tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188804492024-03-07T18:47:33.888-08:00Indianapolis Art Critique Archive, 1999 to 2012An art critique as well as exhibition preview and overview archive spanning from 1999 to 2012 by Mary Lee Pappas, the art critic for the alternative weekly newspaper, NUVO, and visual arts columnist for the daily paper, The Indianapolis Star.
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-24692297968359808582012-05-22T09:15:00.005-07:002022-06-06T15:39:43.344-07:00Indianapolis Visual Art Critique Archive, 1999 to 2012<div class="titlewrapper" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 22px 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="color: black; font-size: 40px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px;">Indianapolis Art Critique Archive, 1999 to 2012</h1></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This is an archive of art critiques and exhibit previews and overviews from about 1999 to 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana. </span></span><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's just a peak into the artists and exhibit spaces of that time. </span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Pieces are written for NUVO Newsweekly, the weekly alternative newspaper, and the daily, Indianapolis Star. </span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">There are approximately <b>220 art critiques </b>or brief "clips" as they were called, representing <b>over 100 venues </b>(from museums to coffee shops) and <b>about 200 artists</b>. About <b>65 group shows </b>are spoken about as well. Overall, there are about 270 articles here. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">NUVO's five star critique rating explained: A five star rating system applied to most of the NUVO pieces and were used to gauge the quality of exhibitions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">1 star: life’s too short </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">2 stars: not bad, needs some work </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3 stars: good job </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4 stars: excellent! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">5 stars: life-altering experience </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Feel free to forward imagery that may accompany any of these old pieces to create a more complete archive. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More pieces will be posted according to their publish date. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-6956686970738149352010-09-02T07:34:00.048-07:002022-05-24T07:43:39.770-07:00Weekend's best: visual arts - The Indianapolis Star, September 2, 2010, Pg. H8<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Ball-Nogues Studio: Gravity's Loom" - Indianapolis Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Manic Botanitc" - Annette Davidek, Georgia Marsh, Jane Hammond - Garvey Simon Access</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Invocations: New paintings and drawings by Jay Parnell" - ARTBOX</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Exploration" - Stutz residents - Lydia Burris and Patrick Flaherty</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVD5no6Uf76ijRFEuGjKvz2RpQDuITRU1PCfK3JjrEua-TpKOYEgsIgqr2nlkWlWqd5ANU2uzZIJdPKJpB0Tgub0ck5aqro8ceelK-a7jGmdLb-BUeB7bFmFKvsk4fSbcGKEjhm4B2o4DzzuPoMFOUmguDXUQtF3SXApEEffJG9i3vepKSS10/s960/1005859_10201366969726392_304930231_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVD5no6Uf76ijRFEuGjKvz2RpQDuITRU1PCfK3JjrEua-TpKOYEgsIgqr2nlkWlWqd5ANU2uzZIJdPKJpB0Tgub0ck5aqro8ceelK-a7jGmdLb-BUeB7bFmFKvsk4fSbcGKEjhm4B2o4DzzuPoMFOUmguDXUQtF3SXApEEffJG9i3vepKSS10/s16000/1005859_10201366969726392_304930231_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: white;"> Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues, Jay Parnell, David Morrison, Annette Davidek, Georgia Marsh, Jane Hammond,Indianapolis Museum of Art,Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion, Artbox, Garvey Simon Access, Stutz, Lydia Burris, Patrick Flaherty, prints, printmaking, painting, artist, art, Indianapolis, Indiana, Black, Phil Campbelldrawings </span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-70083975087664118162010-05-23T07:44:00.003-07:002022-05-24T07:46:34.735-07:00Face of Art: Evan Lurie Gallery - Indianapolis Star, May 23, 2010<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9a-mENAYFM5I5-acNkhO3qddV5ef2l2r3auftKS28WDXosuB63EFilgMGLXAqOXh9H88lTGGRB-aduODM2LLoC1CYNe0D8jYqbuqS0mwBpyl8-xxM7ofQbW5-jxD1GENNuqR04atjaiCJkzIgh8R0MeA7N2geru4V4QLdEMoQqfvMehOoSoY/s960/1010780_10201366844563263_708929322_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9a-mENAYFM5I5-acNkhO3qddV5ef2l2r3auftKS28WDXosuB63EFilgMGLXAqOXh9H88lTGGRB-aduODM2LLoC1CYNe0D8jYqbuqS0mwBpyl8-xxM7ofQbW5-jxD1GENNuqR04atjaiCJkzIgh8R0MeA7N2geru4V4QLdEMoQqfvMehOoSoY/s16000/1010780_10201366844563263_708929322_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-53295389076094524122010-04-30T06:01:00.006-07:002022-05-26T10:15:30.660-07:00April Show features works not yet found in typical galleries<p> <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted: April 30, 2010</div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></span></div><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoSD3qVZf4VfqL079th2hSJYIU_7lz1c3SdH52evUjUAqxMl8TA8fMdWROQr9T90zfF8QzHlH4nwhz6UGtA5TYwptJhBPH_qvbNTl3h8o-6WwEUXoPsbKb7EwPJtLrvClpobbow/s1600/bilde.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466695816821058962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoSD3qVZf4VfqL079th2hSJYIU_7lz1c3SdH52evUjUAqxMl8TA8fMdWROQr9T90zfF8QzHlH4nwhz6UGtA5TYwptJhBPH_qvbNTl3h8o-6WwEUXoPsbKb7EwPJtLrvClpobbow/s400/bilde.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 385px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; line-height: 15px;">David Hittle (right) is the host of the April Show. One of the artists, Jerome T. Neal, holds his work, "The Station." - Frank Espich / The Star</span><div><span style="color: #454545;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #454545;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemtoRNdj6LDCgZ21SA08NLw-D0t1iL3bI8TG0dTusnU7IQacY80zBPZeuDpjtOX2KA1OIqvjR-L6PqmO8Yks2AL2OsBttUHSIDC8EHjHOq8TmDlWea5TvMfit4xnBwnBkdS2sng/s1600/bilde-1.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466695524354977298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgemtoRNdj6LDCgZ21SA08NLw-D0t1iL3bI8TG0dTusnU7IQacY80zBPZeuDpjtOX2KA1OIqvjR-L6PqmO8Yks2AL2OsBttUHSIDC8EHjHOq8TmDlWea5TvMfit4xnBwnBkdS2sng/s400/bilde-1.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; line-height: 15px;">"Mother," an oil on plywood by Neal ($80), will be among works at the April Show. - Photo provided by David Hittle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American foursquare, turn-of-the-century Victorian at 322 N. Arsenal Ave. is home to former social worker David Hittle. But for one night in April, it's transformed into a full-scale art gallery.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Inside, the steep walls become display space for the April Show, a salon-style art show and sale featuring works by artists who have not had access to mainstream galleries despite their talents and abilities -- artists who have overcome incredible odds.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"They've overcome an obstacle of one kind or another," Hittle said of the more than 20 artists participating in this year's show. "From physical disabilities to mental issues to emotional issues and various traumas, and we still have a number who were or are still homeless."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Now in its 13th year, the inaugural April Show in 1997 included three painters Hittle knew: Jerome T. Neal, Berry Connell and the late Harry Blomme. Neal and Connell are both full-time professional artists now.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I don't know a lot about art myself, but I think it's a part of all of them that they couldn't suppress if they wanted to," Hittle said of Neal and Connell. "I think it's in them and something that wants to come out. They have to do art."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Neal said that in 1997 he was working a humble job and living in a meager apartment while creating his art. He was amazed at the turnout for the first April Show, which he said provides a great incentive to paint.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I was surprised when it first started how many people showed up," he said about the show that attracts a diverse group of art lovers. "What really got me was that the kids liked my work. That's what it's all about. It's why I don't do so many nudes."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Neal creates colorful acrylic paintings, street scenes and figurative works. He said his business cards say he's a "modern artist," but that he always tries to "do something up-to-date, scientific or something in the news."</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In addition to works by Neal and Connell, this year's April Show will showcase art by various other artists, including quilter Dorothy Caldwell, who will have two large pieces for sale. The daughter of sharecroppers from Wyatt, Mo., "(Caldwell) learned (to make quilts) in the Southern tradition of African-American women and from her mom. She's really good," said Hittle.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Throughout the night, patrons at the April Show will get the chance to peruse the art and meet the artists behind the work, which Hittle believes is a form of therapy for them. "That is probably the large drive for why they continue to do it," he said.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>It's also an opportunity for them to make money.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I think you could probably call a lot of them professional because they do sell their art, and in some cases that's all they do to make money," said Hittle. All of the show's profits are given to the artists, who donate 10 percent of what they make, sometimes more, to organizations they've benefited from.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></span></p><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #9b4f16; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">The April Show</h4><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>» When:</b> 7 p.m. today. <b>» Where:</b> 322 N. Arsenal Ave. <b>» Cost:</b> Free admission. <b>» Info:</b> (317) 974-1163.</p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">The April Show, Jerome Neil, David Hittle, Frank Espich, outsider art, art artist, painters, Indianapolis, Berry Connell, Harry Blomme, Dorothy Caldwell</span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-60939335579068122532010-04-23T07:30:00.012-07:002022-05-25T05:55:54.319-07:00Casey Roberts - Indianapolis Star, April 23, 2010, Pg. 34<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVtkhgj-N0yOAcNIpJ6yM5FL-4FuLy0CbsA452aZ0Z44mvbf3ujtkebOdLsgxPBLqdZv4WUBHxYONsgJ-WrEhjzBBrvP9_capmxV6o4hxVaDLZrMWIFvbT87ECjcgEfcJlAjn4AaeRw2Kneqwu9CwwSzmm3RRu5-E-I9H1X78SljFZdIW-jw/s960/1045190_10201366867443835_269547989_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVtkhgj-N0yOAcNIpJ6yM5FL-4FuLy0CbsA452aZ0Z44mvbf3ujtkebOdLsgxPBLqdZv4WUBHxYONsgJ-WrEhjzBBrvP9_capmxV6o4hxVaDLZrMWIFvbT87ECjcgEfcJlAjn4AaeRw2Kneqwu9CwwSzmm3RRu5-E-I9H1X78SljFZdIW-jw/s16000/1045190_10201366867443835_269547989_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: white;"> Casey Roberts, Prints, Indianapolis, Indiana Artist, painter, Indianapolis Art Center, Freaky Forest</span><span style="font-family: arial;">By Mary Lee Pappas/Star Correspondent</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif;">April 23, 2010</span></div><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-Tj1OFoNcmeZqk_K69Q3oeAGYTDl7Pkntkg-wPddJbilltyQ55wMpl2PXj9QoAftyvrjSAMrBvijVbybOmsR9hV1e2BuJOwceDOxJSwhAAj1guIHgBO0WUjp3z6uobZJRZZBBA/s1600/star_mobile.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466692784387536994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-Tj1OFoNcmeZqk_K69Q3oeAGYTDl7Pkntkg-wPddJbilltyQ55wMpl2PXj9QoAftyvrjSAMrBvijVbybOmsR9hV1e2BuJOwceDOxJSwhAAj1guIHgBO0WUjp3z6uobZJRZZBBA/s400/star_mobile.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 242px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 20px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Casey Roberts is more than an artist. He's also concerned about the environment in his own way, which shows through in "Freaky Forest," his latest exhibit at the Indianapolis Art Center.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Roberts, 38, uses unique cyanotype paintings to offer a critical look at environmental issues, but with a bit of levity.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Warm blue and beige tones -- created through a Civil War-era technique called cyanotype, which includes the use of baking soda and mild bleach solutions -- lend an overall visual coziness and a dreamy, comfortable quality in which beauty overshadows any bigger message.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"It's real simple. I'm not a super conceptual artist," said Roberts. "I want people to relate to it."</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Trees are his major artistic protagonists in the 20 new works on view. However, he's introduced some new woodsy characters, too.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Tons of trees. Armies of moths. Lots and lots of moths. They are almost like protectors, or scouts," Roberts said, explaining their role in his illustrative scenes, in which plant and animal forms are blocky and flat but resonate as delicate.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"There are trees with magic, obviously," he says with a light laugh. "It's the only way trees can communicate -- through magic."</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And you actually start to believe him as you become immersed in his imagined landscape's full pine trees.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"It's all fantasy," Roberts said about his work. But there's an antagonistic undercurrent, a dark side at play here, too. "It's not all bubble gum."</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">His color scheme and topics easily lend themselves to being spooky and eerie, quiet like a fairy tale. "Freaky," he said, with a sense of humor.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For example, "Home Town" features a hole-riddled tree whose trunk is graffiti-emblazoned. "It's kind of a conversation between nature and man and how we clash and relate to each other," said Roberts, who for the first time has introduced sculptures into his repertoire of characters.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">His "Freaky Forest" includes the outrageous addition of white ceramic, ambiguous animal heads with blue eyes. The busts, which have accompanying portraits, range in size from 15 to 24 inches and are among the exhibit's many surprises.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"I am so happy with them. They crack me up," said Roberts, who maintains a studio in the Murphy Building in Fountain Square. "These are the things I am most excited about in the show.</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"With every show, I make a few steps forward. I feel like I'm progressing. (But) I'm still kind of chicken," he said. "One of these days I'm really going to break out and freak some people out."</span></p><p color="initial" face="inherit" size="16px" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></p><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #9b4f16; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freaky Forest: Works by Casey Roberts</h4><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>» When:</b> Today through June 6. Center hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. <b>» Where:</b> Indianapolis Art Center (Churchman-Fehsenfeld Gallery), 820 E. 67th St. <b>» Cost:</b> Free. <b>» Info:</b> (317) 255-2464, www.indplsartcenter.org.</p></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-5509625790479356382010-04-19T06:10:00.004-07:002022-05-26T10:18:06.171-07:00State museum to showcase Indiana artists<p> By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</p><div id="art_date">Posted: February 19, 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgee6sz9cKj7k5cLz6A1H4b8fkrZitEnqlJXCrY18laavak5ijpcHxeW0h5eYfWkS0mHuuTs7vr4c7g4Oyqkl5yQmceAZ1TbuWh82Yg0GtgGvTeHJIjjRu2L4iRd9XSJNyql9oxAg/s1600-h/bilde-5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440856412066966818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgee6sz9cKj7k5cLz6A1H4b8fkrZitEnqlJXCrY18laavak5ijpcHxeW0h5eYfWkS0mHuuTs7vr4c7g4Oyqkl5yQmceAZ1TbuWh82Yg0GtgGvTeHJIjjRu2L4iRd9XSJNyql9oxAg/s400/bilde-5.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 315px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">Jeanne McLeish, watercolor and oil painting, "Blue Canoe," Morgan County. </span><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">- Photo provided by The Indiana State Museum</span></div>The Indiana State <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102190308#" itxtdid="18114558" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">Museum</a> will shine a spotlight on 93 artists who live and work in Indiana during its seventh annual Indiana Art Fair this weekend.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>Having a show with such a large local connection is a source of pride for the museum.<span class="aa"></span></p>"When going to many of the larger outdoor art fairs, Indiana artists are dispersed among artists from around the country. Our event allows art lovers to support local art made right here in Indiana by coming to one venue," said communication <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102190308#" itxtdid="17962043" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">director</a> Kathi Moore. "And these are not just artists from the metro area, but from around the state."<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>A record number of artists from 30 counties will be represented in this year's show, thanks to a partnership with the Indiana Artisan Program, a state government entity created in 2008 to market locally crafted goods.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"The Indiana Artisan Program and the Indiana Art Fair focus on the same thing: to bring attention to locally made fine art, craft and food," said Joanna E. Hahn, cultural history education specialist at the museum, who's headed the art fair for three years. "It seems only natural to team up and pool our resources with regards to attracting artists, as well as audiences. It helps to bring more diversity to the art that will be seen at this year's event."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>That eclectic mix includes everything from marshmallows to wine to classic Indiana landscape paintings.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"In past shows, we haven't had food and wine artisans, and it will be interesting to see how our audience reacts to this new addition. I can only bet that they will be enthusiastic to sample locally made wine, maple syrup and homemade marshmallows," said Hahn.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>While at the fair, expect to see Shaker-style furniture, boxes and trays by Ron Huhn and woodwork. Jewelers Lee Cohn of Bloomington and Mark Grosser of Carmel, both of whom sculpt modern, sleek gold pieces with a major "wow" factor, will be there, too. On the whimsical <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102190308#" itxtdid="17670904" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_7_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;">jewelry<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline ! important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>end, Carolyn Aylward of Indianapolis uses recycled buttons, typewriter keys and cuff links to create pieces.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"Often times, these artists get lost in many of the bigger shows," said Hahn. "We're able to highlight not only their work but the region of Indiana they represent."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>With such a diverse mix of works, what's the strongest medium this year?<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>"I would have to say our strongest medium is painting. Each painter has a very specific style and subject matter. Some use Indiana as the subject of their work while others find inspiration outside our state's borders," said Hahn. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Indiana Art Fair</span><p><b>» When:</b> 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. <b>» Where:</b> Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St. <b>» Tickets:</b> $7 (includes museum admission); free for museum members. <b>» Info:</b> (317) 232-1637, www.indianamuseum.org.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: white;">Indiana State Museum,Jeanne McLeish, Kathy Moore, Indiana Art Fair, Indiana Artisan Program, Joanna E. Hahn, Lee Cohn, Mark Grosser, Jeweler, art, Artists, Indianapolis</span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-18036347299263244262010-04-09T06:03:00.003-07:002022-05-26T10:21:17.175-07:00In abstract manner, Carla Knopp gets attention<p> <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted: April 9, 2010</div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 13px;"></span><p></p><div id="art_author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div id="art_author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458289190415750850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm37XvZ4e8Fry8LF9cgS3MyCThfqQ56VWuZtwJwyyOQ3cImpfUEueqoiznkAgAziiWQS-LN_RP27e5nHr7TX-op9oJluAwEKQm1nIMR4rtUrZQzSrjmZ5zrQap9qRZXBepE7QGg/s400/bilde-6.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 246px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Some of it looks otherworldly, so you could almost get a sci-fi take on it," says Indianapolis artist Carla Knopp. The two pieces behind her are part of her show that begins today at the Harrison Center for the Arts. - FRANK ESPICH / The Star</span></span></p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458289729149812818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzcwyXIF92RfBxJ2ZdICHMtAW4KRU9excmQsxdYmjfC5hQwb_jmeGq-WW7dTGWVxAZ553hB6nURaaiHpGPfu1X-MpTaL52-K5mz3CW_aSkYITQl5ep8KuEZDXot_m7hJORTHkIA/s400/bilde-7.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Knopp worked on the Art in Motion project in 2003, in which painted race cars were displayed throughout the city. This one was called "Botany in Motion." - Kelly Wilkinson / The Star</span></span></span></p></span></span></div><div id="art_author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></span><p></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Artist Carla Knopp has managed to stay under the radar, but her life could soon become less low-key when she unveils new oil paintings in "Spawn," an exhibit opening today at the Harrison Center for the Arts.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"There was a part of me that needed to lay low," said Knopp, a 1984 graduate of the Herron School of Art and Design. "I was living life."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Still, she and her notable classmates -- Steve Paddack, Brian Fick, Rob Day and the late Ed Sanders -- have been significant players in the local visual-arts culture for more than 25 years, earning their places in Indianapolis art history.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>In 2009, Knopp exhibited in New York and was featured in New American Paintings, a juried magazine. Later this spring, she has a show at the Russell/Projects gallery in Virginia. Not too shabby for being inconspicuous.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Knopp's narrative works, which are executed on pod-shaped, non-symmetrical wood panels -- some as large as 5 feet in diameter -- exude an organic, feminine feel.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"Some of it looks otherworldly, so you could almost get a sci-fi take on it," she said of the soft abstractions resembling little microcosmic worlds or deconstructed florals. "There's kind of a spawning in the creative process, so it's a very general term that just happens to work well with the imagery."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>That process is what's significant about this new body of work.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Taking an intentional naive approach, Knopp has allowed herself to paint without inhibition. The results are a testament to her marked skills as a painter. It's also a drastic difference from her day job as a decorative painter and muralist.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I just let myself paint circles, as many as I wanted," she said. "I just went ahead and let it happen." She said she follows her instincts, has fun and pushes herself with the work.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Employing a standard theory of mixing red, blue and yellow to get a full spectrum, Knopp chooses and responds to color psychologically. Each painting winds up having its own color scheme, ranging from hot pink to grays or beiges.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I am so into color, it's crazy. I become extremely engaged in the palette," she said. "I feel like I have a real structured palette, even though it's not a conventional one. It's not even a conscious thing."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Knopp doesn't have any expectations for viewers with this new body of work.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I used to worry a lot about the purpose of what I was doing. At some point I just came to believe that it's important for me to be extremely engaged in what I'm doing," she said. "I just started believing that that's what matters, and I still do."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>It still startles her when people respond positively to her work. "(But) it's also wonderful. It's really cool. That's not to say I'm not concerned about how things will read or how they work within the art world."</span></span></p><p color="initial" face="georgia, serif" size="16px" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></p><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #9b4f16; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Spawn'</h4><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>» When:</b> 6 to 9 p.m. today (artist reception). The show runs through May 1. <b>» Where:</b> Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 N. Delaware St. <b>» Cost:</b> Free admission. <b>» Info:</b> For more information about the exhibition, call (317) 396-3886 or visit www .harrisoncenter.org. For more information on Knopp, visit www .CarlaKnopp.com.</p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Carla Knopp, painter, Harrison Center for the Arts, Frank Espich, Hereon school of Art, Ed Sanders, Russell/Projects Gallery, Stye Paddack, Brian Fick, Rob Day, New American Paintings magazine, </span></p><div><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-60466998370224687932010-04-02T07:09:00.012-07:002022-05-25T06:05:00.792-07:00Tara Donovan, You can drink it all in - The Indianapolis Star - April 2, 2010, pg. 9<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tara Donovan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can drink it all in: Artist leaves it to the observer to find the meaning of her works, made of everyday materials</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can drink it all in - The Indianapolis Star, April 2, 2010, pg. 9</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mary Lee Pappas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSn3syeLdXq0uvbW06NVB2URz3EsrQOZdedZjFPj2624dIuzjX_Kv9elxMFTp5kj50f34r_brspG00kw3u8nFuNYU_StkswzzyzD1ojvcMbiobVTq4u1KaDj7DJPfFJa8rMQlvd3p13RSksd0EcnHtNWScV-ucdh7eyoPdKMDo6OQwUczqSes/s960/73992_10200995354036232_804027476_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSn3syeLdXq0uvbW06NVB2URz3EsrQOZdedZjFPj2624dIuzjX_Kv9elxMFTp5kj50f34r_brspG00kw3u8nFuNYU_StkswzzyzD1ojvcMbiobVTq4u1KaDj7DJPfFJa8rMQlvd3p13RSksd0EcnHtNWScV-ucdh7eyoPdKMDo6OQwUczqSes/s16000/73992_10200995354036232_804027476_n.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div id="art_author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</div><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Posted: April 2, 2010</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Artist Tara Donovan creates organic and fluid, large-scale sculptures from pedestrian materials such as pencils, plastic cups, tar paper, electrical cable and Mylar. The landscape-type results defy their mundane components and draw upon nature.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"It's all made out of Elmer's Glue," said Donovan, 40, referring to "Strata," an assemblage of dried glue resembling milky white "petals" sprawling across the gallery floor like growing fungus.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The piece is one of six sculptures literally covering a 12,000-square-foot exhibition space inside the Indianapolis Museum of Art in an exhibit that opens Sunday. Visually soft and </span></span><a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20104020307#" itxtdid="18266836" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: none none solid; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-style: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">gentle</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, sensory tricks happen easily, pulling viewers into their illusions.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Hundreds of thousands of rigid, clear plastic cups stacked in another piece, "Plastic Cups," effectively immerse you into a dreamy, billowy, white landscape. It's surprisingly intimate, even against the backdrop of shocking white walls inside the space.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I'm not that interested in the practicality, what that material is actually used for. I'm interested in it as a building block," Donovan said.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>What makes her work so compelling is that she transforms synthetic, industry-produced materials in an unexpected way, giving them a highly organic feel, said Lisa Freiman, senior curator of contemporary art at the IMA.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"They allude to some natural phenomena," Freiman said about how the cups are augmented and multiplied for the effect. "You look at a plastic cup and you know it's a plastic cup. . . . So when you walk into this room, you don't think to yourself, 'Where's the Kool-Aid?'</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"It's a landscape, a surreal landscape that you engage with. They really take on a life of their own, they become something very different."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>The interpretive flexibility of the pieces is broad, as is the appeal with audiences of all ages.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"Depending on the amount of experience with art or life that you have, you can approach it in many different ways," Freiman said. "For something that might be perceived as initially simple, there's a lot of complexity. You can make particular associations because of that, or you can just see them in a very literal way."</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"It's very multi-tiered," Donovan said. "My goal is to get the work to a point to where it transcends itself and people can have an experience with it."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>She does this most elegantly with "Ripple," a transparent sculpture created with shredded electrical cable that reads like water and delicate fabric.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sprinkled on the floor, it's then pushed together, merging fibers so it appears to somewhat defy gravity.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"Eventually, it will buckle, creating those ripples," Donovan said. "It's sometimes a long and tedious process to get to the point of realizing what it is it can do. But the fact that these fibers can interlock and become this billowy sheet is, I think, really beautiful."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Donovan leaves many of her works and drawings (some made from inky bubbles popping on paper) untitled or employs ambiguous titles so viewers will draw their own associations.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"Like this piece is called 'Colony' (and) references many, many things," she said of a 9-foot wide and 3-inch high sculpture made of pencils. It resembles a topographical map, or possibly an aerial view of a city.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"It was really all inspired by the hexagon, how it's so common in nature, architecture, and that you can build off of it," Donovan said.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>For more information, visit www .imamuseum.org.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></p><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #9b4f16; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Tara Donovan: Untitled'</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">When:</b><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">Sunday through Aug. 1.</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><b style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">Where:</b><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road.</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><b style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">Cost:</b><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">$8 for adults, seniors and college students with ID; $6 for groups of 10 or more; free for children 6 and younger, IMA members, teachers and school groups booked through the Education Department.</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><b style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">Info:</b><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">www.imamuseum.org.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Her bio and art - https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/tara-donovan/</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Piece at the Indianapolis Museum of Art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty8iAiFrdbQ</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #181818; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tara Donovan, Untitled (Mylar), 2010. Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Frank Curtis Springer & Irving Moxley Springer Purchase Fund, Anonymous IV Art Fund, Deaccessioned Contemporary Art Fund. 2010.218A-D © Courtesy The Pace Gallery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: white;">Tara Donovan, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, IMA, Elmer's Glue,Kool-Aid, Lisa Freiman, contemporary art, plastic cups, landscape, sculpture, art, artist, nature, Pace Gallery</span></i></div> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-30509431977546421322010-03-26T06:05:00.008-07:002022-05-26T10:24:12.105-07:00Check out four visual-arts exhibits worth your while<p> <span style="font-style: italic;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Posted: March 26, 2010</span></i></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">ndianapolis has always maintained a vibrant visual-arts </span></span></i></span><i style="color: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">scene.</span></span></i></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>From exhibits at local </span></span></i><a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103260305#" itxtdid="18517993" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: none none solid; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">museums</span></span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"> to shows inside some of the cit</span></span></i><i style="color: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">y's obscure and popular galleries, there's always fun, </span></span></i><i style="color: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">whimsical and thought-provoking art to peruse.</span></span></i></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">But trying to decipher which shows to devote your time to can be a little tricky. So we've </span></span></i><i style="color: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">done the work for you this week.</span></span></i></p><div style="color: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Here's a look at four shows to add to your weekend schedule.</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><h2 class="subhead" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Blankie</span></i></h2><div style="color: initial; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: initial; text-align: center;"></div><span style="color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 248px;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454066912714967666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-MRzCPuq3ETXcAmEU0lyI80l2aVrMWfIBZwK2vStf3UsCHAdpav9Dv-gkehgtgduOt0hcizGr087A9rIWn2EmUsaPGgjWC_h33JHLWGD1opjTBI5R06YNPnWFMcba_JBwQS4Ig/s400/bilde-3.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 248px;" /></span><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;">Nnenna Okore's "Blankie" is woven from found paper. It's on loan at the Indianapolis Art Center. - Photo provided by the Indianapolis Art Center</span></i></b></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>When:</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> Through April 18. Hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Where:</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> Indianapolis Art Center, 820 E. 67th St.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Cost:</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> Free admission. Call (317) 255-2464 or visit www.indplsartcenter.org.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Artist Nnenna Okore's sculptural installation "Blankie" recalls her childhood in Nsukka, Nigeria, and the industriousness of people to recycle discarded materials.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Woven from found paper, the piece hangs on a corridor wall with a </i></span><a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103260305#" itxtdid="18274793" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: none none solid; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>softness</i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> and elegance defying its origins. In the piece, which truly resembles a blanket, she has methodically and intensely reworked the papers to create a convincing portrayal.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Okore -- a former student of renowned African artist El Anatsui -- is assistant professor and chair of the art department at North Park University in Chicago. "Blankie" is on loan by William L. Fortune Jr. and Joseph D. Blakley.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><h2 class="subhead" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jean-Jacques Porret: New Sculptures and Drawings</span></i></h2><span style="color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 400px;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454066898343215250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IMvxWVXb7UXmpk6ThUhFx0gh4PsoEXa3f2wU6LL6b9eXVFTi684p9eO2VkxoSc1Au9N103bf23RMYbul6hVu3eUFuIvWHFuLnVLpBoNiXkSYJDE9NUbvz_6SxTA3VEEpvf7Ahw/s400/bilde-2.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;">Jean-Jacques Porret's rhythmic bronze sculptures are on display through May 3 at ARTBOX. - Photo provided by ARTBOX Gallery</span></i></b></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>When:</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> Through May 3. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Where:</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> ARTBOX, 217 W. 10th St., Suite 140.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Cost:</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> Free admission. Call (317) 955-2450 or visit www.artboxindy.com.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Abstract human forms comprise Chicago-based Jean-Jacques Porret's repertoire of rhythmic bronze sculptures.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Depicting movement and expression, the minimalist pieces have a playful exuberance. This Swiss-born engineer-turned-self-taught-artist's sleek and rounded works are created with the lost wax process, which is itself intriguing.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>The perfectionist </i></span><a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103260305#" itxtdid="18984971" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: none none solid; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>eye</i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i> you would expect and attention to every detail are there as well. Porret even purchased a marble and granite company to create bases that met his high standards.</i></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 13px;"></span></i></p><i><h2 class="subhead" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Graves</h2><div style="color: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6S-1DJ0HP3K49sNWYN-74ppoYnBvDKOZVMsvChzuyr5P7f-zmyjEpYdQ7kGGfD6c9uqWvVpOLN2Pk-LTm0xFjQU8yCePPvMWPVmXnC-wn-BGebh6cGXvEPhxacZAGDTfdiNP6Ng/s1600/bilde-1.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458294983673737234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6S-1DJ0HP3K49sNWYN-74ppoYnBvDKOZVMsvChzuyr5P7f-zmyjEpYdQ7kGGfD6c9uqWvVpOLN2Pk-LTm0xFjQU8yCePPvMWPVmXnC-wn-BGebh6cGXvEPhxacZAGDTfdiNP6Ng/s400/bilde-1.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 382px;" /></a></span><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><b>When:</b> Through April 18. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><b>Where:</b> Indy Hostel, 4903 Winthrop Ave.</p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; display: inline; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Cost:</b> Free admission. Call (317) 727-1696 or visit www.indyhostel.us.</p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Graves creates large-scale abstracts in subdued, warm and heavy tones with knowing brushstrokes. His compositions are harmonious and balanced, even though they grapple with tough concepts of spirit and the human condition.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Probably best known as a local <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103260305#" itxtdid="18777094" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none none dotted; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_22_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">music<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>producer, his paintings range in topic from portraits of Mab Lab bandmate Kate Lamont to depictions of the chakras. A few pieces are collaborative works with fellow DJ and painter Justin Cooper.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Incorporating and layering sheet music, text and found imagery into his paintings, Graves' work takes on a graphic quality even though it remains introspective and personal.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Known more as a concert venue, Indy Hostel is proving itself as a place that's well worth the visit for visual-art exhibitions -- which it hosts once a month.</p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Mike Graves and Justin Cooper collaborated on "Spoon Version Mixed Media." - Photo provided by Indy Hostel</span></p><span style="color: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;"></span></span><h2 class="subhead" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christopher West Presents Fear of Flying: Josh Azzarella, Stacey M. Holloway and Euan Macdonald</h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: initial; font-style: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458294168725739970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6G836tYS29eV7Gwj8LpZCKSlCJyMeEmXv2Y167rhfEpRQ3ktrQFDJBC_snpswajVrvFx62AKlI2e7WOdTBfNB1rq7OIVoF1hV1eHLoqq6rt21baYAWLnFc5wCJQ7xe_CHEP-ucA/s400/bilde.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 273px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;">This image from Euan Macdonald's "Two Planes" video is part of the Fear of Flying exhibit at the Dean Johnson Gallery. - Photo provided by Christopher West Presents</span></b></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;"></span>When:</b> Through April 10. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><b>Where:</b> Dean Johnson Gallery, 646 Massachusetts Ave.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><b>Cost:</b> Free admission. Call (317) 634-8020 or visit www.deanjohnson.com.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Works dealing with anxieties and what-ifs based on the theme of airplanes is at the crux of this three-artist exhibition at the Dean Johnson Gallery.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Participating artists are New York-based Josh Azzarella, Indianapolis-based Stacey M. Holloway and Los Angeles-based Euan Macdonald, whose pieces unite in this thought-provoking show.<span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p color="initial" face="georgia, serif" size="16px" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Macdonald's video "Two Planes" -- in which he has superimposed an image of a plane flying over its original footage -- is graceful. Azzarella revisits the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and the possibilities if the planes had not hit the World Trade Center. Holloways's installation, which is just as emotionally edgy, explores her own fear of flying.</p><p color="initial" face="georgia, serif" size="16px" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p color="initial" face="georgia, serif" size="16px" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Indianapolis Art Center, Nnenna Okore, Sculture, Jean-Jacques Porret, ARTBOX, Mike Graves, IndyHostel, Christopher West Presents, Josh Azzarella, Stacey M. Holloway, Evan McDonald, Dean Johnson Gallery, Indianapolis, Photography</span></p><div style="color: initial;"><br /></div><p style="color: initial;"></p></i></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-61794148782655723972010-03-19T06:08:00.002-07:002022-05-25T06:08:53.419-07:00Artist's works take on personas of a dozen monikers<p> <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large; line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Posted: March 19, 2010</span></span></div></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP2_wfRBYPvvrIxLNy61xP1_RPuGXMAOOeOgJ_hUF1DLPkG37G-6j2n4bBmSpZm1TJOqt9lERG22zqKju8_Z0o54ilnKp1KAn67GPOZVsWnFoCtZNJ_aiSbwj6kpeMOFgnviayZA/s1600/bilde-5.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466700115104099666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP2_wfRBYPvvrIxLNy61xP1_RPuGXMAOOeOgJ_hUF1DLPkG37G-6j2n4bBmSpZm1TJOqt9lERG22zqKju8_Z0o54ilnKp1KAn67GPOZVsWnFoCtZNJ_aiSbwj6kpeMOFgnviayZA/s400/bilde-5.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 257px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmNkjf_mucX74MDQMW3vbW3Jaytc_1iSRQwjBFXuWdsQB4NqzrAb1JIqh2LbROSjFzcDvkIIeOQsoJyeiklBq5ZOO3XEC7ksDc8Bw6NZFXsaK7jaM1qqh7gerDlMQZVeKaDUppg/s1600/bilde-4.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466700105370440642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmNkjf_mucX74MDQMW3vbW3Jaytc_1iSRQwjBFXuWdsQB4NqzrAb1JIqh2LbROSjFzcDvkIIeOQsoJyeiklBq5ZOO3XEC7ksDc8Bw6NZFXsaK7jaM1qqh7gerDlMQZVeKaDUppg/s400/bilde-4.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 334px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.600000381469727px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ed McGowin had legally changed his name to Thorton Modestus Dossett when he created this piece. He also used 11 other names. - Photo provided by Herron School of Art and Design</span></span></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Working as Edward Everett Updike, Ed McGowin produced this work, which is on display at Herron School of Art and Design through April 17. - Photo provided by Herron School of Art and Design</span></span></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mississippi-born artist Ed McGowin, 71, legally changed his name 12 times from 1970 to 1972 to test his theory that an artist's career evolves on varied creative paths rather than a defined one.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Works by all of his artistic personas are on view in "Name Change," an exhibit at the Herron School of Art and Design. Silkscreens of the legal documents securing his name changes also are included in this show of sculptures, paintings, drawings and more.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"(It's) 40 years of work by 12 artists that was done by one person," McGowin says with a laugh. "Or, you could say a group show by one guy."</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Although McGowin says the names he chose are not important, exhibition visitors will see works by Alva Isaiah Fost, Thorton Modestus Dossett, Nicholas Gregory Nazianzen and Lawrence Steven Orlean, among others.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I don't try to disguise the fact that I'm Alva Fost or Thorton Dossett," he says. "I'm not trying to be different people or have different voices."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>There is no performance aspect to McGowin's work. His artwork falls into various stylistic categories that get assigned to a persona.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>His artists don't collaborate, but their works do overlap. "It would be confusing for you to go into my studio and pick out who all these different artists are," he says.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Some of the personas' distinct bodies of work have earned their own commercial notoriety, however. "I'm very proud that Harvard University bought a Thorton Dossett," McGowin said.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Conceptually weighty, McGowin's premise that all artists are creatively schizophrenic, that it's unnatural not to creatively experiment, is really rather simple and true. His theory essentially mocks artists who use a formula to create and then market their art, as if it were a brand, without wavering.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; line-height: 13px;"></span></p><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #9b4f16; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Name Change</h4><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>» What:</b> Works by Ed McGowin. <b>» When:</b> Through April 17. <b>» Where:</b> Herron School of Art and Design, 735 W. New York St.<b>» Cost:</b> Free. <b>» Info:</b> (317) 278-9423, www.herron.iupui.edu</p></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-48245160106279018702010-03-12T06:09:00.000-08:002022-05-25T06:13:50.571-07:00Soothing paintings awash in color, rich in material<p> <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2010</div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indianapolis Star</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://cmsimg.indystar.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Dato=20100312&Kategori=ENTERTAINMENT&Lopenr=3120316&Ref=AR&MaxW=580&MaxH=460&Q=100&Site=BG&MaxW=580&MaxH=600" /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">"Spitting in the Ocean"</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="http://cmsimg.indystar.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BG&Date=20100312&Category=ENTERTAINMENT&ArtNo=3120316&Ref=V2&MaxW=320" /></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">"Riverbed"</span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><img src="http://cmsimg.indystar.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BG&Date=20100312&Category=ENTERTAINMENT&ArtNo=3120316&Ref=V3&MaxW=320" /></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">"Shoreline"</span></span></span></p><p color="initial" face="georgia, serif" size="16px" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">I always refer to myself as a mixed-media painter, 'cause I can't just do one thing," says artist Kate Oberreich, 29, about the meditative paintings currently on view in "Undertow," her solo show at Wug Laku's Studio & Garage.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Contemplative and quiet in placid blues and whites, the 20 graphically abstract, landscape works demonstrate an ironic, uninhibited use of materials. Everything from rice paper, doilies, tissues, fabrics and colored pencils find their way into her pieces.</p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Upwards of 15 layers are fused together, with even more layers of acrylic paint, resulting in a rich texture and polished finish. Considering the arduous technique, Oberreich's works appear subdued and controlled.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Firmly painted horizon lines, black-silhouetted <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103120316#" itxtdid="18345823" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none none dotted; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_3_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">trees<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>, and placement of the collaged elements are all carefully applied, even without an aesthetic goal in mind. Yet, the result has a visually comfortable appeal.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>For inspiration, Oberreich says, "I like to go through craft stores and <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103120316#" itxtdid="18868403" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none none solid; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">hardware</a>stores and find, like, weird stuff.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"I was walking through the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103120316#" itxtdid="18345971" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none none dotted; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; color: darkgreen; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; inset: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_5_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">scrapbook<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>section of Jo-Ann's or someplace (and saw that) they started carrying these papers," she says, referring to intricate die-cut papers that are bound into many of her new works. "I've got a stack of them in the studio that I'm trying to find the right use for."<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Oberreich has maintained a studio inside the Stutz since 2006, the year after earning her bachelor of fine arts degree from Ball State University.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>"Spitting at the Ocean," a piece whose subject is water, employs one of those papers, a swirly design that enhances the effect of motion in the painted waves. "It was sort of the right fit at the right time kind of thing," Oberreich says. Overall, it adds to the graphic sensibility of the works.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Many effects are purely accidental. "I'll do something, hate it and then have to cover it up with something," she says. "I never throw a canvas away because you can always sandwich more stuff on it. And, it adds to the character of the final piece."<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Oberreich works on many of her soothing, minimalist pieces at once. Wug Laku's gallery provides an appropriately cozy setting for Oberreich's work, which touches on ideas of home. Though located in the Circle City Industrial Complex, a 13-acre, multi-use building, the gallery is welcoming.<span class="aa" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Unlike most of her works, which have a universal quality, "Yellow House," a piece depicting Oberreich's grandparents' summer home that overlooked Little Traverse Bay in Petoskey, Mich., is autobiographical. An Indianapolis native, Oberreich says, "I used to spend every summer up there."</p></span><p></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></p><h4 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #9b4f16; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Undertow'</h4><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>» What:</b> Featuring works by artist Kate Oberreich. <b>» When:</b> Through March 27. <b>» Where:</b> Wug Laku's Studio & Garage, 1125 Brookside Ave., Suite C7 (inside the Circle City Industrial Complex). <b>» Cost:</b> Free. <b>» Info:</b> (317) 270-8258, www.wlsandg.com.</p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-55282952090147289212010-03-05T07:00:00.016-08:002022-05-25T06:00:26.371-07:00Color her world - Kathryn Refi at iMOCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kathryn Refi </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Records</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">, iMOCA - Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;">Indianapolis Star, March 5, 2010</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_Br0kdOM_b35miS2xnAjvjdqu71d8KLtMPEmrqmQ70erNG75Y-Uqq1UabovtuXmhHR5MFu-O0KNOY3qnvvtM4O4oOwpdhkzp967CqPLboEpVAtcUyEdRxEffq_6kqLUwF_bE1gKtuB8AuXzvBPYy6NrTRq2VB2vDNSYvtdZNlTqcU-NRPHc/s960/19881_10201366960486161_1873971719_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_Br0kdOM_b35miS2xnAjvjdqu71d8KLtMPEmrqmQ70erNG75Y-Uqq1UabovtuXmhHR5MFu-O0KNOY3qnvvtM4O4oOwpdhkzp967CqPLboEpVAtcUyEdRxEffq_6kqLUwF_bE1gKtuB8AuXzvBPYy6NrTRq2VB2vDNSYvtdZNlTqcU-NRPHc/s16000/19881_10201366960486161_1873971719_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent<div id="author_date"><div id="art_date">March 5, 2010 Indianapolis Star<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1eEb59c1kzBsLwLdC5vYmCla7KE2GJwI3RfTLDn3CnnxXz8t0Ah9_s2n9nY6gL_P0QmzpGjJoBvqp848sH7n-88OcAsLx9AUp2SPJ0wqWP_HpC-WLn6CwDInnbJwv4qIxmU2B4g/s1600-h/bilde-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445183500633481634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1eEb59c1kzBsLwLdC5vYmCla7KE2GJwI3RfTLDn3CnnxXz8t0Ah9_s2n9nY6gL_P0QmzpGjJoBvqp848sH7n-88OcAsLx9AUp2SPJ0wqWP_HpC-WLn6CwDInnbJwv4qIxmU2B4g/s400/bilde-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 194px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">"Day 3" by Kathryn Refi</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQJMHvxxznQmiLTR5waam0ATvn53y2MwI80uJYzTrcDD3BgPsebsLtaBCG-ypG2UEi1dB6gLXfFuLtxAlDn437MeC9QtBI974dg8UmlohK_a78kBhFhphROtAKlVajqIrkJxE7w/s1600-h/bilde.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445183512094783778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQJMHvxxznQmiLTR5waam0ATvn53y2MwI80uJYzTrcDD3BgPsebsLtaBCG-ypG2UEi1dB6gLXfFuLtxAlDn437MeC9QtBI974dg8UmlohK_a78kBhFhphROtAKlVajqIrkJxE7w/s400/bilde.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Each stripe represents colors Kathryn Refi saw during a day. The seven pieces are on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, which drew a crowd on opening night. -- Photo provided by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></div></div></div>A series of seven large-scale, striped, minimalist paintings by Kathryn Refi grapple with the concept of time in her show at the Indianapolis <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20100305/ENTERTAINMENT/3050314/Artist-earns-her-stripes-with-a-view-of-a-week#" itxtdid="18517981" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">Museum</a> of Contemporary Art.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>Each autobiographical painting represents a day in a week of her life, even though the concept took a year to complete.<span class="aa"></span></p><div class="t7 r15 b10 rightrail" id="ad_flex2">"I started thinking what are the colors I see in my normal day, just going about my routine," Refi said of the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20100305/ENTERTAINMENT/3050314/Artist-earns-her-stripes-with-a-view-of-a-week#" itxtdid="18265694" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">body</a> of work titled "Color Recordings." "What's the predominant color in my life? And how might that affect me? I couldn't answer that second part, but I figured I'd try to answer the first, so I videotaped everything I saw for an entire week.<span class="aa"></span></div><p><span class="pp"></span>"All of my work involves using some sort of control or scientific method to investigate aspects of everyday routine and daily life."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>The artist, from Athens, Ga., had a spy camera inconspicuously mounted to a <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20100305/ENTERTAINMENT/3050314/Artist-earns-her-stripes-with-a-view-of-a-week#" itxtdid="18297664" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">baseball</a> cap she wore, and a computer programmer aided in determining the predominant and relative amounts of colors she saw.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Each painting is 100 inches long.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"I knew I was going to be working in percentages, so if I saw a certain color 1 percent of all my waking time, then I knew that band would be an inch wide," Refi said. "I determined that the smallest line that I would paint, just out of feasibility, would be one-eighth inch wide. So, I had to see a certain color one-eighth of an inch in terms of percentages."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Although obsessive about recording and measuring color luminance, then analytically generating color swatches and gruelingly mixing oil paints to exactly mirror them, the order of the colors is completely subjective.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Rainbow-like spectrums of stringent vertical color bars resembling <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20100305/ENTERTAINMENT/3050314/Artist-earns-her-stripes-with-a-view-of-a-week#" itxtdid="18627028" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">TV</a> multi-burst test patterns were the result.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>She never intentionally interacted with any colors to enhance her results.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Ultimately, color winds up being an antagonist as well.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Refi's goal with the work was to put concept over result.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"I can control the order of the colors, but beyond that, I couldn't control them, so luckily they're OK, but they could've been very different," she said.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"I kind of create the perimeters for it . . . but I don't know what it's going to look like. And so I kind of set myself up to do these paintings. And I was like, 'I hope they're not ugly.' "<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>And they aren't.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Refi's time distortions are soothing, provoking contemplations about how we spend our time.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Sharing the same exhibition space are her other two body of works: "All Things Considered" -- drawings created from listening to <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20100305/ENTERTAINMENT/3050314/Artist-earns-her-stripes-with-a-view-of-a-week#" itxtdid="18345513" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">National Public <nobr id="itxt_nobr_16_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;">Radio<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline ! important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>-- and "My Address Book" -- portraits of important locations in her life.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Unlike "Color Recordings," they show time chronologically (right to left or morning to evening,) succinctly and rather literally.<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>"Color Recordings" melds factual data into an abstract color harmony that aesthetically stands alone outside of its rigid concept.<div class="bluetri"><div class="sectionarrow t15 r15 l15"><h4>'Records'</h4></div></div><p><b>» What:</b> Works by artist Kathryn Refi. <b>» When:</b> Through March 20. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. <b>» Where:</b> Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 5. The museum is in the Murphy Art Center. <b>» Cost:</b> Free. For more information, call (317) 634-6622 or visit www.indymoca.org.</p><p>iMOCA, Kathryn Refi, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IndyStar, Indianapolis Star, sound, Records, museum, National Public Radio, Athens, Georgia, All Things Considered</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-39788461964970662802010-02-26T07:21:00.031-08:002022-06-06T15:35:26.864-07:00Heather Rowe - The Indianapolis Star. February 26, 2010. Pg. 8.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Heather Rowe</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Indianapolis Star. February 26, 2010. Pg. 8.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu-R1WXPjtlvZ602vHCFwOi6xsvs6qs7YxpBkP5ApKij9mtEGN9fLz6Yh9Xb0adqG76MJDlmjkhI6mdhM2nR0mbnVt3LUY4taQ8y_-NYitFsdwNN0nBcyHNOFuEtMyXkRzOtrQlLnkWi43sifwYLXLqtBiroeT9MQxCy32RiihGBnheJ945Qw/s960/1001036_10201366939005624_1978110025_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu-R1WXPjtlvZ602vHCFwOi6xsvs6qs7YxpBkP5ApKij9mtEGN9fLz6Yh9Xb0adqG76MJDlmjkhI6mdhM2nR0mbnVt3LUY4taQ8y_-NYitFsdwNN0nBcyHNOFuEtMyXkRzOtrQlLnkWi43sifwYLXLqtBiroeT9MQxCy32RiihGBnheJ945Qw/s16000/1001036_10201366939005624_1978110025_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b> </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8SdDgscAxK6c2EfPheE5MxBnFhRrwVS9_ImhPWtcwKzP-zBFdzv_axyJkvH5d8P4ci76_j85AwEGq06nYv6Uh8NWr1DC8AHMZAXHl3tCrvG5oo-DlJhLNXWQKmtmjuUPaTCXtg/s1600-h/bilde.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443051957578261074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8SdDgscAxK6c2EfPheE5MxBnFhRrwVS9_ImhPWtcwKzP-zBFdzv_axyJkvH5d8P4ci76_j85AwEGq06nYv6Uh8NWr1DC8AHMZAXHl3tCrvG5oo-DlJhLNXWQKmtmjuUPaTCXtg/s400/bilde.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 298px;" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Heather Rowe hopes visitors to </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">her "Tenuous Arrangements" installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art move </span></span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;">around the piece with a sense of discovery and revisit it. - Photo provided by the Indianapolis Museum of Art</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #454545; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 13px;"><div id="art_author" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 26, 2010</div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indianapolis Star</div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;">Working with rough plywood, mirror shards and other architectural substructure discards, Brooklyn-based artist Heather Rowe has created a grouping of harmonious, airy and clean-edged narrow niches that link repetitively and rhythmically.</span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div id="art_date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 21px;"></span></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 13px;"><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="pp" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>At 14 feet high and about 40 feet long, "Tenuous Arrangements" is the largest and first in-the-round piece Rowe has imagined, thanks to the challenge of creating work for the vast space inside the Indianapolis Museum </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">of Art's Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The site-specific sculpture is the latest in a series of commissioned installations for the pavilion made possible by a $2.5 million grant from the Efroymson Family Fund, which was established in 2007.</span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">"I was struck by the glass, the frames and the windows," said Rowe, 39, about the pavilion. "So I started thinking about a piece that had a lot to do with those elements."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Living up to its title, "Tenuous Arrangements" complements the interior, but skews it comfortably enough that upon entering the museum visitors will experience discord from the obstructed sense of space confronting them.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">They can walk through her sculpture as well, but not touch. Though immobile, the illusion of movement exists. "It has a kind of threshold . . . there's actually an entrance in a sense, but it's at an angle, so you have to find it," said Rowe.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">She wants visitors to approach, revisit and move around her piece with discovery.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">"It asks a bit of the viewer. How do you remember spaces? What's the psychological relationship to space around us? I'm hoping it pulls those thoughts."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Three subtle color schemes -- lavender, blue and yellow -- inspired by Robert Altman's 1977 film </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">"Three Women," are meant to represent different moods or characters mirroring the film's dreamy sentiment.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">"I feel like I was really getting into the colors and tones," Rowe said. "I used to be a painter, so I feel like that was coming back in this piece more. I use color for very specific associations, but this became more of a painterly investigation."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Allison Unruh, assistant curator of contemporary art at the IMA, is excited about how visitors will interact and negotiate the work.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; color: initial; font-style: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">"It's something that has a real physical immediacy that can draw people in, but it's also so conceptually sophisticated that it works on this whole other level.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="aa" color="initial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></span></div><span color="initial" style="font-family: arial; font-style: inherit;">"The psychological resonances that her work evokes . . . strong feelings, strong memories through these everyday materials that people overlook all the time is something we take for granted, but the context she puts them in gives them a new sense of life."</span><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Her website</b> - http://heatherrowestudio.com/about<p></p><p><b>Tenuous Arrangements</b> - http://heatherrowestudio.com/#/tenuous-arrangements/</p><p><span style="color: white;">Heather Rowe, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion, IMA, sculpture, contemporary art, Allison Unrah, Robert Altman ,Three Women, Brooklyn, New York, Tenuous arrangements </span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-19176962433266705042010-02-12T06:11:00.003-08:002022-05-26T11:05:50.602-07:00Eiteljorg showcases historic pistols<p> By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</p><div style="text-align: center;"><div id="author_date"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div id="art_date" style="text-align: left;">Posted: February 12, 2010<div style="text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mkNWlL2T2uKT4VPCswz3-6EpjglXl_-aJla_JcDRWak3BRFdMS1jya-WIyhDHUB1wYErIn5rJKd1jSAw-TQziiznK3B085BQ5jzeM5WCeFb-Mh3rPA-cVp8Qit70zYiXKFIgUg/s1600-h/bilde.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437567586468080802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mkNWlL2T2uKT4VPCswz3-6EpjglXl_-aJla_JcDRWak3BRFdMS1jya-WIyhDHUB1wYErIn5rJKd1jSAw-TQziiznK3B085BQ5jzeM5WCeFb-Mh3rPA-cVp8Qit70zYiXKFIgUg/s400/bilde.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 181px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">President John F. Kennedy's initials are etched in the Colt New Frontier revolver engraved by Alvin A. White. - Photo provided by Eiteljorg Museum</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGK8roU9Eaxjj6NjTgrle-vfcdrACWTxQ6ky72JwBur2AsUi5Nh0qSx90A-6-DdG1-GAIp5iHUQ0T0xnG3ZCCSL0kU229ThprMVMshR6Zp9nk50R1zFKe9lrlmX5Ssjbw87-3Sw/s1600-h/bilde-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437567582921270962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGK8roU9Eaxjj6NjTgrle-vfcdrACWTxQ6ky72JwBur2AsUi5Nh0qSx90A-6-DdG1-GAIp5iHUQ0T0xnG3ZCCSL0kU229ThprMVMshR6Zp9nk50R1zFKe9lrlmX5Ssjbw87-3Sw/s400/bilde-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 234px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">Annie Oakley's steel, mother-of-pearl and gold revolver by Smith & Wesson is a 44-caliber handgun from the late 19th century. - Photo provided by Eiteljorg Museum</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></div>James H. Nottage, vice president and chief curatorial officer at the Eiteljorg Museum, has a history with some of the nearly 60 historic, one-of-a-kind firearms on display in a new exhibit at the museum.<p><span class="pp"></span>"Pistols: Dazzling Firearms," a 5,000-square-foot exhibition featuring guns from the 1840s to present day, was assembled and is on loan from the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. Nottage was the center's first chief curator.<span class="aa"></span></p><div class="t7 r15 b10 rightrail" id="ad_flex2">While at the Autry Center, Nottage acquired many of the pieces in "Pistols" from the Colt company collection, so he knows them intimately. But he stresses that the pieces are mostly about artistry.<span class="aa"></span></div><p><span class="pp"></span>"Technically they could be fired, but most of them have never been fired," said Nottage. "So it's really a platform for symbolism and ideas."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"If you think of paintings as being oil on canvas usually, you can think of these as steel canvases," he said about the intricate and lavish embellishments made to the pieces that render them more decadent than deadly. "They're engraved with chisels and hammers, inlaid with gold, platinum, silver. Grips are made from a range of materials -- rosewood to ivory to pearl to silver to gold. You can look at these pieces in terms of seeing how design motifs and techniques changed over time."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Several of the pieces were done by Tiffany from the 1860s to the present -- an art form of the privileged class, according to Nottage. There's also work by famed early 20th-century engravers such as Alvin White.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"Going back hundreds of years, firearms were expensive technology. Crowned heads of Europe and German principalities . . . sometimes had private gunsmiths," said Nottage. "The mechanism was expensive and the embellishment went along with that."<span class="aa"></span></p><p>From <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20100212/ENTERTAINMENT/2120313/Eiteljorg-showcases-historic-pistols#" itxtdid="17958908" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_7_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;">Hollywood<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline ! important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>to politics, varied aspects of American history are examined through the pistols, some owned and used by Western icons like James William Butler known as Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, George Custer and others.</p><p>"There are also presentation pieces done for Hollywood cowboys like Gene Autry, Tom Mix and Buck Jones, a silent film star," he said.</p><p><span class="pp"></span>Colt created firearms for Presidents John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and and Gerald Ford, whose guns can be seen in this show.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>President Kennedy's New Frontier revolver has serial number PT109 after his Navy command boat, a solid gold inlaid PT boat and a presidential seal.<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>"Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson have their brands on the guns also. In Reagan's case, (it's) the California bear," said Nottage of the metalwork.<div></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448939128208692370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7szExJSIcyKSiRVRNoFaWvkLAFoQLgPdZhqKwERcfj_ZYLiGqJSpDN_RiZ1NIHpzXfYi1bzMJfANTFc6ODFy0zQGhf_xCY8cKLrUEitAtfyOLpmUmvBuVMvKN-pZVyMcDvxb2g/s400/Pistols+postcard.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 265px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: white;">Eiteljorg Museum, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Autry National Center, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, James H. Nottage, historic guns, pistols, firearms</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-51553740290157603352010-01-29T06:12:00.003-08:002022-05-26T11:08:18.585-07:00'Collaborative Show' reworks stock '80s oil paintings with humor<p> By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</p><div id="author_date"><div id="author_date"><div id="art_date">Posted: January 29, 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZLK_-XiEPdcT0bwA0_XL6geW_EQuRGkX4tqiCtcdKwc2MJtIkKha9ypNr60QfDHGuctj-TfAnBEComjLOQqv0p8LfLtsqo9-_LxhisXuvr-MArRPFI6LD4XGe85EXmiTzdCz7tg/s1600-h/bilde.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432377517263205922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZLK_-XiEPdcT0bwA0_XL6geW_EQuRGkX4tqiCtcdKwc2MJtIkKha9ypNr60QfDHGuctj-TfAnBEComjLOQqv0p8LfLtsqo9-_LxhisXuvr-MArRPFI6LD4XGe85EXmiTzdCz7tg/s400/bilde.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 386px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7NRURZqYe8UW0XHI29m9m7NBhGoHDaNCbcRlHQy4zAZPW80JXHsj06YoFoAwQzE4x6r23fT8tORsCH2ioK3JYwziQv4RQAv8bOO-lsN53egV47C1Cn-Y-GQBzbnUPu3goIp0vg/s1600-h/bilde-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432377511161808866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb7NRURZqYe8UW0XHI29m9m7NBhGoHDaNCbcRlHQy4zAZPW80JXHsj06YoFoAwQzE4x6r23fT8tORsCH2ioK3JYwziQv4RQAv8bOO-lsN53egV47C1Cn-Y-GQBzbnUPu3goIp0vg/s400/bilde-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 272px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>Visitors to local galleries and museums in the last decade are probably more familiar with Brian Presnell's work as a preparator of exhibits than as an artist.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>Presnell, who owns Midwest Aesthetic and Design, has been fabricating, designing and installing exhibits since his first gig as an exhibit tech at the Indianapolis Museum in of Art in 1997.<span class="aa"></span></p>But a sampling of his approach to art-making can be seen through early February in "The Collaborative Show" inside the Marsh Galley at Herron School of Art and Design, where Presnell graduated in 1996.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>The exhibit is a joint venture of reworked, mass-produced paintings humorously augmented over four years by Presnell and his painter friends: Darren Strecker, Sacred, Cents, Alex Peace, Devon Ashley and Joel Pinkerton.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"John Mallon gave them to me a long time ago," Presnell, 38, said of the Editions Limited Gallery owner and friend who gave him the stock oils of exotic animals, woodsy landscapes, and other provincial scenes produced in the early 1980s.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"They're bad. I was fortunate the paintings had a lot of different looks -- celebrity paintings (think Elvis), marine scenes, many different genres that we could play with and add things to."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>For instance, a serene image of a barn is disrupted, juxtaposed by graffiti tagging. Now, the works are funny in a way that compliments or validates the original, rather than insult them.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"It was an opportunity for us to get together, laugh it up and paint," said Presnell. "I've done this sort of work with a lot of folks and different mediums, but this show is predominantly the paintings."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>It only marginally represents his repertoire of work as a performance, mixed-media and visual artist.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Some pieces from this body of work were in his successful solo show, "I am Brian Presnell," at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in 2006.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"It's really a fine-art show," said Presnell about the current exhibit. "I'm not the biggest fan of conceptual art; a lot of it is so heady that it doesn't make sense to the general public. There's a little conceptual nature to the work, yet it's obvious.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"I think it's important for people to go to shows, understand what they're looking at and not feel alienated. I want my work to be easily legible. That was a goal, and I think we achieved it."<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>Adds Presnell: "I'm trying to have fun. I'm not looking at it as my strongest or most important work. This is something I get together with my friends and do, and we knocked it out."<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: white;">Brian Presnell, Herron School or Art and Design, Midwest Aesthetic and Design, Marsh Gallery, Editions Limited Gallery, John Mallon, iMOCA, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-78084238858996275962010-01-22T06:14:00.003-08:002022-05-26T11:10:32.102-07:00Chelsea van der Meer's silk-scarves come from need to make art<p> </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdKTSD8u5SYUP_xCJlPmgkFiD2MR1de6Z3XCDY9HiR34HzcWZiBrsdWOcd7zHUhb2L22Dj9r5HnpqiSMNXarHXPhOxobCh-eDAlA6bZUK-vhX1TsDCl1oxWZOf9l_kn_OT_aYcg/s1600-h/bilde-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432378994707173538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdKTSD8u5SYUP_xCJlPmgkFiD2MR1de6Z3XCDY9HiR34HzcWZiBrsdWOcd7zHUhb2L22Dj9r5HnpqiSMNXarHXPhOxobCh-eDAlA6bZUK-vhX1TsDCl1oxWZOf9l_kn_OT_aYcg/s400/bilde-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_S9iUgNdYifQUa8ZN1m42fwK0sibDqfLfl_KTs8cOCRp8c0GALdV5NAhbUF5Y1w0x987fcVkgL6__pzGUlcUAgQqZDFvfilSPfF0VRExmMISplEWlYDMmKdL4yEEQG52-dQ9Pw/s1600-h/bilde-3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432378686497440914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_S9iUgNdYifQUa8ZN1m42fwK0sibDqfLfl_KTs8cOCRp8c0GALdV5NAhbUF5Y1w0x987fcVkgL6__pzGUlcUAgQqZDFvfilSPfF0VRExmMISplEWlYDMmKdL4yEEQG52-dQ9Pw/s400/bilde-3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 356px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><div class="t10"><h1>Chelsea van der Meer's silk-scarves come from need to make art</h1></div><div id="author_date"><div id="art_author">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</div><div id="art_date">Posted: January 22, 2010</div></div>Chelsea van der Meer has a home studio painted bright pink that's the hub for her silk-scarf business, which was born from her inherent, nonstop need to make art.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>"My whole life I've just needed to be making something all the time, whatever it was with whatever I had," said the 23-year-old artist.<span class="aa"></span></p>Originally from Williamsport, Pa., van der Meer majored in graphic design at Pennsylvania College of Technology. After moving to Indianapolis five years ago, she earned a degree at Ivy Tech Community College, where she thrived in traditional fine-arts courses.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>Since then, van der Meer's works have been exhibited at Wug Laku's Studio and Garage on Indianapolis' Eastside and in the Stutz Building at the now-defunct Pivot Gallery. A notable design project of hers is the 2007 CD and Web site art for the band blueprintmusic. She also interned with the design firm Lodge Design.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Van der Meer exhibits through Midwest Emerging Artists, and she created the artwork for the 2009 Broad Ripple Music Fest sampler CD.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>But it was a fabric-arts class with Ivy Tech's visual communications department chairwoman Stephanie Lewis Robertson years ago that inspired van der Meer's current path.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"She (Roberts) was amazing," said van der Meer. "She motivated me and taught me the basics with dying silk."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"I was really thinking about why I took to it," she said. "There's just something about the quality of silk that's like water."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Using mostly charmeuse and chiffons, van der Meer applies many dying techniques to her one-of-a-kind scarves that vary in size from 25-by-25-inch squares to 30-by-90-inch wraps.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"The results are very organic and subconscious. Art I've made in the past is very conscious -- I've decided everything. When I'm doing a painting or something, I decide how everything is going to be. But, with this, it's organic," said van der Meer. "You really never know what a dye is going to do when it meets another dye. It's a surprise when the wax comes off sometimes."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>She said those surprises are luscious colors and fluid patterns that complement the fabric and look great. Her techniques include stamping, masking off colors, wax batik and multiple layers of color and painting swaths of color in with a brush.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>This winter, a cotton scarf series she produced sold out, but more will be available through her Etsy shop soon at www.Etsy.com/shop/chelseaofthesea.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>She also produces how-to videos and charming thank-yous for customers across the country while packaging up their orders. "I want people to feel a connection from the time it's made to when they have it, that there's a spirit and energy in it."<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>Of her videos, she says, "I want to be a very transparent artist. If someone wants to know something, I will share. I wouldn't have any problem with more creators in the world. There is just really nothing like the feeling you have when you are creating."<div><br /></div><div><span style="color: white;">Chelsea van der Meer, Artist, Ivy Tech Community College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Broad Ripple Music Fest, Stephanie Robertson, Stutz, fabric art, Indianapolis, Indiana</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-6472196721734728922009-12-29T06:15:00.003-08:002022-05-26T11:12:18.139-07:00Artistic process is the story behind exhibit of 12 paintings<p> </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGLaRBc57wyWHxihb1G_sRTLl7xd0bKU3QPc0mMq1OiDepV4xPPVyIvJ7CfeMeewHkDjWQksjXifwzMQP6a-JzDrZb-upfo2BNL0Wph7YdWsHhjXyFloYwJQdrEJTKFdJZylsdg/s1600-h/bilde-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420470379494969762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGLaRBc57wyWHxihb1G_sRTLl7xd0bKU3QPc0mMq1OiDepV4xPPVyIvJ7CfeMeewHkDjWQksjXifwzMQP6a-JzDrZb-upfo2BNL0Wph7YdWsHhjXyFloYwJQdrEJTKFdJZylsdg/s400/bilde-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 222px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><div id="author_date"><div id="art_author"><a href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009912250361">Artistic process is the story behind exhibit of 12 paintings</a> </div><div id="art_author">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</div><div id="art_date">Posted: December 25, 2009</div><div id="art_date"><br /></div></div>"Small Paintings," <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009912250361#" itxtdid="15209829" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">William <nobr id="itxt_nobr_0_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;">Burton<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline ! important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>Lawson's exhibition at the Indianapolis Art Center, reveals all of the artist's artistic quirks.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>The 12 little oil paintings in this show are all different. They aren't part of a body of work, but rather glimpses of Lawson's influences, his direction and what makes him tick as a painter.</p><div class="t7 r15 b10 rightrail" id="ad_flex2"><div id="adcontainer___gelement_adbanner_0"><div id="__gelement_3"><script id="__gelement_4" src="http://gannett.gcion.com/addyn/3.0/5111.1/896174/0/0/ADTECH;alias=in-indianapolis.indystar.com/entertainment/arts/article.htm_ArticleFlex_1;cookie=info;loc=100;target=_blank;grp=38357;misc=1262051217374;noperf=1;key=Artistic+process+is+story+behind+exhibit+12+paintings;kvAID=2009912250361;kvtitle=Artistic-process-is-the-story-behind-exhibit-of-12-paintings"></script></div></div>His process, not subjects, lends the cohesion to the pieces that vary from plein-air vantages of the Oregon coast to a straight-on view of the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009912250361#" itxtdid="15701022" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">Fountain</a> Diner.<span class="aa"></span></div><p><span class="pp"></span>An Indianapolis native and professional painter for more than a decade, Lawson lists Hoosier Group artists T.C. Steele and William Forsyth, as well as regionalist artists of the Depression era William Kaeser and Cecil Head, as inspirations. But he doesn't imitate.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"There aren't too many artists my age who look up to these guys, but I have always felt a strong connection with their paintings. I chose to go against the grain and honor tradition," said Lawson, 35, who describes his work as "representational with both contemporary and traditional values."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Add his Precisionist tendencies, and the result is comfortable abstractions of what would otherwise be mundane.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Urban landscape scenes of buildings, homes and alleyways have distinguished Lawson from other local artists, particularly those in his generation. Half of the show features these works, which best represent his sensibilities and abilities.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Compositions of nondescript Downtown locales are tightly cropped like segmented studies where rooftops become flat color fields of unnatural hues and get bent in skewed angles.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>In a painting titled "Rooftops," his mental method, the way he intellectualizes and dissects space, is fully realized. The works are simple and unemotional, and the everyday subjects seem irrelevant to the task at hand: painting. His gestures are smooth, steady and even; nothing feels forced.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"Carnival" is another such painting -- a garage is central to the fragmented scene, with a bit of a Ferris wheel tucked into the background and a car in the foreground.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"These paintings have a more contemporary feel," he said. "People can identify with the work, and I like to think that it creates a balance between individual expectations and conceptual thinking."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>The visually easy balance he strikes with form and his stark palettes, which vary painting to painting, is effortless. It's upon closer inspection that you realize significant architectural details are missing, or that a gutter is disproportioned to create a comfortable, believable illusion. His visual twists are subtle and smart.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Two paintings of lone vintage typewriters also have found their way into this survey of Lawson's work.<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>"I have an ongoing series of typewriters that are getting pretty good response," Lawson said of this continuum. "I think it's important that people find something in your art that's fun and with which they can easily identify."<div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448939812125628834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXnaRprNL91gshtn6QddvYQg1s7Enwul5XOBfPRsPCGhkJcmS-sCyb-u0UFarVk1HkEyuiNQiZWc1PKch8Smyjijue1UACRsguDO1EEboHWf__-CtSvToI5DrYorWC11XPALwMFg/s400/lawson.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 262px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: white;">William Lawson, painter, Indianapolis Art Center, T.C. Steele, William Forsyth, William Kaeser, Cecil Her, Urban Landscapes, William Burton Lawson, artist, Indiana</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-4013113133810548592009-11-27T06:16:00.001-08:002022-05-25T06:17:10.804-07:00'Blood, sweat and tears' that went into exhibit re-energize painter<p> </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPamcHlpqAeJkXrhba7jjNJKbZPhbEi8cGm8G0x94T0vGx8BYLWFFz2PmwvBNoaWzrAehvNsRq5o2gf5zVdy19DKP7XX3-w2FpDEqm0hVf8w9KpKMa8wTy4zBOa_DEFepzFJxFmw/s1600-h/knabe.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448938682573358162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPamcHlpqAeJkXrhba7jjNJKbZPhbEi8cGm8G0x94T0vGx8BYLWFFz2PmwvBNoaWzrAehvNsRq5o2gf5zVdy19DKP7XX3-w2FpDEqm0hVf8w9KpKMa8wTy4zBOa_DEFepzFJxFmw/s400/knabe.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 281px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFSsOi9GkLrC5COTi5a0iAO85B7HguTK0PZfywYnGNvHGh_r7BRbm2MsHNWQqWm076QL0Ex6rZ1KUwybI1otyxERqUNQRUv29u5UEDd_uiyQmHxAwkqsHIiPw59tT88Pf3trzDA/s1600/bilde.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410051925667616002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFSsOi9GkLrC5COTi5a0iAO85B7HguTK0PZfywYnGNvHGh_r7BRbm2MsHNWQqWm076QL0Ex6rZ1KUwybI1otyxERqUNQRUv29u5UEDd_uiyQmHxAwkqsHIiPw59tT88Pf3trzDA/s400/bilde.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><div class="t10"><h1>'Blood, sweat and tears' that went into exhibit re-energize painter</h1></div><div id="author_date"><div id="art_author">By Mary Lee Pappas / Star correspondent</div><div id="art_date">Posted: November 27, 2009 Indianapolis Star</div><div id="art_date"><br /></div></div>Walter Knabe, known for his celebrity-favored wall coverings and fabrics, gets back to his painting roots in "New Paintings: A Shift in the Paradigm," an exhibit at the Evan Lurie Fine Art Gallery in Carmel.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>"I think it's the bravest thing I've done," Knabe says of the 22 works of art he created over the past year, which helped to restore his painting mojo. "I feel like I've been blocked for quite a number of years with the painting."</p><div class="t7 r15 b10 rightrail" id="ad_flex2"><div id="adcontainer___gelement_adbanner_0"><div id="__gelement_3"><script id="__gelement_4" src="http://gannett.gcion.com/addyn/3.0/5111.1/896174/0/0//ADTECH;alias=in-indianapolis.indystar.com/entertainment/arts/article.htm_ArticleFlex_1;cookie=info;loc=100;target=_blank;grp=43667;misc=1259625311953;noperf=1"></script></div></div>Retaining his soothing palette (Knabe makes his own paints), he obstructs his iconic and refined imagery of queens, Buddhas and floras with jarring swaths of abrasively applied paints. Irreverently dynamic, it's somewhat <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009911270314#" itxtdid="14765812" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">risky</a> for a man who has made a comfortable name for himself in the fine-art world.<span class="aa"></span></div><p><span class="pp"></span>"Brown Muse," for example, features a young royal flanked in his Fairfield wall treatment juxtaposed with a small square of idiosyncratic flowers that are at once abstract and pretty. The dichotomy is rampant in this cohesive and exceptional grouping.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"It was out of my comfort zone. Some of it was blood, <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009911270314#" itxtdid="14460947" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.075em; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1px;" target="_blank">sweat</a> and tears, it really was. Now I feel like I'm on this rocket ship that's taken off," he says of his creative resurrection. "It's going to continue. It's going to become a bigger part of what I do."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Originally from Cincinnati, Knabe and his wife of 32 years, Cynthia, moved to New York City in the early 1980s, where he silk-screened for <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009911270314#" itxtdid="14097666" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Andy <nobr id="itxt_nobr_5_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;">Warhol<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline ! important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>. For the past 15 years, he has called Indianapolis home.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Knabe, who started his career as a painter, says the work in his current exhibit embodies his art-making repertoire.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"You can see some fragment left from every period I've painted. Splatters from <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009911270314#" itxtdid="14138826" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-color: darkgreen; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_7_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;">college<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border: 0pt none; display: inline ! important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>, staining from when I lived in that loft, that's all culminated in these works. I feel like this work is picking up where I left off."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>The last piece Knabe completed for this show is the most striking, a self-portrait titled "Real Home."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>More than 12 layers of hand-painted and hand-screened imagery, riddled with personal symbology, produce a visually lyrical autobiography.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Chalk-like notes of New York and Indianapolis residences and studios linger to one side, while a bear, representing his daughter Anna, and a bunny, representing his daughter Gwen, mesh into the antiquated, fairy tale-like scene.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>"I thought of my wife" in making the piece, Knabe said. "I realized the only person that's going to get this, the only person on this Earth is her, because she traveled that same journey with me."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Although it's a personal painting, Knabe says, people have responded to "Real Home." "I'm surprised people have responded to it so strongly. It just seemed strange, wild to do myself."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>He approached this work with confidence, and had a blast doing it.<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>"Going, 'No you're not there yet, man. You're not quitting, you've got to go in and ruin it again,' " he playfully said, referring to his multiple screen maskings and layers of paint.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-1140473565862963612007-03-25T14:09:00.000-07:002007-03-27T18:26:26.134-07:00A First Person on Art Critiques - Does Indianapolis Really Want Arts Criticism?<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/904/1858/1600/visualarts-big.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/904/1858/320/visualarts-big.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />By Mary Lee Pappas<br />NUVO art critic<br />spring 2005<br /><br />Should an art critic write about artists whose work they collect? Should an art critic fraternize with artists they write about? Should they accept gifts from artists they’ve written about, be an exhibition consultant, sit on boards of visual arts organizations, or exhibit their own artworks? <br /><br />According to “The Visual Art Critic: A Survey of Art Critics at General-Interest News Publications in America” by Columbia University’s Journalism Program in 2002, there was no consensus among the 169 art critics surveyed (myself the only Indianapolis representative) regarding blanket ethical conduct within the American art world. This perhaps resulting from the public’s equally as uneven expectations of what art criticism ought and ought not to be. <br /><br />An opinionated bunch to begin with, participating art critics had to have written at least twelve ”evaluative” pieces the previous year to qualify for the survey. Those are reviews that make judgments regarding quality, purport, and context based on the work, the artist, the venue, the curatorial competence, and sometimes funding. It’s gauging art instead of strictly spouting anthems of advocacy, subjective explanations, and taking strict emotions into account. <br /><br />Critics, predominantly employed as part-timers or freelance at both daily and alternative weekly papers, were actually found to be “intimately connected” to their local arts communities. Is this conflict of interest, or fundamental for the role? 24% of us had worked in museums, 18% in commercial galleries, while nearly half of us were artists – 70% of whom exhibit or have exhibited their works. 14% were employed in art-related industries. Four out of five newspaper critics and three out of four alternative weekly critics collect art. <br /><br />Though 90% of the critics were curiously Caucasian when multiculturalism in visual art is ever present, well preparedness for their work varied greatly. The majority of practicing art critics had on average 13 years of journalism/art writing experience. 20% of art critics had no formal training in art or art history, while only 26% of us actually had a B.A., M.A. or Ph.D. in art history. But, apparently it doesn’t really matter who’s writing about art anymore.<br /><br />Some artists should, “Park their paints,” and let go of ego, pride and fickleness local painter, art historian, and gallery owner Doris Vlasek Hails said to me once. But there has been an increasing trend for artists and arts organizations across the country to steer clear of uncompromising critics and seek-out positive press thereby creating their own undeserving derivative art stars. Some buy it.<br /><br />As our local visual arts community flourishes so too do the proliferating and, more often than not, only moderately talented artists who Indianapolis audiences so anxiously and sometimes bafflingly accept. Can anyone who can afford rent at a trendy studio be an artist? Are gallery owners and proprietors actually qualified to choose quality art to present to the public just because they can fund their venues? Who is drawing the line between hobby and excellence? Should critics simply relinquish themselves to this laissez-fare intellect regarding the fine art process and art history thereby giving artists and venues the praise they ultimately fancy? Where does criticism fit in and who really wants it anymore? <br /><br />Indianapolis appears to be succeeding at placing novelty (or propaganda at times) above discrimination. The survey makes an example of our city by stating, “Citizens of significant urban agglomerations, including Indianapolis and Las Vegas…do not have the benefit of hearing from an art critic who might qualify for inclusion in this survey,” from a daily paper. <br /><br />This perhaps in part because formal criticism doesn’t serve the city’s desires to make Indianapolis a cultural destination overnight. However, celebrating the mundane won’t make it happen either. <br /><br />Though art critics across the board thought they were writing for a “lukewarm audience that is not too well steeped in the arts,” nearly two-thirds unfortunately write strictly positive reviews, with “rendering a personal judgement” about the artwork being “the least important factor in reviewing art.” It’s a sorry commentary that’s ultimately destructive of the arts evolution (like Indianapolis’ visual art growth spurt), and the art itself. So are gallery openings where the art plays second fiddle to the party. <br /><br />Are arts writers accepting expenses on press junkets? Are papers merely supposed to conform, jump on the promotional bandwagon, and be another form of advertising? <br /><br />Perhaps this is an indication that some “critics” should park their pens or thicken their skin. Perhaps local media should give more space and credence to the visual arts cultures of their communities, and artists should challenge themselves to create more than attractive formula paintings accompanied by contrived statements of purpose. <br /><br />Local eagerness to be exceptional in the visual arts has created levels of administrative and artistic inferiority that can be remedied by demanding quality and education from those that serve the arts community, critics alike. Inferring that arts audiences and potential arts audiences are un or under educated (as is the rhetoric from artists and arts orgs.) only serves to insult and estrange audiences…as does substandard art.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-74132226100579782222007-03-25T03:45:00.000-07:002022-05-25T08:28:27.422-07:00Everybody's an Art Critic by Michael Mills - February 6, 2003 New TimesEverybody's an Art Critic by Michael Mills Feb. 6, 2003 New Times
Everybody's an Art Critic
If they're college-educated, city-dwelling, 40-something white people, that is
By Michael Mills
Article Published Feb 6, 2003
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Last year, the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University contacted more than 200 art critics across the country, inviting them to participate in The Visual Art Critic: A Survey of Art Critics at General-Interest News Publications in America. About 75 percent of those responded. I was one of them.
It was a lengthy, exhaustive survey, available online or in hard copy, that quizzed critics on our backgrounds, our aesthetics, our opinions of specific artists and even theorists and other art critics. I was glad to participate in the study and looked forward to seeing the results.
I finally received my copy of the report recently, a slender paperback that resembles a modest exhibition catalog and features a reproduction of Honoré Daumier's The Critics (Visitors in a Painter's Studio) (c. 1862). The drawing shows a handful of middle-aged-to-elderly white men peering intently at an unidentifiable work of art. Given Daumier's dim view of critics, it's not surprising that the ones shown here are made to look vaguely buffoonish.
In some respects, not much has changed in the nearly century and a half since Daumier's critics gathered, at least not in America. Artists, curators, and gallery owners still approach us warily, as if we might bite. And according to the survey report, which is full of pie charts, graphs, boxes, and sidebars, while art criticism may no longer be predominantly male territory -- about half of the survey respondents were women -- it's still an overwhelmingly white domain. Ninety percent of the critics who took the survey are Caucasian, with just two Asian-Americans, one African-American, and one Hispanic responding. The report characterizes "the statistically average art critic" as "a highly educated, Caucasian city-dweller in his or her late 40s (the median age is 48)." Am I squirming yet?
We also tend to be well to the left of center, politically speaking. Just over half of the critics surveyed characterized themselves as "Liberal," with another 20 percent calling themselves "Progressive" and another 16 percent weighing in as "Moderate." In other words, don't get us started on government arts funding, censorship, and freedom of speech in the Dubya era.
Critics at newspapers classified by the survey as alternative weeklies, the category New Times Broward-Palm Beach falls into, are even further to the left. Fully 85 percent of us are liberals or progressives. So why don't I get more hate mail?
Maybe, one outspoken critic of the survey suggests, it's because America's art critics aren't critical enough. Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight, in a recent column on the report, complains, "By and large, journalistic art critics don't write art criticism." (Knight was invited to participate in the survey but was unable to because of Internet problems, although three of his colleagues responded.)
Knight marvels that a mere "27% of survey participants said they place a great deal of emphasis on forming and expressing... judgments. Twenty-seven percent!" Instead, he worries, we're too concerned with the other aspects of criticism ranked in the survey: accurately describing the art in question, providing historical background on the art and/or artist, creating a piece of writing with literary value, and theorizing about art. He begrudgingly acknowledges that these are "important but nonetheless routine concerns."
It seems especially irksome to Knight that an overwhelming majority of art critics agree with the statement "My job is to educate the public." Sixty-five percent strongly agree with that idea, and another 26 percent somewhat agree. Such an attitude, Knight frets, represents arrogance and elitism, condescension and superciliousness.
I don't recall my specific response, but I'm sure I sided, for once, with the majority. What surprises me is the vehemence of Knight's insistence that art criticism and art education are incompatible. Perhaps he forgets that the survey participants, as the study's subtitle indicates, write for general-interest news publications, not academic journals or art magazines. An inherent function of the "general-interest news publications" the survey focuses on is to share knowledge.
And I'm not just picking on Knight, by the way. Other critics have written about the survey, among them the New York Observer's cranky Hilton Kramer. He begins by calling the report "the silliest, most expensive, and least necessary 'research' folly ever devoted to the art scene in this country" and later refers to it as "a perfectly useless enterprise."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-19902493229734844622007-03-25T03:42:00.000-07:002022-05-25T08:28:40.364-07:00THE VISUAL ART CRITIC A Survey of Visual Arts Critics at General-Interest Publications in AmericaTHE VISUAL ARTS IN THE UNITED STATES have recently experienced a period of dynamic growth and professionalization, prompting the timely question: Do the news media provide sufficient exposure for art, artists and art institutions?
In early 2002, the National Arts Journalism Program set out to answer this question, inviting art critics at general-interest news publications around the country to complete an online questionnaire about their backgrounds, educational credentials, work habits, tastes and opinions on issues concerning art in America today. The survey's 169 critics—drawn from 96 daily newspapers, 34 alternative weeklies and 3 national newsmagazines—write for a combined audience of approximately 60 million readers. The findings suggest that although art critics have carved out important roles at many publications, criticism is struggling to keep up with the swift evolution of the art world.
The Visual Art Critic draws a portrait of a profession that is deeply committed to advancing the national discussion about art, yet hampered by job insecurity, vagueness of ethical standards and uncertainty of mission. Accompanied by insightful comments from artists, art-world professionals and the surveyed critics themselves, the findings of this report call attention to the need within newsrooms for continued investment and support for the enterprise of art criticism, especially in smaller communities, where some of the most noteworthy artistic developments are taking root.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-1137044812450918172006-01-11T23:36:00.000-08:002022-05-23T08:27:59.770-07:00Jack C. Hartigan, May 11,1970-January 2, 2006<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/904/1858/1600/image-051159-1720.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/904/1858/320/image-051159-1720.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a>
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It saddens me deeply to report that artist Jack Hartigan has passed away. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jack exhibited his large photographic works at the IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery last year (where I am the curator) and was scheduled to do so again this winter. At Jack's request, his show was tentatively rescheduled for this spring because of his struggle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma which sadly took his life this week. He was at peace. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jack had amazing vision with his photographic works that were politically poignant delving into the touchy subjects of contemporary civil rights issues while all the while being very elegant and intelligent. Few artists in this city have had the depth of intellect and the artistic aptitude to not just tackle sensitive topic matter, but to make it approachable and beautiful. </div><div><br /></div><div>It was an honor to work with someone so gracious and thorough, and also to host the fruition of his ideas. I'm thrilled IUPUI hosted his challenging work. The angel piece above was on the lighter side and features Erin Elizabeth Finn, a friend, as model. IUPUI had even discussed making Jack the "resident artist" at the Cultural Arts Gallery because of his abilities, his standards, his personality. And, Jack liked the idea too. We had discussed transforming his photos into installations and performance pieces...we discussed a lot of ideas. Jack was always very inspired (thus inspiring me), so ideas were always forthcoming. </div><div><br /></div><div> Jack's funeral will take place this Saturday, January 14, 1 p.m. at St. Matthews Catholic Church.
An exhibition of his work (venue to be determined) will be later this spring, with sales benefiting the Damien Center.
I wish I could have known him better, but I admired and respected the person I did know. Thank you Loral Tansy for being an angel.
May his memory be eternal.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-1131944366904484732005-09-07T20:57:00.000-07:002022-05-23T08:35:31.452-07:00Larry Endicott "Kuala Lumpur: A Photography Journey" - Stutz Gallery - Sept. 7, 2005 - 3 1/2 stars<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Larry Endicott "Kuala Lumpur: A Photography Journey" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">at the Stutz Gallery </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Sept. 7, 2005 - 3 1/2 stars</div><div><br /></div>What's most artful about this series is the paper treatment upon which these ink jet images are printed. The watercolor paper, glistening from its murky and yellowed polyurethane coating, adds to the sense of quietness all of these pieces by this Creative Renewal Fellow achieve. Fortunately, it smartly lends a bit of sympathy as well to some of the weaker, ordinary images. <div><br /></div><div>Unframed, copper nails adhere them to the crooked line of walls that compose the Stutz Gallery. Framed, one will set you back $1,200 - an optimistic asking price. There appear to be two aesthetics at play in this series that, as a whole, is a refreshingly refined break from Endicott's typical stylized and commercial leanings. Most pieces have straight-on vantages (a 50 mm feel) of Malaysian life shot with an inconsistent journalistic edge ("Performance Series #2" of an older couple singing on a sidewalk is amazing while "Greetings" is baffling), though the group of images lacks a story and incompletely documents his mission to contrast capitalism against poverty. This work does not feel like a series. </div><div><br /></div><div>Considering the times, this contrast could have been demonstrated anywhere in the U.S. where the divide between rich and poor is widening. How and why did this necessitate a trip to Malaysia? Had Endicott exhibited the images that encompass the towering buildings and contrasting cityscapes exclusively, like the stand-alone image "Homestead" (also called "Passenger"), it would have nailed his aim and made for a consistent, more successful show. Seen as a series (not broken down into like groups or some sequence) it's not as effective. Building images "Overseer" and "Radiant" possess a dreamlike stillness and emptiness that encompass a great amount of energy and life - they're great. Individually, most of the photos do have worth, proof that Endicott's drive to hone his skills has evolved and practice pays off. Seen as a whole, it's choppy, but could have been aided through a process of elimination. www.stutzartgallery.com. Through Sept. 13, 2005; (317) 833-7000. -Mary Lee Pappas</div><div><br /></div><div>NUVO Newsweekly, September 7 to 14, 2005</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-1145244192012816382005-09-07T20:20:00.000-07:002022-05-25T08:29:59.758-07:00Brose Partington and Phillip Lynam - MLP's two top 30 under 30 picks for NUVO published September 7, 2005Phillip Lynam, 29, painter
“I always drew and painted. It was something I got attention for doing,” Phillip Lynam says of his interest in visual arts. Overseeing the Star Studio at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, he has the opportunity to inspire a new generation.
After graduating from Ben Davis High School in 1994, he received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA in painting from the University of Maryland.
“I taught design, painting and drawing at three schools in the Washington, D.C., area and would drive from one to the other,” he says of his role as gypsy professor at such schools as Montgomery College and Maryland College of Art and Design. “Basically, what I wanted to do was a full-time tenured track professorship, but they’re not just handing those out apparently,” the soft spoken Lynam laughs.
He and his wife, Mirjam, moved back to Indianapolis (“Closer to family, farther from traffic”) in August of 2003. Their son, Ian, will turn 1 this month.
“I started working in the security department at the museum because I needed a job with benefits. It actually was a really good way to sort of learn how the place worked.”
He moved over to the exhibits department a year later and has been with the Star Studio since the museum reopened this year.
“There are several ways the IMA reaches out to families with the studio programs and family days programming, but Star Studio is a unique place within that context because it’s a spot where we’re exhibiting work, and not kids artwork,” he says of the educational gallery. “It’s contemporary, challenging artwork that, framing it with activities that are geared toward families and children, gives them a way to … begin discussing the art. If it works right it ought to have a role in how kids can experience the rest of the art in the museum as well.”
Lynam adds, “Anytime that I can have young people having a good experience with contemporary art and not feeling that it’s something they are alienated from, in the long run it’s good for everybody.”
Visit www.philliplynam.com to learn more about Phillips’ artwork and www.ima-art.org to learn more about Star Studio and family programming.
—Mary Lee Pappas
Brose Partington, 25, sculptor/furniture maker
“We work with the curators and the designers,” Brose Partington said of his role behind the scenes with the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s exhibition staff. “The designers have shows laid out the way they want them to be. They have it all measured up, how many paintings they want in a space. We install or build the walls to their specifications.”
Currently, they are installing 300 objects for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s International Arts and Crafts exhibition that opens Sept. 25, in a 10,000 square foot gallery space.
“We’re helping the couriers install work. We have the cases in, but still have to put fabric in them. Everything has to be sealed tight and pass conservation’s standards.”
A furniture maker and sculptor, Partington has a degree in sculpture from Herron. “I started Herron not knowing what I wanted to do and then I took a sculpture class and fell in love with it because the professors were great,” he said.
“I spent a lot of time outside as a child and playing around ponds. I loved mowing the lawn and putting designs in it with the tractor, walking along the levy and building forts with my brothers and sisters. It was great to hide, be alone and gather your thoughts with no one being able to find you the rest of the day,” he said of why nature was a major influence in his kinetic metal and wood sculptural work. “Just being outside and watching things move. I like to make sculptures that are changing and not too repetitive.
“And my dad was a clock maker. He taught me a little about mechanics,” he added about his father, artist Michael Partington. His stepmother is ceramicist Soyong Kang.
Getting his ideas to fruition is a part of the process. “There are different motions I want to do every time I want to do a new sculpture, and I’ll read a little bit about it. You have to feed your head and make things up to make it work.
“I’m trying to lead my work into more sculptural furniture and I’m about to start a project which is a kinetic piece of furniture, so it’s definitely moving toward the sculptural side. I’ve always loved wood. It influences me a lot. Just finding and looking at a piece of wood gives me ideas.” www.brosepartington.com.
—MLPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18880449.post-14772177906441011142005-08-31T15:59:00.000-07:002006-12-02T16:26:34.280-08:00Anna Lee Chalos-McAleese: "Suspended Motion in Glass" - Indianapolis Art Center - August 31, 2005 - 5 stars"Petra de ora" sandstone from the St. Meinard quarry, wood and glass are combined to create sensuous, defined, sculptural forms that feed off of instinct. Clear blown glass balls, central to all the pieces, spur an inborn attraction with their water-like shine from catching the light. They're also the perfect size to fit comfortably into a hand like an ancient pestle or tool, which only stimulates an innate tactile yearning. Further feeding on primordial senses is the placement of these vulnerable and slightly oblong looking balls between squarely cut stone as in "Bon Ami." Looking like a large raindrop or bubble, the glass defies its seeming flimsiness to hold the unlikely weight of the perfect stone. The implausibility is not an outright or harsh illusion, but rather a subconscious subtlety. The contrast of time trapped in the striation of the stone's gritty texture, with the free sense of movement and weightlessness exerted from the glass, is present though the two meld into a comfortably soft aesthetic. Eight children filtering through the gallery, captivated, exclaimed "wows" as their testament to this work's success. It tinkers with the laws of attraction. Chalos-McAleese, an art teacher of 20 years, received a Arts council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellowship that enabled her to build this exceptional body of work. Through September 6, 2005; 317-255-2464. - Mary Lee PappasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0