Friday, February 26, 2016

Students Sudying Artworks



It's always exciting to see students studying artwork in an art gallery!

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Comic Con 2016 Cedar Rapids

I am super, no?

Handsome gents Doug Brenner, Yoda (!), and George Stratton amongst the vendors and artists.

Geeks Out! Sabers Up!

Sitting with the lovely Adam Burton during the "History of Comics" presentation.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

A Curious Color


UNI Gallery of Art Showcases, spring 2016. "A Curious Color," cyanotypes by UNI alumna - and dear friend - Brittany Deal from a series created during a Hartman Reserve (Cedar Falls, IA) artist-in-residency in the summer of 2015.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Ceramics Exhibition at UNI Gallery of Art





Installation View of "Women's Work: An Insight into Nature, Beauty and the Domestic Object," January 11 - March 1, 2016. Eleven artists:
Lesley Baker
Susan Beiner
Kim Dickey
Erin Furimsky
Kristen Kieffer
Jae Won Lee
Liz Quackenbush
Amy Santoferraro
JoAnn Schnabel
Virginia Scotchie
Bonnie Seeman
A difficult show to organize and install, but it has been very gratifying to see this work together in one space.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Xmas in Waterloo

Mark trims the Xmas Superhero Silver Tinsel Tannenbaum.
Thor is, of course, an absolute angel.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Cute Mugging



Wow, are they super cute, or what?
Matt & Kimber in NY, November 2015.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Art I Saw in Buffalo, NY 2015

A tiny Georges Seurat Study for La Grande Jatte from 1884-5. At the beautiful Albright-Knox Gallery.

Vassily Kandinsky's Fragment 2 for Composition VII, 1913. Also at the Albright-Knox.

Jim Hodges' Look and See, 2004. In the courtyard of the Albright-Knox, it reflects off of, and provides vistas through to, the original museum structure.

Jaume Plensa's Laura, 2012. Albright-Knox.

Star Gazer by Charles Cary Rumsey from the turn of the last century. Found at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Like Laura it's made of luminescent, glistening marble.

The Trickster by Bill Stewart, terra cotta, glaze, and mixed media, 2013. Part of the "Art in Craft Media 2015" exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

An untitled porcelain sculpture by Erin Furimsky, which is also part of the "Art in Craft Media 2015" exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Erin will participate in a UNI Gallery of Art exhibition titled "Women's Work: An Insight into Nature, Beauty and the Domestic Object" during January and February of 2016.

Horizontal (Vaakasuora), a six-channel video installation from 2011 by Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. The artist's retrospective exhibition "Ecologies of Drama" at the Albright-Knox is an amazing immersive experience.