Thursday, April 18, 2013

Recent Curation and Exhibition Design

 Developing Expressions exhibition (K-12 from area schools) at the Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, IA.
 Another view of Developing Expressions. This has been an immensely gratifying project for me and is the third children's art exhibition I've designed and installed since 2006.

 An installation view of the 2013 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition at the UNI Gallery of Art, which was juried by Memphis College of Art professor Fred Burton.

 The Individual Is the One Illusion, an exhibition I curated from the UNI Permanent Art Collection. Students in Dr. Elizabeth Sutton's Art and Globalization seminar provided the didactics.
An installation view of The Individual is the One Illusion featuring sculptures by Jose de Creeft (foreground) and Arturo Herrera (background). To the left is a painting by Dana Saulnier of Ohio, which was part of the Gallery's ambitious painting exhibition that ran from January through early March 2013. It was titled REVERB: Recent Abstraction in Painting and featured eight artists from across the country who push the formal boundaries of abstraction.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Recent Work

 "Landscape for Kenneth Noland," a painting for the Waterloo Center for the Arts April fundraiser "Come As You Art."

Friday, April 12, 2013

Stewart and Kwiecien

 Noah Stewart
Photo from Michigan Opera Theatre
Here is the exquisite Pearl Fishers duet with Nmon Ford and the American tenor Noah Stewart. Representations of male friendship and love are pretty rare in opera, but Bizet's Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) is the exception.

 Mariusz Kwiecien
Photo by Mikolaj Mikolajczyk
Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien as Belcore in Donizetti's L'Elisire d'Amore singing "Come paride vezzoso." Listen to the beautiful tone, watch the enticing striptease!