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2004-08-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=1 Dan Ferro Dan Ferro received his B.A. from the University of California in San Diego where he studied photography, sculpture, and music. He studied commercial photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and moved to Iowa in 1989. With over 25 years experience as a photographer and independent software creative director and producer, the use of technology has become a central element in the exploration and development of his vision. Dan Ferro's website http://www.ferro7.com/fineart pink: from the "cooked" series 13" x 19" 2003 About the artwork: The twelve images in the "cooked" series are direct scans of cooking sheets and baking pans using a flatbed scanner. This work is an exploration of the transitional and disregarded; the unnoticed and commonplace. The images do not replicate what the human eye can see. They are abstract photographic images that explore visual possibilities using light and lens. artimages/08232004.jpg 225 338
2004-08-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=2 Mel Andringa Mel Andringa received his MA (1971) and MFA (1978) from the University of Iowa with an emphasis in Multimedia/Intermedia. In 1975, he founded The Drawing Legion, a performance art company that toured original productions in over 50 U.S. cities and the Netherlands. In 1990, Mel Andringa and F. John Herbert founded Legion Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization presenting contemporary art at CSPS, a 115-year old Czech meeting hall, in Cedar Rapids. Mel Andringa and Legion Arts webpage http://www.legionarts.org Jury Duty Installation and performance 2004 On his work, Andringa states, "I produce original performances that blend material from the lives of historical artists with my own experiences. These performances feature 'living pictures' and 'performed painting activity', and explore artistic process." artimages/08242004b.jpg 350 263
2004-08-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=3 Chris Martin Chris Martin received a BFA in Art and Design from Iowa State University and completed an MFA in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. He has run Chris Martin Furniture, where he designs and fabricates studio art furniture, since 1995, and he is also currently an Assistant Professor at the Iowa State University College of Design. Chris Martin's website http://www.chrismartinfurniture.com 1400R24 Club Chair Steel & Inner Tube Rubber 31"x 37"x 31" 2001 Chris cites Japanese aesthetics, the natural world and fantasy as influences on his work but states, "I have come to realize, however, that there is a deeper, underlying drive influencing my designs. The environment in which I grew up continues to inspire me. As a child I lived in Keokuk, Iowa, a heavily industrialized river town with huge smoke- belching factories, railroad tracks meandering through it, and a lock and dam that still amaze me. I am intrigued by the resiliency of nature and how she manages in some way, to take back what we try to claim from her...This is what drives my work: the manmade in unity with or in contrast to the natural." artimages/08252004.jpg 350 383
2004-08-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=4 Malinda Theisman Malinda Theisman received her BFA from Arizona State University in 1999. She earned her MA in 2004 and is currently working on her MFA in Painting and Intermedia at the University of Iowa, where she is a teaching assistant in the Intermedia Area. Incident Glass, Wood Furniture variable dimensions 2003 About her current body of work, Malinda writes, "Since my work is seated in a sense of curiosity concerning the nature of my perception, I often reference objects found in my immediate surroundings. These objects serve as reflections of my consciousness, as my perception of them changes in relationship to my condition. The conventions of illusionistic representation have proved insufficient in my attempt to create an inclusive image of an object through time, subjectivity, conditionality, and change. Therefore, I have explored diagrammatic methods of representation, including traced outlines and flat, map-like compositions as I look to supply a more full description of an object." artimages/08262004.jpg 225 343
2004-08-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=5 Peter Feldstein Peter Feldstein received M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in art from The University of lowa, where he currently teaches courses in photography. His work is represented by Olson-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines and Rico-Maresco Gallery in New York City. Feldstein received an individual artistÕs grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Iowa Arts Council Grants, and two Polaroid Collection grants. He was artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College. 1165 inkjet prints edition of 21 prints 10" 23" and 43" square About the artwork: Peter Feldstein produced these prints using a process called cliche verre, a method of drawing on a ground-coated transparent material such as glass or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper or scanning it and printing it digitally. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early part of the 19th century. Camille Corot was the best known of these. Feldstein has developed techniques for achieving a variety of lines, tones, textures and colors by experimenting with paint and inks and a wide assortment of tools for etching, scratching, rubbing and daubing. In this series, the original images are also manipulated digitally. artimages/08272004.jpg 350 350
2004-08-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=6 Jeff Easley Jeff Easley has been a professional woodworker since 1979. He spent five years working at the Amana Furniture shop building rocking chairs, dressers, china cupboards, hutches, and other furniture. He currently designs and builds custom commissions and produces speculation art furniture and wall sculptures. He has major public sculptures at the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls), which commissioned ten wall sculptures for its Commons Building, and Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, which received three of Jeff Easley's wall sculptures as a gift through the Iowa Sister State Program. Jeff Easley's website http://www.jeffeasley.net/ Cabinet with straight legs various woods 36"x70"x16" About the artwork: Woodworking is physically demanding and potentially dangerous, but Easley contends that "Wood is like frozen music. [It] has the ability to foster inner peace. It has a calming effect on people because it is so beautiful." Easley uses both machines to mill the wood and traditional joinery and finish techniques to fabricate his pieces. He chooses non-endangered woods and selects pieces for their natural colors and grain qualities. The woods are from different parts of the world and provide local economies with an alternative to slash and burn forest (mis)management. Some of the woods are plantation grown trees that shade coffee plant artimages/08282004.jpg 350 231
2004-08-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=7 Will Hildebrandt Will Hildebrandt received his BA in Art and Art Education in 1975 from Wartburg College, and earned his MA in Drawing from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979. He has exhibited extensively in Iowa, the Midwest, and the East Coast. He lives and works in Le Grand, Iowa. Palace Baths Pastel 2001 30" x 40" About the artwork: Palace Baths was produced based on sketches and photos made on a trip to Spain in 2000. Will Hildebrandt uses a variety of drawing media: colored pencils, pastels, pen and ink, and watercolor, as well as mixed media collage and assemblage techniques. He states that his images are representational and have elements of mystery, symbolism, and the human condition, and he seeks to represent parts of the world that are often overlooked by most people. artimages/08292004.jpg 350 233
2004-08-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=8 J.R. Cambell J.R. holds a B.S. in Environmental Design and Master of Fine Arts degree in Textile Art and Costume Design from the University of California at Davis. He conducts his research/creative activity in digital capture, image development and surface application to textile art and design as an associate professor in Textiles and Clothing at Iowa State University. He explores the visual, cultural and technological aspects of digital textile printing as he creates connections between two-dimensional print design and three-dimensional forms. He regularly shows artwork in national and international juried exhibitions. J.R. Cambell's website http://homepage.mac.com/jrcamp/portfolio/JRPortfolio.html Antonplant Kimono Digitally printed polyester georgette kimono 48" x 54" 2000 J.R. Campbell states: "As a human culture, we are each in contact with textiles at almost every moment of our lives. Textile concepts have become inherent in our way of thinking and patterns of speech (ie., the Òstring theory of the universeÓ, Òhanging by a threadÓ, the Òmoral fabricÓ of the country, etc). Textiles are an excellent medium for the expression of identity and transmission of new ideas. We can attach imagery to the surface of cloth and instantly give the image new meaning. We begin to associate with the image, perhaps wear it, walk through it as it is draped in a passageway. We might see it as having a spiritual significance, a functional purpose or an expressive or symbolic ability." artimages/08302004.jpg 350 319
2004-08-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=9 Dan Attoe Dan Attoe was born in 1975 in Bremerton, Washington. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1998, and just finished his MFA in Painting at the University of Iowa. He has shown extensively in Iowa, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and internationally in Paris, Naples and Tokyo. Dan makes a small painting every week day and "puts something" on a larger one. In addition to his paintings, Dan also makes tents. Indiscriminate Love oil on board 7" x 7" 2003 About his images, Dan says, "My paintings are short stories and games. The characters and spaces they inhabit are varyingly real and imaginary. They all come from a wide range of research in popular culture, travel, rural life and people I know or have made up. Humor, mystery and specificity are some of my favorite things to play with...Having grown up in small towns and ranger stations in the west and Midwest with two brothers, much of my formative experience is in dealing with specifically male politics. Subsequently, much of the issues dealt with in my work are rooted in masculinity or issues of the middle class. These things range from confronting femininity, power struggling, and working, to looking for a sense of purpose." artimages/08312004.jpg 350 353
2004-09-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=10 Peter Thompson After receiving an MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1986, Peter Thompson spent six years teaching at Auburn University in Montgomery, AL. He returned to Iowa in 1993 to join the faculty of Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, where he teaches painting and digital art. Peter Thompson has exhibited his work all over the US and in Canada. Peter Thompson's website http://www.public.coe.edu/~pthompso/ Table at Connally's oil on canvas 26"x32" 2003 About the work, Thompson writes: I have been painting the human figure in context for over a decade. Bar interiors comprise one of the contexts for the figure that has recurred throughout that time. The setting seems an ideal one for capturing a slice of human experience. It is a setting in which an ordinary moment might be made remarkable. Not through explicit narrative or human interaction, but through perception and spatial organization. The contrasts of light and shadow can be used to define space and to obscure it. There is a tendency toward disorientation in a bar (for more than one reason) and I have tried to capture that shifting reality in my wor artimages/09012004.jpg 350 302
2004-09-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=11 Suzanne B. Aunan An Iowan since 1972, Suzanne B. Aunan is a self-taught artist who has enjoyed painting as far back as she can remember. Born in New York City, she grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Suzanne attended the University of Iowa, majoring in Medical Technology and later graduated from the Physician Assistant Program.Ê She worked as a P.A. at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and was also a full-time mother of four.Ê Now with all her children in school, she is enjoying a career as an artist. Suzanne paints detailed compositions using acrylic, gouache and watercolors, sometimes adding pencil or ink pen.ÊHer work has been purchased by collectors world-wide. Suzanne B. Aunan's website http://www.sbaunan.com/ Old Capitol acrylic, pencil, and ink on board 34" x 41" 2004 About the artwork, Suzanne writes: "The Old Capitol is the center of life and activity at the University of Iowa.Ê Built in 1840, it acted as the State of Iowa capital until Iowa's government was moved to Des Moines in 1857, and the Old Capitol was given to the University of Iowa.Ê Built of Devonian limestone quarried from the Iowa River in North Liberty, along with native Iowa oak, the Old Capitol is also a beautiful monument." In this painting, Suzanne has shown the annual Easter egg hunt, dogs and their friends playing Frisbee, a proud family taking a photograph with their new Iowa graduate, picnickers, students heading to class, joggers, tuba players representing the annual December outdoor tuba concert, and the artist herself with her husband, Tom, sitting on the steps on their first date. artimages/09022004.jpg 350 328
2004-09-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=12 Matthew Kluber Matthew Kluber received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1991. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College. Matthew Kluber has shown throughout the United States, and his work is held in public collections in Texas, Oregon, Illinois, and Iowa. Firewire Picture: Deeper Into Movies Alkyd on Aluminum with Digital Projection 44" x 96" 2003 About his work, Matt writes: My recent work attempts to find a new pictorial space in abstraction by creating a dialog between the Color-field and Op painting of 1960's & '70's with the new visual idiom inherent in digital technology. The traditional object of the painting is transformed physically (via color change) and conceptually by a digital projection playing across the surface. The resulting union is a kind of "hyper color-field." artimages/09032004.jpg 350 265
2004-09-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=13 Ina Loewenberg Ina Loewenberg has lived in Iowa City for more than 36 years. In addition to her most recent career as a photographer, she has been an internal auditor at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, a tax preparer for H & R Block, and a philosophy teacher at Coe College. from the From Farm to Subdivision series color photograph 10"x14" 1995 Ina began making photographs when she was 55 years old and states that she "was essentially self-taught but [received] significant help and guidance from more proficient friends." Since she began making work, Ina Loewenberg has shown regularly throughout the region. She specializes in three different subject areas: portraits, including self-portraits, still lifes, and documentation of construction projects, of which this photograph is an example. artimages/09042004.jpg 350 234
2004-09-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=14 David Dahlquist David Dahlquist received his BA degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MFA degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. David runs Dahlquist Clayworks, where he designs and fabricates tile, functional ceramics, sculptures, and large-scale architectural commissions. He is included in the Iowa Arts Council's Public Art Artists Roster. David Dahlquist's website http://www.rdgusa.com/what/dahlquist/dahlquist.html Arabidopsis Genomic Rug Porcelain tile 2003 About the artwork: This tile floor is installed in the lobby of the in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory Business Incubator on the Iowa State University Campus, a building dedicated to developing businesses oriented towards the plant sciences. The genomic sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana (wall cress or mouse-ear cress) provides the inspiration for this pattern. While it has little agronomic significance, the small flowering plant is a star in plant biology because of its suitablity for doing research in genetics and molecular biology. The floor links the themes of genetic research, crop farming, and the long-standing interrelationship between humans and plants. artimages/09052004.jpg 225 290
2004-09-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=15 Judith Eastburn Judith Eastburn received a Master of Sciences in Microbial Genetics in 1969 from the University of Iowa. She subsequently earned an MFA in Printmaking and Photography in 1982 from the same institution. She has taught photography in England, Iowa, and Missouri and has shown her work throughout the Midwest for the last twenty-seven years. She currently lives in Des Moines, where she teaches art and photography at Dowling High School and photography at Grandview College. Levens Hall, Cumbria gelatin silver print 10" x 10" 2000 Judith Eastburn writes, "I believe we are profoundly affected by the landscape of our childhood. It establishes our sense of space and how we fit into it, and we recognize as familiar those places encountered later in life which resemble it. I was born in Iowa, and grew up in the southeast corner near the Mississippi River in an area of limestone bluffs and wooded ravines. Visiting my grandparents meant drives to central Iowa through gently rising and falling open fields. These are the landscapes which serve as my point of reference when I photograph in other parts of the world. I think Iowa and its openness made me aware of the horizon and sensitive to smaller variations in the land's surface." artimages/09062004.jpg 350 347
2004-09-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=16 Bunny McBride Bunny McBride received his M.F.A. from Alfred University. He is head of the ceramics program at the University of Iowa, where he teaches beginning and graduate-level courses. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Archie Bray Foundation, and his work has been exhibited internationally. ash-glazed pitcher About the artwork (ash-glazed pitcher):
The earliest examples of ash glazes are from Shang Dynasty China (c. 1500 B.C.). As the name suggests, ash glazes are derived from wood or vegetable ashes. They were likely produced accidentally, the result of ash from the kiln fire being carried on a draft, settling onto the pots, and vitrifying in the intense heat. Three and a half millenia later, ash glazes are still used to add subtle and pleasing surfaces to decorative and functional ceramic pieces. artimages/bunny.jpg 225 350
2004-09-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=17 Sue Hettmansperger Sue Hettmansperger received her MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1972. Her work is shown internationally, and she has had solo exhibitions in South Dakota, Iowa, Chicago, and New York City. She is currently a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa, where she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for the past twenty-six years. Chimera series oil on linen 27" x 24" 2003 About the Chimera series, Sue writes: "In negotiating our lives on earth, human bodies and minds map their internal experiences and perceptions to the natural world. Operating under a set of assumptions that conform to human perception, we may often lack empathy for the dimension of our environment. The work reflects an ongoing interest in this arena: the complex relationship of humans to their environment, molecular organization, botany, and the physics of space." artimages/09082004.jpg 350 393
2004-09-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=18 Daniel Weiss Daniel Weiss was born in 1959 in Mason City, Iowa. He was nurtured by large, industrious families on both his mother's and father's sides. He and his nine siblings were schooled by Catholic P.B.V.M. sisters in his hometown. He currently enjoys a balance between his work as an art instructor and educator and as a studio artist exploring the construction of forms that have that have roots in both the folk traditions of his Belgian and Volga German heritage and the fine art and abstract traditions of modern American Art. Reader wood, paint, book, nails 27.5" x 14" x 1.53" 2003 About the artwork, Daniel Weiss writes that "the nature of these objects begins in an upbringing by parents who were children of European immigrants. It was their practical need to give new life to used paper, boards, and clothing. An aesthetics of redemption is about my tribe and the house I grew up in. Not having my parents' similar struggle to provide, my inheritance of this practice finds its reasoning in my seeking the beautiful...These current works belong to my neighborhood and its place in time as evidenced by the hardware store palettes of certain decades and the lumber cuts of other ones. It is good when a neighbor sees his old dining room boards in one of my pictures. I believe this to be the good story of a human art -- that it originates in and maintains a sense of environment -- that it is grounded by some sort of dialogue between people and place." artimages/09092004.jpg 225 423
2004-09-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=19 Tom Stancliffe Tom Stancliffe makes large-scale metal sculptures that integrate visually and thematically with their surroundings. Stancliffe considers the particular site where he is working, striving to create pieces that echo and complement the architecture, site plan, and landscape in which they are situated. Stancliffe often wins public art commissions and has major pieces in Iowa, Dallas, Texas, and Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He is currently a Professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Dikhotomia (work A and work B) welded bronze dimensions variable 1995 Dikhotomia is located at the Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University campus. Stone columns support two bronze sculptures that represent a dialogue between horticulture and agriculture, two of ISU's most important areas of research. Work A and Work B provide a dramatic gateway for visitors strolling through the garden. Dikhotomia is part of the ISU University Museums Art on Campus Collection. artimages/09102004.jpg 350 220
2004-09-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=20 Jay Chesterman Jay Chesterman holds a Bachelor of Science (1995) from Morningside College. He states that he mostly photographs when he is travelling because "It seems to be the only time I can slow down enough to observe the unique things in life." He mostly concentrates on culture; the pastimes and subsistence of people. He looks for subject matter in everyday occurrences and uses his camera to capture the found art that exists all around us. Chesterman says that "art exists everywhere; one only has to be aware." untitled color photograph artimages/09112004.jpg 350 234
2004-09-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=21 Doug Shelton Doug Shelton received his art training at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art. He is a long time Des Moines artist and an accomplished painter who has documented his unique imagination on canvas for many years. Described loosely as surrealistic, his paintings are filled with whimsical and mysterious symbols, settings and characters. Each work can suggest many intriguing story lines or anecdotes to the viewer, but all stem from the artist's experience and stream or consciousness...All of his works are exquisitely painted and he often crafts and ornaments unusual frames that serve as extensions of the piece. Doug Shelton's website http://tucsonartistgroup.com/Gallery/Doug_Shelton Unlimited Possibilities second floor of Parks Library, oil on linen 18' 3" x 22'9" 1996 Unlimited Possibilities celebrates Iowa State's future as a premier land-grant university. Based on the Library Murals designed by Grant Wood, both in process and intent, this mural was commissioned by University Museums and ISU External Affairs. It was Iowa State's contribution to Iowa's Sequicentennial celebration, and it celebrates Iowa State's past and future vision as the best land-grant institution into the next century. The [mllural's title] refers to the life of the student as well as the life of the University. In contrast and complementary to the Grant Wood designed murals in the Parks Library, which depict mature adults in society, [Shelton] focused on student learning activity. The mural is divided into two sections - on the left is an agricultural setting, and on the right is a classroom setting. This can be viewed as town and country, city and rural, nature and civilization... (excerpted from Art on Campus information sheets from the ISU Museums, available at http://www.museums.iastate.edu ) artimages/09122004.jpg 225 297
2004-09-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=22 Rachel Marie-Crane Williams Rachel Marie-Crane Williams received a B.F.A. from East Carolina University in Greenville in 1993. She attended Florida State University, where she earned her M.F.A. (1995) from with a concentration in painting and drawing and her Ph.D. in Art Education (2000). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art Education Department of the University of Iowa. Dr. Williams has worked extensively with incarcerated women, teaching art, theater, and writing courses in prisons in Florida, London, and Iowa. She is author and editor of Teaching the Arts in Prison (2003, Northeastern University Press).
Wisdom and Wild Hares aqueous media on paper 36" x 44" 2001-2002 About the artwork, Rachel Williams writes: Wisdom and Wild Hares was about turning 30 and coming to the realization that there are certain deep rooted flaws all of us face in cycles in our lives. The rabbit is a symbol I use in my work a great deal. When I was a child I had rabbits. One in particular had a gruesome overbite. His teeth did not meet each other so they never got ground down. They would grow and grow and even begin to curl. Each month I would literally have to clip his teeth. It made him sort of insane and me squeamish. For me, rabbits represent the frailty of the human psyche and our constant attempt as human being to maintain ourselves and our relationships with others in spite of guilt, jealousy, anger, frustration, love, and selfishness. We are always thumping, digging, watching nervously, and grazing. artimages/09132004.jpg 225 279
2004-09-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=23 Gail Chavenelle Gail Chavenelle's schooling and careers have been diverse. She has a BA in literature and a Master's Degree in computer education. She has been a teacher, curriculum designer, and has sold and administered computer systems. Now, she has found a unique voice in metal. Mentored by a generous blacksmith and critically supported by working artist friends, she is currently studying art history and showing her work on a regular basis throughout Iowa. Gail's work is featured online and in galleries nationwide. Gail Chavenelle's website http://www.chavenellestudio.com/ Con Brio One piece 20 gauge sheet metal, rusted 60" tall 2004 Beginning with childhood paper dolls, chains, pop-out books, and greeting cards, Gail Chavenelle has been intrigued by paper sculpture. She loved the forms, but wanted the works to be more permanent. Instead of a sheet of paper, Gail works with sheets of 20 gauge steel. Gail cuts one-piece sculptures from single, flat sheets, folding and bending them into 3-D forms. Her pieces bound, fly, or dance in the wind on the tensile strength properties of this material. In addition to public sculpture, Gail makes accessible, affordable art, sized for the ordinary sized spaces in which we live. artimages/09142004.jpg 225 300
2004-09-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=24 Alex Brown Born 1966. Lives and works in Des Moines, IA.
I make paintings from found photographs culled from a fairly wide cornucopia of sources; travel brochures, coffee table books, album covers, postcards, etc. Anything possessing an interesting palette and suitable subject are normally my parameters when choosing what to paint. I generally tend to stick with the more traditional subjects of landscape and portraiture painted in a contemporary or fractured manner. Castle oil on canvas 90" x 60" 2003 Most recently, I have been employing a second image in order to define the primary image. This secondary image serves as a sort of grid system itself, but refracts the image in an interesting and more often than not, interesting way. There frequently arises a third image, a sort of conversation between the synthesis of the two formative images. I find this condition of an image resting in the limbo between abstraction and representation ultimately the driving force behind my work. artimages/09152004.jpg 225 340
2004-09-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=25 Jim Shrosbree Jim Shrosbree earned an MFA from the University of Montana. He has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, theÊIdaho Commission on Arts and Humanities/NEA and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest) Visual Artist's Fellowship. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. His solo exhibitions include: I Space, Chicago; Revolution, Detroit and New York City; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis; William Traver Gallery, Seattle, and Ron Judish Fine Art, Denver. Jim Shrosbree has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center in the Fall of 2004 e9 (transx) chemistry glass, nylon, glue, paint, plastelene, wire 64"x2"x17" 2002 An excerpt from Jim Shrosbree's artist's statement: If something is perfect in the mind, then to bring it forth through the hand and the eye can extend that perfection into the reality of the visual world. The inside and the outside, however, do not truly exist as a duality and are not separate, but unified. It is out of this oneness that perfection arises. Perfection lies hidden between the artist and work and the work and the viewer. To invoke this value means giving up surrendering control over what one may be too comfortable with to reveal a deeper reality. Obviously, it is not realized exclusively through working. One comes to the process with what one is with a certain capacity for experience. Being curious about the world through creative work involves, essentially, an investigation into the nature of the Self, into consciousness and the structure of what one is made of: energy, pattern, intelligence and the connection with origin. Curiosity is a gift which is fulfilled through the ability to listen. Listening to the quietest messages focuses the attention at the moment a "thing" is manifested. artimages/09162004.jpg 350 263
2004-09-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=26 Michael Groesbeck Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with an emphasis in communications for Radio/Television and Photography. He has run his own photography studio, Portraits of Iowa, for the last eight years. He has also been a part of Very Special Arts of Iowa, an organization of disabled artists, for the over 15 years. The group curates shows that are displayed at the Iowa State Fair every year and are lent to businesses throughout Des Moines the remainder of the y Michael Groesbeck's website www.portraitsofiowa.com Web of Life digital photograph 800 x 600 pixels 2003 About his photographs, Michael says: When I look for subjects to photograph, I look into the beauty that radiates to all of us. I use to draw and sketch before my disability (Muscular Dystrophy) worsened. So I redirected my abilities into my photographic works of art. I look at pieces and try to shoot them in a way that captures the inner imagination we all have and the beauty that it emits. I look for details others may overlook and bring that out as well. I have shot 35 mm film for over 7 years and have since moved into the digital age within the last year. Within the pieces I have chosen are a basis of Nature and the beauty that it has to offer. artimages/09172004.jpg 350 263
2004-09-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=50 Gillian Brown and Inga Frick The viewers enter through a dark corridor into an entirely blackened space and find themselves surrounded by a watery void. Slowly a dark swimming figure becomes visible in the bottom corner of one wall. Two adjacent walls in the room have been covered with plexiglass, creating a darkly reflective surface. As the swimmer traverses the width of one plexiglass screen, she is mysteriously both reflected off the surface of the plexiglass onto the second screen and she is also mirrored into the depth of the second screen. The two screens create of third illusory screen which recedes into the background. A seeming trefoil structure joined at the center radiates out in three directions. Through the alchemy of reflection, a single swimmer has become three swimmers who start at the periphery of the screens and slowly make their way to the center. Here they meet in unexpected explosions of reflected light which disappear as the increasingly inchoate, yet symmetrical shapes merge into each other. As the swimmers converge on their shared inner edge, the remnants of their annihilation form an increasingly abstract Rorschach until their limbs are read as simply smaller and smaller emissions of light. This dramatic disappearance is followed by the relative silence of dark, moving water accompanied by a low, repetitive drone. each/other video installation 1998 Because of the multiple reflections, the whole environment, including the floor and back wall, shimmers with reflected waves, and the viewer is encompassed by the same watery substance as the swimmers. As the swimming triplets move slowly toward each other and toward the shared edge of their planes, they are accompanied by a spoken text from The Visible and The Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a low droning soundtrack underneath the text. The text operates as a sort of metaphysical poetry, a tumble of subliminal suggestions that can be picked up at any point, without significant loss of continuity ... a sea of floating meaning. Enigmatic movements within the text meld with the motions of swimming and sea to produce crosscurrents and undertows within the medium of comprehension. artimages/09182004.jpg 350 241
2004-09-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=51 Mary Kline-Misol A native of Des Moines, Mary Kline-Misol earned both her BFA and MFA from Drake University, where she studied under Jules Kirschenbaum. Kline-Misol now maintains her studio in Panora, where she has spent the last decade working on painting in series. Large-scale still-lifes of exotic objects, friends, relatives and people she's met travelling, flowers and elements of nature, and a series of real and fictional characters relating to Charles Dodgson's Alice Through the Looking Glass have all been themes explored in her work. Mary Kline-Misol's website http://www.angelfire.com/art/MKMisol/ The Lady and The Dragon acrylic on canvas 60" x 40" 2001 The Lady and the Dragon is from the series "Conjure: The Story Puppets." The Wayang Golek Pole Puppets have a strong tradition in Java and Indonesia. Traditionally they are used in plays which run from dusk to dawn, representing scenes from the Hindu Vedas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The characters depict episodes from the texts that teach a moralizing lesson about the battle of good and evil.This series of paintings include the pole puppets, juxtaposed with traditional Vanitas objects, such as extinguished candles, botanicals, and time pieces, that serve as reminders of the transitory nature of life. The Vanitas theme is one of the oldest approaches to still life painting. Elements of still life occur in Egyptian tomb paintings, and it is used today as a formal exercise and a vehicle for the painter to exercise skill in composition and lifelike rendering of detail and texture. artimages/09192004.jpg 225 340
2004-09-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=52 Marcia Joffe-Bouska Marcia Joffe-Bouska received her BA in Art and Art Education from Clark College (1973) and her MA from Northern Illinois University (1977). In addition to showing work throughout the Midwest, her art is represented in public and private collections throughout the region. Her glass mosaic, Missouri River Transit, part of the Icon Interpretive Sculpture Project for the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery Bicentennial, is located at Dodge Riverside Golf Club in Council Bluffs, IA. She has taught art workshops to people of all ages, many through the Iowa Arts Council's Artist in Schools and Communities program. She has lived and worked in Council Bluffs, Iowa since 1977. Auriferous mixed media 15.125" x 6.5" x 4.5" 2002 Marcia Joffe-Bouska writes: My sculpture developed from a series of artworks whose reference was the garden. Early pieces combined unearthed fragments with various elements of refinement. The resulting synthesis suggested a function both protective and primal, as the sculpture seemed to recall ritual pieces from another culture. My current work continues to explore this transcendent and symbolic aspect of art and reveals my interest in cultural icons. My combination of organic forms with natural and found objects, traditional and nontraditional art media, creates a tension between image and the associations suggested by the incongruous materials used. artimages/09202004.jpg 225 474
2004-09-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=53 Jill J. Jensen As a photographer and artist, Jill J. Jensen has displayed her color photographs in solo and group exhibits since the 1970s. Her work is found in galleries and private collections across the United States, including a display at the offices of the Iowa Department of Economic Development in Des Moines, Iowa. She has won top awards at the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum in Mason City, the Charles City Art Museum, and the Polk County Heritage Gallery in Des Moines, among others, and she was a member of The ArtistsÕ Gallery cooperative in West Des Moines, Iowa. Her photographs have been published in books and magazines, as greeting cards, and in other print and multimedia materials. Her work has also been shown at the Ambroz Art Center and CSPS in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jill J. Jensen's website http://www.jjjensen.com/ Buzzin' In 35mm Kodachrome 800 x 526 pixels 1997 Jill J. Jensen writes: "Buzzin' In" was captured early one late summer morning in the flower gardens at Noelridge Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I prefer to work in the light of early morning or late afternoon, the hour or so just before and after sunrise and sunset, when everything is golden, clear, and draped with interesting shadows. In the mornings, the dew may still be on the plants. Insects and animals may be slower to stir and, therefore, more susceptible to image capture. In the evenings, clouds and atmospheric phenomena evolve quickly as the sun changes position in the sky, which changes the quality of the light on whatever is the subject of the photograph. artimages/09212004.jpg 350 230
2004-09-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=54 Jane Robinette Born and raised in Des Moines, Jane Robinette has lived in Iowa most of her life. Since she was a young girl, she has written poetry and prose and combined her words with color or images. Her love for the written word took priority for many years. After earning degrees in social work and law, and holding jobs for several years in each area, she left her law job in April 1998 to begin the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project (www.lucidplanet.com/IWA) and to do more creative work of her own. Jane Robinette's paintings are shown at galleries in Des Moines and Ames, and her website has images and audio clips of her poetry. Jane Robinette's website http://www.janerobinette.com/ Imagine acrylic & ink on paper 13-3/4" x 13-3/4" (framed) 2004 Jane Robinette writes: My love for color, rhythm, and language led me to begin making "poem-paintings" small-scale, colorful, abstract paintings that incorporate my own handwritten original poetry. Acrylic paint quickly changes consistency when exposed to air, which helps create interesting shapes and textures when I scrape it across paper. Many of the poems contain a voice that is mysterious, heartfelt, thought-provoking, and inspiriting; a voice that I find is speaking to me as much as to the ultimate viewer/reader...Sometimes I wonder why my poems need color and texture and why my paintings need words and lines. Of course, this is not entirely true, but somehow they call for one another. My job is to create the space for their interplay. This acrylic scraped poem-painting invites the viewer/reader to explore the layers of paint and of life. artimages/09222004.jpg 350 342
2004-09-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=55 David Kamm David Kamm earned his MA (1986) and MFA (1988) in printmaking from the University of Iowa. He has shown his work extensively in the Midwest and abroad. Collections that hold examples of his work include the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction in Cuernavaca, the Vatican Collection of Modern Art, the Print Consortium of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and the Gallery Coordinator at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Pages from a Small World print collage 7.5" x 5.25" 2002 About his artwork, David writes, "I am trained as a printmaker and my work frequently reflects aesthetic concerns inherent in printmaking processes. Those include the concepts of image transfer, serial imagery, and multiple image manipulations that leave a visual record of the creative process." Pages from a Small World is an intimate, modestly scaled collage. The source materials for the piece are David's prints, cut into pieces and recombined to make a new artwork. artimages/09232004.jpg 225 323
2004-09-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=56 Anonymous Incarcerated Women The artists who made Women of Strength are all incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. In collaboration with Rachel Williams and Jane Parsons, they designed, sewed and painted a multi-panel mural incorporating the likenesses of Mother Hale, Marilyn Monroe, Mother Theresa, and Nilak Butler, among others. detail from Women of Strength mural fabric and paint dimensions variable 2002 Art can be a transformative activity for anyone, but it can be especially important for people who live incredibly circumscribed lives inside the walls of a prison. Arts programs give inmates the chance to develop their artistic skills and to feel productive during their period of incarceration. Prisoners who make art or write build self-esteem and self-knowledge and refine their ability to reflect their thoughts and emotions through images or the written word.
This project was funded by the Iowa Arts council and is permanently exhibited in Unit 9 at the ICIW. artimages/09242004.jpg 225 337
2004-09-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=57 Robbie Steinbach Since Robbie Steinbach attended graduate school at the University of Iowa in the mid-1980s, most of her work has examined women's lives. Robbie's images make the work and lives of women visible, highlighting the complexity of their lives and their ambiguous status in our society as their roles change, but many traditional expectations remain. She completed a series of portraits that culminated in the 1998 book Lifework: Portraits of Iowa Women Artists Robbie Steinbach's website http://www.robbiesteinbach.com/ Angel on the Pont Vecchio gelatin silver print 14" x 11" 1999 After transitional on a body of self-portraits, landscapes, and images of women done in Tuscany and Umbria, Robbie continues to make portraits of women in her new home of Taos, New Mexico. artimages/09252004.jpg 225 331
2004-09-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=58 Emily Martin Emily Martin has been making artists books since the late 70's, when she was in graduate school at the University of Iowa (MFA, 1979). Since then she has produced narrative paintings, sculpture and books. Most of her earlier books were one of a kind sculptural books, but she began producing limited edition books in the late 80's, using images from her paintings and drawings. In 1995, Martin began the Naughty Dog Press, producing books using text either alone or in combination with visual imagery. Emily Martin's website http://www.emilymartin.com/ Slices letterpress printing 8" diameter 2004 artimages/09262004.jpg 350 228
2004-09-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=59 Marilyn Annin Marilyn McMurry Annin was born in 1938, and has spent about equal thirds of her life in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. She painted for many years, but in the 1980s, switched to sculpture, mostly in the form of rigid garments. Marilyn Annin's website http://www.marilynannin.com/ Striving for Perfection sculpture 55" x 40" x 30" 1990 Annin began working in three dimensions in a casual way, experimenting with common materials found in the house or the junk yard. Her appreciation for these ordinary objects grew as she worked with them more. Her material experiments eventually led her to begin making rigid sculptured garments out of bottle caps, wire, pins, and cast-off fabric. Her garments act as metaphors for attitudes and customs in our culture and employ elements of portraiture, landscape, and satire. artimages/09272004.jpg 225 353
2004-09-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=60 Karen Chesterman Karen Chesterman earned her MFA from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her has been shown extensively throughout the Midwest, and her work is held in both private and institutional collections. She works full-time in her studio in Sioux City, Iowa and is represented by the Olson-Larsen Gallery in Des Moines. Karen Chesterman's website http://www.olsonlarsen.com/artists.cfm?artist_id=675&cmd=display Lotus oil on canvas 48" x 42" 1999 The most immediate element of Sioux City artist Karen Chesterman's recent work is the use of vibrant color. Color, vaporous and dense, layered, mobile, sometimes suggesting images but never resolving itself, is the dominant force in Chesterman's work. Chesterman describes her current paintings "as accumulations of thought and decision-making." She leaves traces of a painting's evolution, sanding or scraping layers of paint to reveal the subtle relationships woven into the accumulated strata of color and marks. She says, "What is visible on the surface is not always the most important aspect of the art." artimages/09282004.jpg 225 313
2004-09-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=61 Jan Zelfer-Redmond Jan Zelfer-Redmond earned her B.A. from Briar Cliff College in Sioux City and her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and juried shows. Jan mounted a major one-woman show at the Sioux City Art Center recently. Ms. Zelfer-Redmond maintains a studio in Sioux City, Iowa. http://www.olsonlarsen.com/artists.cfm?artist_id=686&cmd=display Notebook VII oil on canvas 44" x 52" About the artwork, Jan Zelfer-Redmond states: Most often, when I paint, I am responding to ideas which I've heard or read, that seem to verbalize exactly those unfiltered thoughts that were in my subconscious mind and not yet vocalized by me. My paintings start with a pre-verbal, intuitive and spontaneous process in order to recreate that area of ghost-like discovery. It is seldom that I begin a painting with any idea in mind of what that painting will look like when it is finished, but it is also seldom that I begin a painting without an idea in mind. artimages/09292004.jpg 350 297
2004-09-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=62 Jill Schrift Jill Davis Schrift has been teaching in the art department at Grinnell College since 1988. Schrift holds an M.A. in ceramics from Purdue University, where she studied with Scott Frankenberger and Marge Levy. She also has a Masters of Science in teaching from the State University of New York at Potsdam. During the academic year Schrift works primarily in ceramics. In summer, she lives in France and works on pastel drawing and collages. Homage to Anhur II stoneware 15" x 9" diameter 2002 About her pots, Jill Schrift states: "My ultimate goal is to create ceramic works that are soulful and expressive. I draw inspiration from the classical forms of the past and strive to express these forms in my own idiom that speaks to contemporary culture." artimages/09302004.jpg 225 316
2004-10-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=63 Mark Petrick Mark Petrick received his BA in Fine Art from the University of California at Berkeley (1977), where he also did Graduate Studies in Architecture & Design. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1983). He lives in Fairfield, Iowa. Mark Petrick's website http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?id=16417 Sidewalk Poster Display, Ram Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, 1999 from the series an India -- Photographs by Mark Paul Petrick, 1998-2002 quadtone carbon pigment inkjet print 7.5" x 7.5" 2002 About the artwork, Mark Petrick writes: I went to India to look at common things: temples and houses; people sitting, walking, working, worshipping; rivers and mountains; streets and shops; goddesses and gods; signs, pictures, and patterns; the sunrise; the places and happenings of each day; and to make pictures of them. The pictures in an India are not really the result of hard labor, but of perseverance: of walking and taking the steps to move to new places, of walking some more and continuing to look with care at the obvious...These are pictures of a loved one, India, that have been collected and choreographed to convey some sense of her complexity, dignity, charm, ordinariness, contrariness, majestic depth, and mundane squalor: the confluence of the plain, the savory, and the hard to swallow, creating the unfathomable flavor of her beauty. artimages/10012004.jpg 350 350
2004-10-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=64 Sarah Grant-Hutchinson Sticks, Inc. owners Sarah Grant-Hutchison and Jim Lueders began their business in the late 1980s, creating nativity sets and small art pieces for a handful of galleries. With its vibrant designs and excellent craftsmanship, Sticks grew and now employs a crew of more than 70 artisans and sells work at galleries throughout the US. Their business also includes custom installation work that expands their playful aesthetic and vivid palette through large interior spaces. Sarah Grant-Hutchinson's website http://www.sticks.com/ Detail: Iowa State University Day Care Center installation About the artwork:
Sticks makes furniture and sculptures from birch and poplar, often incorporating natually aged and dried driftwood that's been found along riverbanks. Each piece is made by a team of artisans who use a woodburning technique from the thirties to etch the wood and then paint it using a broad range of vibrant colors. This sculpture is part of an installation at the Iowa State University Day Care Center in Ames. Sticks worked with the ISU Architectural department, Child Development, Landscaping, and ISU Administration on the design to create a visually rich, stimulating environment to delight both the children and the adults who care for them. artimages/08222004.jpg 225 345
2004-10-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=65 Vicki Adams Vicki Adams was born in 1931, near Blockton, Iowa. She has received her BFA (1974) and MFA (1978) from Drake University. Random Collection handmade paper and resin 12" x 18" 2000 Vicki Adams is a papermaker and a print artist. Her handmade paper incorporates recycled paper, plant materials, and dyes to produce sensual textures and subtle color variations. Random Collection is an example of her sophisticated use of paper as a sculptural material. Adams has taught and shown her work extensively. She is a member of the Artists' Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Valley Junction West Des Moines, and also is associated with the Octagon in Ames and the Wiederspan Gallery in Cedar Rapids. artimages/10032004.jpg 350 239
2004-10-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=66 Robert Atwell Robert Atwell was born in 1973 in Nevada, Iowa. He has received both a BFA (1995) and MFA (2002) from Iowa State University.
Robert Atwell's website http://www.dotonawalk.com/ Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 12:32PM vinyl and alkyd resin on aspen panel 11.25" x11.25" 2004 Robert Atwell's work is created using a process that embraces both digital and analog sources. Beginning with a sketchbook, Atwell records spontaneously drawn marks inspired from experiences within visual and audio environments. He then draws and redraws, scans, digitizes, and prints these images, using them to build a visual dialog. Tradition and technology come together to create hybrid paintings, uniting the long tradition of abstract painting and the more recent advent of technological tools as art making devices. Final works come in the form of drawings, paintings, digital prints, and interactive installations. The day, month, year, and time become the titles of Atwell's work, marking another moment in history. artimages/10042004R.jpg 350 350
2004-10-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=67 Terri Parish McGaffin Terri Parish McGaffin has worked as a professional artist for many years, and has acquired a regional and national exhibition record. She has exhibited recently in Idaho, South Dakota, Florida, Colorado, and Illinois. Her work is in the collections of the Sioux City Art Center, Morningside College and the University of South Dakota, as well as many private collections. She currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Chicago acrylic and oil on canvas 48" x 60" 2003 Terri Parish McGaffin states: As a representational painter, it is my aim to create work that has both a specific quality and a universal quality. I follow an intuitive approach to content, and a more analytical approach to formal development. I am always engaged in the search for composition and relationships of value and color in the visible world, and engaged in the process of representing these things within the painted surface. artimages/10052004.jpg 350 279
2004-10-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=68 Laurayne Robinette Laurayne Robinette was born in 1928 in southern Iowa. She earned her BFA from Drake University in 1952, taught art for one year in Des Moines, married, had three daughters, started taking art classes at the Des Moines Art Center, and continued her art education over the next thirty-six years. Waterways oil on canvas 30" x 48" 2000 Robinette works mostly in oil. Her representational work is taken from observations of landscapes and interiors, while the non-representational work is produced by using nontraditional methods of applying paint to canvas or paper. Waterways bridges the divide between landscape and abstraction, incorporating the textures of water and trees to knit together blocks of pure color. artimages/10062004.jpg 350 224
2004-10-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=69 John Preston John Preston received his BFA in Painting from Maharishi International University in 1984. Painting full time, Preston has participated in many solo and group shows, and his works hang in a wide range of corporate collections. He lives and works in Fairfield, Iowa. Broken Storm oil on canvas 32" x 38" 2004 John Preston writes, "I've been painting the Iowa landscape for about twenty years. The motivation is nothing flashy, just simple attraction. The same motivation that drives all the big decisions in life: career, marriage, where one lives. Over time I've come to approach the landscape with a portrait painter's attitude. I'm not a native Iowan and was immediately taken with the weather and skies. They seem to form the personality of the landscape..." artimages/10072004.jpg 350 291
2004-10-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=70 Sara Slee Brown Sara Slee Brown received her BFA in art from the University of Michigan and her MA and MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa. Brown has exhibited extensively in the Midwest and her work is included in the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project. She has been active in local public art projects, including Overalls All Over and Herky on Parade and is the Graphic Designer for the Iowa City Public Library.
Three Bottled Treasures scanner art 5" x 9" 2004 About the artwork: Sara Slee Brown has been producing these scanner art pieces for the past year. She is fascinated with the process itself and the simple, clean contrasts, shapes and beauty that can be produced with a few cherished objects and her scanner. The sense of solitude and serenity these works evoke seems to go beyond the methods and materials used. artimages/10082004.jpg 350 196
2004-10-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=71 Janet Hart-Heinicke Janet Heinicke is a native Midwesterner and a seasoned artist. She holds advanced degrees in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and in painting from Northern Illinois University. She has a long history of work as a collegiate educator in Illinois and Iowa and most recently acted as the Fine Arts Exhibition Director for the Iowa State Fair. Experimental Skyline watercolor 16" x 20" 2003 Much of Heinicke's work focuses on close observation of the natural world, the forms found in rocks and trees, and long vistas that take in an expanse of hills and valleys. Scale, materials, surface, and texture are important to Heinicke. Experimental Skyline references an urban landscape, but her interest in scale and surface manifests itself in the juxtaposition of the abstract shapes in the foreground and the cityscape which sits behind them. artimages/10092004_other.jpg 350 228
2004-10-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=72 Joe Hall Joe Hall is a digital artist who lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa. Hall completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa in 2004. Exhibitions include participation in a group show at the Des Moines Art Center, and a solo exhibition in Seoul, Korea. Pink to Blue: 410 Web Pages with Color and Sound four Apple iMac computers This piece was featured in the exhibition "Iowa Artists 2001", Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, Iowa. artimages/10102004.jpg 350 232
2004-10-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=73 Deanne Warnholtz Wortman Wortman was born in 1943 in Sioux City, Iowa. She received her BFA in 1970 and MFAs in both Drawing (1976) and Intermedia (1998), all from the University of Iowa. (K2H) or The Song Of The Woman In the Red Dress performance, Dortmund, Germany 1998 Deanne Warnholtz Wortman states: My working process is very catholic in that it begins with a phrase, a word, an observation, an action, an object from daily life or with something I have read or heard or felt. These shred of information come unbidden and in a way mysterious to me but seeming to be connected somehow. The intellectual analysis comes after. But then I can explain it to you. I use all the tools at my disposal to express these ideas: narrative, action, object, space, environment, music, drawing, painting, video. The audience is an integral component participating by bringing its own shreds of information to the piece, collaborating with me on some level.I cannot separate my art activities from my other activities; it is all of a piece. artimages/10112004.jpg 225 338
2004-10-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=74 Marie C. Cook Helen Marie Casey Cook was born in 1918, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa) with a Kg-PRI certificate in 1938. Her specialties are watercolor painting and cut-paper silhouettes. She has done several commissioned paintings for local organizations and businesses. One of her favorite subjects is a large stone barn near Cedar Falls. Marie C. Cook's website http://www.lucidplanet.com/iwa/ArtistPages/cookm.htm Silhouettes by Marie #1 paper cuttings She writes: "It was in December of 1969 when my path crossed that of Lorene Rose Diehl from Waterloo and I began to cut silhouettes of people. It is basically a lot of practice and I have cut many. Some days I would do over one hundred. It takes four to five minutes and then there is the pasting on a 5X7 white card. In the first year or so I began cutting houses and finishing details in India Ink and diluted India ink." artimages/10122004.jpg 350 263
2004-10-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=75 Chris Fletcher Chris Fletcher received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1993 and his M.F.A. in 1997 from American University in Washington D.C. His works have been included in exhibitions in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Virginia. Recovery Room acrylic on board 18" x 24" 2003 About his process, Chris Fletcher says: "Isometric projection helps me to consider the dual function of any given shape. A shape may function both as a link in a two dimensional design and as a plane in a representation of three dimensional volume. Keeping shapes of color evenly modulated helps me to feel the character of the relationships between them better. These relationships include those of part to part, part to whole, part to group, group to group, and group to whole. The resulting images evoke things like wooden toys or figures, building blocks, architectural frame construction, wood joinery, and stages. These things may serve to embody the tenuous nature of appearances. However, they may also suggest hope and the process of growth." artimages/10132004.jpg 300 225
2004-10-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=76 Jenna Montgomery About the artist:
Jenna Montgomery was born in 1978 in Loma Linda, California. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 2000 and is currently pursuing her masters degree at the University of Iowa. the 47 Aimless Men Series: Manny intaglio and watercolor, 19" x 15" 2002 From the image:
L: "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this."
R: "Manolo 'Manny' de la Espada is a hard man, plagued by bad luck. He sells smuggled Cuban cigars and gambles away his earnings. The last time Manny was arrested, his poor wife, Lolita, killed herself out of despair." artimages/10142004.jpg 225 275
2004-10-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=78 Denis Roussel Denis Roussel obtained a diplome d'ingenieur (1999) in chemistry at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Chimie in Rennes, France. He will complete his MFA in photography at the University of Iowa in December. Denis Roussel's website http://www.sillymongoose.org/ Detail 3, Blood Experiment 1 Medium Inkjet print, 9" x 13" 2004 I've spent most of my life studying the sciences. Mathematics, physics and chemistry revealed to me hidden and limitless universes. I gained through them a greater awareness of the complexity and beauty of the world around me. Photography is another means of discovery and understanding. It allows me to question my self, and my interpretation of the world, may it be physical or spiritual. ...One can think of blood and dwell in its symbolic qualities associated with a myriad of concepts and emotions. In this project, however, the photographs are the objective record of simple experiments. Extracted from the body, blood is forced to interact with three elements, water, air and fire. Time passes and reactions occur that are guided by the physical and chemical properties of blood. The photographs depict the macroscopic realization of microscopic events. artimages/10152004.jpg 285 313
2004-10-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=81 Kelly McLaughlin and Joe Tekippe Kelly McLaughlin is a graduate student at the University of Iowa. She is pursuing an M.F.A in intermedia & video art, as well as a P.H.D. in American Studies. In both fields she is explicitly concerned with new media technologies. Her work often explores intimacy mediated by technology. Most recently, Kelly has been focused on creating installations that utilize video, the web, and software for authoring kinetic interfaces.
Joe Tekippe was born in 1980 in Marshalltown, Iowa. He received his BFA in intermedia and video art from the University of Iowa in 2003. He was inducted as a Kentucky colonel in the summer of 2004. He is currently living in Brooklyn, NY and working on his MFA in computer art at the School of Visual Arts. His recent work takes the form of choreographed interactions with bank tellers.
installation detail (gelatin screen), Interfascia site-specific installation 2000 InterFascia explores the human-computer interface as an artspace and draws an analogy between this and biological, technological, and interpersonal interfaces. Interfascia used interactivity authoring software to create a space that responds to the viewer's presence. Video cameras and microphones in the installation space relayed signals to computers that processed the live signals which triggered preauthored video and audio tracks and distorted live feed to be retransmitted into the space. Gelatin screens placed on top of each cube absorbed and diffused the visual data and provided a tactile surface for the viewer to interact with. artimages/10162004.jpg 350 233
2004-10-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=84 Jessie Fisher Jessie Fisher was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1971, and grew up in Wayzata, Minnesota. She earned her BFA at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. Fisher apprenticed with fresco painter Mark Balma, working on a large-scale fresco project for the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis campus. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in May, with an emphasis on Painting and a minor in Printmaking. Fisher currently works with several galleries in New York and Los Angeles and paints in her home studio in Iowa City.
Killing Well oil on canvas 36" x 48" Jessie Fisher's paintings present an idealistic and noble visage of the grotesque. Her figures, stoic and self-aware, dominate their canvas and the viewer's eyes. These creatures serve as icons of concealed knowledge; marked by their deformity, they cannot return to a state of innocence. In her search for truths, Fisher gives physical form to the the unseen; she goes beyond mere representation of the natural world and its inhabitants to remake nature itself. artimages/10172004.jpg 225 306
2004-10-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=87 Scott Seebart Scott Seebart attended the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting. Seebart completed a post-baccalaureate degree the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and he is in his final year of the MFA program at the University of Iowa. Scott Seebart's website http://www.jessiefisherscottseebart.com/ Cave oil on canvas 40" x 50" Seebart composes paintings that are sensual and visually complex. His flower-laden bushes and trees hover delicately between abstraction and representation. The figures in his arcadian landscapes are so quietly painted that they melt into their surroundings, and the landscapes themselves melt into pure abstract forms and rich strokes of color. artimages/10182004.jpg 350 275
2004-10-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=90 Kim Ambriz Kim Ambriz received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in Chicago where she studied photography. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2005. Boca del Caballo Lithograph with relief 20" x 15" Kim says: "As a Mexican artist who grew up in a very un-Mexican fashion, I seek through my work to connect to a past that I have always felt very detached from... My recent work is inspired by and references the style of the earliest painted Aztec histories as well as printed works by Mexican relief artists, and also alludes to cross-blood stories and trickster characters prevalent in Native American literature. I have appropriated the pictorial vocabulary of the Aztec manuscripts, altering existing figures as well as creating new symbols. Personal, repeatable symbols, which stand in for descriptions or text, connect my prints together as if they were pages in a book, a tale I create to act as my own history." artimages/10192004.jpg 225 304
2004-10-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=93 Terry Rathje Terry Rathje is working on his MFA at the University of Iowa. He is also currently a design instructor at Western Illinois University. How Can You Be Serious? license plates and scrap metal 2004 Rathje writes: my art is about rearranging reality. I spend half my time taking things apart and learning how they are made, and the other half putting them back together and learning about myself.
By observing and internalizing how the world is put together, the world inside and the world outside meet in some sort of strange juxtaposition that I really don't understand until the process is done. This meeting of the inside world and the outside world is at the heart of what I do. artimages/10202004.jpg 350 283
2004-10-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=96 Kate Carr Kate Carr received her Bachelor of Arts (1999) from 1994-1999 Marlboro College in Vermont. She is completing her MFA in the sculpture area at the University of Iowa and has shown work recently at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California, the Sioux City Art Center, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, and CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Untitled Branch wrapped crochet thread and tree branch 2004 About the artwork, Carr writes: my responsibility as an artist is to pay attention. Repeating an activity, a form, a material, is how I begin to understand my surroundings and identify my artistic interests and concerns. In my work, I continue to address the beauty and the possibilities of the ordinary by making what I see and experience a tangible manifestation of noticing. artimages/10212004.jpg 225 355
2004-10-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=98 Julie Leonard Julia Leonard graduated with an MFA in design from the University of Iowa in 2001. She now operates a binding studio in Iowa City and teaches Bookbinding and Graphic Design at the University of Iowa. She works on her own one-of-a-kind and editioned artist's books, as well as commissions and limited production and edition binding. Her work has been shown nationally and has been acquired by private collectors and special collections libraries. al pha bet French door 4 needle link stitch, letterpress printed linoleum, 4" x 10" 1998 Julia had this to say about book arts: "Making use of the book as an artistic medium is possible partly because of what we (Westerners) bring to the book, our collective connection with it ... Experiencing a book is a tactile, intimate and private activity. It requires time, a slowing down and settling in. Books can act on us as an icon or reliquary does, evoking a spiritual reaction a contemplative psychic space. For me, books speak of the past, of what is gone or perhaps never was: a kind of slow beauty, longing and melancholy..." artimages/10222004.jpg 300 220
2004-10-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=101 Robert Butler Rob Butler grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, and lived with his family in Germany. He discovered early on the excitement of diverse cultures and found that immersion in a foreign culture catalyzed his creativity. Rob earned his MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa in 2004, and he continues to pursue cross-cultural exchange as a visiting lecturer at the School of Communication in Riga, Latvia. Untitled: IX-XI Monotype 44" X 61" MMIII About his artwork, Rob states: In recent work, imagery is informed by being receptive to physical, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic events that occur during the process of print and art making. In the collaboration between the elements of process and myself, this dynamic sense serves as a catalyst to inform the next work. This dialogue, between artist and art, leads to serial work that provides a narrative for artistic processes, from the conceptual first work to the non-existential last. My purpose in my art work is not simply to communicate content and imagery with an audience, but to closely view my own actions, therefore placing my environment and myself under close observation, then reexamining those observations through the vehicle of print and art making. artimages/10232004.jpg 350 246
2004-10-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=104 Lael Sale Lael Sale moved from Texas to Iowa to pursue an MFA in painting at the University of Iowa. She will complete her degree in May 2005. Wall Blob I foam and oil on wood 4" x 6" x 4" 2004 About the artwork, Lael Sale writes: I make forms and spaces that are physical manifestations of my psychological and emotional states. Content is found through visceral relationships between the body and material. Pink and crimson oil paint, wax, sand, hair, and latex are experienced first sensually, and then realized intuitively. I am interested in the way these materials can be manipulated to mimic or reference the body, allowing a way for me to metaphorically gut the inside of my mind onto the canvas. artimages/10242004.jpg 350 260
2004-10-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=106 Melissa Newman Melissa Newman earned her BFA at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She was awarded her MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa in May 2003. Caterpillar oil and wood on panel 24" x 24" 2003 Caterpillar, an example of painter Melissa Newman's brand of hard-edged abstraction, plays with the viewer's sense of perception. She couples single-point perspective that mimics the way we perceive recession in space and painted representations of light playing off a flat surface with half-round molding which juts out from the painted surface into the viewer's real space. The shift between trompe l'oeil* devices and three-dimensional elements engages viewers in a visual and mental game; they are forced to question whether they can trust their eyes to perceive the veracity of what is before them.
*a French term meaning, literally, "fool the eye" artimages/10252004.jpg 350 349
2004-10-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=109 Astrid Hilger Bennett Bennett received her BFA in printmaking from Indiana University and has exhibited and taught at various locations throughout the country. She is a resident of Iowa City, Iowa. Seeking Scarlet art quilt Astrid Bennett makes large-scale art quilts, using hand painting, monoprinting, screen printing, batik, or immersion dyeing to create her compositions. She says, "I'm happiest with a brush in my hand, and art quilts allow me a large- scale, exuberant canvas. Although visually abstract, my work constantly mines the daily life experiences of family, society and the natural world, with a hefty dose of music to guide the hand." artimages/10262004.jpg 225 399
2004-10-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=113 Elaine Beck Elaine Beck earned her MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 2004. Her 2001 artwork, the Chair Project, an interactive, collaborative community project in Oskaloosa, Iowa, was featured nationally in the media, and she was awarded Best of Competition in the 2003 Des Moines Art Center Film+Video+DVD Competition. Elaine is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD program that combines her research interests: art, democracy, and community. Elaine Beck's website http://www.elainebeck.com/ still from the video Flat Black 2004 Elaine Beck grew up on a farm in rural Iowa. Flat Black documents the experience of her father and other individual farmers who were affected by the farm crisis of the 1980s. Beck's father organized a group of farmers in an effort to help each other survive. Her interviews with these men explore what they perceive as the causes of the crisis and effects of the it had on their families, their communities, and the men themselves. The documentary features hauntingly beautiful images of the Iowa farmscape and the rich soil for which the film is named. artimages/10272004.jpg 350 235
2004-10-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=115 John Beckelman John Beckelman graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from Illinois State University in 1978. His pieces have been exhibited nationally. He is currently Chair of the Art Department at Coe College. Narrow-Necked Bottle stoneware 30" x 10" 2004 John had this to say about his pieces: "These vessels are intended to evoke a sense of timelessness, stability and ease. Their forms and surfaces are inspired by early Neolithic storage vessels and their scale is an effort to induce a sense of quiet presence. Having worked with clay, in a variety of forms and formats and in all its varied physical states for close to thirty years now, I find that it's the elemental character and expressive potential of clay which continues to intrigue me. There is, indeed, an enduring, almost archetypal, appeal to clay, which is like no other material." artimages/10282004.jpg 206 310
2004-10-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=119 Joseph Miller Joseph Miller was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin and earned a BS in Graphic Design. He is pursuing an M.F.A. degree in Graphic Design (minoring in Photography) at the University of Iowa. Configuration 191/200 from the Sim City 200 Suite Road Maps + Tourist Guides from MN, IA, and Seoul, South Korea 48mm x 75mm 2004 Joseph Miller writes: The Intuitive Collage process is an exercise in seeing. This practice is concerned with finding, not creating, form. Magazine pages are cut into various geometric shapes with an Exacto knife. These pieces are then scattered on the floor to rest at random. Cropping tools are used to hunt these configurations and transparent tape is applied to splice ends. Type, texture, line, color, and image are embraced and taken simply for the sake of being perceived as beautiful together. As for meaning or associations, I leave the viewer to his/her own temperaments. artimages/10292004.jpg 225 351
2004-10-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=120 Greta Songe Greta Songe earned her BFA in painting and drawing from Louisiana State University in 2000. She is currently in her final year of the graduate program in painting in the UI School of Art and Art History. She has worked as a painting and book arts instructor with Iowa City youth through the Art Share program. Pom Pink mixed media on paper 42" x 37" 2003 Greta Songe's still-lifes consist mainly of fruits or vegetables arranged on densely patterned cloths. In her works, lumpen potatoes, stalks of brussels sprouts bristling with alien-looking heads, and ruby pomegranates sit as if for portraits. But her still-lifes push the boundaries of the genre. Like Cezanne's apples and lemons, Songe's fruits defy gravity but are always on the verge of succumbing to it. Her patterned surfaces lay parallel to the viewer. They never support vegetables from below but push them forward into the viewer's space. Her fruits levitate in front of their backdrops. Sometimes it is only their close relationship to the pattern on which they sit, snared within a plaid lattice or bouyed by a thousand dancing bubbles, that seems to keep them from dropping off the canvas onto the floor. artimages/10302004.jpg 350 311
2004-10-31 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=124 Catherine Cole Catherine Cole is a graduate student at the University of Iowa where she is working towards her MFA. She currently holds a BFA from the University of Louisiana. Alternative Space (detail) digital photo installation 2003 This is what Catherine had to say about her art: "An economy of materials is an integral subject of my installations and object making. I have an affinity for tape and rough edges. I am interested in the embellishment and recontextualization of what exists and/or of what has been discarded. The often obsessive, vulnerable and revealing nature of 'outsider' art largely influences my work, however, I am more intriqued by the idea of transforming the expectations of art within the gallery setting as the materials reveal evidence of use, functionality and history. Within the gallery walls, I seek and uncover spaces that otherwise go overlooked, covered-up or unused. I intend to transform the function of these spaces within the space and to draw attention to the inner workings, structures or networks behind the scenes. I am intrigued by the element of discovery, the shifts in scale, inhabiting generally uninhabited spaces and in expanding the possibilities and efficiency of the white cube." artimages/10312004.jpg 350 254
2004-11-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=126 Aaron Wilson Aaron Wilson has taught printmaking and foundations in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls since 1997. Prior to residing in Iowa, he completed his BFA at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio and earned an MFA at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Aaron has been the recipient of institutional and State grants, shown his work widely in national juried exhibitions, and has had solo exhibitions regionally, nationally, and in Canada. Aaron Wilson's website http://www.aaron-wilson.net Worser detail from the installation Parlor, Drawing and Mixed Media 36" x 40" 2004 Parlor is a mixed-media installation that seeks to visually depict post- September 11th, 2001 America. It combines fine art printmaking processes with digital imaging technology, sculpture, drawing, and painting. I am interested in the amalgamation of evident reactions like fear, terror, and war with other aspects of our cultural palette. Consumer, religious, and political entities have all responded to the horror of terrorism creating a web of relative effects. Auto loans with zero-percent financing, action figures of our President, Internet images of crying eagles, a reevaluation of our civil liberties, and an ongoing war on terror are all the result of a single event. -- Aaron Wilson artimages/11012004.jpg 225 229
2004-11-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=127 Neva Sills Deer Feed acrylic on paper 41" x 85" 2002 artimages/11022004.jpg 396 209
2004-11-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=128 Gillian Brown Gillian Brown earned a BA from Brown University and an MAE from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She earned her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She shows work all over the nation and holds a professorship at Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa.
Gillian Brown's website http://www.gallery51east.com/pastshows/GillianBrown/slideshow/index.html It's About Time(detail) from the blackboard series acrylic on canvas 78" x 66" artimages/11032004.jpg 350 235
2004-11-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=129 Jim Snitzer untitled color photograph artimages/11042004.jpg 446 352
2004-11-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=130 Anne Slattery Anne Slattery received her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and East Asian Studies from Oberlin College in Ohio. Anne is currently an MFA candidate in Printmaking and is working towards a certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Mobile/Planted (Part 3), monotype on paper 22" x 30" 2003 Anne has this to say about her art: "My work deals with issues of dislocation, individuals or objects misplaced within a landscape and how their presence changes the meaning of that location. In this series of work dealing with the wind-turbines of northern Iowa, the monolithic structures are foreign to their agricultural setting, yet appear to be growing out of the fields. Their height adds an unexpected verticality to a typically horizontal vista. I use my prints as a setting in which to tell stories, sometimes imposing a text directly on the print, other times employing the print as a backdrop for a book, thus providing the viewer with both an apparent visual and a more private textual experience." artimages/11052004.jpg 350 261
2004-11-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=131 Darrell Taylor with Deanne Wortman Deanne Wortman was born in 1943 in Sioux City, Iowa. He received his BFA in 1970 and MFA's in Drawing (1976) and Intermedia (1998), all from the University of Iowa.
Darrell Taylor is an intermedia and performance artist with BFA, MA, and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. He is co-artistic director of the performance group Habeas Corpus, and has exhibited artwork in exhibitions throughout the US and in Dortmund, Germany. He director of the UNI Gallery of Art and overseer fo the UNI Permanent Art Collection. Taylor co-teaches Queer Ballroom, an activist social dance project, at Arts a la Carte in Iowa City. Fall Line mixed media 2003 artimages/11062004.jpg 225 375
2004-11-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=133 Diana Behl Diana Behl receieved a BFA from Bowling Green State University in December 2001. She is presently an MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. record landing intaglio 5" x 12" 2003 "A record landing, recorded to remember. Recorded in order to reflect, to sort out the circumstantial relevance of objects seen and minutes passed. A calendar of events mapped out with a fleeting thought: how faintly the record resembles a blush, even a bruise -- flesh flushes after a moment of recollection." artimages/11072004.jpg 350 142
2004-11-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=135 Nadija Mustapic Nadija Mustapic is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Printmaking Department. After finishing her BFA at the University of Rijeka, in her native Croatia, she lived in Venice, Italy. She has exhibited in group shows in Croatia, Venice, and in international printmaking exhibitions. Topologies of the Inside (view of the outside and the projection) intaglio print on leather, wire, video, sound (installation) diameter of circle 12' 9" 2004 "Since my arrival to the US, I feel the need to use my memories and my national and cultural history to mentally, emotionally and physically engage myself in the creation of works of art through which I understand and abstract personal narratives of political realities and emotional structures. The line that separates my own memory from the collective one becomes more and more inconsistent. Consequently, remembering becomes an action, which requires empathy. Similarly, the content of my work, the process and the expectations of the product's communication with the viewer are steeped in ethical considerations that find their release through aesthetic applications. Topologies of the Inside is a piece about plugging the viewer into the visceral and raw 'real,' which mirrors the world out of joint, brutally coherent as such."
— Nadija Mustapic artimages/11082004.jpg 350 263
2004-11-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=138 River Branch River Branch received her B.A. in Psychology in 1990 from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. River has created seven films including Conditioned Love, from which this still is taken. Untitled 3, digital video still 800 x 533 2004 Conditioned Love is a digitally shot experimental documentary capturing the relationship between two Southern women who lived together for over forty years. Both women, now in their mid-nineties, stand in for a generation of women brought together across class and racial lines in the domestic space. Historically and culturally configured, Kitty and Matt's relationship has been both vilified and romanticized. The piece engages the viewer through a series of shorts, each stylistically & technically unique, storytelling a unifying element to the otherwise visually fragmented approach. artimages/11092004.jpg 350 233
2004-11-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=140 Ingrid Lilligren Ingrid Lilligren, named after a family friend who was an artist, was born in Springfield, Ohio. She earned a B.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls in 1980. She received her M.F.A. in 1986 from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California where she studied with Paul Soldner. After teaching at colleges in California, she moved to Iowa in 1993 and is an associate professor in ceramics at Iowa State University. Dee's Sniffer stoneware, porcelain, bamboo, horsehair 64" x 32" x 16" 2002 Dee's Sniffer, writes Ingrid Lilligren, is "an homage to my friend, the artist Dee Marcellus Cole. She is exactly as tall as this piece and her nose comes to the opening in the front. A small pouch with herbs hangs inside. Scent is a strong prompt to memory and is a component I have used in a number of pieces. Her work is playful and incorporated mixed media; she often makes use of children's cowboy boots for the feet on her pieces. Her personality is strong and feminine; she buys many of her clothes at thrift stores and usually wears a skirt. During a recent taping for a TV show, she was asked to drape one of her figures as the generalized forms that represented breasts were deemed potentially inflammatory to viewers, so I had to include breasts in this piece." artimages/11102004.jpg 225 356
2004-11-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=141 Brandon Buckner Brandon Buckner is in his third year of the MFA program in painting at the University of Iowa. His current paintings focus on building narratives from his own personal history and background. Presents oil on canvas 17" x 22" 2002 Presents, painted in 2002, is one of Buckner's early explorations in the formation and construction of open and ambiguous narratives. ÊBased on a photo taken from the television, the image from the shopping network QVC has been obscured using photoshop to create an unspecific idea of human beings. Buckner's goal was that the figures would become universal in a situation that is seemingly familiar. The relationship and situation between the figures would then become fodder for the viewer to use while concocting his or her own narrative or context for the figures. artimages/11112004.jpg 350 264
2004-11-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=142 Peggy Jester Peggy Jester is a native Iowan living in Urbandale, Iowa. She earned a BA from the University of Colorado and a MFA (1981) in painting from Drake University. She taught drawing and printmaking at the Des Moines Art Center for ten years and continues to work in her home studio. Peggy has exhibited locally and regionally since 1975. Art Figures in Motion (turning) monotype print 14.5" x 41" 2002 artimages/11122004.jpg 350 122
2004-11-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=143 Jessica Alaniz I am a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Community High School of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (2002). She is currently studying photography at the University of Iowa. One Orange Rose scanner and orange rose 2004 About the artwork, Alaniz writes: I have always played with computers and Photoshop to give my images the extra edge they sometimes need. My images are about the process; it's all an experiment. I find something common in my house and press it against the glass of my scanner. Sometimes the images come out looking very boring, other times I find something beautiful in their shapes and shadows. artimages/11132004.jpg 288 285
2004-11-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=146 Teresa Paschke Teresa Paschke is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in Ames where she teaches in the Fibers program. Her work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions. She recently returned from a residency at the Women's Studio Workshop in New York. Clouds Know No Boundaries dye, iron oxide, photography, graphite, layered cloth 19" x 41" 2001 Teresa Paschke writes, "My work in textiles utilizes surface design techniques of dyeing, embroidery, printing, and other methods of manipulating cloth. Recent compositions combine 'found' and fabricated cloth, pieced together and reworked to suggest a kinship between rational and organic order making reference to both culture and nature ... In particular, references to agronomy--caring for land and community, and domesticity--caring for home and family are intermingled to suggest complementary aspirations and to document ideas about place that are both public and private. Repetition often takes the form of stitches and serves as a metaphor for the experience of time passing. Layering, whether marks, images, or cloth, suggests memories that are barely visible yet always present. The iconography I use is personal yet common, making reference to things both familiar and cryptic." artimages/11142004.jpg 360 204
2004-11-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=149 Nichole Maury Nichole Maury received her B.F.A from the Art Institute of Chicago. She graduated with an M.F.A in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2004 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. How I Learned My ABCs: W is for Waterlogged screenprint 21.5" x 17.5" 2003 How I Learned My ABCs, a suite of 26 screenprints, explores systems of identity and structure. Emerging from an autobiographical context, these prints examine my evolution into "adulthood" as it is defined by the current social standards; age, morality, financial stability, and emotional responsibility. As a child I found sanctuary in the predictable, repetitive atmosphere of the classroom and the layers of propaganda that surrounded me there. In claustrophobic rooms covered in colorful illustrations, I was taught how to read, how to act, and who to be. Now adequately educated and self-sufficient, I still struggle with that same fundamental question, who should I be? I search my history for answers. Unfortunately, no diagrammatic donkeys or informative insects can help me now. artimages/11152004.jpg 225 283
2004-11-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=151 T. J. Lechtenberg T.J. Lechtenberg is in his third year of the MFA program in The Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the University of Iowa. His current work explores silent metal forming with sheet metal, and seeks to establish voluminous forms from the flat pierced metal sheets by pushing, pulling and forming the material. Folded Bracelet Aluminum 4" x 4 "x 2.75" 2004 Circles and squares are two of the most elemental of shapes in our visual vocabulary. A majority of my jewelry and hollowware objects branch out from these basic geometric shapes. Because of their familiarity I can freely push, pull, slice and chop the shapes to create more abstract forms, yet still feel grounded by the still recognizable shape. Regardless of the direction that the objects I make go, they remain ultimately simple, graceful and without excess. artimages/11162004.jpg 336 256
2004-11-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=153 Mark Neucollins 1096 (as of Oct. 16, 2004) particle board, matches, paint, light approx. 4' x 8' (dim. variable) 2004 artimages/11172004.jpg 375 281
2004-11-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=155 Andrew Evans and Wes High Watch Me tv monitors, couch, coffee table site specific installation 2004 artimages/11182004.jpg 375 283
2004-11-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=157 Lydia M. Diemer Rabbit (detail) mixed media 2004 Here are the tales, the first and middle thoughts of the lemon chiffon bits of my sister’s cousins, their phantom limbs (as in the marginalized hands of the city, any city), and the mutations of a little girl, all with a touch of scum from somewhere in the corner of my house, in a box full of pieces of my path.
And that box: I gather things (scraps, garbage I have found on the street, in my room, pockets, of a particular appearance- handled, stained, delicate, resilient, beautifully deteriorated, with the refinement of a clean break or an ugly businessman, I adore them), I hoard them, they lose specificity as they sit on a shelf, I remember something about each of them, yet it may only be related to a texture, color, shape, but also availability, accessibility, a level of attraction and a level of repulsion, all intrinsic, necessary questions before I grab it or take it.
These items appear nondescript, indistinct to better fit the purposes of their new home- the paper, the story, new relatives and relationships, a new language, instantaneous occurrences culled from disparate places. Before, during, after this transformation, identity is introduced in an object, figure, ground, mark, but disseminated by the formal circumstances of the composition, whispering to the viewer to see the formal significance of the scene, the compositional and conceptual roles of each spatial decision, with lingering uncertainties leading to: how did he chase the little girl into the background of the needlepoint hill, in the graphite grass of adult numeric maneuverings. artimages/11192004.jpg 350 240
2004-11-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=158 Belindah Mutuku Belindah Mutuku graduated from The University of Iowa with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design in May 2004. While in graduate school she worked extensively with non-profit organizations particularly health organizations including UNICEF in New York and ICARE in Iowa City, producing health promotional materials geared towards vulnerable populations. Her hope is to work for a non-profit that specializes in International Development, particularly in Africa. Mother, Worker, Educator ink and acrylic on paper 2003 The woman in traditional African society has always been of great interest to me. Her roles play a significant part in defining who she is in society. Mother, Worker and Educator illustrates the overlapping of these roles and how one cannot do without the other. In addition there exist cultural barriers that inhibit the African woman from reaching her potential, such as ownership of land, the right to culturally sensitive, accurate health information, and wife inheritance among others. artimages/11202004.jpg 225 310
2004-11-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=159 Ken Walker Ken Walker earned his BFA from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1999. He was awarded a Book Arts Certificate and his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2004. Visit his website, which showcases the many men who are Ken Walker. Ken Walker's website http://www.iamkenwalker.com/ Untitled Marine: (Paperwork) handmade paper 19" x 23.5" 2003 This paperwork is inspired by my experience in the water. Sitting there, eyes on the horizon, in the rain, looking for some clue from the ocean. Frequently alone, waiting for enough light to see or soon too dark to tell water from sky.
This paperwork is made from cotton fiber prepared and pigmented with pure pigments by the artist after being beaten. Layers or veils of colored paper pulp are couched one over the other on a colored base sheet during the sheet forming process. Only water is used during the process to “mark†the veils. Untouched by hand or tool. Water carries the palette of color and water is the brush. Each piece is then pressed and dried; I must wait two days to see the final result. It is well worth it! artimages/11212004.jpg 350 286
2004-11-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=161 Shawn Reed Shawn Reed received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in 2003. He is currently a graduate student in the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History's Intermedia program. untitled woodblock print artimages/11222004.jpg 225 277
2004-11-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=164 Jason Moore Jason Moore is completing his final year in the MFA program in printmaking at the University of Iowa. His work frequently incorporates animals as stand-ins for humans as he examines the frailty and shortcomings of humanity. An Offering woodcut 2002 artimages/11232004.jpg 225 334
2004-11-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=168 Jeanine Oleson and Ellen Lesperance Off the Grid (Florida VII) C-print 30" x40 " 2003 About the artwork, Oleson and Lesperance write: the Off the Grid project of performance-based large format photographs was initiated in 2001. As collaborators, we want to explore the gestures and performances of survival by setting up open-ended situations in the natural landscape where we perform as the only human presences in the actual frame and perhaps the world. We evoke images of pure escapism from contemporary life into pre-modern fantasy. During the performances, there is a tension between an intuitive, earnest intent and a self-conscious humor that comes from indulging in the fantasy of living outside of society while being absolutely rooted within it.
Guided by cultural politics, feminism, film theory, popular culture, revisionist history and ethnography, the content of the work also celebrates things commonly associated with the derogatory, including queerness and low brow culture, while always employing the oppositional aesthetic ideas of form and structure. By fusing New Age spirituality with the Hudson River School, out-of-date natural history displays with Feminist history, earnest vision quests with barely-off-the-interstate wilderness—a perverse hybrid emerges. artimages/11242004.jpg 360 249
2004-11-25 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=169 Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson is working on his MFA in ceramics at the University of Iowa. Serving Bowl Stoneware 6" x 14" x 14" 2003 artimages/11252004.jpg 350 223
2004-11-26 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=172 Lance Edmonds Let's Get Pacific (detail) photography 10' x 10' 2004 artimages/11262004.jpg 339 223
2004-11-27 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=173 Mgbore Okore Mgbore Okore is finishing her MFA in sculpture at the University of Iowa. Okore's work, which often employs ordinary magazine paper, brings a critical focus to bear on American consumer culture. She often utilizes materials which are disposed of in the United States, but are considered usable commodities in her native Nigeria,. Her work highlights our wastefulness with beautiful, graceful forms made of materials which Americans discard. paper sculpture dimensions variable 2003 artimages/11272004.jpg 288 435
2004-11-28 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=176 Paula Brandel Paula Brandel grew up in rural Minnesota, and her work frequently deals with the geography that was her formative visual milieu. Her abstract paintings reference structures that humans impose on the landscape, but she softens the rational geometry of roads and architecture with paint handling that allows the material to assert its own character on the canvas.
Barn acrylic on canvas 2004 artimages/11282004.jpg 350 349
2004-11-29 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=180 Mary Merkel-Hess Mary Merkel-Hess was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in an extended family near Gilbertville, Iowa. She attended Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI and graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology and philosophy. She attended art school and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received a BFA in 1976. While there she studied with Ruth Gao and Mary Tingley.
In 1977, she began graduate work at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. She studied metalsmithing with Chunghi Choo and received an MFA in 1983. After graduation, she became a full-time studio artist. She gave up metalsmithing but continued to work in paper, developing her own techniques for making paper structures. She takes occasional breaks from studio work to teach and give workshops. Her work is exhibited widely and is held in many private and public collections. Kalo Reed and paper 36" x 22" x 15" 2002 artimages/11292004.jpg 225 355
2004-11-30 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=181 Michael Perrone Michael Perrone is currently a visiting faculty member of the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History. Pennsylvania (detail) acrylic on wood 36" x 48" 2003 About the artwork, Perrone writes: My recent paintings are based on imagery which I viewed/experienced while driving on highways in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, most notably on the New Jersey Turnpike, and more specifically on my way to and from New York. When I am driving I tend to clear my head and get lost in a meditative state. I am visually acute at these times, and see paintings everywhere. Additionally, with the recent work, I’ve been trying to challenge myself with regard to my conceptions of what a painting is and how it is made. I’ve been attempting to subvert my own notions of art, taste, and beauty, with the hope of expanding my technical and conceptual skills, and breaking down some long held beliefs. The idea of the artificial landscape has offered me a visually inspiring starting point, as well as an apt metaphor for approaching my specific process goal. artimages/11302004.jpg 350 273
2004-12-01 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=184 Christopher Miller Warm Front Looking North oil on canvas on panel 16" x 34" 2003 artimages/12012004.jpg 350 159
2004-12-02 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=185 Sandra Dyas Sandra Dyas's website http://www.sandydyas.com/ Maya, Rolly World, near Bellvue, Iowa gelatin silver print About the artwork, Dyas writes: What strikes me about compelling artwork is the passion that lies within it. Like great music, it must hold some brand of magical mystery ...soulful honesty.
My work reflects my life. Small town carnivals, abandoned houses, gravel roads, broken down little towns. I find it everywhere I go, not just here in Iowa. Robert Frank said that he wanted to describe what it felt like to drive into "the sad American night". It is the antithesis of the shiny new America we see on T.V. and in our media. It is a side of life that not everyone knows about, nor cares to. Tom Waits' music reminds me of the sort of photograph that I am fascinated with finding. I love the oddness of life, its beauty and its honesty. I take photographs because I am drawn to the spirit, hope and hopelessness of life. artimages/12022004.jpg 360 240
2004-12-03 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=186 Adam Krueger The Hole Project earthwork and performances 2002-3 artimages/12032004.jpg 225 329
2004-12-04 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=187 Lee Emma Running Lee Running received a MFA in Sculpture at the University of Iowa in 2005, and received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1999. Lee Emma Running's website http://leeemmarunning.org/ Bathtub wheat paste, bathtub 2004 Lee Running's work poses the question: What if the floral prints of old wallpaper, were indeed the flora of an interior natural world? These patterns are embedded in the walls of our lives. Past generations have left them there, covering them with layers of paint, but what if the patterns were revealed, forced into the light, or allowed to grow wild? artimages/12042004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-05 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=188 Arbe Bareis Apple, Horn, Vase oil on canvas 2004 artimages/12052004.jpg 350 274
2004-12-06 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=189 Darrell Taylor / Habeas Corpus Darrell Taylor is an intermedia and performance artist who holds BFA, MA, and MFA degrees, all from the University of Iowa. He is Co-Artistic Director of the performance group Habeas Corpus, and has exhibited artwork in many solo and group exhibitions including at the Beall Park Art Center in Bozeman, Montana; Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; and the Sites of Desire Project in Dortmund, Germany. At present, he co-teaches Queer Ballroom, an activist social dance project, at Arts a la Carte in Iowa City. A History of Yes performance 2003 artimages/12062004.jpg 235 340
2004-12-07 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=190 Olga Lomshakova Velasquez Diptych oil on canvas 2003 artimages/12072004.jpg 350 204
2004-12-08 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=191 Crit Streed Crit Streed is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Northern Iowa. The Geography of Drawing graphite on paper 22" x 30" The Geography of Drawing is one drawing from a series of performative acts focused on the physical process of drawing. Human imperfection renders the drawing as a form unplanned while the distinctive shape language feels to me as if I had dredged them from some remote place, where the integrity of my own physical presence in the act of drawing might connect with all organic structures.
The drawing act is deliberate and intense but the imprecision and inaccuracy of my own hand announces what we give shape to is always in concert with our limitations. It is the impact of imperfection on what is resolute that makes the drawing become perfect. artimages/12082004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-09 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=192 Jeremy Chen Jeremy Chen is a native of Iowa City. He is currently finishing his MFA in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. Quietly They Go Installation detail 2003 About the artwork, Chen writes: The body of work with which I am currently engaged explores longing. Longing is somewhere between pathos and beauty. And it seems to me that beyond want and need there is a certain kind of longing that is truly American. When I think about the United States and American culture, I think about this sense of longing. This shows up in various forms including sunny optimism, nostalgia for the past-- or the future, belief in progress, waiting for redemption, and audacious hope. I particularly want to explore simultaneous feelings of endless possibilities juxtaposed with ultimate human vulnerability. This becomes interesting to explore within a narcissistic culture flirting with infinite possibilities and a rejection of limits. artimages/12092004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-10 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=193 Andora Khan Annadora Khan was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She moved to Iowa at the age of fifteen. Annadora has an MFA in Drawing from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History in Iowa City. She has worked at the Information Arcade in the University Main Library for the last 12 years and run the day to day operations of this multimedia lab for the last 6 years. Annadora is a member of the Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea Manhattan and has a solo show planned for July 2005. Andora Khan's website http://www.annadora-khan.com/ Moonlight photography, digital collage dimensions variable 2000 artimages/12102004.jpg 300 350
2004-12-11 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=194 Marcia Wegman Marcia Wegman is an artist living in Iowa City. Her work has been featured in national arts magazines. Cornfield and Barn pastel on paper The Midwest landscape has surrounded me all of my life. Having spent most of my childhood in Ohio and my entire adult life in Iowa, it is the images of these vistas which periodically inspire me to try a new way of expressing this subtly beautiful landscape. I enjoy hiking in some wilder parts of the country so am also challenged by the unique forms of beauty found in each of these places. In the past I have worked in acrylic and collage. Now I am using the medium of soft pastel to capture the qualities of undulating hills, overlapping rhythmic forms, textures of trees and vegetation, rich colors, dynamic patterns, changing light, and, always the sky. The land remains constant, the colors transform subtlety from season to season, but the sky is an ever-shifting panorama of light, color and form. The possibilities are limitless. artimages/12112004.jpg 225 289
2004-12-12 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=195 April Katz April Katz is an associate professor who teaches printmaking at Iowa State University. She is currently serving as president of the Southern Graphics Council, the largest printmaking organization in the world. Katz exhibits her work extensively in juried shows throughout the country. She has presented workshops at Arrowmont and at Frogman’s Press. Her prints are in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. From lithograph, acrylic paint 20†x 16†2004 Through juxtapositions, transparent overlays of paint and ink, shifts in space, grid-like structures and implied narratives I convey the sense of time’s passage along with personal and cultural memory. The images incorporated into my work refer to issues of identity and communication. I examine the factors that help to shape us as individuals. References to our biological foundation and to cultural and environmental roots are important elements in these prints that reflect my research into cellular biology and ancient Mesopotamian cultures. These themes are metaphorically conveyed through images that include cellular structures and scientific visual notations, clusters of chairs, figures, ancient writing and family photographs. artimages/12122004.jpg 214 266
2004-12-13 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=196 James Renier James Renier earned a BFA in printmaking and papermaking from the University of Iowa in 1983. He lives and works in Europe, and his course of production and discovery recently led to a museum exhibition in The Netherlands. James Renier's website http://www.e-sinom.com/ Second Chances sign (to be installed in a shop window) My project is a satirical look at the price we must pay for everything. The idea stems from one of the oldest advertising techniques: window signs. Through such signs we are attracted into shops and stores and enticed to purchase, often mindless products... I want to make consumers (passers-by) re-evaluate where their thoughts and money are flowing. I would not only like to question our position in a global economy, but also our loss of attention span. We see a summer sale sign, feel fortunate and go buy something...I wish not to make a protest but strive to tell a story in a way our cultures have done for centuries. Perhaps we will soon realize that we hold so many qualities within ourselves. We simply do not take the time to realize them. artimages/12132004.jpg 350 233
2004-12-14 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=197 Michael Close Michael Close will receive a BFA in Intermedia form the University of Iowa in the Fall of 2004. Michael Close's website http://www.myweb.uiowa.edu/mjclose/ train photographs 36" x 12" 2002 artimages/12142004_small.jpg 400 115
2004-12-15 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=198 Lauren Cook Lauren Cook is completing her MFA in film/video production in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Altitude Zero 16mm (film still) 5 minutes By dissecting and reconstructing the filmic corpus, Altitude Zero acts as a palimpsest of cinematic representation. artimages/12152004.jpg 360 241
2004-12-16 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=199 Bruce Morrison Bruce Morrison earned a BFA in 1975 from the University of Iowa. He majored in Photography and minored in Painting and Serigraphy. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Canada, as well as overseas. He lives with his wife Georgeann in rural northwest Iowa in the Tallgrass Praire pothole region. Bruce Morrison's website http://www.morrisons-studio.com/ Spring Run, photograph, Kodak EPP 6 X 7 cm 1996 Bruce Morrison favors the landscape as a subject in his photography, paintings and drawings. He uses large or medium format cameras to capture stunning images of the Iowa landscape. When painting or drawing, Morrison prefers a plein aire approach. Like the Impressionists, he works outdoors, painting the landscape he sees in front of him, usually on a smaller in scale than his photographs.
Bruce has a deep personal interest in the natural heritage of our remaining Tallgrass Prairie, and much of his work over the past decade has been deeply influenced by this subject. In addition to recording the beauty of the prairie, he has devoted much time and energy to furthering and encouraging Prairie reconstruction/restoration projects and education in northwestern Iowa. artimages/12162004.jpg 350 233
2004-12-17 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=200 William Pergl William Pergl received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1993. After completing his BFA, Pergl lived in Seattle and Chicago where he worked as an art preparator, mill worker, and custom cabinetmaker. In 1997, Pergl entered Cornell University's Master of Fine Arts program in Sculpture and received his MFA in 1999. Pergl is currently an Assistant Professor at Grinnell College where he teaches sculpture and drawing. Boat Buoy Island Installation View 2004 "My investigations and efforts in the studio revolve around the connections between the physical world and the world of ideas. I do not communicate a narrative or statement to my audience but rather provoke the viewer to respond to the objects directly; this leaves the interpretation of meaning up to the individual, yet I am not interested in presenting an ambiguous object. My interest is in complex relationships within a specific object and the ability of the single object to evoke emotional and intellectual responses relating to the human condition. Emotional and intellectual responses begin with the viewer bringing their thoughts and past experiences into experiencing the artwork. I ask my audience to bring themselves to my work by presenting them with an image that has a reference to the physical world, reveals a high level of craft, and has a poetic presence that does not explain itself." artimages/12172004.jpg 350 271
2004-12-18 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=201 Jane Robinette Born and raised in Des Moines, Jane Robinette has lived in Iowa most of her life. Since she was a young girl, she has written poetry and prose and combined her words with color or images. Her love for the written word took priority for many years. After earning degrees in social work and law, and holding jobs for several years in each area, she left her law job in April 1998 to begin the Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project (www.lucidplanet.com/IWA) and to do more creative work of her own. Jane Robinette's paintings are shown at galleries in Des Moines and Ames, and her website has images and audio clips of her poetry. Jane Robinette's website http://www.janerobinette.com/ Palace of the Fields acrylic on matboard 12-1/2" x 14-1/4"(framed) 2004 Jane Robinette writes: My love for color, rhythm, and language led me to begin making “poem-paintingsâ€â€”small-scale, colorful, abstract paintings that incorporate my own handwritten original poetry. Acrylic paint quickly changes consistency when exposed to air, which helps create interesting shapes and textures when I scrape it across paper. Many of the poems contain a voice that is mysterious, heartfelt, thought-provoking, and inspiriting—a voice that I find is speaking to me as much as to the ultimate viewer/reader...My job is to create the space for their interplay. This acrylic scraped poem-painting invites the viewer/reader to explore the layers of paint and of life. This painting was inspired by and created for a new musical theatre production called Palace of the Fields. artimages/12182004.jpg 350 238
2004-12-19 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=202 Michael Groesbeck Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with an emphasis in communications for Radio/Television and Photography. He has run his own photography studio, Portraits of Iowa, for the last eight years. He has also been a part of Very Special Arts of Iowa, an organization of disabled artists, for the over 15 years. The group curates shows that are displayed at the Iowa State Fair every year and are lent to businesses throughout Des Moines the remainder of the y Michael Groesbeck's website www.portraitsofiowa.com Cross Pollination digital photograph 800x600 pixels 2004 About his photographs, Michael says: When I look for subjects to photograph, I look into the beauty that radiates to all of us. I used to draw and sketch before my disability (Muscular Dystrophy) worsened. So I redirected my abilities into my photographic works of art. I look at pieces and try to shoot them in a way that captures the inner imagination we all have and the beauty that it emits. I look for details others may overlook and bring that out as well. I have shot 35 mm film for over 7 years and have since moved into the digital age within the last year. Within the pieces I have chosen are a basis of Nature and the beauty that it has to offer. artimages/12192004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-20 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=203 Jim Shrosbree Jim Shrosbree earned an MFA from the University of Montana. He has received grants from the Iowa Arts Council, theÊIdaho Commission on Arts and Humanities/NEA and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest) Visual Artist's Fellowship. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. His solo exhibitions include: I Space, Chicago; Revolution, Detroit and New York City; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis; William Traver Gallery, Seattle, and Ron Judish Fine Art, Denver. Jim Shrosbree has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center in the Fall of 2004 TWN TWR (detail) ceramic, flocking, paint 8" x 10" 2000 An excerpt from Jim Shrosbree's artist's statement: If something is perfect in the mind, then to bring it forth through the hand and the eye can extend that perfection into the reality of the visual world. The inside and the outside, however, do not truly exist as a duality and are not separate, but unified. It is out of this oneness that perfection arises. Perfection lies hidden between the artist and work and the work and the viewer. To invoke this value means giving up — surrendering control over what one may be too comfortable with — to reveal a deeper reality. Obviously, it is not realized exclusively through working. One comes to the process with what one is — with a certain capacity for experience. Being curious about the world through creative work involves, essentially, an investigation into the nature of the Self, into consciousness and the structure of what one is made of: energy, pattern, intelligence and the connection with origin. Curiosity is a gift which is fulfilled through the ability to listen. Listening to the quietest messages focuses the attention at the moment a "thing" is manifested. artimages/12202004.jpg 225 300
2004-12-21 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=204 Gail Chavenelle Gail Chavenelle's schooling and careers have been diverse. She has a BA in literature and a Master's Degree in computer education. She has been a teacher, curriculum designer, and has sold and administered computer systems. Now, she has found a unique voice in metal. Mentored by a generous blacksmith and critically supported by working artist friends, she is currently studying art history and showing her work on a regular basis throughout Iowa. Gail's work is featured online and in galleries nationwide. Gail Chavenelle's website http://www.chavenellestudio.com/ Musicians One piece 22-20 gauge sheet metal, rusted 24,30,48,60" heights 2002-2003 Beginning with childhood paper dolls, chains, pop-out books, and greeting cards, Gail Chavenelle has been intrigued by paper sculpture. She loved the forms, but wanted the works to be more permanent. Instead of a sheet of paper, Gail works with sheets of 20 gauge steel. Gail cuts one-piece sculptures from single, flat sheets, folding and bending them into 3-D forms. Her pieces bound, fly, or dance in the wind on the tensile strength properties of this material. In addition to public sculpture, Gail makes accessible, affordable art, sized for the ordinary sized spaces in which we live. artimages/12212004.jpg 225 278
2004-12-22 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=205 Dan Ferro Dan Ferro received his B.A. from the University of California in San Diego where he studied photography, sculpture, and music. He studied commercial photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and moved to Iowa in 1989. With over 25 years experience as a photographer and independent software creative director and producer, the use of technology has become a central element in the exploration and development of his vision. Dan Ferro's website http://www.ferro7.com/fineart prairie: from the “cooked†series 13" x 19" 2003 The twelve images in the "cooked" series are direct scans of cooking sheets and baking pans using a flatbed scanner. This work is an exploration of the transitional and disregarded; the unnoticed and commonplace. The images do not replicate what the human eye can see. They are abstract photographic images that explore visual possibilities using light and lens. artimages/12222004.jpg 350 233
2004-12-23 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=206 Mel Andringa Mel Andringa received his MA (1971) and MFA (1978) from the University of Iowa with an emphasis in Multimedia/Intermedia. In 1975, he founded The Drawing Legion, a performance art company that toured original productions in over 50 U.S. cities and the Netherlands. In 1990, Mel Andringa and F. John Herbert founded Legion Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization presenting contemporary art at CSPS, a 115-year old Czech meeting hall, in Cedar Rapids. Mel Andringa and Legion Arts webpage http://www.legionarts.org Footballs/Baked Potatoes Jigsaw collage 16" x 22" 2000 Mel noticed that many commercially produced jigsaw puzzles are cut frome one dye, producing pieces that are the same shape, no matter what images are printed on them. He began recombining pictures from different puzzles to make new images and new meanings that often play with or subvert the subject matter of the original puzzle pictures. artimages/12232004.jpg 350 263
2004-12-24 http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=207 Dan Attoe Dan Attoe was born in 1975 in Bremerton, Washington. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1998, and just finished his MFA in Painting at the University of Iowa. He has shown extensively in Iowa, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and internationally in Paris, Naples and Tokyo. Dan makes a small painting every week day and "puts something" on a larger one. In addition to his paintings, Dan also makes tents. Christmas Ornament oil on board 7"x7" 2003 Of his artwork, Attoe writes: My paintings are short stories and games. The characters and spaces they inhabit are varyingly real and imaginary. They all come from a wide range of research in popular culture, travel, rural life and people I know or have made up. Humor, mystery and specificity are some of my favorite things to play with...Having grown up in small towns and ranger stations in the west and Midwest with two brothers, much of my formative experience is in dealing with specifically male politics. Subsequently, much of the issues dealt with in my work are rooted in masculinity or issues of the mid