|
The Ever-Changing
Landscape Sponsored by Owens-Illinois |
|
|
Participating |
|
|
Patrick Adams |
The Landscape and Kentucky Artists Artists in Kentucky are naturally drawn to the landscape as a source of inspiration. The idyllic countryside, the dramatic settings of lakes and state parks and the geology and terrain exposed by her many rivers and streams.
Ann Tower from Lexington is a careful observer of her surroundings. “Painting is the reason to stand still and to look for many hours, to contemplate, and to work with a sense of urgency and intensity as the light fluctuates and changes. My paintings are based on direct observations of the view at hand, which are often simply the view out my window, and sometimes a site that I visit.”
Robert James Foose is one of the region's most celebrated artists and his approach to the landscape comes from a carefully observed examination of the complexity of natural forms. “For me, all painting is abstract. The idea itself is abstract. I make paintings that can be easily named, that is, the viewer knows what the content is. In making them, I am interested in showing the structures and forms (abstractions) within those parts of nature that I am continually drawn to.” Robert Tharsing is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art at University of Kentucky where he began teaching in 1971. “I am interested in a variety of ideas regarding the nature of painting, and I have developed several ways of working to address these ideas by using realism, abstraction, and often a mixture of both. Color and the processes I use to arrive at an image are the common threads that run through my work.”
Jim Cantrell paints primarily with oils and watercolors. He describes his technique as abstracted realism. His forte is the human figure encompassing masterful composition, & technique. Cantrell’s paintings can be seen in major public and private collections. Participating in over 200 solo, group, and juried exhibitions, he has been the recipient of many awards, including two fellowship grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and from the Southern Arts Federation. He was named Alumna of the Year for Creative Achievement at the University of Northern Colorado in 2000.
Patrick Adams earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Kentucky in 1992. He taught in the Art Department at Asbury College for several years and now works full time in his studio. His work has been hung in several galleries and museums throughout the region, and he shows his work regularly in Chicago. He has twice been awarded the prestigious Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. Laurin Northeisen grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended children’s art classes at the Art Institute. “For the last eight years, I have concentrated on landscape images with an emphasis on composition and pattern through mark making. Initially the subjects were near my home in Bowling Green, KY. Now, I travel specifically to parks or other special places to take photographs. Mammoth Cave National Park, where I was an artist-in-residence in October of 2000, and New York’s Central Park are recent locations. One of my favorite places to be is the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, and I continue to use my 1997 photographs for inspiration.
Guy Mendes is one of the best-known and well-respected photographers in the region. A suite of 13 of his portraits of writers is in the collection of the Photographic Archives at the University of Louisville, and the Cincinnati Art Museum and the University of Kentucky Art Museum own his prints. Mendes' work encompasses several interests. In addition to landscape and portraiture, he loves to capture the unexpected, in both figures and as found in odd signs and situations. “I want to get my eyes around something I can't get my hands on, or don't have words to describe. Some of these pictures I set out to make. Others just grew, organically, out of my everyday life. I love it when that happens. Signs and wonders abound; if we look hard enough and long enough surely we can see them.” The Landscape and Artists From Across the Country Born and raised in Minnesota, David Ahlsted resides in New Jersey. I am a realist painter, in that I paint the physical look of a tangible world. My method of working is "serial", in that I paint in series. Over a period of months (or years), I work on many related paintings that share an inter-relationship of theme, structure and syntax. Content plus geometry, color, light and shadow .... painting not concerned as much with the duplication of experience as with the extension of experience on the plane of formal invention
Shelley Lake received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. Her experimentation with art and technology began 25 years ago, as a computer science major at Brown University. Lake went on to earn a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. At MIT, she trained with Dr. Harold Edgerton, inventor of the strobe light, and was a member of the first team to create an all slide optical videodisk. She was awarded a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where she collaborated with Pat Hearn to direct and produce experimental artworks. In addition to teaching, Dr. Lake now experiments with ultra high resolution digital cameras in combination with large format archival printers to produce artworks which awe and inspire. Jill Schultz-McGannon paints realistic landscapes and figure paintings in oils, preferring to work from life whenever possible. Following the classical approach of the Nineteenth century Naturalist artists, McGannon paints smaller landscapes plein-air, usually spending a month or two in Europe as well as time in north Georgia and on the Georgia coast. She began painting plein-air from the hilltops surrounding Cortona, Italy as Artist in Residence for the University of Georgia’s painting program in 1994. Larger works are executed back home in the studio, using the small paintings and photographs as resources. With these paintings, McGannon not only affords herself time spent in nature, but also hopes to impress upon the viewer the beauty and value of the diminishing landscape.
"Carlton Nell, from Atlanta Georgia, creates unusual
landscape paintings that are intimate in scale and personal in spirit.
Unlike the grand, panoramic landscapes of the past, Nell's small paintings
focus on details of nature and compel the viewer to slow down and
contemplate the often overlooked elements that make up the whole," Chief
Curator Peter Baldaia said. "Nell's painting technique is highly
accomplished, giving his work an exquisite, jewel-like quality not often
found in traditional landscapes."
Urban landscape was a compelling theme for Murrow several years ago, and the geometries of that horizon served as the beginning of an inquiry that has come full circle. He is now engaged in a series of works that refer back to the earth, but does so through materials that are dyed, sewn, layered, reused, found. Mud and dirt are components that add to the textural feeling of installations that comment on Murrow's evolving relationship to the land, and to his own line of expression. The palette as well has shifted from industrial oranges and blues to soft rusts and earth tones, again rendering commentary on our relationship to the earth while honoring the ethos of his subject. Judith Content creates hand-dyed, pieced, quilted and appliqued silk wall pieces for corporate and residential environments. She uses an unique adaptation of the Japanese "shibori" dye technique called "bomaki." Traditionally "bomaki" involved wrapping and tying fabric round thirteen meter poles. The tightly pleated fabric was dyed deep blue indigo and used to make kimonos. The thread used to secure the fabric and the manipulated pleats created an intricate resist patttern of infinite variations." I am a practicing Architect and Professor who began designing and making quilts in 1998. My interest began as part of my involvement in teaching architectural design classes at Florida A& M University's School of Architecture. I developed a series of exercises where beginning students investigate parallels between architecture and quilting as an introduction to ideas about composition, ordering systems, color and pattern. I began designing and making quilts in 1998. Fiber Art has become my main outlet for creative expression. My work uses architectural elements such as built form, city grid, and mapping as inspiration. These pieces usually focus on the geometrical relationships, patterns and ordering principles found in architecture". |
