedy - artimages/07212005.jpg 310 255
2005-07-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=364 Larassa Kabel Born in 1970 in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, Larassa would go on to earn a B.F.A. with honors from Iowa State University in 1992. Larassa's work has been seen all over Iowa and Michigan. Larassa is currently an instructor at the Des Moines Art Center and is on the Board of Directors at the Metro Arts Alliance in Des Moines, Iowa. Welcome oil on canvas 24" x 60" 2005 artimages/07222005.jpg 375 146
2005-07-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=365 Gary Komarin Gary Komarin, a New York native, received his M.F.A. in Painting from the Boston University Graduate School of Fine Artis. Gary has done countless exhibitions and both coasts and everywhere in between and his pieces can be found in numerous private collections all over the country as well. One of the various teaching positions that Gary held was at the University of Iowa under the Visiting Painter Graduate Program. English Bob mixed media on canvas 71 1/2" x 55" 2001 artimages/07232005.jpg 221 288
2005-07-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=366 Thomas C. Jackson Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1950, Thomas Jackson holds a B.A. from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He received these degrees in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After earning his M.F.A, Thomas went on to become an Assistant Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Since then, he has held various positions in Iowa using his graphic and design capabilities. Thomas C. Jackson's website http://www.thomascjackson.com/ Stella of Chief Carpenter Amunnakhte 2 pastel 34.5" x 25.5" 2003 artimages/07242005.jpg 225 295
2005-07-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=367 Luther Utterback Luther earned his B.F.A, M.A. and M.F.A. for Sculpture and Design from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He has held various teaching positions including Graduate Teaching Assistant for Sculpture and Design as well as an Instructor of Sculpture, both at the University of Iowa. Woman acrylic on architectural linen 72" x 41" 1985 artimages/07252005.jpg 225 351
2005-07-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=368 George Walker Born in Michigan in 1924, George Walker joined the U.S. Army for two years before going on to do graduate work at the Academia Delle Belle Arte in Rome, Italy. George then continued his artistic instruction at Michigan State University where he earned his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees. His work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions all over the country and internationally which includes solo exhibitions in Brazil and Italy.
George is currently working as a Professor at the University of Iowa.
Big Bird acrylic on paper 9" x 6 3/8" artimages/07262005.jpg 206 288
2005-07-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=369 Jay Vigon Jay Vigon, acclaimed world wide for his innovative and influential graphics is a graduate of The Art Center College of Design in southern California. Vigon earned his reputation by applying distinctively bold conceptual graphics to logo design, album covers, and fashion advertising. His clients include George Lucas, Warner Bros., Cole of California, Gotcha sportswear, and Swatch watches. Jay is the author of two books: Marks and Marks II, which are considered a must have for any designers library. Jay Vigon's website http://www.jayvigon.com/ (image from) Masked Men and Little Monsters acrylic on vinyl 2003 Jay Vigon's pioneering style led him into broadcast graphics for television commercials with such clients as AT&T, Diet Coke and Toyota. He then moved behind the camera to assume the role of director. Among Jay's many projects are spots created for Mercedes Benz, GTE, Seiko watches and Keiser Permennte. In 1994 Vigon established Made On Earth, a boutique built around character driven products that are now sold across the country. Jay Vigon continues to do graphic design, while working on a series of fine art projects and filming a documentary based upon the life of Cesar Chavez. artimages/07272005.jpg 225 339
2005-07-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=370 Pete Goche Pete is a native Iowan, born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in 1966. He earned his B.A. in Architecture from Iowa State University in 1991. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe to fine tune his craft. His exhibitions have been shown throughout Iowa and even London, with his most recent piece being shown at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. Abandoned by the sacrament of consumption, we adorn the empty crib with translucent screams Iris print 30" x 20" 2001 artimages/07282005.jpg 233 292
2005-07-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=371 Karen Strohbeen (Please see Bill Luchsinger tomorrow, July 30th)
Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger, two of the Midwest’s most successful fine artist for the past 25 years, expanded their audience when they created the nationally syndicated Public Television gardening series, “The Perennial Gardener with Karen Strohbeenâ€. With Karen as the on-air talent and Bill behind the camera writing, producing, and directing each segment, the television series combines their life-long love of gardening and their innovative artwork.
Having met as art students at Drake University in Des Moines, Karen and Bill now live on 80 acres of idyllic central Iowa farmland. Widely known for their paintings, printmaking, sculpture, and now their innovative works on ceramic tiles, they have been at the forefront of digital printmaking, which is their ongoing focus. Available images in their portfolio number in the hundreds. Rabbits digital print variable dimensions Love of nature has inspired both Karen and Bill as they continue to explore their distinctive artistic styles. Whether it is Karen’s whimsical and fantastic interpretations of flowers and garden life or Bill’s peaceful studies of nature born out of the photographic medium, their styles have found the perfect home in their limited edition prints and tile works.
With the introduction of their tile works over the past ten years, Karen and Bill have created an incredibly popular medium on which they can reproduce their limited edition images. Whether the image is captured on a single 12-by-12 inch tile or enlarged and printed on tiles in groupings of four to fifty, this new medium has multiple applications in home décor.
Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger are committed to pursuing their art wherever technological advances take them. artimages/07292005.jpg 350 219
2005-07-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=372 Bill Luchsinger (Please see yesterday's page, July 29th, for Karen Strohbeen)
Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger have forged an innovative path in taking their limited-edition prints to a new medium. Their tile works represent a unique way to collect their work, whether that is a single tile or a single image on multiple tiles. Lady in a Window (1) digital print variable dimensions Creating the tiles requires a process called Dye Sublimation.
The tiles themselves are “printedâ€, but not in the usual sense. Instead of using pigment and inks as with the works on paper, the tiles require chemical dyes. These dyes are digitally printed in reverse on special paper and then applied to the pre-glazed ceramic tiles. Placing the tile and dyed image under 500 degree heated pressure, the chemical dyes turn to gas and are forced into a hardened, polymer surface.
Images can be ordered on tiles as part of their limited editions in 6 inch, 8 inch, or 12 inch tiles. They also can be created as “multiplesâ€, taking the same image and spreading it out over multiple tiles.
The tiles come with an attached wood block and are ready for easy installation with common picture hangers. Tiles can also be ordered without the wood blocks for direct installation in conjunction with other residential tile work in kitchens and on bathroom walls, as examples.
Karen and Bill are at the forefront of the digital technology that allows them to create new works in a medium that other artists are just toying with – but their work has a clarity and definition that very few can equal. artimages/07302005.jpg 225 300
2005-07-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=373 Mitchell Squire Mitchell Squire was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1959. In 2001, Mitchell earned a Master of Architecture from Iowa State University Graduate College. He has been an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, as well as a Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. Most recently, Mitchell has participated in the group exhibition entitled "New New 2" which appeared at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa earlier this year. Untitled 1-4 (Bulk Law Enforcement Targets, Shot Through) found objects and spray paint 55 1/5" x 29 3/4" (each panel) 2004 artimages/07312005.jpg 426 200
2005-08-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=565 John Andrew John Andrew received his B.F.A from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1984. He would go on to earn his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1988 and 1991 respectively. John has had many solo and group exhibitions all over the country and has a permanent place in collections from Chicago to Varese, Italy.
The Repetitions #1 monotype 54 1/2 x 56 inches 1993 artimages/08012005.jpg 290 298
2005-08-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=566 Phillip Chen Born in Chicago, Illinois, Phillip Chen would continue on to earn his B.F.A from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1975. Four years later in 1979, Phillip earned his M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning as an Instructor of Drawing at the Cook County Jail, Phillip is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Prairie Breaker relief etching 31" x 23" 2002 artimages/08022005.jpg 325 240
2005-08-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=569 Ryan Jennings Clark Ryan was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1979 and would later earn his B.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 2002. Most recently, Ryan participated in a solo exhibition at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. Window Series I: Untitled #4 digital print, polyeurathane 11" x 16.25" 2003 Here is a brief overview of his show, "On the Morality of Memory":"This exhibition is about the construction and continuity of human identity through memory and experience. I am focusing on the disconcerting fallibility of memory as a recording device that is based in “realityâ€, and I am glancing at the un-navigable paths through the subconscious and the imaginary. These issues become important if one considers their memory and experience to define who they are/were/and will be.
I have divided the exhibition into two sections: Subjective Memory and Objective Memory. The 'Subjective Memory' pieces are divided into three sections that are based on theories of the metaphysical divisions of man. Part I, for example, pits the conception of linear, unfaltering time against the actualities of the human experience. Part III, is identity without memory. The Objective Memory pieces deal with cultural identity and the placement of that in an historical context. I am interested in the subtleties we employ to communicate and universally accept these concepts (identity and narrative), even in the midst of our individual relative knowledge." artimages/08032005.jpg 340 232
2005-08-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=570 Janel Swangstu Janel earned a B.F.A. in Sculpture and Photography from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1990. In 1998, Janel received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College in New York, New York. She has had numerous solo exhibitions since starting her career in 1991, including a number of exhibitions in Des Moines, Iowa. The galleries are as follows, Des Moines Art Center, Harmon Fine Arts Center, The Furnace Gallery, and the Iowa Heritage Museum. Untitled #16A color photogram 14" x 14" 2002 artimages/08042005.jpg 250 250
2005-08-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=571 Fred Truck Fred Truck is a true Iowan artist. Born in 1946 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Fred would go on to earn his B.A. at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1969. He currently lives and works in Des Moines, Iowa. Something to note about Fred is that he was a co-founder of the Art Com Electronic Network, the first computer network for artists, with Carl Loeffler in 1986. See more of Fred's work here http://www.fredtruck.com/ Mr. Milk Bottle in His Balloon Dream bronze 9.5" x 7" x 4" 2001 "I work from 3D computer imagery I generate in CAD/CAM programs. Drawing in three dimensions makes it easy for me to move a given idea into a print or even a constructed object such as a bronze. Of course, there is a trick to this. I realized early on that the ideas I had were always connected to matter. I’ve never had an idea independent of matter. Moving an idea from my computer CAD/CAM rendering to a sculpture is a process of understanding that the electrons making the image on my computer monitor are the same as those electrons making up the bronze of my sculptures. When the electrons are represented by 1s and 0s, changing their outward form is like pouring water from a fish bowl in to a swan-necked vase." artimages/08052005.jpg 250 302
2005-08-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=572 Vivian Torrence Vivian Torrence was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. After receiving her B.S. degree in Painting and Drawing from Eastern Illinois University in 1967, Vivian continued on to earn her M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa in 1978. Her work has been seen throughout the Midwest as well as in Germany where she now resides.
Ariel (Shakespeare's Tempest Series) mixed media (collage) 19.75" x 15.75" 2004 artimages/08062005.jpg 250 316
2005-08-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=573 Michael Peter Cain Currently living and working in Iowa, Michael Peter Cain was not always a Midwest resident. In 1959, Michael graduated Cum Laude from Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He then graduated with an A.B. in English from Harvard in 1964, also Cum Laude. Going on to Yale, Michael would earn both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Painting there. His work has been seen across the globe, with his pieces being in private collections in the United States, Europe, and India.
Seed of the World Forming Process #37 patina on bronze 6" x 2" x 5" 1989-94 artimages/08072005.jpg 325 215
2005-08-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=574 Charlotte Cain Charlotte Cain is another East coast graduate transplanted into Iowa. She received her B.S. in Painting and Education from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1963. She has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in Iowa as well as Illinois, New York, California, Colorado, Indiana, and Rhode Island. One of her major commissions can be seen in the Music Hall Building at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. All Is Well, Very Well (hands) waxed gouache on paper, laminated to birch 22.25" x 16" 2003 artimages/08082005.jpg 225 314
2005-08-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=575 Bill Hamilton William Francis Hamilton II is the son of nationally-known artists Gene and Carlie Hamilton. In addition to learning from his parents, Bill attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and also mentored under internationally-acclaimed artist, Jim Buckels.He was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1976 Fino, oil on canvas 57 x 38 in. 2004 Hamilton spent two years touring and painting the countryside of the Republic of Georgia, where he was given a solo exhibition. His latest works feature a series of paintings depicting vintage San Francisco signs. Hamilton has also painted Georgian landscapes, California coastal and urban scenes, and flower gardens. In addition to oil painting, Hamilton works in found scrap metal to create abstract sculptures. artimages/08092005.jpg 225 334
2005-08-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=576 Laurel Farrin Laurel earned her B.F.A. in Studio Art at Ohio University in 1977 and later received her M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. She now works as an Assistant Professor for Painting/Drawing at the University of Iowa, where she has been since 1997. Laurel has shown her pieces in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, and countless other states. Practice I oil and acrylic on canvas 18" x 18" 2002 artimages/08102005.jpg 270 268
2005-08-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=577 Gary Komarin Gary Komarin, a New York native, received his M.F.A. in Painting from the Boston University Graduate School of Fine Artis. Gary has done countless exhibitions and both coasts and everywhere in between and his pieces can be found in numerous private collections all over the country as well. One of the various teaching positions that Gary held was at the University of Iowa under the Visiting Painter Graduate Program. Normandy in Red water based enamel paint, oil paint, oil crayon, pencil, and charcoal on linen 48 x 42 inches 2004 artimages/08112005.jpg 275 317
2005-08-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=578 Thomas c. Jackson Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1950, Thomas Jackson holds a B.A. from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He received these degrees in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After earning his M.F.A, Thomas went on to become an Assistant Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Since then, he has held various positions in Iowa using his graphic and design capabilities. His personal website can be viewed here. http://www.thomascjackson.com/ Funerary Brick, Han Dynasty oil on canvas 80" x 38.25" 2004 artimages/08122005.jpg 167 350
2005-08-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=579 Luther Utterback Luther earned his B.F.A, M.A. and M.F.A. for Sculpture and Design from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He has held various teaching positions including Graduate Teaching Assistant for Sculpture and Design as well as an Instructor of Sculpture, both at the University of Iowa.
Child acrylic on architectural linen 72" x 41" 1985 artimages/08132005.jpg 215 358
2005-08-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=580 George Walker Born in Michigan in 1924, George Walker joined the U.S. Army for two years before going on to do graduate work at the Academia Delle Belle Arte in Rome, Italy. George then continued his artistic instruction at Michigan State University where he earned his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees. George is currently working as a Professor at the University of Iowa. Mediterranean Series acrylic on paper 10.25" x 14.25" 2000 His work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions all over the country and internationally which includes solo exhibitions in Brazil and Italy. artimages/08142005.jpg 350 251
2005-08-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=581 Jay Vigon Jay Vigon, acclaimed world wide for his innovative and influential graphics is a graduate of The Art Center College of Design in southern California. Vigon earned his reputation by applying distinctively bold conceptual graphics to logo design, album covers, and fashion advertising. His clients include George Lucas, Warner Bros., Cole of California, Gotcha sportswear, and Swatch watches. Jay is the author of two books: Marks and Marks II, which are considered a must have for any designers library. More work by Jay Vigon can be seen here. http://www.jayvigon.com/ (image from) Masked Men and Little Monsters acrylic on vinyl 2003 Jay Vigon's pioneering style led him into broadcast graphics for television commercials with such clients as AT&T, Diet Coke and Toyota. He then moved behind the camera to assume the role of director. Among Jay's many projects are spots created for Mercedes Benz, GTE, Seiko watches and Keiser Permennte. In 1994 Vigon established Made On Earth, a boutique built around character driven products that are now sold across the country. Jay Vigon continues to do graphic design, while working on a series of fine art projects and filming a documentary based upon the life of Cesar Chavez. artimages/08152005.jpg 250 342
2005-08-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=582 Pete Goche Pete is a native Iowan, born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in 1966. He earned his B.A. in Architecture from Iowa State University in 1991. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe to fine tune his craft. His exhibitions have been shown throughout Iowa and even London, with his most recent piece being shown at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. Exhumed from the obscurity of light, we await the emergence of silence (crysalis) Iris print 30" x 20" 2001 artimages/08162005.jpg 225 300
2005-08-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=583 John Andrew John Andrew received his B.F.A from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1984. He would go on to earn his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1988 and 1991 respectively. John has had many solo and group exhibitions all over the country and has a permanent place in collections from Chicago to Varese, Italy. The Repetitions #20 monotype 54 1/2 x 56 inches 1993 artimages/08172005.jpg 275 281
2005-08-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=584 Julius Schmidt Born in 1923 in Stamford, Connecticut, Julius Schmidt would go on to receive his B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been shown in galleries all across the U.S. Julius was the head of the Sculpture Department at the University of Iowa from 1970 - 1993. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa.
Untitled (B-71-08) bronze 4.25" x 4.75" x 5.5" 1971 artimages/08182005.jpg 325 226
2005-08-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=585 Joe Biel After being born in Boulder, Colorado, Joe Biel would go on to receive his B.F.A. in Painting and Art History from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Two years later in 1990, he earned his M.F.A. in Painting at the University of Michigan.
One Eye (Rag in Mouth) graphite and pastel on paper 11.75" x 11.75" 2003 Joe's work has been seen in California, Texas, Oregon, Washington, and Nebraska. This not including his most recent group piece entitled "NEW NEW 2" that was shown at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines in 2005. artimages/08192005.jpg 310 310
2005-08-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=586 Brian Andreas Brian Andreas is a storyteller whose tales are rendered in prints, books, wall figures from recycled barn wood, and furniture. He currently resides in Decorah, Iowa. prints "I've always made up things, from the earliest time I can remember, but it wasn't until the last several years that I figured out what that meant: I am a storyteller. With that flash of understanding, my life suddenly became much less complicated. My life & my art became as easy as breathing for me. What I do is what I have always done; I'm no longer casting about looking for what I will do with my life. As an example, my emphasis for my degree in Fiber & Mixed Media was in Electronic Community; I think of my ongoing interest like this story as the fiber of human community. Like a weaving, my life is composed of many strands that all blend together in a more or less coherent fashion (but I'm sure this is only a transient phenomenon, as some days I'm convinced that incoherence is our most natural state of being...)" artimages/08202005.jpg 350 255
2005-08-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=587 Richard Kelley Richard was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1944. In 1967, he received his B.A. from the University of Iowa and later received his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Cincinnati in 1969.
River of Life, oil on canvas 32" x 42.5" 2003 "I increasingly feel that the deeper an artist burrows into himself, the greater become the odds of his saying something profound. I have no desire to be well-rounded artistically. The risks that I have taken and contemplate taking relate to this 'burrowing' process of getting ever deeper into my art. The resultant imagery has always been, in my mature work, metaphoric to the themes of impermanence and decay..." artimages/08212005.jpg 320 238
2005-08-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=588 Marilyn Davis A resident of the Quad Cities, Marilyn is one of tile original founders of Iowa Artisans Gallery. Her studies in art and art history have taken her to Hunter College in New York City, Denmark, Montana and the University of Iowa. Marilyn has participated in numerous shows in Iowa and Illinois. salt-fired vases Ceramist Marilyn Davis uses animal, plant and abstract imagery to create intricate patterns that move the viewer's eye around the work. By inlaying thin slabs of porcelain clays, she creates a sense of overlapping, where one pattern begins to encroach upon another.
Tile millefiore technique of rolling layers of multi-colored clays and slicing cross sections adds to the richness of color and design she strives for. The work is salt fired at Cone 8, approximately 2500F. The salt vapors react with the multi-colored raw clays, achieving an orange-peel texture on the unglazed outer surfaces. artimages/08222005.jpg 350 248
2005-08-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=589 Nate Evans Nate currently resides in New Albin, Iowa. view inside wood-fired kiln Nate and Hallie Evans are two young potters devoted to functional wood-fired ceramics. Wood-fire is an ancient, labor intensive process in which the interaction of ash, flame and pots determines much of the final look. The kiln must be monitored around the clock for several days. This differs from raku, a low-fire process done in a shorter time period. By contrast, wood-fire is a high temperature firing, resulting in durable pots for everyday kitchen use. artimages/08232005.jpg 212 306
2005-08-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=590 Hallie Evans Hallie currently resides in New Albin, Iowa. wood-fired ceramic pitcher and cups After graduating from Luther College in the late 1990s, Nate and Hallie spent two years as apprentices at the W.M. Hewitt Pottery in Pittsboro, North Carolina. There they participated in all aspects of a working pottery, including the more unusual approach of preparing their own clay and glazes. While most potters purchase their supplies from clay supply houses, Nate and Hallie still try to use as many indigenous clay and glaze materials as possible. "Using these local clays and rocks enables us to create pots that could not be duplicated even by us, in another location," they explain. Their current studio is nestled in a deep valley near New Albin, in extreme northeastern Iowa. The firing of their large, tube-shaped kiln to a temperature of about 2400 degrees takes place over four days, fueled by oak and ash slab wood (a sawmill waste product). artimages/08242005.jpg 339 255
2005-08-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=591 Shannon Kennedy Shannon Kennedy earned her BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon and then went on to earn MA and MFA degrees in Painting from the University of Iowa. She currently teaches at the University of Iowa as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Painting and Drawing department.
Untitled oil on canvas 29" x 36" 2005 "My work is inspired by my everday life and by the profound experience of being in the world. I am in search of outer images which correspond with inner psychological, spiritual or metaphysical experience. I often compose using two figures in a dramatically simplified space. I am interested in the implied meaning of a third unnamed element that develops as a result of the spatial or contextual relationship of the figures. In my work there is a search for the point at which abstraction and representation can be made to meet. I emphasize formal relationships in an effort to infuse my domestic images with a heroic or monumental quality." artimages/08252005.jpg 350 239
2005-08-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=592 Earlene Giglierano A native of southern Ohio, Earlene lives in Iowa City and is a founding member of the Iowa Artisans Gallery. woven baskets Earlene believes that the things with which we surround ourselves should be beautiful and feel good to use. "I see my baskets as containers for objects, and I want them to be sturdy and functional."
Each of Earlene's baskets is unique. "I make up my own basketry styles while using traditonal basketweaving techniques." Of primary concern is that the basket can withstand its intended function. She points out that so many commercial baskets sold today use design elements that don't hold up. For example: a handle that is not anchored in the structure of the basket and consequently falls off under pressure.
Earlene's baskets are easily cared for by dusting with a soft paintbrush. Because these baskets are made from natural reed fibers, they also benefit greatly by being placed in a humid environment two or three times a year (bathroom, or other room with a humidifier). Only tea is used to stain the brown baskets, making them safe for contact with food. Earlene uses no oils during the finishing process. artimages/08262005.jpg 343 187
2005-08-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=593 Dan Lechay Dan Lechay grew up in Iowa City and earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa. He lived in New York for many years, and for a decade directed investigations into health and other issues for the New York City Council President. He has also taught college English and edited a quarterly magazine for ACT. His book of poetry, The Quarry, was published last year by Ohio University Press. photography "I'm not a professional photographer, but I like taking photos that give a sense of how strange and interesting people are, whether they live in Iowa or in Kathmandu. I was particularly impressed by the friendliness of people in Delhi. They were very welcoming and, as you can see from the photos, many were delighted to have their pictures taken. In Nepal, as in India, people have very hard lives, but visitors are overwhelmed by their good nature, dignity, and industriousness, and by the omnipresence of Buddhist and Hindu spirituality." artimages/08272005.jpg 452 190
2005-08-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=594 Amy Dobrian Amy is currently a resident of Iowa City, Iowa. A New Heart original print "For the last several years my images have been concerned with the exploration of memory, as it evolves through time and as it manifests itself in the present moment. I am interested in time as both a linear and a non-linear experience, and in how our perception of time evolves from the relationships constructed by the mind of memory, present, and expectation. I am interested in the relationships between thought and event, and physical and emotional 'reality' as they affect our perception of time inside and outside of our own sensory experience. A memory is transformed and reconfigured by linear time and its interaction with the 'outside' events of one's life; and, paradoxically remains fixed within the psyche as the symbol of self within a single moment transcendent of time." artimages/08282005.jpg 200 269
2005-08-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=595 Michael Roberts A resident of Iowa City, Iowa, Roberts is a native of California. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1975 and has participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide.
medieval style paintings,defaced acrylic on board Michael Roberts is known for his highly realistic portrait cut-outs on wood. His subjects have included well-known political or historical figures as well as ordinary citizens. The cut-outs appear three dimensional instead of flat, with facial features augmented by intense lighting at close range. artimages/08292005.jpg 349 245
2005-08-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=596 Jim Kasper Jim Kasper maintains his wood-fire kiln on his rural property near Tipton, Iowa, where he lives with his wife Lucy and Great Dane, Bert. On his land, he is establishing 20 acres of native prairie grasses and about four acres of trees. Untitled wood-fired ceramics His work has a wonderful combination of wit, intelligence and primal wood- fire, reflecting his years of scholarship in physics and his love of ceramics. He is a member of the Society of Creative Anachronism in which he hand-cuts dies for the hand-striking of medieval style tokens. His work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly as well as exhibitions such as the International Orton Cone Box Show. artimages/08302005.jpg 225 343
2005-08-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=597 Carl Homstad woodcut prints "Art gives us an understanding of place. One of the things an artist does is show us the way each place is beautiful, or awesome, or terrible. I have lived in the same place for nearly twenty years, where I have built my own studio and house. Like the 'One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji,' doing pictures of the same area again and again in the different seasons and times of the day is a way to gain a deeper understanding of a place. Just as it takes a long time to understand the subtleties of an area, I like to make pictures that 'grow on you.' Although realistic, my work is not photographic. Naturalistic is perhaps a better description.
With my woodcuts I am constantly trying new techniques as well as working on the old ones. I try to get the most out of each cut, each color and each block. In this age of the reproduction I believe in carrying on the tradition of the color woodcut, and I enjoy the challenge. I work mostly from memory, creating images of ordinary places at extra- ordinary times, for example, in the rain or snow in the last rays of the sun." A native of Colorado, Carl is a graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he continues to make his home. artimages/08312005.jpg 405 228
2005-09-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=598 David Luck Untitled hammered metal wall quilt and detail Enter David Luck's studio and you immediately confront his fascination with metalworking. Every available inch is packed with work spaces, older yet well- maintained tools, scraps of sheet metal, shipping crates, files, books. In a studio that could easily enter a state of chaos, David's is ordered, layered.
Like the modular quality of his work, a series of small intensely used spaces is ordered into onb entity known as the Metalworks in Iowa City, Iowa. With an undergraduate degree in photojournalism, it was graduate work in metals with Chunghi Choo at the University of Iowa that brought David closer to his present sculptural involvement with metal. "As I designed and made functional metal objects, I became interested in the expressive qualities of the metalworking craft. Metal is part of our visual culture and seems to express a certain subject matter and content by itself."
The mainstay of David's work is his jewelry: handmade link bracelets, pendants, bangles and earrings for the most part, in sterling silver. However, he also makes sculptural pieces and metal wall quilts. When working in sculptural forms, David's preference is for sheet metal and casting. In investigating these techniques, he explored structural systems used to fabricate metal items in everyday life. Ductwork is an example of this. As he describes, "I adapted structural systems to make forms on a larger scale. The patterns of the structural components and joints broke up the surface of my forms, becoming part of the decorative system. This led to the use of hammered surface patterns and relief. I composed these rhythmic patterns, trying to make compositions with internal harmony."
Some of David's pieces employ colored surface patinas, which he achieves chemically in the studio. In addition to jewelry, David Luck has executed commissions of large hammered metal wall quilts for public buildings such as Iowa State University's Horticulture Building and Carver-Hawkeye Arena at the University of Iowa. artimages/09012005.jpg 350 300
2005-09-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=599 Larry Welo Larry Welo has been creating etchings since the early 1970's. A graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Welo operated a studio in Minneapolis until moving to Wisconsin, where he currently lives with his family. An Unusual Destiny etching A popular Midwestern artist, Larry Welo's etchings cover a broad range of topics. Scenes from small Midwestern towns, spirited cats, images of baseball diamonds or bicyclists, colorful zany portraits titled An Appetite for Art -- all of these subjects are fertile territory for Welo's wit and skill as a printmaker. When viewing his work, always notice the title; his witty perceptions about the world set him apart from many other artists. Welo executes his work in both black and white and in color, with the occasional addition of monoprint or chine colle.
His prints on baseball themes are included in the Sports Art Archives at the Butler Institute of Art and in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as corporate, private and university collections in the Midwest. His works have also been featured on several covers of the North American Review.
"My etching have always been inspired by various aspects of my life; they are, in a sense, self portraits. My imagery is often rooted in the natural world. I create my etchings entirely in the studio; I find my information in sketches I have drawn, written notations and most importantly, my imagination. My images are not intended to be duplications of the world, but instead interpretations of it. It is important to me that the creative process be a voyage of discovery, always looking in new directions and following new avenues." artimages/09022005.jpg 200 375
2005-09-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=600 Randy Richmond Protected #1, archival digital pigment print, 20" x 15" (framed) "I am a photographic and digital artist living Iowa. I strive to make digital art more natural and organic by using actual objects that are scanned and then separated from their original backgrounds. These objects are combined with other objects as well as photographic images that I have created over the last 20 years. Sometimes I feel like a psychic who works in reverse. An object triggers a memory and then transforms itself into something visual while drawing from emotions and feelings from my past." artimages/09032005.jpg 350 255
2005-09-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=601 E. Douglas Wunder "My art career began in the late l980's while in college at the University of Iowa. The last two years I took a number of metalworking classes. One of the attributes of this study was that the homework was marketable. By the last year in school, my jewelry was selling regularly at shops and art fairs around Iowa. Perseverance, determination, hard work, and resourcefulness resulted in my work being displayed at various high quality galleries and art fairs nationally.
titanium jewelry The most appealing aspect of this profession is experiencing creativity. Inspiration for my jewelry comes from details of natural and technological objects. Different parts, shapes, and angular movements of an industrial building, for example, can be quite inspiring. The manner in which the individual components flow and contrast with one another, completing interesting geometric patterns, is much the feel of my work I find similar inspiration by looking at the sky. A focal point might be the moon. Captured in and around the celestial body are many shades, unique forms, and interesting cloud formations that intermlate with the surface. Each piece of jewelry expresses a detailed esthetic that looks as if it has purpose and function.
Within each piece of work, the majority of parts are hand-sawed. I cut intricate shapes and pierce lines almost as if the saw blade were a pencil. Cutting is done in the interior by piercing a small hole and inserting the saw blade. Care is taken not to pass outer dimensions. I always work from a design, each component is specifically made, and I do not use found objects." artimages/09042005.jpg 330 172
2005-09-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=602 Janel Swangstu Janel earned a B.F.A. in Sculpture and Photography from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1990. In 1998, Janel received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College in New York, New York. She has had numerous solo exhibitions since starting her career in 1991, including a number of exhibitions in Des Moines, Iowa. The galleries are as follows, Des Moines Art Center, Harmon Fine Arts Center, The Furnace Gallery, and the Iowa Heritage Museum. Untitled #5A color photogram 14" x 14" 2002 artimages/09052005.jpg 287 288
2005-09-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=603 Ryan Jennings Clark Ryan was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1979 and would later earn his B.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 2002. Most recently, Ryan participated in a solo exhibition at the Karolyn Sherwood Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa. Here is a brief overview of his show, "On the Morality of Memory": Archive/ Archetype mixed media 37.5" x 26" 2005 "This exhibition is about the construction and continuity of human identity through memory and experience. I am focusing on the disconcerting fallibility of memory as a recording device that is based in “realityâ€, and I am glancing at the un-navigable paths through the subconscious and the imaginary. These issues become important if one considers their memory and experience to define who they are/were/and will be.
I have divided the exhibition into two sections: Subjective Memory and Objective Memory. The 'Subjective Memory' pieces are divided into three sections that are based on theories of the metaphysical divisions of man. Part I, for example, pits the conception of linear, unfaltering time against the actualities of the human experience. Part III, is identity without memory. The Objective Memory pieces deal with cultural identity and the placement of that in an historical context. I am interested in the subtleties we employ to communicate and universally accept these concepts (identity and narrative), even in the midst of our individual relative knowledge." artimages/09062005.jpg 225 344
2005-09-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=604 Phillip Chen Born in Chicago, Illinois, Phillip Chen would continue on to earn his B.F.A from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1975. Four years later in 1979, Phillip earned his M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning as an Instructor of Drawing at the Cook County Jail, Phillip is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Flower Water relief etching 31" x 23" 2002 artimages/09072005.jpg 350 263
2005-09-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=605 Will Mentor Originally from Massachusetts, Will Mentor is a former professor at the University of Iowa and is currently teaching at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. Mentor has exhibited his work nationally and internationally in group and solo shows every year since 1984. His work is included in many public and private collections, including the Des Moines Art Center, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
Wide Screen Plot oil and acrylic on canvas 35.5" x 20" 2004 artimages/09082005.jpg 350 204
2005-09-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=606 Fred Truck Fred Truck is a true Iowan artist. Born in 1946 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Fred would go on to earn his B.A. at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1969. He currently lives and works in Des Moines, Iowa. Something to note about Fred is that he was a co-founder of the Art Com Electronic Network, the first computer network for artists, with Carl Loeffler in 1986. Cartoon Bomb plastic, automotive paint, nylon 10" x 6" x 6" 2005 "I work from 3D computer imagery I generate in CAD/CAM programs. Drawing in three dimensions makes it easy for me to move a given idea into a print or even a constructed object such as a bronze. Of course, there is a trick to this. I realized early on that the ideas I had were always connected to matter. I’ve never had an idea independent of matter. Moving an idea from my computer CAD/CAM rendering to a sculpture is a process of understanding that the electrons making the image on my computer monitor are the same as those electrons making up the bronze of my sculptures. When the electrons are represented by 1s and 0s, changing their outward form is like pouring water from a fish bowl in to a swan-necked vase." artimages/09092005.jpg 250 342
2005-09-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=607 Stephen Maxon Stephen Maxon is a native of Mason City, Iowa He is a graduate of North Iowa Area Community College. He earned a B.A. in Anthropology and both the M.A. and M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Iowa.
bronze sculptures His initial interest in painting shifted to sculpture during graduate school. He studied with Julius Schmidt at the University of Iowa, earning the M.F.A in 1980.
After teaching sculpture at Marycrest College in Davenport, Maxon set up his own backyard foundry, MAX-CAST. MAX-CAST has subsequently grown to become commercial art foundry and gallery in Kalona, Iowa. At the foundry, he divides his time between producing his own ware and that of his partners and clients. artimages/09102005.jpg 338 278
2005-09-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=608 Doris Park Doris Park has enjoyed drawing, painting, and sculpture since early childhood. Primarily self-taught, she became interested in metal casting while studying at the University of Minnesota.
Along with Steve Maxon, Doris is an owner of MAXCAST, based in Kalona, Iowa. metal cast sculptures An appreciation of the natural world and an empathy for animals characterizes the art of Doris Park. Her charming, beautiful bronze and iron sculptures often portray unusual or unappeciated animals, such as snapping turtles or toads. But the wonderful detail and accuracy of her work creates a level of realism which is almost unbelievable, and the character of the individual animals, as well as their own special beauty, is readily discernable. artimages/09112005.jpg 438 175
2005-09-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=609 Connie Roberts Trained as a figurative painter, Constance Alyce Westvig Roberts calls herself a "thing- maker." Sandwich Purse with Potato Chip Strap carved wood In her work, she bridges the realms of fine art and folk art and tackles many subjects with sharp wit and unrestrained humor. Roberts creates carved wooden whistles, but this isn't always obvious at first glance. Usually, the viewer gets caught up taking in all the images presented by these sculptural pieces: a wedge of chocolate cake with a birthday candle whistle, a dog angel, or perhaps a bag of whistling circus peanuts. Her work seems to follow three different tracks: popular culture where, for example, real- looking candy bars with familiar names are altered slightly to bring new meaning such as Sneakers Bars or Nestegg Crunch. Nursery rhymes and cartoon images, and political commentary are two other themes that influence her ideas.
Roberts also collaborates with hers husband Michael, an artist specializing in realistic portraits and allegorical paintings. California natives, the Roberts are long-time residents of Iowa.
Connie has created works for well know entertainers such as Steven Spielberg. Mike Roberts and Connie collaborated on Congressman Jim Leach's portrait, which hangs in the halls of the US Banking Committee in Washington, DC. artimages/09122005.jpg 252 185
2005-09-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=610 Hank Goodman Somewhere between the distinctive glazes and graceful forms of Hank Goodman Stoneware lies another layer, one you sense more than see. This is where individual artistry comes alive, drawing on subtle yet strong influences from centuries of art history, decades of family tradition, and years of personal experience. Hints of historical Oriental and Western vessels show up in each vase and bottle, teapot and sculpture. An appreciation for the lush landscape of the North Carolina mountains is expressed in the natural tones of the ash glazes. And the importance of family, education, and travel lend shape to the work as surely as Hank's own skilled hands. text and image from hankgoodman.com http://www.hankgoodman.com/ Untitled shino jar with ash overspray 20" tall Like all good art, it has taken a lifetime to develop Hank Goodman Stoneware, starting years ago on the family farm in northwest Iowa. Hank grew up working with his hands, guided by a mother who loved crafts and provided him with many opportunities to create objects in clay and other media. In his senior year at Buena Vista University at Storm Lake, Iowa, he was drawn to the potter's wheel and the centering of clay. After graduating with an Art Education degree in 1972 and three years later with an MFA in ceramics from the University of Iowa, he returned to the family farm to set up his first studio. artimages/09132005.jpg 230 315
2005-09-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=611 Jim Kasper Jim Kasper maintains his wood-fire kiln on his rural property near Tipton, Iowa, where he lives with his wife Lucy and Great Dane, Bert. On his land, he is establishing 20 acres of native prairie grasses and about four acres of trees. Untitled wood-fired ceramics His work has a wonderful combination of wit, intelligence and primal wood- fire, reflecting his years of scholarship in physics and his love of ceramics. He is a member of the Society of Creative Anachronism in which he hand-cuts dies for the hand-striking of medieval style tokens. His work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly as well as exhibitions such as the International Orton Cone Box Show. artimages/09142005.jpg 194 200
2005-09-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=612 Megan Berner Megan Berner received her B.A. in Photography from the University of Nevada Reno and is currently a graduate student in the School of Art and Art History’s Intermedia program at the University of Iowa. She mainly works with photography and video but also uses other media including drawing, collage, and printmaking. Main themes in her work include being a twin, identity, and the use of narratives and storytelling.
Oaxaca, Mexico Type-C Print 2004 artimages/09152005.jpg 350 260
2005-09-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=613 Hanus Of Prague Born and raised in Iowa and a self-taught, accidental artist, I am now in medical school and spending more and more time in Prague and Olomouc of the Czech Republic. Hanus has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, exhibited at the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, and had a one-person show at Legion Arts/CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Hanus works in tile murals, sculptures, watercolors and digital paintings. His tile murals have been placed in Prague and Olomouc, Czech Republic. He is currently working on a mural for Valletta, the capital of Malta. Hanus' work often depicts universal models of meta-identity and supraculture. He also likes to explore arts-infused social mechanisms to elevate public discourse, nurture critical thinking and enrich private/public lives through various cultural events. Salvation in Five poster 11" x 17" 2004 Due to my increasing residence in Prague, I have taken the name Hanus of Prague. My signature is a form of art in itself. Hanus was the clockmaker who created the glockenspiel clock for the town square in Prague, many centuries ago. In order to ensure that he did not duplicate his masterpiece for another town, the town elders of Prague had his eyes gouged out. My signature takes the basic H shape of my name. The bar is curved as in a smile but also represents the diacritic placed over the S in Hanus, that gives the pronunciation an SH sound (HA-noosh.) The eyes have been restored but are advanced and evolved, able to give perspective from a number of vantage points. This signature symbolizes the power I believe art has to offer new and insightful perspectives, void in the standard political, academic, religious, corporate and legal discourses that permeate society today. artimages/09162005.jpg 225 354
2005-09-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=614 Sara Fletcher Sara Fletcher grew up in Western New York State. She received her BFA in ceramic sculpture from Alfred University in 1998, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from Brandeis University in 2003. She is currently an MFA candidate in painting at the University of Iowa. Family oil on canvas 18" x 24" 2004 artimages/09172005.jpg 325 292
2005-09-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=615 Kristin Quinn Kristin Quinn earned her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1984 and her MFA in painting from Indiana University in 1988. She has been a Professor of Art at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport since 1989.
Click here for more of the artists' work http://web.sau.edu/art/quinn/default.htm Bemsha Swing 56" x 48" 2003 "I grew up in a house of optical phenomena. My father was a physicist with a specialty in optics (although neighbors claimed he worked at the Optical Department at Sears). Lasers, lenses, prisms, and holographs were plentiful; as were lessons on the natural world. In our house, a solar eclipse became a graduate level seminar. On long car trips, we passed the time with questions to stump Dad: Why was the sky orange, what caused hail, and how were tunnels built under the bay? (Incidentally, we refer to these questions now as "Tunnel Talk" questions).
I begin my paintings with questions like those of "Tunnel Talk" times. What is the color of amber, iron-ore, pollen? How can wind and water be suggested? The paintings gradually grow in layers. In the strata of paint, the shape of a microscopic protein hovers beneath a planet's elliptical orbit and decorative ironwork cancels out dense foliage. It is these strange alliances between the common and uncommon, natural and synthetic that I find compelling to paint. The compressions, connections, and contradictions of the layers shape the personality of the painting.
This knotted, painted combination forces a continual shift of attention among the many levels. I compare this to a single moment in landscape and the competing levels of activity. When I stand on Devonian limestone on the levee of the Mississippi, the barges and riverboats pass, herons fly, behind, a train noisily rumbles and streetlights flicker on, the smell of diesel fuel drifts in while rain clouds build. It's the density of experience that continues to raise questions and excite me as a painter." artimages/09182005.jpg 250 313
2005-09-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=616 Thomas Knauer Thomas Knauer holds a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College, an MFA from Ohio University in Athens and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Dept. of Print Media, Bloomfield Hills, MI. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Drake University in Des Moines. Thomas Knauer's website http://www.fourinchesofego.com/front.html chimera: brad pitt's abs digital print 10" x 10" 2003 Recently I have made political activity the central focus of my public design practice. Within the context of design as conversational, design necessarily occupies the space of a voice. Thus it is incumbent upon me as designer to determine what I can do with my voice. Within the context of the continued drive for design to maintain an apolitical position, to regard itself as a tool, I believe it is of vital importance the practitioners continue design’s history of social and political involvement and its long tradition of self-authored activity.
While I would never make so grand a claim as that anything I might do as a designer will change the world, at least I can use my voice to impact some part of it. To be honest, the way the world is going often scares me and I believe it is my responsibility to my role as a designer to give voice to my horror. When the communicators cease to care what they are saying, then we are all ultimately screwed. artimages/09192005.jpg 350 233
2005-09-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=617 Joleen Dentlinger Joleen was born in Storm Lake, Iowa. Her work with pen and ink began in the early 1980's. Joleen works as a graphic artist for Silk Screen Ink in Storm Lake and also does freelance work under her personal company name, Unique Inque. Her work has been seen at numerous businesses, galleries and art shows. Lewis Home pen & ink 36.5" x 29.5" 2004 About her work, Joleen has this to say, "History and its preservation rate very high in my heart, right behind home and family. With my drawings I can document places and things that touched me, whether it's an old farm house, an old Chicago hotel or an intriguing landscape. By working in pen and ink, I strive and accomplish depth, intensity, detail, "color" and texture - in just a subtly way - as simple as black and white." artimages/09202005.jpg 340 268
2005-09-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=618 William Lieb William was born and raised in Spirit Lake, Iowa and attended Iowa State University, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1967. He practiced Architecture in Colorado and received many local, state, regional, national and international Architectural awards for design excellence. Following his retirement in 1993, he and his wife explored the world for five years on their sailboat and have now returned to Spirit Lake. For the past year William has had the opportunity to begin a career in sculpting, a life-long desire. So far he has participated in two group exhibitions, one at the Lakes Art Center in Okoboji and one at Arts on Grand in Spencer. Hello PVC board 26" x 18" x 11" 2004 To quote William, "The main thrust of my work is to create art that engages and energizes the human spirit. In this journey I am renewed. artimages/09212005.jpg 288 325
2005-09-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=619 Helen Gunderson Helen Gunderson is an independent videographer and photographer, a local historian, and a seminary graduate with a passion to interpret her rural Iowa heritage. Presently residing in Gilbert, Iowa, she works under the business name of Gunder-friend Productions.
The Upper Midwest was home to her until 1981 when she enrolled in a Presbyterian seminary near San Francisco and earned a Master of Divinity. As part of that program, she served as parish intern in St. Helena. After graduation, she returned to that town and began Gunder-friend Productions. Then in 1993, she moved back to Iowa. She also has a Master's Degree in Instructional Media from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and a degree in physical education from Iowa State. She has taught in Duluth and Eagle Grove, worked in sports information at North Dakota State University, and directed the YMCA of NDSU. #029 color photography 12" x 18" "Currently, I am producing a set of photographs for a rural sociologist to publish in a book he is writing on the Practical Farmers of Iowa. Also, in 2001, I equipped my computer with all the right stuff to do digital video editing and completed a 30-minute program called Growing against the Grain that interprets the work of the Audubon County Family Farms who are involved in sustainable agriculture and direct-marketing their produce. Having the capacity to do quality video editing with my own equipment should enable me to complete the show, The Road I Grew Up On, and one called The House at the Homeplace." artimages/09222005.jpg 250 171
2005-09-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=620 Therese Murdza Therese Murdza is a painter, born and raised in Edgewood, Maryland and received her B.S. in Theater from Towson University in 1986. She works with acrylic and/or oil paint on stretched canvas, using pencil and water-based crayons to mark maps, make records and add line. The swaths and blobs of color and breakdown of image become music, are not music, perform within their frame, push the limits, and fly beyond it. blue 1 acrylic paint, pencil, water crayon on canvas 24" x 28" 2004 Therese has this to say about her process, "Before I could tie my shoes, I played a small accordion... I studied piano and saxophone and then jazz and music theory in a music program my dad built at an otherwise limited public high school. And then, in college, I put down the instruments and took myself to the theatre, to new forms of moving, composing and materializing sounds in transitory space... After graduating in 1986, I distilled this playwriting into the efficiency of poetry. I found a welcomed pause in the quiet of the words on paper, whittling down the images and the bodies and emotions into as few words as possible... A move back to the city had me drawing on big paper and literally taking the words apart. Disintegrating the shapes of the words into lines. Freeing the movement to create energy there on the page, into the squares and out of the circles. I began painting images and concepts using elements--those circles and blobs and squares and moving lines--that I’m still exploring. I work on my own, influenced by a vibrant community of artists and activists, to paint the unpredictable musical form, the movement of bodies and words, the paragraphs and stories and sounds set free. It is this movement that I push into color and shape, both framed and unfettered." artimages/09232005.jpg 270 312
2005-09-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=621 Tony Winchester Tony received his BFA in sculpture and ceramics from Bellevue College, a small school in Nebraska. His love of sculptural form finds its match in, as he puts it, "the emotional and gestural qualities of clay." The flowing qualities of ash glazes over matte glazes create a richness of surface which enhance the movement and mood of his work. In these wheel-thrown and altered stoneware pieces, colors create small landscapes, all different. untitled red pot stoneware Winchester is a resident of Persia, Iowa. He has worked as an independent studio potter since 1993 and has received national recognition. Winchester's work is lead free, oven and microwave safe. artimages/09242005.jpg 320 213
2005-09-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=622 Mary Weisgram untitled pitcher and teapot ceramic Mary Weisgram creates functional ceramics while residing in Ames, Iowa.
"Her pottery is gorgeous; autumn leaf patterns adorn several of her larger bowls. In addition to its aesthetic appeal, Mary's work is completely functional. Her smaller bowls, vases, and porcelain boxes are as eye-catching as her larger bowls."
(quote from Campell Steele gallery) artimages/09252005.jpg 350 233
2005-09-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=623 Sharon Neff Sharon Neff has been a potter since before she had permission. As a child she played in the woods behind her house on the Mississippi River bluff. When discovered by her mother, she insisted she was not playing with fire, but explained that she was firing pottery made of clay she found. Her undergraduate and graduate professors at the University of Iowa tried to channel her interests. She still dug her clay and worked at perfecting replicas of ancient pottery fired in pit firings often fueled by manure. Sharon has now left mining to the miners and the manure at the barn. She uses her constant and intimate observations of nature as the subject for her works in stoneware and porcelain. decorative plate, stoneware and porcelain "I work with several stoneware and porcelain clays ranging from warm brown to bright white. I throw most shapes from a lump of clay on my potters wheel. I hand roll and cut all of my tiles. I fold, tear, overlay, model, stamp, inscribe, and impress on each piece while the clay is still damp. When fully dry I bisque fire everything to 1300 F. I then pour, dip, and paint the glaze designs. The completed pieces are re-fired to 2307 F. Some of the glazes melt to glossy black, brown, green, and amber, others stay dry and velvety on the exposed surface of the clay." - Sharon Neff - artimages/09262005.jpg 350 258
2005-09-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=624 Marsha Myers Marsha Myers is former long-time resident of Iowa City, Iowa currently living in Colorado.
bundt cake mold, stoneware and clay "Pottery is an art as old as humanity. Clay vessels have been used for cooking and decorative purposes by people worldwide throughout history.
For over 30 years, I have been making pottery and mixing my own glazes for a variety of clays and selected minerals. Each piece is wheel-thrown, hand-decorated, and gas-fired twice -- the second time to more than 2300º F. The result is pottery with a range of rich, warm glazes and individualized decoration with the unmistakable print of the maker's hand." artimages/09272005.jpg 350 233
2005-09-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=625 Bob Anderson Bob Anderson grew up in Waterloo, Iowa and now is the owner of Sunflower Pottery, located in Pella, Iowa. He throws his pots, pie dishes, plates, etc. on a potter's wheel, then attaches sculpted or molded rural images to them. Some of these images include cows, pigs, grain silos, and wood ducks, among others. About the response to his pieces, Bob says, untitled cow casserole dish, stoneware "They look like real animals. But the idea of having the dishes used is really great. People tell me how well the pie and bread pans bake. That makes me feel good." artimages/09282005.jpg 350 233
2005-09-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=626 George Lowe George Lowe is a living and working resident of Decorah, Iowa. untitled ceramic jar His work has a very natural feel to it, while being both versatile and beautiful. Many of his pieces are fired multiple times in order to achieve the kind of surface that Lowe finds are up to his standards of interest. Pieces of his have been sold throughout the midwest and remain very popular. More of his work can be seen at the Iowa Artisans Gallery in Iowa City, Iowa. artimages/09292005.jpg 225 338
2005-09-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=627 Steve Peterson Steve is a resident of Decorah, Iowa. untitled pot, clay burnished, pit-fired ceramic vessel "I apply fire to my pots, rather than glazes. I do this because I love the feel and look of raw clay and I believe that, for my purposes, glazes hide the clay and give it a 'cold' feeling. I strive for warmth in my pottery. Unglazed clay that is fired to low temperatures warms up quickly in your hand. The shapes I use, the steeply sloped sides, and enclosed 'holes in the earth' mouths, and the gently undulating vessel lips all are designed to give an emotional feeling of warmth and enclosure. The passage of fire around the pots also gives them warmth because it leaves behind on the surface a complex history of the fire's progress, painted in warm colors and tones." artimages/09302005.jpg 350 233
2005-10-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=628 Wyatt Lane Wyatt Lane received a B.F.A. in ceramics from Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri in 1996. Active in the art scene, Wyatt has worked as a practicing artist since the summer of '96, displaying work throughout the midwest in both galleries and outdoor festivals. Returning to his hometown of Evanston, Illinois in 2001, Wyatt has become a member of the Midwest Clay Guild. He currently teaches at the Evanston Art center, Lill Street Art Center, and is director of the ceramics program at the Winnetka community House. Before his return to Illinois, Wyatt lived and worked in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. untitled stoneware vase "My stoneware and porcelain combine a variety of decorating and glazing techniques. Using colored slips and textures I am able to produce a surface that, once glazed, reveals a wealth of depth and motion. The glazing process involves the use of up to 5 layers of sprayed and brushed glazes and washes. The spraying and layering of glazes helps to enhance the texture, while maintaining a semi-translucent appearance which allows the colored slips to shine through. The glazes chosen, and more importantly, the order they are applied, determines the final shade of copper green, blue or brown which dominate this body of work. The last step of the glazing process is a selective spraying of copper red and cobalt blue, which provide contrast and an accent to the design and base glazes." artimages/10012005.jpg 225 338
2005-10-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=629 Jim Kerns "My first serious experience with clay was in 1968 as an art student at the University of Northern Iowa. We participated in our first art festival that year. The endless potential of clay tested through fire has kept my interest all these years. I have taught clay at several levels, including five years at the University of Northern Iowa. My real interest is in creating. I continue to work primarily in functional pottery, with occasional forays into sculpture. untitled clay wall plate My artist statement is a limerick:
(this comes from some rather tedious discussion on the boundaries of art and craft)
The process for making of urns.
Clay wet, clay dry, clay burns.
Is it art is it not.
Is it only a pot.
You be the judge, Jim Kerns" artimages/10022005.jpg 350 233
2005-10-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=630 Nancy Briggs Nancy Briggs has been on the faculty of the Des Moines Art Center since 1986 and currently teaches ceramics to adults and children. Her work has been shown in regional and national juried exhibitions. untitled ceramic vase Using the raku pottery technique, Nancy is able to give her pottery and sculpture a mysterious, ancient quality. The pottery is quickly heated to melt the glaze, then is removed from the kiln while red hot and placed in beds of sawdust to smoke the wares. This smoking gives the clay its black color and the glazes their rich metallic look. Due to the process, raku pottery is therefore fragile and porous. artimages/10032005.jpg 350 233
2005-10-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=631 Suzanne B. Aunan An Iowan since 1972, Suzanne B. Aunan is a self-taught artist who has enjoyed painting as far back as she can remember. Born in New York City, she grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Suzanne attended the University of Iowa, majoring in Medical Technology and later graduated from the Physician Assistant Program. She worked as a P.A. at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, then as a full-time mother of four. Now with all four children in school, she is enjoying a career as an artist. See more of Suzanne's work at http://www.sbaunan.com http://www.sbaunan.com/ Happy Halloween mixed media Suzanne paints detailed compositions using acrylic, gouache and watercolors, sometimes adding pencil or ink pen. Her work has been purchased by collectors world-wide. artimages/10042005.jpg 350 210
2005-10-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=632 Schlabaugh & Sons From Kalona, Iowa, Schlabaugh & Sons specializes in producing clocks made of the highest quality native & imported hardwoods. We take particular pride in our continued emphasis on distinctive design and quality. untitled pendulum clock cherry and sapele wood In this age of mass produced items, we are confident that you will immediately recognize the tradition of exceptional craftsmanship, while expressing the simplicity and unique beauty of contemporary design. artimages/10052005.jpg 225 338
2005-10-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=633 Randy Ferguson Randy's passion for woodworking provides a welcome diversion from his full time occupation. He is a resident of Iowa City. untitled wooden end table Having the good fortune of growing up next door to his grandfather's woodworking shop, Randy spent countless hours gaining knowledge and inspiration that he benefits from to this day. As a proud native Iowan, he prefers using native Iowa woods whenever possible. Whether he is crafting with cherry, walnut, maple or some other type of wood, Randy uses the characteristics of each type of wood, combined with meticulous attention to detail, to create beautiful lasting pieces. artimages/10062005.jpg 225 338
2005-10-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=634 Richard Hanson Richard Hanson is an accomplished watercolorist whose subject matter explores natural and botanical themes so realistically portrayed they are often mistaken for photographs. One body of work consists of tropical flora. The other group is comprised of rock and leaf formations with reflective water. Hansen paints on 300lb Arches watercolor paper approximately 18x24†in size. He is an art educator in the Fort Dodge, Iowa community schools and is also a life-long Fort Dodge resident. untitled watercolor painting 18" x 24" Since the early 1970s, Hanson has exhibited his work in more than one hundred major watercolor exhibitions throughout the country as well as regionally in Iowa. Recent highlights include Art for the Parks in Jackson Hole, WY (2001); the San Diego Watercolor Society’s 20th International Exhibition, where he won a Presidents Award (2000); the National Watercolor Society 81st Annual Exhibition, San Pedro, CA, where he was designated a Selected Signature Member (2001); and The Artist’s Magazine 2002 Annual Art Competition (Finalist Award), to name a few. He has also won “Best in Show†awards on numerous occasions. artimages/10072005.jpg 350 249
2005-10-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=635 Vernon Skip Willits Skip Willits earned a degree in studio art with an emphasis in art education from Western Illinois University in 1978. His predominant medium is welded metal, using materials such as steel, aluminum and bronze with various techniques from arc to torch welding. In 1983 he completed and placed "Ring of Life," his first large-scale work. Since then he has created and placed dozens of public and private indoor and outdoor sculptures locally and throughout the United States and Europe. He currently resides in Camanche, Iowa.
untitled flower from Steel Perennials collection sculpted metal "The flower has been a subject I return to again and again. As I cut and weld the steel parts together, I let the flower grow and mature on its own. The shapes come together almost magically in my studio. each time I make one, I'm transported to a metaphysical garden where all things are clear and peaceful" artimages/10082005.jpg 204 350
2005-10-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=636 Peggy and Steve Kittelson Peggy and Steve live and work in Clermont, Iowa. untitled kaleidoscope glass and oil Peggy and Steve have been creating fine handcrafted kaleidoscopes since 1987 when they combined their stained glass studios. Their goal was to create unique scopes that are not only beautiful to look at but very pleasing to touch and hold. They have achieved this goal by incorporating many facets of their glass craftsmanship, creating kaleidoscopes that are distinctive and original. Their work can be found in major collections all over the world and is in demand by discerning collectors. They are known for their classic 2-mirror kaleidoscope imagery and the highest quality optical illusions are defined by the incredible display of miniature glass sculptures found in the object chambers. the exteriors of their copes are of fused and slumped glass combined with finely machined metal turning ends which house the object chambers. artimages/10092005.jpg 350 176
2005-10-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=637 MARTI Freund "Raised on an Iowa Farm and being involved with 4-H gave me an appreciation for different crafts. I briefly studied arts and crafts at Iowa State University and then followed my longing for the mountains by moving to Colorado. untitled kaleidoscope stained glass Since 1978, stained glass has been my medium for artistic expression. I began designing stained glass windows, lampshades and other items. Kaleidoscopes, remember the fun you had with them when you were a child? Well that 'fun' has once again entered my life. By 1981, the intrigue of capturing a rainbow had won my heart. It still seems like magic when viewing through a newly made scope and finding that spectrum of color inside. My newest scopes reflect my enjoyment of wildlife and of the outdoors with the addition of decorative 'filigree' and 'scratchings' to the scopes exterior.
My father, Ed Freund, is instrumental in helping me craft my scopes by machining all the metal mechanisms for the wheels. From hand threading and cutting the brass pieces to machining the washers out of a solid rod, truly make my scopes hand made." artimages/10102005.jpg 350 233
2005-10-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=638 Shawn Nelson Shawn works with his wife Sarah Nelson at their family business, The Rhythm of Color, in Iowa City, Iowa. untitled glass vase Shawn's enjoyment comes from the creative energy he puts forth while creating glass art. The world of glass has allowed him to combine his love for individualism and creation. He hopes you will take pleasure in his work and find it equally as captivating to own.
Shawn became a Lampworker quite accidentally. He was working in the Heating and Air industry installing ventilation when he moved from his birthplace of North Carolina to Colorado. He began installing ventilation for various Lampworkers on the west coast, and became enthralled with the art form. He soon began to trade ventilation installations for glass art lessons and apprenticeships. His excitement comes in utilizing his artistic and technical mind to create beautiful pieces of art for other's enjoyment.
Shawn's specialty is Borosilicate glass. It is the most durable and purest form of glass in the world. Due to its strength, Borosilicate can be crafted directly in the open flame of a torch. After he creates each piece, it is placed in the kiln for proper firing and finishing, thus ensuring the art piece will be enjoyed for years.
Glass offers Shawn a constant challenge. He combines ancient techniques, with a modern influence to offer you his own unique style of craftsmanship. he continues to hone his talents and skills as he works on new techniques and products for your future enjoyment. He feels a great sense of accomplishment in his work and is proud to share it with you. artimages/10112005.jpg 231 350
2005-10-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=639 Sarah Nelson Sarah Nelson, an Iowa City native, works alongside her husband Shawn Nelson in their family glass studio, The Rhythm of Color. untitled glass plate fused and slumped glass She was introduced to the wonderful possibilities of glass art while living in Boulder, Colorado. While experimenting with the many facets that glass has to offer, she developed a love for fusing glass. When creating her pieces, Sarah enjoys working with simple lines and patterns. She believes that there is an effortless beauty in all things simple. Sarah enjoys creating functional pieces that people can enjoy. From one of kind plates to unique jewelry, she takes great joy in creating pieces that make people smile. artimages/10122005.jpg 350 230
2005-10-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=640 Jessica White Jessica White spends most of her time making illustrations for stories that don't exist. Along with prints and drawings, she also makes books and zines. She loves photocopiers. See more of Jessica's work at www.bittersweetnessandlight.com http://www.bittersweetnessandlight.com/ The Present ink & watercolor 22" x 15" 2005 artimages/10132005.jpg 339 287
2005-10-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=641 JK Creative Wood JK Creative Wood is the creative outlet of the Brokaw family, based out of Kalona, Iowa. They create many wooden pieces including mouse pads, serving trays, cutting boards, and quilt racks. Joel and Karma Brokaw, the patrons of the family, both have many years of woodworking experience. They are helped out by their sons, Justin, Jeremy, Jordan, and Jackson, and their three daughters Keilah, Kidron, and Kaylin. Lazy Susan walnut, red oak, padauk, purple heart woods 12" in diameter About their work and how their family fits into their business, the Brokaws had this to say, " The children have all just grown up with it. We've always taken them to art fairs where they've gotten to meet other artists' kids... Each piece [of woodwork] is individually designed. I don't want to know how long it takes to put one of these things together." artimages/10142005.jpg 350 241
2005-10-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=642 Charley Groth I am a BFA student in Intermedia Art at the University of Iowa. I am also a Journalism Major and a student producer for AM 910 WSUI's Weekend America Iowa Edition. My artwork has appeared at Intermedia open houses and in the International Building where the Intermedia Department is located. Sock Rock performance/ interactive installation 2005 Sock Rock was my last open house piece. It consisted of a room iconicly split between good and evil. People were encouraged by me, the evil announcer on the PA to come in and sock wrestle which consists of getting on your hands and knees and trying to take the opponents loosely worn sock off their foot. The first person to snatch the others sock won. The combatants had to choose whether they wanted to wrestle for the Good or Evil side. Before they could compete they had to complete initiation rituals for their side. This project was about melodramatic perception. How what began as a simple narrative form has slipped into our realities and is considered real. It was over the top and loud in order to jolt people out of their black and white/ good and evil mind traps. artimages/10152005.jpg 350 263
2005-10-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=643 Warren Staal Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, Warren had previously run his own graphic design and printing company before coming to the University of Iowa to earn a BA in Communication and a BFA with an emphasis in Studio Art. Warren currently works for University Relations at the University of Iowa, where he holds the position of Associate Designer. 21 Jinn digital photographic archival inkjet print 11" x 14" 2005 "My work is an introspective look through the Freudian shadows of life. The Freudian concept of 'das Ich' (understanding of the psychological 'I') and how my search to make sense of who I am, where I come from, and where I am headed. All the lives I have come into contact with; a working quid pro quo relationship with those who have taught me many a valuable lesson, as I too have left with them, an imprint of my experiences in life. As an information gatherer, experiencing various environments and the cultures, religions & traditions, through the eyes and language of the most obscure, I create through various media, an external representation of the unique; things or people I have had the privilege of being juxtaposed to." artimages/10162005.jpg 350 262
2005-10-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=644 Andrew Crooks Andrew Crooks is an Iowan artist who earned his B.F.A. degree in Fine Art Photography at the University of Northern Iowa in the Spring of 2005. He is represented in the permanent art collections of Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and Rod Library, UNI. Crooks will enter graduate school in the Fall of 2005 to pursue an M.F.A. in Photography at the University of New Mexico. Andrew Crooks's website http://www.andrewcrooks.com/ Roadside chromogenic color print 20" x 24" 2004 "When a person encounters a photograph, they often think of it as an impartial record of fact. It is my belief that, even when the photograph seems to show unequivocal truth, it’s purpose or meaning can be shaped by the photographer. Things may not be as they seem. I express this idea by mixing painted backdrops, three-dimensional props, and real life subjects. The backdrops act as a synthesized reality, juxtaposed with real-life objects and people. The organic, human presence in these photographs provides contrast to the synthetic backdrops, pulling your eyes back and forth between natural and contrived elements. The sober expressions on people’s faces contrast my overt, sometimes hokey props and brightly colored backdrops. Unlike some images that try passing a contrivance off for truth, I amplify the contrast between the two worlds. By mixing reality with fiction, I highlight the maker’s power to shape an image, and ultimately create a new reality." artimages/10172005.jpg 253 350
2005-10-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=645 Richard H. Dutton Richard graduated with a B.S. degree from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri in 1960. In 1962, he received his M.A. from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Richard H. Dutton's website http://www.duttonartstudio.com/ Seasons, Late Summer watercolor, acrylic, gold leaf 28" x 36" 2004 About his process, Richard writes, "My art works are developed from on site sketching, painting and information gathering. I taught art history classes in college and this forms a basis for my work. I have always loved to travel and the images I gather are from historical and ancient places ... I use transparent watercolor on 140# and 300# watercolor paper. I also may include gold leaf and acrylic as part of the painting. The larger watercolors use a heavier 500# watercolor paper. The paint is applied in many layers during the development of the painting. The first coat is very fluid and subsequent layers are more and more exacting as the composition is developed." artimages/10182005.jpg 350 250
2005-10-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=646 Lily Michaud Lily Michaud was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. She earned her BA in Art and Mathematics from Smith College, and her MFA in Photography from University of New Mexico. In recent years she has had a number of solo shows across the country. Lily Michaud's website http://www.lilymichaud.com/ Untitled water sequence, stretched and mounted silver gelatin print 15.5" diameter She creates photo-based installations in order to transmit experiences stemming from her spiritual practices. Michaud’s subjects are often overlooked elements of the everyday life. Whether photographing constellations made out of debris, or asking viewers to look again at being in their bodies, she shares her awe at the ordinary. Michaud manipulates the viewing environment to provide a relaxed, intimate experience. The play between the elusive subject matter, (meditative experience), and the concreteness of the photographic medium peak the viewer’s curiosity. Refreshing the sense of wonder that makes the everyday a portal to the Absolute. Michaud currently lives and works in Iowa City. artimages/10192005.jpg 310 308
2005-10-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=647 Terry Rathje Terry Rathje is currently finishing his MFA at the University of Iowa. He is a design instructor at Western Illinois University. Wheel of Misfortune license plates and scrap metal 2004 "My art is about rearranging reality. I spend half my time taking things apart and learning how they are made, and the other half putting them back together and learning about myself.
By observing and internalizing how the world is put together, the world inside and the world outside meet in some sort of strange juxtaposition that I really don’t understand until the process is done. This meeting of the inside world and the outside world is at the heart of what I do. " artimages/10202005.jpg 350 233
2005-10-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=649 Rob Butler Rob Butler grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, and lived with his family in Germany. He discovered early on the excitement of diverse cultures and found that immersion in a foreign culture catalyzed his creativity. Rob earned his MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa in 2004, and he continues to pursue cross-cultural exchange as a visiting lecturer at the School of Communication in Riga, Latvia. Untitled: XXX serial monotype 31" x 66" 2004 About his artwork, Rob states: "In recent work, imagery is informed by being receptive to physical, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic events that occur during the process of print and art making. In the collaboration between the elements of process and myself, this dynamic sense serves as a catalyst to inform the next work. This dialogue, between artist and art, leads to serial work that provides a narrative for artistic processes, from the conceptual first work to the non-existential last. My purpose in my art work is not simply to communicate content and imagery with an audience, but to closely view my own actions, therefore placing my environment and myself under close observation, then reexamining those observations through the vehicle of print and art making." artimages/10212005.jpg 469 210
2005-10-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=650 Joseph Miller Joseph Miller was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin and earned a BS in Graphic Design. He is pursuing an M.F.A. degree in Graphic Design (minoring in Photography) at the University of Iowa. Configuration No. 088 magazine page spreads and transparent tape 56mm x 99mm 2003 Joseph Miller writes: The Intuitive Collage process is an exercise in seeing. This practice is concerned with finding, not creating, form. Magazine pages are cut into various geometric shapes with an Exacto knife. These pieces are then scattered on the floor to rest at random. Cropping tools are used to hunt these configurations and transparent tape is applied to splice ends. Type, texture, line, color, and image are embraced and taken simply for the sake of being perceived as beautiful together. As for meaning or associations, I leave the viewer to his/her own temperaments. artimages/10222005.jpg 196 350
2005-10-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=652 Wonjae Lee Wonjae Lee is in his first year of MFA Program in the Design Department at the University of Iowa. His current works explore the spaces and forms that could be captured within his cultural background, East Asia; temples, traditional costume, dance movement, music, etc. He also is engaged with lighting design. Since light is one of the strongest elements for recognizing a form, you should not put it aside when you create a form. Form III wire 15" x 15" 2004 "The lines from Life Drawing inspired this piece. Every object and space is created by endless numbers of lines, which create surface. The lines created by wires illuminate the spaces between wires. It is simple form, however, shadow created by the light adds the existence of space even stronger. People recognize spaces by contrast of dark and light shadows or the objects juxtaposed each other. That is why a certain object or space is pleasing to one’s eyes when it has an appropriate relationship with surroundings. I call it 'Communication'." artimages/10232005.jpg 350 276
2005-10-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=654 Bill Wohlford "I recently won the creativity award at the International Woodcarver’s Congress and often place among the top three in several categories of competition judged at that prestigious event. I have won juried shows with Mid-coast Fine Arts at “Window Walkâ€, “Art in the Markâ€, Art at the Iowa Visitor’s Center, “Art Under Glassâ€, “The Great Mask Auctionâ€, and in 2003 at the Transportation Center. I have public art in the Evangelical Church in Moline, the Catholic Church in Rock Island and banners in Davenport and Moline. I am an accepted artist at Quad City Arts sales gallery. I have won best-of show awards for the last four years at Quad City Senior Olympics.
I am a sculptor in wood combined with found objects, and two-dimensional painted backgrounds. I have created sculptures for over 25 years on a part time basis and since 2000 almost full time. My work includes realistic and stylized human forms in the act of being humans, realistic birds and geometric forms. Some of my work is whimsical, some simply expressive using the natural beauty of wood to create pleasing 3-dimensional pieces.
Grampa's Violin walnut, pine 50" x 30" x 22" "I sculpt in wood and I favor human figures, particularly female. The two things contradict. Wood is heavy and solid while the forms that I capture are light and airy. I absolve the conflict by leaving much of the human body to the observer. Violins and orchestral music are light, almost weightless. This piece is made light by the absense of everything that is unnecessary to the impression of a young girl concentrating on a musical lesson." artimages/10242005.jpg 225 381
2005-10-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=657 Amy Clarke Moore Born in 1969 in Boulder, Colorado, Amy Clarke Moore grew up in a nurturing environment of literature and visual arts. Tell Tale Apple seed beads Her work reflects a passionate interest in fairytales, myths, and art. She is currently the Editor of Spin-Off magazine, published by Interweave Press. Amy started beading in 1998 to complete a staff project for Beadwork magazine; she was hooked from that moment on. She enjoys the process of stitching the beads to the canvas. She views each bead as a thought and the spiral path of her beadwork is like the passage of time, ?each moment building on the next until an image emerges. Clarke Moore earned her B.A. from Cornell College in Iowa in 1990, majoring in Art, Latin American Studies, and Spanish, and her M.F.A. in Fibers from Colorado State University in 1997. She has participated in numerous exhibitions across the country and is currently represented by Thirteen Moons Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. artimages/10252005.jpg 233 350
2005-10-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=658 Mary Vandergraft Mary Salome Vandergraft grew up in a small farming community in southern Idaho. One of her earliest memories is of getting her mother's sewing scissors and cutting up a pair of pajamas "because of the way the scissors felt cutting through the cloth." Thus began her love affair with cloth. untitled hand painted silk banner Currently a resident of North Carolina, Mary Salome Vandergraft, (formerly Mary Rudesill) lived in Iowa City from 1969-1978. She developed an interest in weaving here, apprenticed at the Weaving Studio and began doing custom work for individuals as well as selling her work in area shops and craft shows.
After a stint in Saudi Arabia, Vandergraft moved to North Carolina, where she teamed up with a clothing designer. Together, they marketed their silk clothing in galleries and specialty boutiques throughout the United States. Their work was sold at The Flying Shuttle in Seattle, the Real Mother Goose in Portland, Oregon, and Studio 40 at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, among others. Vandergraft's scarves were featured in an exhibit at the Renwick Museum Gift Shop in Washington, DC.
In 1993, the business partnership was dissolved, and Vandergraft began marketing her own line of hand-dyed silk clothing, accessories and interiors under the name, Salome Silk. She has won numerous awards for her work. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she has a studio in a renovated tobacco warehouse. artimages/10262005.jpg 210 219
2005-10-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=659 Tom Sheppard Sheppard has been painting for thirty years. He spent 27 years as an art educator in Iowa and Nebraska, as well as an adjunct professor at Luther College in Decorah. Sheppard has shown work at galleries in San Diego, Santa Fe, Denver, Colorado Springs, St. Louis, Luther College and various Nebraska galleries. He has participated in many exhibitions, with work included in the permanent collection of the Addison Museum of American Art, Andover MA, as well as the Texas National Show, juried by nationally known artist Leon Golub.
Sunset mixed media on board 40" x 30" While in Nebraska, Sheppard partnered with the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska for extended learning, launching the production of a 4-part video for distribution to Nebraska schools. He also hosted workshops of art teachers as part of the State Teachers’ Convention. Sheppard was the first Nebraskan to receive National Board Certification in secondary art, which was awarded in 1999. He was also named the Secondary Art Teacher of the Year in 1999. Sheppard and two of his colleagues were awarded the 2000 Nebraska Teacher Achievement Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching from the Peter Kiewit Foundation. He has won many awards in shows of works by art educators. artimages/10272005.jpg 210 284
2005-10-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=661 Susan Coleman Susan Coleman is Gallery Coordinator for the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College in Mount Vernon. Susan Coleman's website http://www.cornellcollege.edu/art/faculty/coleman.shtml Revival pastel 2004 For as long as I can remember I’ve loved drawing. Over time, the practice of sitting down to really look at something, has become part of me. Nature has been a source of inspiration since childhood. Drawing from nature encourages spontaneity and playfulness, because in nature there is more than one right answer.
The search for meaning is at the heart of my interest in landscape. Hope is rekindled by the creative spirit I see revealed in nature and the beauty of this world; rivers that continue to flow, and days that continue to dawn. Drawing from nature helps me recognize the sacred in the commonplace, something I’d prefer not to take for granted.
Metaphors as old as human memory are embedded in the themes of landscape. The mysteries of nature still exist, and are akin to the mysteries within us. The garden in the wilderness is as ancient as human imagination, and that yearning for a place of peace is as much a part of our inner world as the vague fear of unforeseen tragedy we glimpse in a nightmare, or on any evening newscast. Despite its long history in western art, I feel that the subject of landscape can serve as a fresh and relevant path for interpreting the human condition. Landscape can make reference to a larger journey. artimages/10282005.jpg 350 294
2005-10-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=662 Marvin Conrad Marvin is a newcomer to Iowa City, having lived for many years in Massachusetts. Vault from Bath Abbey silver bromide print Marvin works primarily in large-format black and white film, using either a 4x4†or a 5x7†view camera. He prints his photographs by hand on silver bromide paper in a darkroom he designed to his own specifications.
Aside from his studio photographs, which have appeared in solo and group shows in the Northeast and Iowa, Marvin has also done a great deal of photography for musical instrument makers in the US. Among others, these include Brannen Brothers Flutemakers, Lopatin Flutes, and Verne Q. Powell Flutes. He has done documentary photography of antique musical instruments and archival musical documents, including Theobold Boehm’s first ring-keyed (1847) flute, plus archival documents at the Royal Opera House (London) and the Teatro della Scala (Milan.) His photographs are included in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi: I masnadieri (Chicago: University of Chicago Press & Milan: Casa Ricordi, 2000.) artimages/10292005.jpg 255 332
2005-10-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=664 Katherine Parker Katherine Parker earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Iowa with an emphasis in intermedia. Sugar Boy micro-installation (sugar, paper, branches, video) 2005 A piebald paper horse stands alone in a sugar-coated forest made of branches. Birds fly in an endless loop on the video screen behind him. The installation, set up behind a blacked-out window with two small peepholes in it, can only be viewed from the outside. This photo, however, shows what is normally hidden from the viewer's gaze. artimages/10302005.jpg 350 263
2005-10-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=665 Tricia Coulson Tricia Coulson has been a fiber artist for the last ten years. She recently moved to Iowa and is a member of Quad Citiy Art.
Circles #1 fiber 10" x 14" 2005 "My own personal variation of textiles comes though patterning, piecing and embellishment. The repetitious elements produce a rhythm that is a continual source of pleasure. This pleasure is derived from the physical motion of printing and the visual sensation of the repeated image." artimages/10312005.jpg 350 256
2005-11-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=666 Kangying Guo and Katherine Parker Concept: Kangying Guo
Video: Katherine Parker
Kangying Guo is currently a M.F.A candidate at the University of Iowa Intermedia & Video Arts. Now she devoted the better part of her time and energy to everything she have explored: Video, installation, sound, writing, paintings in iowa city.
Katherine Parker earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Iowa with an emphasis in intermedia.
untitled site specific installation (fairy lights, bedsheet, video projection) 2005 artimages/11012005.jpg 350 262
2005-11-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=669 Bill Luchsinger Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger have forged an innovative path in taking their limited-edition prints to a new medium. Their tile works represent a unique way to collect their work, whether that is a single tile or a single image on multiple tiles. Yellow Bike digital print variable dimensions Creating the tiles requires a process called Dye Sublimation.
The tiles themselves are “printedâ€, but not in the usual sense. Instead of using pigment and inks as with the works on paper, the tiles require chemical dyes. These dyes are digitally printed in reverse on special paper and then applied to the pre-glazed ceramic tiles. Placing the tile and dyed image under 500 degree heated pressure, the chemical dyes turn to gas and are forced into a hardened, polymer surface.
Images can be ordered on tiles as part of their limited editions in 6 inch, 8 inch, or 12 inch tiles. They also can be created as “multiplesâ€, taking the same image and spreading it out over multiple tiles.
The tiles come with an attached wood block and are ready for easy installation with common picture hangers. Tiles can also be ordered without the wood blocks for direct installation in conjunction with other residential tile work in kitchens and on bathroom walls, as examples.
Karen and Bill are at the forefront of the digital technology that allows them to create new works in a medium that other artists are just toying with – but their work has a clarity and definition that very few can equal. artimages/11022005.jpg 310 310
2005-11-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=671 Karen Strohbeen Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger, two of the Midwest’s most successful fine artist for the past 25 years, expanded their audience when they created the nationally syndicated Public Television gardening series, “The Perennial Gardener with Karen Strohbeenâ€. With Karen as the on-air talent and Bill behind the camera writing, producing, and directing each segment, the television series combines their life-long love of gardening and their innovative artwork. Amsterdam Shoe Store digital print variable dimensions Having met as art students at Drake University in Des Moines, Karen and Bill now live on 80 acres of idyllic central Iowa farmland. Widely known for their paintings, printmaking, sculpture, and now their innovative works on ceramic tiles, they have been at the forefront of digital printmaking, which is their ongoing focus. Available images in their portfolio number in the hundreds.
Love of nature has inspired both Karen and Bill as they continue to explore their distinctive artistic styles. Whether it is Karen’s whimsical and fantastic interpretations of flowers and garden life or Bill’s peaceful studies of nature born out of the photographic medium, their styles have found the perfect home in their limited edition prints and tile works.
With the introduction of their tile works over the past ten years, Karen and Bill have created an incredibly popular medium on which they can reproduce their limited edition images. Whether the image is captured on a single 12-by-12 inch tile or enlarged and printed on tiles in groupings of four to fifty, this new medium has multiple applications in home décor.
Karen Strohbeen and Bill Luchsinger are committed to pursuing their art wherever technological advances take them. artimages/11032005.jpg 225 365
2005-11-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=673 Beth Nobles A longtime Iowa City resident, Nobles has recently moved to Texas. She has exhibited nationally and internationally for many years, most recently at Hibberd McGrath Gallery (Breckenridge, CO); Mobilia (Cambridge, MA); Thirteen Moons (Santa Fe, NM) and the SOFA in Chicago. She has been awarded artist residencies at Ragdale Foundation and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Trouble embroidered hand-bag “I see the work approaching the question from many angles—serious and funny, searching and observing, cutting and reassuring, from memory and conjecture. The lessons are coming from women—elders, family, and friends, real role models and fictional ones—and sometimes from a melding of several sources. Needlework seems to tell the story well, as it is the expression handed down through our family, from great-grandmother to grandmother, to mother to me. I have difficulty writing and I sure can’t tell a joke, but through these pieces, I become an author and storyteller. I create characters and a setting, and devise a narrative, which may or may not be discernable in the final piece. Lately, I’ve been thinking more deeply about narrative structure. This has lead to greater attention paid to the development of characters in my pieces. With my three-dimensional pieces, I’m trying to make the actual structure of the piece further the story.†artimages/11042005.jpg 163 300
2005-11-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=675 Chad Cooney Chad Cooney was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He is now currently working towards his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Iowa while also taking classes in photography. He is also an undergraduate Research Assistant for the Intermedia area at the University.
Black Mountain Tree digital image, variable size 2005 "What I enjoy most about this piece is the overall sense of motion. It feels as though you are spinning slowly towards the ground in some sort of altered state where you can only perceive the generality of the objects around you, the space that they exist in, but not the specifics of the objects' visual definition. Like a constantly changing flame." artimages/11052005.jpg 350 212
2005-11-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=696 Dani Henke Dani Henke grew up in Wapello, Iowa, in the southeast corner of the state and just recently graduated from Iowa State University. Optimus Prime ceramic with metal hinge 4.5" x 4.5" x 1.75" "I've spent most of my time [at Iowa State] in the ceramics studio. Something about the massive transformation from soft and pliable to hard and brittle fascinates me. Even in my beginning ceramic classes, many of my pieces incorporated other media. I took classes in fabric manipulation, wood carving, and metals to gain a better understanding of the materials I choose to incorporate with ceramics. I've always had a love for art, and have been drawn to working three dimensionally. Texture... it's all about texture." artimages/11062005.jpg 350 239
2005-11-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=697 Missy Fauser Missy Fauser received her BA in Art and Psychology at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in May of 2002, and her MA in Art Therapy from Southwestern College in November of 2004. Somatic Foot soft pastel and charcoal on paper 18" x 24" 2003 "I have always been drawn to do feet as a subject for my work, partly because of the many pains they have given me, and I them, and partly because I am always wondering where they are going to take me next. In this particular piece I was exploring the somatic association between the foot problems I was having and my fear of the transition from student to art therapist." artimages/11072005.jpg 326 248
2005-11-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=698 Julia Ciaccio Julia Ciaccio was born outside of Chicago to her mother the painter, and her father the pianist. With art flowing through her veins, she began painting at an early age. Challenging her love of the Windy City, she chose to study at the University Iowa to broaden her visual vocabulary. Julia currently holds a BFA from the University of Iowa and continues her studies of art and art history. Untitled acrylic and oil on canvas 2004 About her work, Julia writes, "I view my work as alive and growing. Each piece nourishes and evolves into the next, traveling through the world of abstraction. My visual vocabulary consists of a number of image generating techniques in both a representational and non- representational manner. Compositions are triggered by emotional responses therefore making my paintings highly personal. I am extremely passionate about painting and use it as a psychologist, an outlet for my emotions and feelings. Although non-objective, my paintings are rich with subject matter extracted from my life. My love affair with abstraction began with an encounter of Dada and Surrealism. My exploration through the history of Modern art inspires me to experiment and invent. I celebrate Automatism’s direct access to the mind, and Decalcomania’s festivity of paint. I pay homage to Josef Albers and his squares, and share the same devotion to subject matter as the Color Field Painters." artimages/11082005.jpg 325 325
2005-11-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=699 Jessica Alaniz I am a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Community High School of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (2002). She is currently studying photography at the University of Iowa. One Rose scanner and rose 2004 I have always played with computers and Photoshop to give my images the extra edge they sometimes need. My images are about the process; it's all an experiment. I find something common in my house and press it against the glass of my scanner. Sometimes the images come out looking very boring, other times I find something beautiful in their shapes and shadows. artimages/11092005.jpg 263 350
2005-11-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=700 Larassa Kabel Born in 1970 in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, Larassa would go on to earn a B.F.A. with honors from Iowa State University in 1992. Larassa's work has been seen all over Iowa and Michigan. Larassa is currently an instructor at the Des Moines Art Center and is on the Board of Directors at the Metro Arts Alliance in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Littlest oil on canvas 30" x 24 " 2005 artimages/11102005.jpg 250 314
2005-11-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=701 Mary Merkel-Hess Mary Merkel-Hess was born on April 6, 1949 in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in an extended family near Gilbertville, Iowa. She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI and graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology and philosophy. She attended art school and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received a BFA in 1976. While there she studied with Ruth Gao and Mary Tingley. Windblown reed and paper, acrylic paint 25" x 17" x 8" 2004 In 1977, she began graduate work at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. She studied metalsmithing with Chunghi Choo and received an MFA in 1983. After graduation, she became a full-time studio artist. She gave up metalsmithing but continued to work in paper, developing her own techniques for making paper structures. She takes occasional breaks from studio work to teach and give workshops. Her work is exhibited widely and is in many private and public collections. artimages/11112005.jpg 210 355
2005-11-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=702 Sheryl Ellinwood After "a strict religious upbringing, coupled with a 12 year business career, raised ... doubts about values ...practices ...and underlying beliefs of the society that had instilled those values," Ellinwood turned to art. Assisted by scholarships, she graduated from the University of Toledo with a BFA in 1991. Then, with a graduate fellowship to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, she pursued her MFA, graduating in 1994, Coming to Iowa to visit her father, she liked the area around Lake Red Rock and decided to settle and build her studio where she sustains herself as a professional glass-blower part of each year, then concentrates on her art as a sculptor the remaining months. Renewal fused glass wall panel Sheryl Ellinwood writes: "First and foremost, art is communication, not a display of technical mastery, but the conveyance of an idea." artimages/11122005.jpg 150 344
2005-11-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=703 Richard Krogstad Richard’s work is in the collections of American Express Financial Advisers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Norwest Corporation, Cargill Corporation, and Wells Fargo Corporation. He received a M.F.A. in painting from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. in art from the University of Iowa. He’s been in numerous shows at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis. Several of Richard’s paintings have been selected by the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program for loan to the U.S. Embassies in Berlin, Germany and Kalonia, Micronesia. Sole Survivor oil on arches paper 26" x 41" Richard Krogstad, an Iowa native who now lives near Minneapolis, paints the Midwestern landscape, concentrating on the region’s skies, rivers, lakes, and “strong, honest farm buildingsâ€. He is particularly drawn to skies, as is evident from the sometimes threatening, sometimes wispy clouds that dominate many of his paintings. Richard sees painting as a way of preserving the pastoral landscape. He writes, “Perhaps what is left can be considered worth saving, if it is seen with new eyes.†artimages/11132005.jpg 350 219
2005-11-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=704 Jocelyn Chateauvert Jocelyn Chateauvert was raised and educated in Iowa City, Iowa. At the University of Iowa she earned a M.F.A. in metalworking and jewelry with extensive hours in handmade paper and a minor in sculpture. After teaching in London at Middlesex Polytechnic, then establishing herself as a professional artist in San Francisco, she settled in 1999 in Charleston, South Carolina. There she was awarded the South Carolina Arts Commission highest award of "Craft Fellow" of the state in 2005. Recently recognized for her work in the Smithsonian's American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery's prestigious 2007 Craft Invitational "From the Ground Up." She pursues her work full time creating jewelry, lighting, sculpture and installations inspired by the paper she makes by hand. Marsh table lamp, wood base, abaca paper, rope light 14" x 35" x 11" Papermaking has been at the core of Chateauvert’s creative work for many years. She incorporated her papers in unusual ways, first with sterling silver jewelry and later into more sculptural yet functional forms that are lit from within. artimages/11142005.jpg 350 227
2005-11-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=705 David Puls Puls exhibits nationally through the American Craft Council and in private galleries. Recent exhibitions include “Rocking Chairs†at the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, and the 35th annual Celebration of American Crafts, at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT, as well as numerous one-of-a-kind furniture shows. He is also an Iowa native. untitled wood stand Awards in numerous national student competitions encouraged David Puls to pursue his vision of furniture made from alternative materials. “I made the decision to forego working in traditional hardwoods and instead chose to use the new engineered wood products available. These included plywoods, particleboard, laminated veneer and oriented strand lumbers. Each material is unique and allows great freedom in form and structure. My furniture designs grow from understanding both the structural properties and the aesthetic possibilities. The imagery I use is a reflection of my surroundings, subject to change, and not intended to be taken too seriously.†artimages/11152005.jpg 173 276
2005-11-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=706 Shawn Reed Shawn Reed received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in 2003. He is currently a graduate student in the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History's Intermedia program. untitled mask synthetic fur, built in voice manipulation and amplification artimages/11162005.jpg 350 286
2005-11-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=707 Scott Charles Ross Scott, a Waterloo, Iowa native, received a B.A. from Grinnell College and has done graduate work at Iowa State University and Drake University. He has completed several private commissions throughout the country and abroad. Scott had a solo show at the newly renovated Marshall Fields store in Chicago and his work is part of Grinnell College’s permanent art collection. Journey V oil on linen 52" x 42" Scott Charles Ross’s paintings are grounded in both abstract and figurative forms. He is inspired by the people and travels of his life as well as his environment. He writes, “Merging concrete visual elements with inner observations, I intend to transfer abstractions into a perceived reality for the viewer.†Scott’s process involves many layers of charcoal, oil paint, wax and glazes, which results in a painting with a hard and glossy surface with much texture underneath. The paintings are produced on linen and stretched over wood panels. artimages/11172005.jpg 225 278
2005-11-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=708 Dan Powell Powell has been recognized through photographic exhibitions throughout the country and has received a grant from the Iowa Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts to produce a catalog and an exhibition that traveled the State of Iowa. His photographs can be found in the corporate collections of Allied Group Insurance, National Travelers Life, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Norwest Bank and the Maytag Company. Nafplion, Greece black & white photograph selenium toned 15" x 15" Dan Powell currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, but taught photography at the University of Northern Iowa for several years. Dan's recent work is inspired by several trips to Europe where he studied the antiquities of Greece and Italy. His black and white photographs of partial ruins and statuary provide a base for such series as Traces In Passing and Classical Measures. Dan will often manipulate his images to a degree by sepia toning and other techniques. Both the black and white image and the toning accentuate his subject matter. Recent prints have taken on a diptych format, with two distinct images almost read as book pages. One image will often appear blurry or obscured while the other is in distinct focus. There is a mystery to his photographs that imply myth or stories from long ago, but they also contain a modern day narrative open for interpretation. artimages/11182005.jpg 320 317
2005-11-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=709 Ken Smith Ken Smith, originally from Des Moines, is a photographer from Riverside, Washington. Ken works in both digital and traditional photographic processes. When working digitally, he produces his still life compositions by scanning an actual leaf or flower and then manipulating the color and contrast of the image. He also works in black and white and often incorporates split-toned or hand-colored images. Revealed Root 2 pigment ink on paper 20" x 16" Ken creates a strong sense of tranquillity and focuses on the beauty of nature in his simple compositions. He chooses these subjects because, for him, they have a recurring theme of permanence and change. Ken remarks, “…when I do my work well, it may be that those who view it discover not something new, but the essence of something they already deeply know, a kind of innate recognition of human connectedness. A validation and celebration of existence.â€
Ken’s photographs can be found in private and public collections in the United States as well as in Europe. Corporate collections include Fifth Avenue Suites Hotel in Portland, OR, Japanese Cultural Center in Spokane, WA, Washington State Arts Commission, and Hewlett-Packard in Dublin, Ireland, Hubbell Realty, Rain & Hail, and Loras College. artimages/11192005.jpg 250 324
2005-11-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=710 Meiji Zhang Meiji Zhang graduated from the Industrial Design Department in the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1999. After graduation, he worked as a motorcycle designer, graphic designer, and a web designer for three years. He now studies 3D design at the University of Iowa. Lap Chair 3D Model PUC 24 x 14 x 38 inches April 2005 His recent works are about lost and found. He misplaces the forms and functions of objects and get different combinations. This can give people a new approach for design and gives the audience a new concept to experience. artimages/11282005.jpg 225 379
2005-11-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=711 Tammy Petro Tammy is currently a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.
Bada Bop installation piece Tammy Petro’s work focuses on challenging human behavior through changes in the environment. Her work utilizes post consumer materials in their construction. It’s important to her as a designer to recognize the entire life cycle of a product and envision ways to repurpose those materials.
Bada Bop draws inspiration from a musical selection by Beaumont of the same name. Bada Bop transforms an interior hallway with its circular forms and primary colors encouraging people to view it from all angles and change their walking patterns through the hallway. artimages/11292005.jpg 225 311
2005-11-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=712 Byron Burford Born in the South, Burford came to Iowa to study with Grant Wood before World War II, then left to serve in the U.S. Air Force, and later returned to take his M.F.A. in Iowa City, where he settled down to capture his semi-remembered, semi-imagined world through paintings and prints and to teach decade after decade of grateful students.
Lists of Burford’s honors and awards fill many pages and exhibition catalogs. Iowa is lucky to claim him. However, the magic of Byron Burford, like that of his Italian counter-part, belongs not only to the state, or our country, but to the entire western world. Victory Acrylic solution 33" x 35" If America holds a living counter-part of Frederico Fellini, it is Iowa’s venerable visual artist Byron Burford. Both larger-than-life creators, ebullient bon vivants, observers of the human condition, and both deeply fascinated with the worlds of circuses, legendary entertainers, and jazz, these giant talents both captured the innocence, lyricism, gaudy diversity, and pathos of their generations before and after World War II. artimages/11302005.jpg 300 274
2005-12-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=713 Sticks untitled wooden tea tray STICKS makes a wide range of heirloom-quality furniture painted in bright colors and incorporating text. It is the ultimate in family-friendly art. Each STICKS piece is a little bit different, but incorporates themes and icons from a list the group has put together. There are also several color families.
The process involves constructing the furniture from scratch out of regulation lumber, and then a sequence of drawing, wood burning, staining and painting the designs. Last come the final touches such as hand painted knobs and a final coat of polyurethane. Designs are derived from a series of themes, icons and color palettes that galleries or clients may choose from, making STICKS furniture easily customized. Customers can also add their own text or image ideas to custom orders.
Because of their ability to deliver joyful, custom-designed pieces, STICKS furniture has become a national phenomenon. Founder Sarah Grant-Hutchison, the creative mastermind behind the decoration, is a Des Moines resident and a graduate of the University of Iowa. Jim Lueders coordinates the furniture construction portion of the business. artimages/12012005.jpg 324 231
2005-12-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=714 Mauricio Lasansky Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mauricio Lasansky is one of the few modern artists who have limited their works almost exclusively to the graphic media. Due to his early contributions in the development of graphic techniques and his dedication to printmaking, Lasansky is considered to be a forerunner in the evolution of the graphic arts as a critical art form and has become recognized as one of the "Fathers of 20th Century American Printmaking." Amish Boy intaglio print 27" x 17 7/8" 1967 In 1936, at the age of twenty-two, he had already become the director of the Free Fine Arts School, in Villa Maria, Cordoba, Argentina. In 1943, Lasansky was offered the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in which he came to the United States and studied the print collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This opportunity not only afforded him a wealth of knowledge about prints and printmakers but created an opportunity for him to be exposed to and work with a number of European masters who had fled to the United States during wartimes. By 1952, he had not only received a great deal of recognition, prizes and awards, and an impressive line of exhibitions, but also had established himself as an American citizen.
During the 1940's, the interest in printmaking as a fine art was revitalized by the Works Progress Administration graphic arts workshops and many artists continued to explore the method after the WPA projects were discontinued. The most important of these studios was the New York Atelier 17 established by Stanley William Hayter. His was the first independent American workshop developed for exclusive experimentation of the intaglio process of printmaking. Through Hayter's efforts, the studio gained the attention of artists from around the country. Many of these artists are now referred to as the New York School. These artists adopted Abstract Expressionism as a means of stylistic expression and their work radically altered the course of intaglio printmaking in America.
Many artists, including Lasansky, worked extensively at the Atelier 17 formulating new methods and creating new techniques for their subjects as well as their prints. Several were later invited to develop printshops in university art departments around the country. One of the first artists to accept this challenge was Mauricio Lasansky. He established the vital printmaking workshop at the University of Iowa. To this day, it serves as a model for numerous other university printmaking departments led by many of Lasansky's former students.
It is the passing down of established techniques and ideologies about innovative printmaking techniques from generations of these teachers and students that marks the legacy of Atelier 17. And, it is Lasansky, one of the first generations of these printmakers, who has influenced the course of printmaking in the United States.
Best known for large scale prints in which he uses multiple plates and full ranges of color, Lasansky combines a spectrum of graphic techniques including etching, drypoint, aquatint and engraving. Throughout his stylistic evolution, he has created eloquent figural statements that are colorful, fresh and spontaneous. His early and late works show that his imagery has consistently dealt with elements which have undergone change and expansion as the work was created. Therefore, the subject of his art is as important as the technical aspect of his printmaking.
Lasansky has been the recipient of a total of five Guggenheim Fellowships, six honorary Doctorate of Arts degrees and numerous prizes and special honors. His work is represented in more than one hundred public collections including virtually every major museum in the United States. Internationally recognized, he has been exhibited throughout North and South America, Europe and Russia. Now retired from the University of Iowa, he continues to be an inspiration to artists for his contributions, his richly and intensely printed surfaces, and his highly personal style. artimages/12022005.jpg 236 350
2005-12-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=715 Steve Shock Steve Shock is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer from Waterloo, Iowa. His TIME Boxes and Letterboxes are both original concepts utilizing mized media collage on ready-made wood boxes. The media used include xerograpy on stock bond and recycled colored papers, acrylic paint, water-based varnish, and pastel. Mr. Shock begins by applying wood stain to both the exterior and interior surfaces of a box. A glaze of metallic copper acrylic paint and varnish is applied over the interior stain. Letterforms are copyright free and date from between the late 1700s through the 1920s. They are manipulated to achieve a variety of textures. Methods include sanding, scraping, and erasure. They are then printed on paper stock, cut into squares, and applied to the exterior surface. Pastel is scumbled and rubbed over the letter collage. The next step is the distressing of the box and collage. This is done using several tools including hammer, chain, file, and sanding sponge. The collage is then varnished. Next, acrylic paint is applied to the open area of the box's lid. There is some cracking of the paint along with "chipping" and sanding the surface to suggest the effects of time. The lid is then finish-coated with varnish. The entire box is lightly scuffed to reduce shine. artimages/12032005.jpg 475 207
2005-12-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=716 Russell Karkowski Russell Karkowski has been living and working in Iowa City, Iowa for 25 years. He specializes in furniture for the home and office and will make price quotations free of charge. untitled wooden table Russell Karkowski's custom designed furniture combines classical elements within modern forms. Unique combinations of wood; cherry walnut oak and mahogany lend themselves to Russell's simple beautiful designs.
Pieces that are designed with the environment in mind require a one on one relationship with the client. When one works directly with the craftsman they are assured a piece of furniture that is unique, and they are allowed the option of adding pieces in the future that can compliment existing furniture. artimages/12042005.jpg 305 229
2005-12-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=717 Sharon Burns-Knutson Sharon is an artist from Cedar Rapids who received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Iowa and her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Northern Iowa. She has served as a visiting artist at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids and at the University of Minnesota. Sharon's work hangs in the collections of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the University of Iowa, and Luther College in Decorah in addition to many other public and private collections in Iowa and the Midwest. She’s been included in many museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country, including one-person exhibitions at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Nina Liu Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Brunnier Art Museum in Ames. UNTITLED XXXVIII pastel 8 x 6 Sharon's artwork varies between large-scale “picture stories†and small pastel studies of summer flowers and autumn trees. She expertly captures the vibrant colors of nature in the smaller works. Her larger works are fanciful assemblies of individual stories and tales. Working with oil paint on a dark surface (black paper) she creates a rich tapestry that from a distance appears to be abstract. But closer inspection reveals the intricate interweaving of many characters, animals and objects of all kinds. Her color usage is always vibrant with the overall effect likened to that of a stained glass window. artimages/12052005.jpg 248 350
2005-12-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=718 Bruce Morrison Bruce Morrison earned a BFA in 1975 from the University of Iowa. He majored in Photography and minored in Painting and Serigraphy. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Canada, as well as overseas. He lives with his wife Georgeann in rural northwest Iowa in the Tallgrass Praire pothole region.
Broken Kettle Winter oil on paper 8.5' x 5" 2001 Bruce Morrison favors the landscape as a subject in his photography, paintings and drawings. He uses large or medium format cameras to capture stunning images of the Iowa landscape. When painting or drawing, Morrison prefers a plein aire approach. Like the Impressionists, he works outdoors, painting the landscape he sees in front of him, usually on a smaller in scale than his photographs.
Bruce has a deep personal interest in the natural heritage of our remaining Tallgrass Prairie, and much of his work over the past decade has been deeply influenced by this subject. In addition to recording the beauty of the prairie, he has devoted much time and energy to furthering and encouraging Prairie reconstruction/restoration projects and education in northwestern Iowa artimages/12062005.jpg 350 233
2005-12-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=719 Vinicius Rebello Lima Vinicius Lima was born in Brazil in 1982. He received a Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Planning Degree in July, 2005 at Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil. He is currently a first semester Graduate Student at University of Iowa School of Art and Art History where he is studying in the Design Graduate Program. While an undergraduate student, he did an internship time with many architecture and urbanism projects, including apartment buildings, street renovations, and interior design. His current work at University of Iowa has been based on exploring the geometry as a tool to make design. He uses medias like wood sticks, foam board paper and computer software.
Space Experience #1 Foam board and glue variable dimensions This piece comes from a constant search for beautiful spaces. He is interested in creating spaces that have a lot of visual quality using design skills. Items like the background, the views from interior spaces, light, shadow, and color are items he always tries to put together in his work. artimages/12072005.jpg 350 263
2005-12-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=720 Katherine Parker Katherine Parker earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. She was awarded her MA in Art from the University of Iowa in 2005 and will complete her MFA work in May 2006. Still in Center video 1 minute Still in Center references wallpaper patterns and nineteenth century Victorian paper silhouettes and is intended to provide the viewer with a moment of quiet contemplation. artimages/12082005katherine_parker.jpg 425 283 Iowa at 30 Frames per Second
2005-12-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=721 Mel Andringa Mel Andringa received his MA (1971) and MFA (1978) from the University of Iowa with an emphasis in Multimedia/Intermedia. In 1975, he founded The Drawing Legion, a performance art company that toured original productions in over 50 U.S. cities and the Netherlands. In 1990, Mel Andringa and F. John Herbert founded Legion Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization presenting contemporary art at CSPS, a 115-year old Czech meeting hall, in Cedar Rapids. Footballs/Baked Potatoes Jigsaw Collage 16" x 22" 2000 "The puzzle collage is an example of artworks I make out of jigsaw puzzles I find that have different pictures but are cut with the same stamp." artimages/12092005.jpg 425 319
2005-12-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=722 Laurayne Robinette Laurayne Robinette was born in 1928 in southern Iowa. She earned her BFA from Drake University in 1952, taught art for one year in Des Moines, married, had three daughters, started taking art classes at the Des Moines Art Center, and continued her art education over the next thirty-six years.
Co-Tangent oil on canvas 30"x48" 2000 Robinette works mostly in oil. Her representational work is taken from observations of landscapes and interiors, while the non-representational work is produced by using nontraditional methods of applying paint to canvas or paper. artimages/12102005.jpg 250 320
2005-12-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=723 Annadora Khan Annadora Khan was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She moved to Iowa at the age of fifteen. Annadora has an MFA in Drawing from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History in Iowa City.
Dream Riddle Photography/digital collage various sizes 2000 She has worked at the Information Arcade in the University Main Library for the last 12 years and has run the day-to-day operations of this multimedia lab for the last 6 years. Annadora is a member of the Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea Manhattan. artimages/12112005.jpg 425 364
2005-12-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=724 David Kamm David Kamm earned his MA (1986) and MFA (1988) in printmaking from the University of Iowa. He has shown his work extensively in the Midwest and abroad. Collections that hold examples of his work include the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction in Cuernavaca, the Vatican Collection of Modern Art, the Print Consortium of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and the Gallery Coordinator at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
Harp print collage/wooden sculpture various dimensions About his artwork, David writes, "I am trained as a printmaker and my work frequently reflects aesthetic concerns inherent in printmaking processes. Those include the concepts of image transfer, serial imagery, and multiple image manipulations that leave a visual record of the creative process." The source materials for Harp are David's prints, cut into pieces and recombined to make a new artwork. artimages/12122005.jpg 250 384
2005-12-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=725 Chris Fletcher Chris Fletcher received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1993 and his M.F.A. in 1997 from American University in Washington D.C. His works have been included in exhibitions in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Virginia. Shallow Stage acrylic on paper 2003 As a painter, my chief concern is the unique internal logic of the singular painting. Isometric projection helps me to consider the dual function of any given shape. A shape may function both as a link in a two dimensional design and as a plane in a representation of three-dimensional volume.
Keeping shapes of color evenly modulated helps me to feel the character of the relationships between them better. These relationships include those of part to part, part to whole, part to group, group to group, and group to whole.
The resulting images evoke things like wooden toys or figures, building blocks, architectural frame construction, wood joinery, and stages. These things may serve to embody the tenuous nature of appearances. However, they may also suggest hope and the process of growth. artimages/12132005.jpg 425 272
2005-12-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=726 Dan Ferro Dan Ferro received his B.A. from the University of California in San Diego where he studied photography, sculpture, and music. He studied commercial photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and moved to Iowa in 1989. With over 25 years experience as a photographer and independent software creative director and producer, the use of technology has become a central element in the exploration and development of his vision.
Dan Ferro's website http://www.ferro7.com/fineart/ dance: from the "cooked" series 13" x 19" 2003 About the artwork: The twelve images in the "cooked" series are direct scans of cooking sheets and baking pans using a flatbed scanner. This work is an exploration of the transitional and disregarded; the unnoticed and commonplace. The images do not replicate what the human eye can see. They are abstract photographic images that explore visual possibilities using light and lens. artimages/12142005.jpg 300 450
2005-12-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=727 Blair Benz After taking a BA in Psychology from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979, Benz returned in 1987 for another BA with a major in Art, and then in 1991, he graduated with an MA with a major in drawing. Between 1987 and 1996, he also served as Acting Director of the Gallery of Art and Adjunct instructor in the Art Dept. at UNI in Cedar Falls as well as Art Director for the North American Review.
Untitled (015) Charcoal 5" x 4" With imagery suggesting 19th century prints, Blair Benz demonstrates highly polished skills in the difficult charcoal medium. In this series of refined, small pictures, he offers some masterful works.
Works of Blair L. Benz have been shown in the Gallery of Art in Eugene, Oregon, in the Mayor’s Choice Exhibition in the Metropolitan Galleries in Cedar Falls, in the Iowa Artists Exhibit at the Des Moines Art Center, and in the Midlands Invitational 2000 at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. artimages/12152005.jpg 325 397
2005-12-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=728 Gretchen Caracas Gretchen Caracas is a graduate of the University of Colorado and studied at the Brooklyn Museum School and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. An adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History from 1973 through 1992, Gretchen has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Spain, and Italy.
Invernedero #2 acrylic on canvas 52" x 58" Her subject is the landscape of her two homes-one in Ibiza, Spain and the other in Iowa City. While some of her paintings depict urban scenes, many represent garden-like interiors. She often combines elements from her studio with fruits, vegetables, household objects, and, on occasion, animals to form still life vignettes. Whether inspired by Spain or Iowa City, the paintings communicate Caracas's intimate familiarity with and emotional attachment to her environment. artimages/12162005.jpg 425 373
2006-01-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=219 Sara Fletcher Sara Fletcher grew up in Western New York State. She received her BFA in ceramic sculpture from Alfred University in 1998, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in painting from Brandeis University in 2003. She is currently an MFA candidate in painting at the University of Iowa. Duet oil on canvas 22" x 24" 2004 Many of the most vivid moments in my life have been the quietest. I paint to find the meeting place of visible reality and imagination; that place can engage the senses, the mind, and the heart all at one time. artimages/01162006.jpg 500 453
2006-01-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=220 Shelagh Gamble Shelagh Gamble was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved to Okoboji, Iowa at the age of 14. Shelagh began her pursuit of art under the direction of Hank Hall and ended up in the Art department of the University of Northern Iowa. Graduating with a BA in Art in 2003, Shelagh moved back to Okoboji where she began working in her home studio. Starting out as a ceramics artist through school, Shelagh recently has taken up painting and is now working with both mediums simultaneously. Typical mixed media Shelagh has this to say, "I am an artist interested in capturing the translucency of colors and the spontaneity of the everyday life... In each piece I use transparent colors with the light of the canvas, allowing the viewer to make their own assumptions about the layers and objects involved in the piece. My themes are derived from fashion, popular culture and the world around me, and are composed by materials collected, purchased or found... When a piece is finished it seems to shout "stop", however some pieces never seem to be done and are perpetually being reworked. In recent works of mine, I have been experimenting in color and materials. The creation of flowing translucent glaze colors mixed with the permanence of black rigid lines are recurring paradoxes in my recent pieces." artimages/01172006.jpg 500 405
2006-01-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=851 Amy Leach Amy Leach received an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. Her essays have been published in The Iowa Review, A Public Space, and The Wilson Quarterly. She is working on a collection of essays about Eta Carinae (a star), Love-Lies-Bleeding (a flower), the takahe (a bird), and Phobos (a moon), among other things. "When Trees Dream of Being Trees" was first published in Spring 2006 issue of The Iowa Review. When Trees Dream of Being Trees artimages/01172006.jpg 500 405 Iowa Writes The tree decided to stop growing after it grew its thousandth leaf. No more, it whispered, and started throwing flimsily attached twigs and old nests down, and shaking the birds out. I am a terrible tree! A thousand leaves is more than enough to prove that! I am slow and slight and my leaves are not lustrous. I have never made a flower, never made an apricot, never made an acorn. Go away birds! I am an impostor tree! I will be a post, if I can just shake off these redundant branches, and the tree bounced up and down, twirled violently, and tried some catapulting maneuvers in an effort to fling off its limbs. Nothing much was flung, except for some leaves and a butterfly, and they were instantly free from its flinging force, and ended up drifting away instead of zinging through the air. And so the tree started to slam itself against the earth. Its branches were most certainly broken this way, but they were not broken off: such fibrous material does not easily come loose, does not easily separate from itself. So the tree was hung with broken creaking branches. Aghast, it felt itself growing. And, knowing it would only grow more of itself, it cried, I must get out of the sunlight! I must get out of the rain! It tried to sink into the dirt. But trees with their spreading root systems are even harder to push down into the dirt than they are to pull up. So the tree finally just stood there with its smashed branches, exhausted, in the late afternoon sunlight. The other trees around regarded the tree going mad without much comment. They had seen this dreadful thing happen before, when trees dream of being trees.
2006-01-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=221 Janet Hart-Heinicke Janet Heinicke is a native Midwesterner and a seasoned artist. She holds advanced degrees in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and in painting from Northern Illinois University. She has a long history of work as a collegiate educator in Illinois and Iowa and most recently acted as the Fine Arts Exhibition Director for the Iowa State Fair. Apartment in Soho, NY ink, mixed media on paper 36" x 30" 1991 Much of Heinicke's work focuses on close observation of the natural world. She finds value in calling to the viewer's attention frequently overlooked textures and surfaces of sticks, stones, and bony structures. Apartment in Soho, NY, despite being an urban scene, calls the same kind of attention to the skeletal structure of the fire escapes and window frames in the quintessential haunt of the urban artiste. artimages/01182006.jpg 257 387
2006-01-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=222 April Katz April Katz is an associate professor who teaches printmaking at Iowa State University. She is currently serving as president of the Southern Graphics Council, the largest printmaking organization in the world. Katz exhibits her work extensively in juried shows throughout the country. She has presented workshops at Arrowmont and at Frogman’s Press. Her prints are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Between lithograph, chine colle, acrylic paint 20" x 16" 2004 Through juxtapositions, transparent overlays of paint and ink, shifts in space, grid-like structures and implied narratives I convey the sense of time’s passage along with personal and cultural memory. The images incorporated into my work refer to issues of identity and communication. I examine the factors that help to shape us as individuals. References to our biological foundation and to cultural and environmental roots are important elements in these prints that reflect my research into cellular biology and ancient Mesopotamian cultures. These themes are metaphorically conveyed through images that include cellular structures and scientific visual notations, clusters of chairs, figures, ancient writing and family photographs. artimages/01192006.jpg 321 400
2006-01-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=223 Mary Kline-Misol A native of Des Moines, Mary Kline-Misol earned both her BFA and MFA from Drake University, where she studied under Jules Kirschenbaum. Kline-Misol now maintains her studio in Panora, where she has spent the last decade working on painting in series. Large-scale still-lifes of exotic objects, friends, relatives and people she's met travelling, flowers and elements of nature, and a series of real and fictional characters relating to Charles Dodgson's Alice Through the Looking Glass have all been themes explored in her work. Mary Kline-Misol's website http://www.angelfire.com/art/MKMisol/ Garden of Live Flowers acrylic on canvas Highly accomplished as a figurative painter, Mary Kline-Misol has created several series of paintings throughout the past decade. She has painted large still life compositions using colorful puppets and unusual objects from around the world, then a series of friends and relatives and a few models encountered during her travels, then works focusing on flowers and elements in nature, and recently a series of fictional characters relating to Charle's Dodgdon's Alice Through the Looking Glass. artimages/01202006.jpg 281 400
2006-01-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=224 Matt Moyer Matt Moyer received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Illinois State University in 2001. He had special graduate status at the University of Iowa last year. His has been seen in many states including Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico and in a few others. Bolted Wedges clay bolted to steel, on steel table 20" x 9" x 20" 2004 About his work, Matt writes, "The examination of artifacts and implements from our past is the driving force behind my sculpture. My interest in industrial artifacts is the focus of this current work, and originates with my family having worked in the pipefitting union for three generations including my own. The longevity of industry, and its ability to change, adapt, and mold itself to an ever-evolving society intrigues me. The industrial artifacts that I find most interesting are those where a specific utility is not immediately apparent but rather slow to reveal it’s self. A sense of history, through layers of pealed paint, or the patterns of rust caused from an existence in a caustic environment reveals a great deal about not only the object but the people who used it, or worked in proximity to it. Though I am not always certain what the artifacts that interest me were used for, I remain interested in them for their shape, composition, surface, potential utility, but most of all the sense of it’s existence in time prior to the present. In my own pieces, I strive to engage the viewer to examine the nuances of each piece to determine for themselves what the object might be or may have been and how it might relate to something in their own they recognize in their own history." artimages/01212006.jpg 500 241
2006-01-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=225 Michael Perrone Michael Perrone is currently a visiting faculty member of the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History. Hedge acrylic on wood 24" x 36" 2003 Michael says about his work, "My recent paintings are based on imagery which I viewed / experienced while driving on highways in Pennsylvania and New Jersey – most notably on the New Jersey Turnpike, and more specifically on my way to and from New York. When I am driving I tend to clear my head and get lost in a meditative state. I am visually acute at these times, and see paintings everywhere. Additionally, with the recent work, I’ve been trying to challenge myself with regard to my conceptions of what a painting is and how it is made. I’ve been attempting to subvert my own notions of art, taste, and beauty, with the hope of expanding my technical and conceptual skills, and breaking down some long held beliefs. The idea of the artificial landscape has offered me a visually inspiring starting point, as well as an apt metaphor for approaching my specific process goal." artimages/01222006.jpg 500 374
2006-01-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=226 Shawn Reed Shawn Reed received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in 2003. He is currently a graduate student in the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History's Intermedia program. Square Knife video 4 minutes Square Knife is an order of imagined ritual and transformation starting with the slobbery masses of a young bearded man. Dug up from the earth and holed up in its hole, Square Knife shows the ceremony of three pre teen witches and their fantasy hunter follower. artimages/01232006.jpg 500 375 Iowa at 30 Frames per Second
2006-01-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=227 T. J. Lechtenberg T.J. Lechtenberg is in his third year of the MFA program in The Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the University of Iowa. His current work explores silent metal forming with sheet metal, and seeks to establish voluminous forms from the flat pierced metal sheets by pushing, pulling and forming the material. Folded Ring sterling silver 2002 Circles and squares are two of the most elemental of shapes in our visual vocabulary. A majority of my jewelry and hollowware objects branch out from these basic geometric shapes. Because of their familiarity I can freely push, pull, slice and chop the shapes to create more abstract forms, yet still feel grounded by the still recognizable shape. Regardless of the direction that the objects I make go, they remain ultimately simple, graceful and without excess. artimages/01242006.jpg 291 398
2006-01-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=228 James Renier James Renier earned a BFA in printmaking and papermaking from the University of Iowa in 1983. He lives and works in Europe, and his course of production and discovery recently led to a museum exhibition in The Netherlands. James Renier's website http://www.e-sinom.com/ Thinkers sign (to be installed in a shop window) My project is a satirical look at the price we must pay for everything. The idea stems from one of the oldest advertising techniques: window signs. Through such signs we are attracted into shops and stores and enticed to purchase, often mindless products... I want to make consumers (passers-by) re-evaluate where their thoughts and money are flowing. I would not only like to question our position in a global economy, but also our loss of attention span. We see a summer sale sign, feel fortunate and go buy something...I wish not to make a protest but strive to tell a story in a way our cultures have done for centuries. Perhaps we will soon realize that we hold so many qualities within ourselves. We simply do not take the time to realize them. artimages/01252006.jpg 500 246
2006-01-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=229 Diane Naylor Raised in the rolling hills of Grant Wood County, Eastern Iowa, Diane attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and acquired her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) & then further her studies at the Maharishi University of Management (MUM). Clock oil painting 2004 About this body of work, Diane writes, "The current series named “Eternity†is based on utilizing antiques that house her paintings. The recent artwork has given way to fantasmic landscapes capsulated in a surrealistic old world where the land was the prime source of power. Several paintings are placed within a Black Forest Coo-Coo Clock from the early 1900’s. The paintings are in amber tones in harmony with the inlayed wood juxtaposed within the dark chocolate colored exterior." artimages/01262006.jpg 425 425
2006-01-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=230 Crit Streed Crit Streed is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Northern Iowa. The Geography of Drawing graphite on paper 22" x 30" The Geography of Drawing is one drawing from a series of performative acts focused on the physical process of drawing. Human imperfection renders the drawing as a form unplanned while the distinctive shape language feels to me as if I had dredged them from some remote place, where the integrity of my own physical presence in the act of drawing might connect with all organic structures.
The drawing act is deliberate and intense but the imprecision and inaccuracy of my own hand announces what we give shape to is always in concert with our limitations. It is the impact of imperfection on what is resolute that makes the drawing become perfect. artimages/01272006.jpg 500 375
2006-01-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=231 Jan Zelfer-Redmond Jan Zelfer-Redmond earned her B.A. from Briar Cliff College in Sioux City and her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and juried shows. Jan mounted a major one-woman show at the Sioux City Art Center recently. Ms. Zelfer-Redmond maintains a studio in Sioux City, Iowa. http://www.olsonlarsen.com/artists.cfm?artist_id=686&cmd=display 00697a-Untitled (blue) oil on canvas 72" x 48" 2003 About the artwork, Jan Zelfer-Redmond states: Most often, when I paint, I am responding to ideas which I've heard or read, that seem to verbalize exactly those unfiltered thoughts that were in my subconscious mind and not yet vocalized by me. My paintings start with a pre-verbal, intuitive and spontaneous process in order to recreate that area of ghost-like discovery. It is seldom that I begin a painting with any idea in mind of what that painting will look like when it is finished, but it is also seldom that I begin a painting without an idea in mind. artimages/01282006.jpg 350 451
2006-01-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=232 Cathy Palmer Cathy Palmer received her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Dakota in 1995. Today, she is living and working in Sioux City, Iowa. Her work has been seen all throughout Iowa. Only Way Out Is Through oil on canvas 2003 About her work, Cathy writes, "These paintings - through layering, destroying, seeking and renewal - are trying t capture the vibrant feeling of nature and its innate spirituality. There is evidence of struggle, while striving to maintain a feeling of spontaneity and soul. The mystic language of color and abstraction is paramount because of its embodiment of things non-limiting and mysterious." artimages/01292006.jpg 500 453
2006-01-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=233 Megan Berner Megan Berner received her B.A. in Photography from the University of Nevada Reno and is currently a graduate student in the School of Art and Art History’s Intermedia program at the University of Iowa. She mainly works with photography and video but also uses other media including drawing, collage, and printmaking. Main themes in her work include being a twin, identity, and the use of narratives and storytelling. Typing video 1 minute 37 seconds Typing is an observation of repeated action and the quotidian. artimages/01302006.jpg 500 371 Iowa at 30 Frames per Second
2006-01-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=234 Bill Hamilton William Francis Hamilton II was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He is the son of nationally-known artists Gene and Carlie Hamilton. In addition to learning from his parents, Bill attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and also mentored under internationally-acclaimed artist, Jim Buckels.
Hamilton spent two years touring and painting the countryside of the Republic of Georgia, where he was given a solo exhibition. His latest works feature a series of paintings depicting vintage San Francisco signs. Hamilton has also painted Georgian landscapes, California coastal and urban scenes, and flower gardens. In addition to oil painting, Hamilton works in found scrap metal to create abstract sculptures. Hot Popcorn (Iowa State Fair) oil on canvas 38" x 57" 2004 artimages/01312006.jpg 500 330
2006-02-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=267 S. Bailey Jacobson S. Bailey Jacobson is an Intermedia B.F.A. candidate at the University of Iowa. In addition to studying video, installation, and performance art, she is an Art Education and English student. Bailey will spend the semester working as an Artist in Residence at United Action for Youth as part of Intermedia's Artist in Community course. Collecting Installation view, mixed media 2006 "This project began as a fascination and attraction to American resale and flea market ephemera from the 1940's1950's, 1960's, and 1970's. Growing up in a family of antique dealers, I never much cared for the antiquated and old-fashioned styles abundant on my paternal grandparent's farm. Yet, the farther I move from my family the more pleasure I take in such items. I find Americana appealing as reminders of the histories of my families, as ongoing symbols of idealized American morals and characteristics, and as reminders of the sentimental attitudes towards America's past." artimages/02012006.jpg 500 394
2006-02-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=268 Anamika Holke Anamika is a senior studying studio art at the University of Iowa. This is
her first experience working with video and time-based media. Time video 2 minutes 30 seconds 2005 This piece is based upon time. The three images used are symbolic of the
observation of time. In particular, they represent three particular aspects
of time; starting and ending, continuation and repetition. Together these
elements show the passing of time. Some images are played forward and in
reverse or overlapped with other images to explore how time can be
interpreted differently. artimages/02022006.jpg 500 335 Iowa at 30 Frames per Second
2006-02-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=269 Pat Edwards Pat Edwards is an independent artist living in Iowa City. Pat received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in art from The University of Iowa. In addition to teaching she has also served as an artist-in-residence through the Iowa Arts Council. Her work was recently featured in a one-person exhibition at the Dubuque Museum of Art. Red Car, Green Bush oil on poplar 7" x 8" Pat paints in oil on small-scale panels and large canvases to create intimate backyard scenes. Loosely painted, her images conjure up a nostalgic mood of peaceful summer days. The manner in which she portrays light and shadow help to define the mood and time of day in each painting. Although often small in scale, these paintings can be read at a distance, but the intimate size invites the viewer to inspect at a closer range. artimages/02032006.jpg 494 460
2006-02-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=270 Vivian Torrence Vivian Torrence received her MFA in painting and drawing from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She currently lives and work in Germany. Vivian Torrence's website http://www.torrence.de Hand No Rope (Shakespeare's Tempest Series) mixed media collage 19 3/4" x 15 3/4" 2004 Torrence writes about her art: 'My work is "on paper". I love the character of paper as a material; its tangibility; its reactions to different media. I use printed pages from various sources for collages, watercolor, gouache and various printing techniques. Fine surfaces, beautiful color and tone are important to my aesthetic. Over the years my collages have evolved as my main means of expression. More than a technique, collage is a method and represents a synthesis of thoughts, a thinking process that is central to my work – bringing together diverse elements to create a new reality or meaning. Dream, poetry and nature are sources and reinforce this process of renewable meanings. My work often displays a drama of ambiguous outcome. Intuition and chance have their roles to play in the theater. Though narrative in appearance, with figurative elements interacting, the collages also have important abstract elements which change the atmosphere and create another world – a separate world for the spirit.' artimages/02042006.jpg 341 425
2006-02-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=271 Thomas Jewell-Vitale Thomas Jewell-Vitale, Professor of Art at Loras College in Dubuque, returned to his Alma Mater in 1976 almost a decade after leaving: first to pursue religious studies at Gregorian University in Rome, then to study figure drawing at Academie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, and finally to take a BA and MA in Studio Art from the University of California at Berkley. In 1955, he took a sabbatical post as Professor of English at Eichi University in Amagasaki, Japan. Jewell-Vitale’s art evolves from and certainly adapts to a wide variety of local and international settings. San Zen oil, wax, and acrylic on paper 11" x 9" Thomas writes: “I make paintings in which shapes are tied intimately to their surroundings…Their edges are not fixed boundaries, but fingers which probe, revealing a myriad of allegiances: hiding, nestling, isolated, adrift, consumed…â€
He will have new work featured in an exhibition at Olson-Larson galleries in Des Moines, Iowa from February 24-April 1, 2006. artimages/02052006.jpg 336 425
2006-02-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=272 Dustin Dow Mason Dustin Dow Mason is a B.F.A candidate in the School of Art and Art History Intermedia Area at The University of Iowa. His major concentration areas include: video, sound, assemblage/collage, and sculpture. He graduated from English Valley High School, North English, IA in 2003. Fairwell video 1 minute 2005 He writes: " Fairwell is a short film demonstrating how people move on and continue to grow in life. We find our most precious possessions and we bring something old leaving some room for our new experiences. This relates to me at this time in my life as I progress to the next level in my career as an Intermedia B.F.A. " artimages/02062006.jpg 500 377 Iowa at 30 Frames per Second
2006-02-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=273 Laurel Farrin Laurel earned her B.F.A. in Studio Art at Ohio University in 1977 and later received her M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. She now works as an Assistant Professor for Painting/Drawing at the University of Iowa, where she has been since 1997. Laurel has shown her pieces in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, and countless other states. Practice II oil and acrylic on canvas 24" x 24" 2002 artimages/02072006.jpg 425 422
2006-02-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=274 Betty Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons received both her B.F.A. and M.A. from the University of Iowa. Her work has been included in the Des Moines Art Center's Iowa Artists Exhibition as well as other regional galleries and museums. Spacial Conundrum #3 watercolor 16" x 20" Betty Fitzsimmons is an artist and art educator from Des Moines. Betty's art, whether it takes the form of a mixed media work on paper or a handmade book, symbolizes human interaction on a spiritual and unconscious level. Drawn to native cultures, Betty often derives inspiration from Indian folktales and history. In her works she will often blend cultural ideas into her own artistic interpretation. She describes her work as a search for depicting "the spiritual characteristics of two individuals that strike me as equal--equivalent--but who on the surface are dramatically different." Her longtime interest in Robert Scott's exploration of the Antarctic has produced several series of artwork inspired by the explorer's diaries and journals. artimages/02082006.jpg 500 394
2006-02-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=275 Jane Gilmor Professor Jane Gilmor says that certain works are intended "to create a ritualistic ambience not unlike that of some bizarre roadside shrine. I am interested in both the construction and deconstruction of myth and in the deeper relationships between myth, experience, and culture.†Jane Gilmor, more than most artists, satisfies our universal human desire to encounter something different, unusual, and fascinating. Jane received both her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her BS at Iowa State University in Ames. She has served as Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids for almost three decades. Wishing Fountain wood and metal 9" x 7" x 1" The shrines and constructions of Professor Jane Gilmor have appeared in over 74 exhibitions and more than 30 collections. The lists of her publications, lectures, special installations, awards, and honors fill pages. Wherever her unique works appear, they attract adults and children, and individuals without any experience interacting with artists, as well as discriminating art collectors. Her pieces sometimes include the words of people in diverse and extreme situations. Moving from large and complex installations in public spaces, the artist recently is creating pieces appropriate to private settings. artimages/02092006.jpg 353 425
2006-02-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=276 Thomas C. Jackson Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1950, Thomas Jackson holds a B.A. from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He received these degrees in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After earning his M.F.A, Thomas went on to become an Assistant Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Since then, he has held various positions in Iowa using his graphic and design capabilities. Thomas C. Jackson's website http://www.thomascjackson.com/ Untitled No. 43 color photograph 60" x 30" 2005 artimages/02102006.jpg 254 500
2006-02-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=277 Dennis Dykema Dennis Dykema is rooted in the rolling countryside of northwest Iowa and his paintings catch the energy of the fertile land. However, a viewer won't locate a specific place from his images, and a European viewer may see a kinship to Van Gogh's later landscapes. Working primarily on medium-sized oils on paper and large oils on canvas, Dykema produces bright and boldly textured paintings that appeal to a wide range of collectors.
First attending Northwestern College in Orange City, IA for his BA, then Morningside College in Sioux City, and then the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls for his MA, Dykema settled into Buena Vista College in Storm Lake where, except for sabbatical studies in England, at Notre Dame and the University of Iowa, he has taught for three decades. Where the Sky and Ground Appear to Meet: Forecast on the Horizon oil on paper 22" x 30" artimages/02112006.jpg 500 363
2006-02-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=278 Timothy Frerichs Born in Forest City, in 1965, Frerichs earned his BA with Departmental Distinction at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, then took an MA at the University of Iowa and stayed on to earn his MFA in 1991. He went to the Universitaet Osnabrueck in Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. He a Visiting Artist at Truman State University in Kirksville, and is now an Assistant Professor of Art at Central College in Pella. L5 Flower 3 monoprint, intaglio, digital print on handmade paper 7" x 8" Of his work, Timothy Frerichs writes: "My imagery has developed out of my interest in historical and cultural views and perceptions of nature."
His drawings clearly follow from these interests in nature and attitudes pertaining to it. His recent collection of forty botanical studies, mounted as a composite, derives from a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation for study in the Linnaeus gardens at Uppsala University in Sweden. Frerichs appeals to those interested in botanical subjects and drawing as a tool of observation, and those who value the art of the line, calligraphic or representational. artimages/02122006.jpg 500 390
2006-02-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=279 Audrey Cropp Trees video 9 minutes 26 seconds 2005 This piece was first presented as a sculpture and ambient video project. A large chicken wire case was created in the shape of a tornado and covered in gauze. A large fan was secured to the bottom and the inside of filled with leaves. When the fan turned on the leaves would erupt in motion and cause a wonderful noise. The video was projected from a wall mount and played along the sculpture and on the back wall. The video takes you up through the trees never stopping and never touching the ground.
Audrey says this about her work: "Art is using and reusing any and all inspiring resources available. Choosing one medium over another helps to define our style and models and in turn communicates our own specific language to our audience. I choose to use video because nothing is more challenging than a constantly moving tool whose ability to be changed, edited, and interpreted are infinite. I tend to choose real situations in an attempt to evoke real feelings or at least a reaction. A need to have purposeful work leads to my success just as much as it adds to my mistakes." artimages/02132006.jpg 500 350 Iowa at 30 Frames per Second
2006-02-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=280 Fred Truck Fred Truck is a true Iowan artist. Born in 1946 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Fred would go on to earn his B.A. at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1969. He currently lives and works in Des Moines, Iowa. Something to note about Fred is that he was a co-founder of the Art Com Electronic Network, the first computer network for artists, with Carl Loeffler in 1986. Fred Truck's website http://www.fredtruck.com Rubber Heart inkjet print on ultra-gloss photo paper 13" x 19" 2003 "I work from 3D computer imagery I generate in CAD/CAM programs. Drawing in three dimensions makes it easy for me to move a given idea into a print or even a constructed object such as a bronze. Of course, there is a trick to this. I realized early on that the ideas I had were always connected to matter. I’ve never had an idea independent of matter. Moving an idea from my computer CAD/CAM rendering to a sculpture is a process of understanding that the electrons making the image on my computer monitor are the same as those electrons making up the bronze of my sculptures. When the electrons are represented by 1s and 0s, changing their outward form is like pouring water from a fish bowl into a swan-necked vase." artimages/02142006.jpg 495 368
2006-02-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=281 Charles Barth Charles received his undergraduate degree from Chicago State University. He holds a Doctorate in Art Education from Illinois State University and continued post-doctoral studies at the University of Iowa. He was Professor of Art at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids from 1972 to 2003. Diego y Frida por Siempre color intaglio 24" x 18" "My prints involve images from Mexico and popular cultures such as Kitsch, current fads and fashions, pop stars, t.v. images, films, rock music and disco. The images are expressed in a "fantastic" style and are abstracted, exaggerated and satirized. I am interested in color and light and try to express the 'brassy' sights and sounds of the environment. The end result involves bright or garish colors, exotic images and feeling of light moving over the surfaces. I have a strong interest in art history and often incorporate historical art images and symbolism. " artimages/02152006.jpg 348 457
2006-02-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=282 Amy Worthen Amy Worthen is a well known Des Moines printmaker and scholar in the art of printmaking. Amy is known nationally and internationally and has been exhibited in shows in major cities all over the U.S. and included in several shows in Europe. Prospettiva Divina engraving 15" x 24" Her engravings, often architectural in content, combine humor, history and a dedication to expressing the full effect of the printmaking medium. All of her compositions are rendered in fine line detail. She is perhaps best known for her Capitol and Terrace Hill series which combine local landmarks with fan