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Local Color 2006 Exhibits
All exhibits feature local artists in the Fleming Conference
Room at the
Foster Art Center.
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December
- January: Ann Coulter |
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Ann
Coulter has been making large scale (30”x40”)
landscape drawings for almost twenty years, “relying”,”
she says, “on the midwestern prairie to supply
me with infinite possibilities regarding light,
atmosphere, and imagery.” Her work has been
represented in many group exhibitions, including
the Bradley University National Print and Drawing
Exhibition and the Western Illinois Folio Press,
1980-2000 Anniversary Exhibition. Although she doesn’t
consider herself a “regionalist,” the
midwestern character of her work is reminiscent
of the scenery one encounters while driving along
Illinois blue highways. |
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February
- March: Bradley University BFA Students |
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The
Bradley University BFA Show is a selection of work
from 14 students enrolled in the Fine Art program.
Students involved are J. Morgan Ferry, Sarah Williamson,
John Selburg, Molly Damskey, Nicole Wenger, Aaron
Felder, Abigail Peters, Jaime Dobbertin, Charlie
Michaels, Zac Zetterberg, Erica Buss, Nate Lucas,
Alexandra Schroeder, and Brett Hargesheimer. The
work is diverse and experimental, and an excellent
representation of the quality of student artwork
at Bradley. |
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April
- May: Corrine Smith |
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A
Rock Island resident, Corrine creates “large
scale, mixed media abstracts,” says Gabe Johnson,
Gallery Store Manager and curator of the Local Color
exhibits. “She works with a wide variety of
media: watercolors, acrylics, pastels and pencils
as well as handmade papers and other unconventional
materials. Her art has a dynamic quality showing
high contrast and tension.” "Corrine
is a very popular artist whose work can be found
both at the Fine Art Fair and our Gallery Store.
This is a great opportunity to display even more
of her remarkable talent.” |
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June
- July: Tracey Frugoli |
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Frugoli
is inspired by light and beauty, and most identifies
with the American and French Impressionists. She
views the painting process as a humbling endeavor
that seeks to reflect and thereby enhance the most
noble of our ideals. She has traveled to local,
national and international locations to study with
master painters as well as to paint the landscape.
But, she is also equally comfortable painting both
figurative and still life subjects. Frugoli has
won many awards including First Place in the 2005
Easton Plein Air Quick Draw and Best Architectural
Painting in the main competition in Easton, MD,
from awards judge Scott Burdick. She has exhibited
throughout the country and was accepted into the
prestigious Greenhouse Gallery’s “Salon
International 2005” in San Antonio, TX. Her
work hangs in numerous private collections. |
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August - September: Carmen Sanchez-Lorente |
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I
could say my work is silent; only through contemplation
I find an internal dialogue. I like to feel my
model's essence, and to find a communication with
my model's soul. And as a sovereign example of
this mystery, I choose, most of the time human
representation where each person talks about his/her
divinity.
A quiet dialogue with the deepest part of the
soul. |
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October-November: Jim Jenkins |
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James Jenkins makes paintings of
uncommon force and conviction. His collage paintings
are informed by the vigorous presence of an individual
artistic personality and a rationally charged visual
expression. Within the rich tradition of 20th century
abstraction and expressionism, each painting is
a crystallization of a discrete moment of feeling
and perception secured in the course of exploring
visible and invisible experience. These works are
about the human spirit and the search for meaning
and enjoyment within the landscape of our most personal
spaces. The act of recording one's thoughts and
feelings in a compressed space is a reflection of
personal belief in the value of a journal about
life. |
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December- January: Amanda
Gerwig |
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Exhibits
at WTVP
Ongoing local artists exhibit at WTVP.
(All dates are subject to change.)
May
15 - June 30:
Ann Coulter
July 1 - August 15: Cathie Crawford
August 15 - September 30: Ken & Barb Hoffman
October 1 - November 15: Tracey Frugoli
November 15 - January 1: Tom Gross
January 1 - February 15: TBA
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