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Local Color 2008 Exhibits
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December
- January:
Patrick
Harness
Patrick
Harness was born in Mobile, Alabama. He has since
resided in Western Australia, Oregon and Brooklyn,
New York where he attended Pratt Institute. His
images are a result of 35 years of experimenting
with a variety of media, especially oils, with
a focus on landscapes, figures and abstracts.
He has happily resided in central Illinois since
1977 where he enjoys the company of his family,
friends and the unique beauty of its rural landscape.
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February
- March:
Erin
Robert
Originally
from Iowa, Erin Robert grew up on the east coast
where she attended the Delaware College of Art
and Design. Robert is a mixed media collage artists
with a penchant for the past and describes her
work as "keepsakes" from a by-gone era.
Robert's
work celebrates relics of our past and explores
the progression of technology and the disregard
and elminiation of certain materials once required
for a trade, such as rub-on transfers once used
by graphic desigers or die cut letters used by
typesetters.
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April
- May 10:
Cheryl
Dean
Originally from Detroit, Michigan,
Cheryl has lived in the Peoria area most her life.
Cheryl has been a photographer for 30 years, specializing
in fine art prints using the Polaroid image transfer
and manipulation process. Cheryl owns and operates
Picture This Gallery in Peoria Heights, Illinois. |
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May
16-June:
Nichole
Gronvold-Roller
Nichole Gronvold-Roller: Recent
Works
Nichole is drawn to the interiors and exteriors
of buildings, and the patterns created by the
interplay between light and color on their surfaces.
She is also fascinated by the artifacts left behind
by past residents of abandoned buildings and houses.
Nichole’s pieces are large-scale acrylic
and mixed media pieces; she is currently an art
teacher at Tremont High School.
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June
27 - August 2:
Jane
Ryder
Orginally from the Chicago area,
Jane Ryder is an Undergraduate of Bradley University
and is currently a Graduate Student at Northern
Illinois University. Jane's work is Gouache and
titled "Until They Create Many Planets"
"The water cut through rock
and the land began to swell.
Prairie grass grew from flesh and the dirt sprouts
fur.
Many mouths were opened they ate the corn
Growing off their backs. Rodents scrambled to
hoard.
Bones will decay in the ground.
Termites will bore through rotten wood.
Many animals will lay together fight each other
And protect each other.
With their legs planted firmly in the ground
Their roots will run deep until they create many
planets." |
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August-September:
Susan
Weinberg
Susan
Weinberg grew up in Peoria, but has lived much
of her adult life in Minnesota. Her work is largely
figurative in nature and her two recent series
of work focus on family history and her travels
in the Yunnan province of China. Susan is drawn
to the intent study of what creates a person’s
energy and presence. She paints for that magical
moment when her subject steps out of the canvas.
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October-November:
Lori
Brooks |
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Local Color 2007 Exhibits
All exhibits feature local artists in the Fleming Conference
Room at the
Foster Art Center.
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December
- January: Amanda Gerwig |
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“These
recent works explore points where land, sky and
water meet. Such fragile junctions teem with life,
yet are increasingly threatened by escalating development
and extraction of resources. As the natural world
continues to be subdivided, paved over, rerouted
and subdued, I am drawn more than ever to places
untouched, thus far, by the bulldozer." |
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February
- March: Peg Toliver |
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April:
Todd Snyder |
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Since
the late 1980's my work has involved the creation
of paintings and drawings pertaining to a kind of
"Industrial Surrealism" in which urban images, with
and without figures, are synthesized from a combination
of imagination and reality, sometimes directly drawn
on location, derived from slides, prints and digital
photos or a mix thereof. My art is technically well-crafted,
using traditional realist techniques that fuse into
my own "Magic Realism" when completed. Works in
the same vein are also in development with looser
more expressionist brush strokes, bolder color and
distortion. My intention is to create an atmosphere
of ambiguity and tension through the use of broken
narrative, leaving the viewer with an unresolved
outcome, which mirrors our increasingly complicated
and surreal world. |
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June
- July: Barb Hoffman |
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August
- September: Tom Gross |
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October-November:
Joe Couri |
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Joe Couri is a photographer from
Peoria whose current show features work detailing
his travels across the nation. He states "I
have been blesses to be able to travel and experience
so many wonderful and diverse examples of God's
creation on this earth. It never ceases to amaze
me the endless opportunities we have in our country
to experience the beauty of nature." |
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December
- January : Patrick Harness |
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Patrick
Harness was born in Mobile, Alabama. He has since
resided in Western Australia, Oregon and Brooklyn,
New York where he attended Pratt Institute. His
images are a result of 35 years of experimenting
with a variety of media, especially oils, with a
focus on landscapes, figures and abstracts. He has
happily resided in central Illinois since 1977 where
he enjoys the company of his family, friends and
the unique beauty of its rural landscape. |
For 2006 Local Color Series exhibits click
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