Gallery Exhibitions, early Spring 2021

 The UNI Gallery of Art is presenting three art collection exhibitions at the start of the spring 2021 semester, Sequence and Symmetry, Body Burden and Arcane Logic, and Design from the UNI Permanent Art Collection (online only). I curated and authored each one.

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Sequence and Symmetry installation view.

Sequence and Symmetry installation view.

 

Design from the UNI Permanent Art Collection (online only)

 

Design from the UNI Permanent Art Collection.

This is the first four of fifty images with text.

Watercolor Cards

 Below is a grid of four watercolor cards, each with a different subject. The paints did not always handle like watercolor should, which makes me believe the tubes I have are inferior or some of them are mislabeled. I suspect some are actually gouache since they have opacity and matte finish, and don't lift.

Time to buy a new set of watercolor brushes and paints. Anyway, I like the gilt statue from St. Petersburg, RU best.

 

60 on the 10th!

 

Dual portrait for my 60th Birthday (1/10/61). It's the way I've been feeling in these days of the pandemic and death and anti-democracy and general/specific hate I see and hear spewed on a daily basis. I wear pink for love this weekend!

End of 2020

 Saying goodbye to 2020.

Image from the fall B.F.A. Group Exhibition.

Cup-Nest and Pod

 A pairing - both found at the Prairie Restoration at Big Woods Lake - an abandoned Red-eyed Vireo cup-nest and a Milkweed pod. A glorious November day in Iowa.

At the Irvine Prairie

 With Mark (Ace) at the Irvine Prairie, La Porte City/Dysart, IA.

In Sync, Part II

 We are not publicly promoting this Collection exhibition in the Gallery, which I have curated and installed in the Main Room, because its purpose is to offer only art students, staff, and faculty a place to view art during in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are 20 objects on display from Romare Bearden to Sonnenzimmer, from Mary Snyder Behrens to Robert Arneson, from Mark Tobey to Kee-ho Yuen, to three of our UNI photography alumni. It was conceived as a continuation of the summer 2018 single-day exhibition presented in association with  partnership with Cedar Valley Chamber Music concert titled L.A. Stories: Forgotten Composers of the Silver Screen.