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Below you'll find information about our exhibitions from past years. To inquire about exhibitions prior to 2014, please contact Rosewood Gallery at 937-296-0294 or email paula.kraus@ketteringoh.org.
9th Regional Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition
Reception: Saturday, November 13, 12 – 2 p.m.
Peggy Trimble, Ethereal Essence, 2018, watercolor
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition. The exhibition runs from November 8 through December 31, 2021. An artist reception will be held Saturday, November 13 from 12 – 2 p.m. The public is invited to vote for their favorite artwork. People's Choice Awards totaling $300, supported by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund and Rosewood Arts Center, will be determined by ballots cast during the exhibition. Awards will be announced the week following the event. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Art Ed began in 2011 at Rosewood Gallery as a way to celebrate our local art educators. The 41 participants in this year's exhibition are current or retired art teachers in Dayton and the surrounding areas.
Participating artists: Peter Berwald, Bridgette Bogle, Patricia Boone, Cynthia Bornhorst Winslow, Matt Loy Boyd, R. Darden Bradshaw, Arlene Brannick, Matthew R. Burgy, Virginia Burroughs, Maria Cleary, Andrew Dailey, AnnicaDamico, Mark Echtner, Alison Fawcett, Shannon Grecula, Lindsay Gustafson, Rebecca Hall, Eric Hamlin, Shirley Harbaugh, Rachel Hathaway, Erin Keister, Christine Klinger, Bonnie Kuntz, Brian Loges, Tracy Longley-Cook, C. Pat McClelland, Tracy McElfresh, Maria McGinnis, Kristen Mitchell, Jennifer Perkins, Marsha M. Pippenger, Frances Schanberger, Rose Schultz, Nicki Strouss, Sally A. Struthers, Peggy Trimble, Stu Wheeler, Vincent Williams, Brenda Williams and Sarah Wrona.
The exhibition will run concurrent with prints from the The Rosewood Portfolio Exchange 2021, featuring prints from artists across the country. Prints are available for purchase for $20 to benefit Rosewood Arts Center.
View the virtual gallery
2021 Rosewood Portfolio Exchange
Also on display is the artwork from Rosewood Arts Center's annual portfolio exchange. This year, a total of 27 prints are on display in Rosewood Gallery. These 5 x7 prints are available for purchase for $20 each to benefit Rosewood programs. Browse them below or stop in to check them out in person.
15th annual HWD Juried Sculpture Exhibition
Henry Sheets, Ship of Fools, Assembled, Slip-cast Porcelain, multiple firings, 2021
Closing reception: October 22, 5 – 7 p.m.
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the 15th annual HWD, a juried exhibition for sculpture artists in Ohio and surrounding states. HWD (Height x Width x Depth) is the area's only gallery exhibition devoted exclusively to sculpture. The exhibition runs from August 16 through October 22, 2021. There will be a Closing reception on Friday, October 22 from 5 – 7 p.m. with an awards presentation at 6 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Artists will be able to collect their art after 7 p.m.
This year, 39 artists submitted 106 pieces, from which the juror, Matt Distel, chose 26 artworks representing 23 artists. Distel will also select the winners of six awards, totaling $1,100.
Participating artists include: Greg Blair, Patricia Boone, Connie D. Campbell, Barbara Melnik Carson, Marianne Engle & Ken Raiteri, Nathaniel Foley, Eric Hamlin, Elizabeth Hartman, Kenn Hetzel, Mary Hilton, John Humphries, Drew Ippoliti, Chris Itsell, John Kinnee, Brandon Lowery, David Marquez, Jennifer Marsh, Gary Mulnix, Susan Phillips, Henry Sheets, Brian Stuparyk, Jennifer Whitten, and Summer Zickefoose.
Matt Distel is the Exhibitions Director for The Carnegie in Covington, KY. Prior to joining The Carnegie, Distel was an Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art for the Cincinnati Art Museum, Executive Director of Visionaries + Voices and the co-founder and director of Country Club, a commercial gallery based in Cincinnati and Los Angeles. A Cincinnati native, Distel has been organizing exhibitions since 1994 with a particular focus on artists from the region. From 2003-2007 he was the Associate Curator with the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Distel has curated and organized numerous exhibitions and installations including projects with SIMPARCH, Kendell Geers, Guy Benner, Katerina Burin, Temporary Services, The Yes Men, Beth Campbell, Alexis Rockman, Jay Bolotin, Shana Moulton, Future Retrieval, Terry Berlier, Design 99, Courttney Cooper, Ryan McGinness, Ellen Berkenblit, Edie Harper, Tom Wesselmann and Atlas Group.
27th annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition
June 1 – July 30
Closing reception: July 30, 5 – 7 p.m.
Clinton Wood, To the New Eden, 2020, oil on wood panel.
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 27th annual The View juried landscape exhibition. The exhibition runs from June 1 through July 30, 2021 and will be on view in-person at Rosewood Gallery, as well as in a virtual gallery.
A closing reception and awards ceremony will be held in-person at Rosewood Gallery on Friday, July 30 from 5 – 7 p.m. Awards will be announced at 5:45 p.m. The People's Choice awards will be announced the following week. (Art may be taken after 6:00 p.m.)
The View is a juried exhibition for artists living in Ohio and working in all media. This year, 94 artists submitted 220 pieces, from which the juror, Penny Park, chose 44 artworks representing 41 artists. Park will also select the winners of awards totaling $800. Three $100 People's Choice Awards will be presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund at the conclusion of the exhibition.
Participating artists include Greg Buening, Matthew Burgy, Virginia Burroughs, Jim Champion, Thomas Croce, Rhonda Duncalf, Steven Elbert, Samantha Enright, Phillip Erbaugh, Douglas Fiely, Elisha Frontz, Amanda Grieve, Doug Harlow, Patricia Higgins, Brendan Higgins, Victoria Kettering, Sarah Maxwell, Maria McGinnis, Kevin McNeeley, Kathy A. Moore, Clarice Moore, Robert Mullenix, Jaime Pacheco, Linda Phillips, Mike Pistone, Elizabeth Rudolf, David Stichweh, Jacob Tate, Douglas Taylor, Kim Vito, Barb Weinert-McBee, John Weller, Sean Wilkinson, Ronald Wilson, Victoria Wong, Clinton Wood, Alyssa Woosley, William Worley, and Charles Wright.
Us, Them, It, Samantha Simpson
Samantha Simpson, Saga (detail), 2017, ink and watercolor on paper
Samantha Simpson's exhibition, Us, Them, It, reflects on popular culture and politics by creating intricate large-scale watercolors of a "complicated, metaphorical world that is populated by predators and prey… It is an imperiled, complex landscape." Simpson currently lives in Philadelphia, PA.
The Nature We Create, Deana Bada Maloney
Deana Bada Maloney, Velveetatine Rabbit, 2021, stoneware, glaze and found objects
Tackling environmental issues, Deana Bada Maloney uses ceramics to create sculptural pieces that are "fused with humor and, after some reflection, a little bit of sorrow." In her exhibition, The Nature We Create Maloney pairs her stoneware sculptures of animals with "found objects" offering clues on how animals are adapting to their altered surroundings. Maloney lives in Downers Grove, IL.
Earth Transformed and Nicki Strouss: New Work
Earth Transformed: Ceramic Artists Invitational
Nicki Strouss: New Work
March 20, 7 p.m.: Virtual walkthrough (Join us on Facebook Live)
Scott Dooley, Two Teapots, handbuilt porcelain with Cone 5 oxidation, 2020
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce two new exhibitions, Earth Transformed: Ceramic Artists Invitational and Nicki Strouss: New Work, on view from March 1 through April 2, 2021. Both exhibitions are presented in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2021 Conference. A virtual tour and comments from the gallery coordinator and artists will take place on Saturday, March 20 at 7 p.m.
Earth Transformed features fourteen of the most innovative and skilled ceramic artists from Ohio and its surrounding states. Creating both functional objects and sculptures, these renowned artists transform clay through a diverse range of techniques, ideas and intentions. From imagined insect-like specimens to representations of the human condition, they push the boundaries of what is obtainable with clay while maintaining the highest levels of craft and precision.
The artists in Earth Transformed reflect their shared landscape – connected by the Ohio River – in their creative practice and in concept. Participating artists include Tom Bartel, Juliellen Byrne, Scott Dooley, Peter Christian Johnson, Carrie Longley, Brandon Lowery, Geno Luketic, Kyle and Kelly Phelps, Joan Quinones, Shoji Satake, Brad Schwieger, Justin Teilhet, Steven Thurston and Matt Wedel.
An exhibition of new work by emerging artist Nicki Strouss will accompany Earth Transformed. Created during her tenure as 2020 Artist in Residence at Rosewood Arts Centre, Strouss' large-scale, mixed-media installations and ceramic sculptures are playful abstractions of the human body.
Rosewood Arts Centre is home to a thriving ceramics program with a large community of practitioners, youth and adult classes, artist studio spaces, and a ceramics-focused artist in residence program. In addition, Rosewood Gallery features regional and national contemporary artists in solo and juried group exhibitions throughout the year.
31st Annual Dayton Area Works on Paper
January 22: Virtual walkthrough and awards presentation
Colleen Kelsey, Sleep, 2019, acrylic
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 31st annual Dayton-area Works on Paper exhibition. The exhibition will run from January 11 through February 19, 2021 and will be on view in-person at Rosewood Gallery, as well as in a virtual gallery.
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. This year, 47 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 118 pieces, from which the juror, Kay Koeniger, chose 37 artworks, representing 27 artists. She also selected award winners totaling $750. The People's Choice award presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Fund will be announced at the close of the show. Awards will be presented during a virtual ceremony, currently scheduled for Friday, January 22 at 5 p.m. More details on the virtual ceremony are forthcoming and will be announced soon. Juror Kay Koeninger is an Associate Professor of Art at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.
Participating artists include Claudia Baldwin, Kathie Bowers, Mary Callaway, Bruce Campbell, Deborah Dixon, Rhonda Duncalf, Alyson Annette Eshelman, Connie Gifford, Connie Grant, Shannon Grecula, Michael (Ace) Gummer, John Hankiewicz, Colleen Kelsey, Barb McBee, Keven McNeeley, Pete Mitas, Clarice Moore, Kathy A. Moore, Carol O'Neal, Don Patty, Linda Phillips, Tameria H. Rigsby, Pat Robinow, Jill Spencer, Emily von Stuckrad-Smolinski, Doug Taylor, Frank Travers and Margaret E. Wittmer.
Congratulations to our juror award winners!
First place:
Kevin McNeeley for Dressing Room, 2019, acrylic on cardboard
Second place:
Deborah Dixon for Passion Feesh I, 2020, paper mache
Third place:
Pat Robinow for Parker, 2019, painted paper collage
30th Annual Dayton-Area Works on Paper
Mary Beth Whitley, Expansive, 2019, digital C print and wax
Kelly D. Wilson, Nyx, 2019, #2 graphite pencil on Bristol Velum.
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 19, 2 – 4 p.m
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 30th annual Works on Paper exhibition. The exhibition runs from January 19 through February 21, 2020. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, January 19 from 2-4 p.m. with an awards presentation at 3 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio.
This year, 55 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 148 pieces, from which the juror, Jason Shaiman, chose 50 artworks, representing 37 artists. He also selected award winners totaling $1,100. The People's Choice award presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Fund will be announced at the close of the show. Shaiman is Curator of Exhibitions at the Miami University Art Museum.
Participating artists include Allie Ellis, Chloe Beaman, Keith Bowers, Siobhan Calnan, Bruce Campbell, Annica Damico, Lloyd Greene, Douglas Fiely, Shawna Hatton, Rosie Huart, Laura James, Richard Jurus, Ashlee Kilgore, Bonnie Kuntz, Elizabeth Martin, Kevin McNeeley, Gavin Mead, Glenda Miles, Kathy Moore, Melanie Morrett, Rosemary Nick, Anna Orf, Jaime Pacheco, Don Patty, Linda Phillips, Tameria Haley Rigsby, Francis Schanberger, Rose Schultz, Andy Snow, Sharon Stolzenberger, Nicki Strouss, Doug Taylor, Joey Thiele, Phil Wagar, Stu Wheeler, Mary Beth Whitley, Leonard Williams, Kelly D. Wilson and Margaret Wittmer.
Hours for the exhibition are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering. For more information, call (937) 296-0294.
Arthur Kettner, ceramic work
March 1 – May 17, 2020*
*Please note that this exhibition has been extended through May 17. Rosewood Arts Centre, including Rosewood Gallery, is closed to the public until at least April 30 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. For more information on COVID-19 closure, please visit: https://www.playkettering.org/covid19/
Opening reception: Sunday, March 1, 2 – 4 p.m.
Arthur Kettner, F.U.S.O, 2019, ceramics.
The City of Kettering and Rosewood Gallery are pleased to present solo exhibitions by artists Arthur Kettner and Mark Flake. The exhibitions will run from March 1 through April 3 with an artists' reception on Sunday, March 1 from 2-4 p.m. Artist talks are scheduled at 3 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Rosewood Arts Centre's inaugural Artist in Residence, Arthur Kettner, will be showcasing work created during his residency and recently featured on Think TV's The Art Show. Kettner's ceramic work references his days spent aboard a Navy ship and his fascination with how "humans influence, and in turn become influenced by technology." The sculptures use a unique method of "casting paper infused clay into compressed cornmeal, much like traditional sand casting, I use the negative space to create natural looking landscapes. The cornmeal leaves a granulated texture that would be very difficult to apply to hand built forms." The results are intriguing objects that reflect nautical vessels crossed with more organic forms. Kettner is an artist living in Kettering, OH.
NEW! Fairmont High School students in the English as a Second Language program, taught by Susan Frey,translated the artist statements of Arthur Kettner and Mark Flake to be shared with the community. Languages represented include: Vietnamese, Kinyarwandan, Swahili, Kinyamulenge, French, Kiswahili, Turkish and Mandarin Chinese. These translations are a part of an initiative of the Kettering Arts Council and Rosewood Arts Centre, and are available in the gallery during the exhibition.
Mark Flake, Monsters and Cars
With a theme based on Americana, Mark Flake's exhibition Monsters and Cars "celebrates empowerment through nostalgic images of pop culture." Influenced by the German Expressionists and Surrealists, Flake's large scale paintings can be characterized as having "a rich impasto of muted colors, particularly black and white mixed with earth tones." The paintings will be paired with digital prints and sculptures. Flake currently lives in Statesville, NC.
NEW! Fairmont High School students in the English as a Second Language program, taught by Susan Frey,
Mark Flake, Chrysler from the Black Lagoon, 2015, oil on canvas.
translated the artist statements of Arthur Kettner and Mark Flake to be shared with the community. Languages represented include: Vietnamese, Kinyarwandan, Swahili, Kinyamulenge, French, Kiswahili, Turkish and Mandarin Chinese. These translations are a part of an initiative of the Kettering Arts Council and Rosewood Arts Centre, and are available in the gallery during the exhibition.
Samantha Simpson, Us, It, Them
Saga 3, 2018, ink and watercolor on paper
Samantha Simpson's exhibition, Us, Them, It, and Deana Bada Maloney's exhibition, The Nature We Create, were originally scheduled to be on view in Rosewood Gallery from April 13 through May 17, 2020. Due to COVID-19-related closures, this exhibition will be rescheduled for in-person viewing.
While these two exhibitions, like most art, are best seen in person, please visit our virtual gallery for a taste of what is to come. For perspective, Simpson's pieces are roughly 4 ft. by 8 ft., and Maloney's sculptures feature many sides — unlike these single plane images. For more information, please view their websites at www.samanthasimpson.com and www.thebadacreative.com.
We can't wait to present their work on the walls and pedestals at Rosewood Gallery at a future date.
About Us, Them, It
This particular project started in response to my reading of Trajan's column. The long lines of images that wrapped around the monument seemed to me to speak of the small and daily pains of war. I was interested in the contradiction between the overall grandiosity of the column and the narrative I saw in the images that were carved around it.
The Saga series addresses my sense of a shifting, imperiled world after the last Presidential election: the paintings are my way of working through the ways that I, and the people around me, responded to the increased sense of threat that some of us experienced. The work locates small individuals in a complicated metaphorical world that is populated by predators and prey, families and individuals as well as references to known political figures. It is an imperiled, complex landscape.
Using a theatrically natural world is a rhetorical tactic that allows me to talk about social issues in a way that deflects resistance. Animals act as containers for ideas about power and agency. There are dynamics between types of animals, between individuated characters and generalized predators and in relationship to the setting. Unnatural actors respond to and shape the environment in which the narratives take place. This complexity allows me to propose several competing ways of responding to imbalances in power.
-Samantha Simpson
Deana Bada Maloney, The Nature We Create
Splitting Hare, 2018, Stoneware, glaze and found objects
About The Nature We Create
In my work, I have consistently made imagery that puts into focus the "Nature We Create," showing animals having to adapt to our landfill problem. With these pieces, I hope to engage the viewer with the humorous feel and title, but then have them reflect on the true sadness of each piece.
-Deana Bada Maloney
26th Annual The View
Kathy Moore, (Casstown, OH) Winter Laundry Day with Backyard Shed, 2020, acrylic on birch board, 12″ x 12″ x 1 inch
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to present the annual The View juried landscape exhibition. For the first time in its 26 year history, the exhibition is housed exclusively online with images and an exhibition video, accompanied by a downloadable exhibition catalogue with an essay by the exhibition juror, Cathy Mayhugh.
Visit The View's homepage to enjoy our 2020 exhibition!
HWD Invitational Sculpture Exhibition
HWD (Height x Width x Depth) Invitational Sculpture Exhibition
Jim Champion, Cityscape Sunnyside Up, 2020
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the HWD (Height, Width, Depth) 2020 Invitational Sculpture Exhibition taking place from August 17 through September 25, 2020. Twenty-four Dayton-area artists who have participated during the past ten years in Rosewood Gallery and the CitySites public art program were selected. Featuring recently created three-dimensional artworks, HWD is on view in-person at Rosewood Gallery, as well as in a virtual gallery.
The following artists will be at the gallery to talk with visitors about their work – Bob Coates on September 10 from 6-7 p.m. and Glenda Miles on September 16 from 12- 2 p.m.
Visit HWD's homepage to view the virtual gallery!
Rosewood Gallery has reopened to the public. Visit our COVID-19 info hub for updated safety information. Several recent exhibitions are available to view as a virtual gallery. Take the tour.
Lori Kella, 'Erie: Lost and Found'
Lori Kella, Ghost Species Grid
October 5 – November 13
Lori Kella (Cleveland, OH), Erie: Lost and Found
Virtual Artist Workshop: November 7
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce Lori Kella, Erie: Lost and Found. This FotoFocus-sponsored exhibition will take place from October 5 through November 13, 2020 and will be on view in-person at Rosewood Gallery, as well as in a virtual gallery. An exhibition catalogue will accompany this show and be available on the virtual exhibition's homepage.
View the virtual gallery!
Kella is conducting a virtual workshop on Saturday, November 7. Preregistration is required.
Watch the exhibition video produced by Kailah Ware!
Erin Holscher Almazan (Oakwood, OH), The Only Way We're Going to Get Through This is Together
Erin Holscher Almazen, Melancholia Nouveau II, 2018, two-block linoleum cut.
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce an exhibition by two Ohio artists, Erin Holscher Almazan and Kate Snow This exhibition of paintings and prints will take place from November 23 to December 30 and will be on view in-person at Rosewood Gallery, as well as in a virtual gallery.
Almazan, a resident of Oakwood and Associate Professor, Printmaking and Drawing at the University of Dayton, will present a series of prints in The Only Way We're Going to Get Through This is Together. Her art "explores the complexities and dualities that exist within our female identities; that we are complex and multi-dimensional creatures capable of good and bad, built from light and dark and shaped by nature, nurture, influence, and self-awareness."
Kate Snow (Cleveland, OH), Density: The Presence and the Silence of It
Kate Snow, Experience in Itself Wasn't Enough, 2019, gouache and graphite on paper.
Cleveland artist Kate Snow uses a subdued palette to express her vision in Density: The Presence and the Silence of It. She states "My need to create a place of safety within a world decidedly untidy is the impetus for all of my work. The employment of self-imposed boundaries – an extremely limited palette, excessively repetitive mark making, reliance on shape and pattern, hard graphite lines delineating definitive borders – is fundamental to the process: I create rules to find freedom." Snow's results are images made of either gouache & ink on panels or gouache and graphite on handmade paper.
29th Annual Dayton-Area Works on Paper Exhibition
Chloe Noelle Beaman, Gas Lights no. 3, mixed media collage, 2017
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 29th annual Works on Paper exhibition. The exhibition runs from January 14 through February 22, 2019. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, January 20 from 2-4pm with an awards presentation at 3pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. This year, 73 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 184 pieces, from which the juror, Lisa Morrisette, chose 66 artworks, representing 46 artists. She also selected award winners totaling $1,100. The People's Choice award presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Fund will be announced at the close of the show.
Morrisette is an art historian and senior manager of School and Docent Programs at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati.
Participating artists include Chloe Noelle Beaman, Michele BonDurant, Rachel A. Botting, Bruce Campbell, Caitlin Cartwright, Bob Coates, Joann Davenport, Deborah Dixon, Elizabeth S. Donaldson, Douglas R. Fiely, Lloyd Greene, Brendan Higgins, Katie Heine, Laura James, Richard Jurus, Erica Keener, Christine Klinger, Elizabeth A. Martin, Cat Mayhugh, Glenda Miles, Fiona Miller, Pete Mitas, Kathy A. Moore, Melanie Gleaves Morrett, Kimberly S. Mugford, Anna Orf, Jane Phillippi, Linda Phillips, Robert Pocius, Debra Richardson-Wood, Rose Schultz, Sherraid Scott, Hal Shunk, Stephanie Slowinski, Jill Spencer, Edward Steffanni, Sharon Stolzenberger, Doug Taylor, Rosa Tweed, Kim Vito, Joletta Vlasic, Phil Wagar, Sandra Wall, Steve Weaver, Barb Weinert-McBee, Mary Beth Whitley, Sean Wilkinson, Leonard Williams, Shannon Williams, Margaret E. Wittmer and David J. Yeamans.
Rosewood is pleased to announce this year's winners for the 29th Annual Works on Paper. Juror, Lisa Morrisette, awarded $1,100 in awards to six artists.
First Place awarded to Mary Beth Whitley of Dayton–for her piece Luminance
2nd Place awarded to Deborah Dixon of Xenia for Mami Wata
Third Place awarded to Glenda Miles of Springboro for her piece Belong
Three Honorable Mention Awards were presented to Michele BonDurant of Oakwood for her two pieces,Orange Fish Huts and Orange Fish Huts, Night, to Sandra Wall of Dayton for Quest, and to Sean Wilkinson of Dayton for Untitled, Yangzhoo #2
Hours for the exhibition are Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm; Friday 9am-6pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; and Sunday 12-5pm. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering. For more information, call (937) 296-0294.
Tracy Longley-Cook, Topographies
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 6, 2019, 2 – 4 p.m. (Artist talks at 3 p.m.)
The City of Kettering and Rosewood Gallery are pleased to present exhibitions by artists Tracy Longley-Cook and Hanna Vogel. The exhibitions will run from March 2 through April 6 with a closing reception on Saturday, April 6 from 2-4pm. Artist talks are scheduled at 3 pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
These exhibitions pair two artists exploring distinctly different media with surprising outcomes that result in an echoing of each other's natural themes and explorations. Viewers can look forward to being surrounded by objects of art that question their interface with their bodies and the environment around them.
Tracy Longley-Cook, Topography #34, 2016, Digital Inkjet Print, 23" x 50 inches.
In Topographies, Oakwood artist Tracy Longley-Cook, explores the relationship between the personal and geographical landscape by utilizing her body and photographic chemistry. In this way, she "creates a series of unique images on film that mimic aerial landscape photographs, where scars, hair or wrinkles are reduced to black and white lines that emulate land and water formations." Through these she draws a "symbolic correlation between the earth's surface, which reveals a record of natural and man-made alterations, and the body as a record of individual experience."
Tracy Longley-Cook is an Associate Professor of Photography at Wright State University, Dayton.
Hanna Vogel, After and Before the Fall
Hanna Vogel, Was, Might Be, 2017, Steel wire, abaca and cotton paper, pigment, rust sealant, 15.25′ x 7′ x 7.75 feet.
Philadelphia based artist, Hanna Vogel's exhibition After and Before the Fall, references craft traditions to turn "commonplace materials of paper and steel wire into unfamiliar forms and textures that evoke growth, decay, and the tenuousness of our surroundings." The forms address "aspects of physical existence on the edge of potential destruction."
Hanna Vogel received her BFA from the California College of Arts and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She now lives and works in Philadelphia.
Kasey Ramirez, Writ in Water
Solo exhibition by Kasey Ramirez
Reception: Friday, May 10, 6 – 8 p.m. (artist talks scheduled for 7 p.m.)
The City of Kettering and Rosewood Gallery are pleased to present exhibitions by artists Michael Arrigo and Kasey Ramirez. The exhibitions will run from April 15 through May 17 with an artist reception and gallery talk on Friday, May 10 from 6-8 p.m. Artist talks are scheduled for 7 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
KASEY RAMIREZ (Fayetteville, AR) Writ In Water
Kasey Ramirez, The Swell, 2018, woodcut with laser engraving, 11 x 16 inches.
In her exhibition, Writ In Water, artist Kasey Ramirez (Fayetteville, Arkansas) uses printmaking to explore issues relating to climate change. As a survivor of Hurricane Sandy, Ramirez has shifted the focus of her work to images that "more overtly address the pressing issue of climate change." By placing "manmade structures in environments where they are overcome and consumed by their surroundings, by severe weather on an enormous scale." The resulting images are dark, brooding landscapes barely holding their own against a foreboding environment. Kasey Ramirez is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of Arkansas School of Art in Fayetteville, AR.
Michael Arrigo, Self Starter
Solo exhibition by Michael Arrigo
MICHAEL ARRIGO (Toledo, OH) Self Starter
Michael Arrigo, Société Anonyme, 2017, single channel video, 2:30 minutes
In his videos, Michael Arrigo (Toledo, Ohio) records events and explores our cultural interface between technology and relationships. In his exhibition, Self Starter, Arrigo says, "I try to make artworks that reveal rather than conceal the rather messy processes of experimentation, inviting viewers to join me in a spirit of playfulness and shared discovery." Michael Arrigo is a professor of art at the Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
May 28 – July 5
Laura James, Oldest Live Oak, 2018, 5 x 7.5 inches.
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 25th annual The View juried landscape exhibition. The exhibition runs from May 28 through July 5, 2019. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, June 2, 2-4 p.m. with an awards presentation at 3 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
The View is a juried exhibition for artists living in Ohio, working in all media and showcasing both contemporary and traditional approaches to landscape art. The work shown in this exhibition deals with landscape or land imagery, environmental themes and world issues. This year, there were 207 pieces from 82 artists, from which the juror, Jack Mann, chose 41 artworks representing 37 artists. Mann also selected the winners of awards totaling $950. The People's Choice award presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Fund will be announced at the close of the show.
Participating artists include Tim Borgert, Shirlee Bauer, Ginny Baughman, Matthew Burgy, Virginia Burroughs, William Campbell, Jim Champion, Edward Charney, Paul Corbitt, Akira Marie Cornett, Carol Edsall,Megan Evans, Douglas Fiely, Ronald Geibert, Erica Goulart, Natali Green, Lloyd Greene, Ann Headly, Patricia Higgins, Nicholas Hill, Laura James, Anthony Kappler, Grace Langford, Sean Leavell, Kevin McNeeley, Kristin Mitchel, Kathy Moore, Robert Mullenix, Jaime Pacheco, Stuart Pearl, Linda Phillips, Elle Pollard, Jeff Smith, Jay Snively, David Stichweh, PJ Sturdevant and Clinton Wood.
Hours for the exhibition are Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering. For more information, call (937) 296-0294.
Kathryn Jill Johnson, Drawings
Kathryn Jill Johnson, Sinker (detail), 2017, graphite, oil & copper leaf on panel
KATHRYN JILL JOHNSON (Huntsville, AL), DRAWINGS
July 15 – August 16 (Reception Sunday, July 21, 2 – 4 p.m.)
The City of Kettering and Rosewood Gallery are pleased to present exhibitions by painter Kathryn Jill Johnson of Huntsville, Alabama and new media artist, Wayne Madsen, of Noblesville, Indiana. The exhibitions will run from July 15 through August 16 with an artist reception and gallery talk on Sunday, July 21 from 2-4 p.m. Artist talks are scheduled at 3 pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Kathryn Jill Johnson's art is a combination of drawing and painting. "I am the worst sort of detective. I just like to pile up clues and rearrange them into melancholic jokes, farcical calamities and occasional moments of grace." she wrote. Johnson takes you on a journey following her clues – images of birds, people, pipes, bandages, and medical devises – letting you take her constructions and translating them as you will. Johnson is currently a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Wayne Madsen, Multimedia
Wayne Madsen, Fold 12, 2018, plotter pen
WAYNE MADSEN (Noblesville, IN), MULTIMEDIA
In his exhibition, Line Ecologies, artist Wayne Madsen uses a computer and a plotter pen to "generate complexity through simplicity." By creating computer algorithms he "seeks to access creativity outside of my own self." The resulting work is created by a "drawing robot". It is both interactive and mesmerizing. Madsen is an Assistant Professor of New Media Art and Technology at Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, IN.
Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow (Dayton, OH); Comfort for a Cruel World; 2017; stoneware, hand-colored decals, and wire.
Pamela Hignite Deaton (Liberty, IN); We Dreamed They Understood the Sacred, 2017; mixed media
August 26 – October 4
Reception: Sunday, September 8, 2- 4 p.m.
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the 13th annual HWD, a juried exhibition for sculpture artists in Ohio and surrounding states. HWD (Height x Width x Depth) is the area's only gallery exhibition devoted exclusively to sculpture. The exhibition runs from August 26 through October 4, 2019. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, September 8 from 2 – 4 p.m. with an awards presentation at 3 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
This year, 34 artists submitted 139 pieces, from which the juror, Kevin Lyles, chose 28 artworks representing 17 artists. Lyles will also select the winners of six awards, totaling $1,100, including The Virginia Krause Hess Award for Excellence in Sculptural Art and The People's Choice Award through the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund.
Participating artists include: Dana Boggs, Patricia Boone, Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow, Casey Bradley, Diane Britt, Connie Campbell, Jim Champion, Bob Coates, Joel Dunn, Cee Elbert, Sofia Elizabeth, Nathaniel Foley, Pamela Hignite Deaton, Sarah Hydell, Patti Menick, Gregory Steel and Donald Williams.
Kevin Lyles graduated from Abilene Christian University in Texas with a BFA in art and then attended Bradley University in Illinois where he received an MFA in sculpture. After graduate school, Kevin worked for ten years in sculptural restoration, repairing monuments and architectural ornamentation across the country. For the past twenty-eight years, he has taught art at the University of Rio Grande, where he is a full professor. His work has been shown in over 160 international, national and regional exhibitions and is in many permanent collections. His sculpture often mixes several media within each piece with the aim of developing a visual story for the viewer. Currently, he lives in rural southeast Ohio, where he has a timber-frame home and a studio in the woods.
Hours for the exhibitions are Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering. For more information, call (937) 296-0294.
Ashley Jude Jonas, It Was Just a Plan, A Roof, Some Rain
Ashley Jude Jonas, Lonely Still Life, 2017, found objects, plaster, ceramic, drawing
The City of Kettering and Rosewood Gallery are pleased to present exhibitions by installation artist Ashley Jude Jonas of Dayton, Ohio, and painter Robert Mullenix, of Oxford, Ohio. The exhibitions will run from October 14 through November 15 with an artist reception and gallery talk on Sunday, October 20 from 2-4 p.m. Artist talks are scheduled at 3 p.m. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
In her exhibition It Was Just a Plan, A Roof, Some Rain, artist Ashley Jude Jonas uses a combination of sculpture, found objects, ceramics and drawing to create an installation that "reframes potential and wonder in the context of the everyday by asking that we pay attention to the often unnoticed peculiar and beautiful relationships between form, function and place." Jonas is a Dayton area artist and co-founder of the Blue House Gallery and Studios in Dayton.
Robert Mullenix, Ad Hoc
Robert Mullenix, Fold 1, 2018, oil on canvas/collage on canvas
In Ad Hoc, artist and Miami University professor Robert Mullenix veers from his usual vernacular of landscape paintings to create a body of work using appropriated advertising half-tone art and collaged/repurposed paintings. "There was an immediacy to this process of combining stolen imagery and constructing objects from studio refuse," he wrote. The result is a new way of looking at old advertising imagery made new with the inclusion of lush paint.
8th annual Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition
Mark Echtner, Circle of Friends, 2019, oil on canvas
Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 7, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. (during A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival)
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition. The exhibition runs from November 25 through December 27, 2019. The public is invited to vote for their favorite artwork at the reception, which will be held during A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival on Saturday, December 7, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. People's Choice Awards totaling $450, supported by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund and Rosewood Arts Centre, will be determined by ballots cast during the exhibition. Awards will be announced the week following the event. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Participating artists: Peter A. Berwald, Carlee Bollin, Patricia Boone, Kelley Booze, Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow, R. Darden Bradshaw, Matthew R. Burgy, Virginia Burroughs, Jim Champion, Bob Coates, Meghan Dillon, Gail Drummer, Mark Echtner, Mitchell Eismont, Sharon Gavender, Lindsay A. Gustafson, Leesa Haapapuro, Shannon Haines, Shirley Harbaugh, Shawna Hatton, Deborah Housh, Jennifer Jenkins, Kelly Joslin, Richard Jurus, Sam Kelly, Tom Kinarney, Christine Klinger, Tim Langenderfer, Tracy Longley-Cook, Jennifer Lorenzetti, Brandon Lowery, C. Pat McClelland, Tracy McElfresh, Maria McGinnis, Stephen Merland, Kristin Mitchell, Penny Park, Loretta Puncer, Rose Schultz, Leah Stahl, Nicki Strouss, Sally A. Struthers, Stu Wheeler, Liz Whipps, Leonard Williams and Sarah Wrona.
Hours for the exhibitions are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering. For more information, call (937) 296-0294.
Ginger Owen-Murakami & Vicki Van Ameyden, Heritage Habitats
Ginger Owen & Vicki VanAmeyden, Kites, 2010, mixed media, dim. var.
Opening reception: Thursday, November 29, 6 – 8 p.m.
Both the exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
Collaborating artists Ginger Owen-Murakami and Vicki VanAmeyden have come together to create the installation, Heritage Habitats. In this show they have framed the work around nostalgia and memory where these Michigan artists have created physical spaces where as they explain in their artist statement "the viewer may reference their own memories and experiences to engage with the work."
The two use appropriated images from their family albums that offer a more iconic and universal reading of ancestry, merging the images with other materials to create pieces entitled Grove, Roots, and Heartwood. Each piece references the human experience. "They are concerned with aspects of imaging oneself in the genealogical lineage while contemplating basic life stages: birth, infancy, youth, adulthood, old age, and ultimately death" Owen-Murakami and VanAmeyden explain in their artist statement.
Owen-Murakami is an Associate Professor of Photography and Intermedia at Western Michigan University and VanAmeyden uses her Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking to create work that explores the human condition.
Connie Campbell, Archetypes
Connie R. Campbell, Series II #10, 2018, Aluminum, steel cable, and copper, 12 x 22 x 40 in.
Connie R. Campbell, Archetypes
Franklin-area artist Connie R. Campbell produces sculptures with a sense of strength and tension. Made with aluminum, copper, and wood each piece of art references an animal skeleton and animal snare. In creating the work Campbell uses mathematical references to the Golden Section to design repetitive shapes and tense curves off-set with straight lines. This body of work she is showing at Rosewood is entitled Archetypes. In her artist statement Campbell describes Archetype as being composed of three Series that "follow my interest in symmetrical geometric design, repetitive lines and tension".
Campbell has exhibited her work nationally and returns to Rosewood Arts Centre, where she was the former Arts Superintendent for the City of Kettering.
Rosewood Gallery presents Juan-Si Gonzalez, Displacement: Collective Practice to Recover Memory (in conjunction with FotoFocus Biennial 2018)
On view: October 15 – November 16
Opening reception: Thursday, October 18, 2018, 6-8pm
Gallery Tour and Conversation with the artist: Wednesday, November 7 at 7pm
Juan-Sí González, Yo Casita, 2018, Digital Print
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the exhibition Displacement: Collective Practice to Recover Memory, an installation of photography-based art by Juan-Sí González. The exhibition runs from October 15 through November 16, 2018 with an opening reception on Thursday, October 18 from 6 – 8pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Support for this FotoFocus Biennial 2018 exhibition was provided by FotoFocus. Additional support was provided by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts Department and the Ohio Arts Council.
Displacement: Collective Practice to Recover Memory is a site-specific multimedia installation created in collaboration with Rosewood Arts Centre, The City of Kettering and local residents. This collaboration was a process of research and a collective practice in reviewing together our visual memory using individual and family photographs and the historical archives of the cities of Kettering and Dayton.
In his artist statement, González wrote, "The condition of massive global migrations has changed our mental landscape and the ideas we have about place. These dislocations, as much mental and physical as geographic, have transformed ways of life in both places of origin and in the new places of migratory settlement. In this installation, the idea of territoriality or lack thereof, of belonging or not, does not allude to a particular culture, but to the symbolic spaces of common reference of disparate cultures. This installation will explore through the use of personal and collective archives the histories that today condition and shape the territory of Kettering and the greater Dayton area."
Juan Si González was born in Santiago de Cuba. He is an interdisciplinary artist. In 1987, he co-founded "Group Art-De" (standing for art and rights) and began doing interactive performances in the streets of Habana and underground videos to talk about social issues in Cuba. When he immigrated to Miami in 1993, he began building site-specific mixed media installations and working in large-scale photographic series. He has lived in Ohio since 2003, during which time he has been awarded three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Artist Fellowships.
FotoFocus Biennial 2018 spans over 80 museums, galleries, and universities across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio; and features over 250 artists, curators, and educators. Each Biennial is structured around a unifying theme; for 2018 that theme is Open Archive. Open Archive emphasizes the centrality of photography and lens-based art to modernism, and it examines our fundamental need to preserve photographs and to tell stories through their collection, organization and interpretation.
Elizabeth Hubler-Torrey (Grand Rapids, MI); Sea Anemone; 2015; Encaustic pastel and oil stick; 10 x 10 x 10 in.
Rosewood Gallery presents the 12th annual HWD Juried Sculpture Exhibition
On view: August 27 – October 5, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, August 30, 6 – 8pm
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 12th annual HWD, a juried exhibition for sculpture artists in Ohio and surrounding states. HWD (Height x Width x Depth) is the area's only gallery exhibition devoted exclusively to sculpture. The exhibition runs from August 27 through October 5, 2018. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, August 30 from 6 – 8pm with an awards presentation at 7pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
This year, 33 artists submitted 162 pieces, from which the juror, Patrick Mauk, chose 29 artworks representing 24 artists. Closer to opening, Mauk will select the winners of six awards, totaling $1,100. In addition, this year is the inaugural Virginia Krause Hess Award for Excellence in Sculptural Art, an award of $500, and the People's Choice Award of $150, awarded by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund through the Kettering Parks Foundation.
Participating artists include: Robert Porreca, Christin Kern, Jennifer Whitten, Richard Light, Elizabeth Runyon, Doug Harlow, Molly Pope, Lydia Walton, Elizabeth Hubler-Torrey, Patricia Boone, Danielle Callahan, Kathy Guest, Jonathan Jager, Dakotah Konicek, Jennifer Muse, Jim Champion, Amy Dallis, Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Mathew Burgy, Rob Millard Mendez, David Kenworthy and Jenny Reed.
Mauk, a native of Wapakoneta, is a graduate of Wright State University and holds a master's degree of fine arts from the University of Cincinnati. He has taught drawing and printmaking at the University of Dayton, Wright State University, Dayton Art Institute, Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati. He has been the Gallery Manager at Dayton Visual Arts Center (DVAC) since 2004. As an exhibition specialist and curator with 12 years' experience in university/museum/contemporary art exhibitions, Mauk has been involved with art handling, matting and framing, exhibit design, marketing and promotional design, grant writing and administration and facility management. He is an exhibiting artist in printmaking, painting and drawing and emphasizes mark making and simplification of form through expressive treatment of the media.
Robert Millard-Mendez, Crowboat, 2018, Wood, paint, and Slate, 38" x 29" x 17".
Juror, Patrick Mauk, selected eight pieces of art to receive award recognition; the following is a list of awards: The Virginia Krause Hess Award for Excellence in Sculptural Art was awarded to Rob Millard-Mendez from Evansville Indianna for his piece "Crow Boat"; Best in Show to Jason Jager from South Bloomingville, OH for his piece "To Soar: The Vaulter; 2nd Place to Jim Champion from Mason, OH for "Soulshine"; 3rd Place to Jennifer Whitten from Cleveland, OH for "Decision"; Merit Award to Kathy Guest from South Bloomingville, OH for "Watching with Blinders"and a Merit Award to Christine Kern from Canal Winchester, OH for "Stationarey Shelf"; Honorable Mention to Doug Harlow from Centerville, OH for "Go Fish"; and an Honorable Mention to Dakotah Konicek from Bloomington, IN for "My devices, my robots, my friends".
The People's Choice Award will be announced after the show closes on October 5, 2018. Please feel free to cast your vote in the gallery during gallery hours.
Paula Izydorek, acrylic paintings
Paula Izydorek; Olo Co-L 3.14.1; 2014; acrylic on birch wood panel; 36 x 48 in.
Rosewood Gallery, solo exhibition by Paula Izydorek
On view: July 16 – August 17, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, July 19, 6 – 8pm
Painter Paula Izydorek of Cleveland, OH spent her formative years in Southern California and has since lived in several major US cities. She is passionate about her heritage and has traveled to all but three of the states. During her travels, Izydorek looks to contemporary painting and the abundant perfection found in nature for continual inspiration. Although she inherently knows the exquisiteness of nature can never be improved upon, through the painting process, it is her goal to paint homage to its vast heterogeneity of textures, formations and all-encompassing palates. Izydorek received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is included in the Cleveland Art Association and in several private collections throughout the US. Her paintings have been juried into numerous solo and group exhibitions.
"Through painting, [I] examine and attempt to resolve universal yet personal conflicts such as the meaning of home or the unfolding of self worth," Izydorek said. "During this process-based exploration, [I] incorporate wood grain as the main subject of [my] narrative. The unique grain pattern metaphorically portrays how one's experiential journey exists in a constant state of being altered by the surrounding energy in one's environment."
John Humphries, mixed-media paintings
John Humphries; Landscape Constellation 010; 2015; watercolor, pencil, string and wood on paper; 12 x 20 in.
Rosewood Gallery, solo exhibition by John Humphries
Cincinnati, OH-based artist, John Humphries is a Professor of Architecture and Interior Design at Miami University, as well as a visual artist, gardener and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of photo/watercolor constructions, carved wooden slabs and automatic poems. Humphries has exhibited in Japan, Germany, The Czech republic and in the US. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Award of Distinction from the Interior Design Educators Council and the International Juror's Award of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. He also serves as a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
Of his work, Humphries says: "By embracing the conceptual nature of representation, [I have] begun to slowly develop a body of work, which translates common objects from nature into a complex watercolor drawing to understand the elements which are kept and things lost in translation. The drawings utilize themes and organizational devices from landscapes, historical narratives and built environments."
In conjunction with his exhibition at Rosewood Gallery, Humphries will lead a master workshop, Painting from the Pantry, on Saturday, July 21 from 10:30am – 12pm. Workshop fees are $15 resident/$20 non-resident. Space is limited; call 937-296-0294 to register.
Phillip Erbaugh (Brookville, OH), D Street, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in.
Rosewood Gallery presents the 24th Annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition
On view: May 29 – July 6, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, May 31, 6-8pm
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 24th annual The View juried landscape exhibition, an exhibition for Ohio artists presenting landscape or land imagery, environmental themes and world issues. The exhibition runs from May 29 through July 6, 2018. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, May 31, 6-8pm with an awards presentation at 7pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
The View is a juried exhibition for artists living in Ohio and working in all media. This year, 103 artists submitted 312 pieces, from which the juror, Kim Vito, chose 30 artworks representing 29 artists. Vito also selected the winners of awards totaling $1,100.
Participating artists include William Campbell, Kathy Moore, Emily Bartolonee, Jan Boone, Douglas Fiely, Stuart Pearl, Penny Park, Phillip Erbaugh, Lee Monnin, Jim Champion, Brendan Higgins, David Stichweh, Kelly Joslin, Doug Harlow, Andy Snow, Paul Corbitt, Kevin McNeeley, Debbie Hicks, Jeff Smith, Micah Zavacky, Barb Stork, Sherraid Scott, Aaron Pickens, Ellen Price, Craig Lloyd, Mary Beth Whitley, Virgnia Marchetti, Jan Bell and Lisa Vottero.
Kim Rae Taylor, "Rendered Complete Equals"
Kim Rae Taylor, Plastoxity, 2018, oil and mixed media on panel, 36 x 72 in.
Kim Rae Taylor
Rendered Complete Equals
On view: April 16 – May 18, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, April 19, 6-8pm
Painter Kim Rae Taylor, who lives and works in Cincinnati, will exhibit a series of mixed media paintings in an exhibition titled Rendered Complete Equals. Of her work, Taylor says, "Through mixed media painting and drawing, I experiment with the pictorial function of words by deconstructing textual elements alongside organic forms found in nature. The integration of collage media provides a way to establish a visual dialogue between both natural and manmade symbols. The resulting imagery is gradually developed through the layering of paint with a wide array of castoff bits gathered from unexpected sources."
Taylor has served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Clermont College since 2006; she is currently an Associate Professor of Art. She received her MFA from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati and her BFA from The College of Fine Arts of the University of Texas at Austin. Additional studies include the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy, and the Metáfora Center for Art Therapy Studies in Barcelona, Spain. She spent more than two decades working as a graphic artist, including work in cartoon animation and product design. She travels frequently for work and research, including artist residencies at Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, and the Cill Rialaig Project in County Kerry, Ireland.
In conjunction with her exhibition at Rosewood Gallery, Taylor will lead a master workshop on collage painting on Thursday, May 10 from 6-9pm. Workshop fees are $15 resident/$20 non-resident. Space is limited; call 937-296-0294 to register.
Virginia Kistler, "Fungal Impressions"
Virginia Kistler, Agaricales Arrangement B, 2017, Archival Inkjet Print on Photo Paper, 48″ x 22″
Virginia Kistler
Fungal Impressions
Columbus-area artist Virginia Kistler investigates the ubiquity of urban landscapes and their absence of biodiverse spaces as she seeks to understand the intersection of urban growth and the natural landscape. "I mine impressions that are unseen and ephemeral to create sculptural forms," Kistler says of this body of work. "Derived from urban spaces, flora, and fauna, I create dimensional compilations in an attempt to look at their relationships in a different context." Kistler's exhibition is titled Fungal Impressions.
Virginia Kistler was born in Newcomerstown, Ohio in 1976 and attended The Ohio State University and the Columbus College of Art and Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and photography while using a variety of media—laser cut rubber, CNC router-cut plastic, and 3D printed plastic. She has shown work nationally and internationally and has been commissioned by the Lincoln Motor Company, the Dayton Metro Library, and the cities of Columbus and Kettering to create permanent works of sculpture. Kistler lives and works in Gahanna, Ohio.
Kistler is also the creator of an upcoming addition to the City of Kettering CitySites Public Art Program. Kistler's artwork is the inaugural piece in the ArtLocal program, an initiative utilizing art and creative thinking in localized public spaces throughout the city of Kettering. The dedication will take place in June 2018, in Oak Park, Kettering.
Char Norman, Veneration
Char Norman; Sheltered Lichen; 2017; linen thread, handmade paper, bark; 14 x 4 x 4 in.
Rosewood Gallery presents solo exhibitions by Derry Cox and Char Norman
On view: March 5 – April 6, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, March 8, 6-8pm
Sculptor Char Norman, who lives and works in Columbus, will exhibit a series of mixed media sculptures in an exhibition titled Veneration. Of her work, Norman says, "The idea of Nature as an object of veneration and worship is as old as man. Tied into the worship of nature is the idea of the inter-connectedness of all things with none dominant over the other. As our society and world are facing an environmental crisis which may even lead to our demise it is more important than ever to understand this symbiotic relationship and embrace eco-psychology I present nature in sacred spaces and attitudes to bring understanding and importance to the issues at hand."
Norman earned a Master of Fine Art degree from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Art degree from Scripps College. She has lectured and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, has developed and conducted workshops for all ages, worked as a consultant to area schools and community arts organizations, and held the positions of Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at Columbus College of Art & Design. She currently works as a full time professional artist.
Derry Cox, Microscopic Abstract Triptych
Derry Cox; Stained Slide; 2017; microscopic abstract triptych, digital inkjet print; 9 x 17 in.
Centerville-based artist Derry Cox's photographs demonstrate a medium of his own invention: the microscopic abstract triptych. Each image, comprised of three photographs of a single subject, was made using an advanced biological research microscope. "Each triptych set has both a scientific value and an aesthetic value," Cox says of this body of work. "They're simultaneously interesting and pleasant to view."
Cox's work has exhibited at the Centerville Art Gallery and the Southminster Presbyterian Church in Centerville, both in 2016.
Works on Paper 2018
Emily Elam, To Stir the Soul Not The Soup, 2016, monoprint on handmade paper, 15¼ x 11½ in.
Reception: Thursday, January 18, 2018, 6 – 8pm
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of the 28th annual Works on Paperexhibition. The exhibition runs from January 16 through February 23, 2018. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, January 18 from 6-8pm with a United Art and Education Awards presentation at 7pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. This year, 75 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 202 pieces, from which the juror, writer and curator Maria Seda-Reeder, chose 40 artworks, representing 34 artists. She also selected the winners of the United Art and Education Awards, totaling $1,100.
Congratulations to our award winners!
Douglas R. Fiely of Dayton for "Curtain Call"
FIRST HONORABLE MENTION
Michele BonDurant of Oakwood for "Secret House in the Woods"
SECOND HONORABLE MENTION
Rachel Botting of Dayton for "Spores"
THIRD HONORABLE MENTION
Edward Steffanni of Xenia for "Church Interior With a Fan"
MOST CREATIVE USE OF PAPER
Emily Elam of Franklin for "To Stir the Soul Not the Soup"
MOST INSPIRING USE OF MATERIALS
Sydney Joslin-Knapp of Dayton for "Lovers"
Participating artists include Michele BonDurant, Rachel Botting, Robert A. Coates, Dawn V. Coleman, Dorothea A. Crowley, Pamela Denka, Deborah Dixon, Emily Elam, Douglas R. Fiely, Bill Franz, Terry Glass, Kevin Harris, Doris Jacobs, Gail Johnson-Sells, Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Ann B. Kim, Tim Langenderfer, Anna Lemons, Brian Loges, Richard Malogorski, Fiona Miller, Pete Mitas, Jaime Pacheco, Penny Park, Don Patty, Jane Phillippi, Linda Phillips, Hal Shunk, Billy Simms, Edward Steffanni, Kim Vito, Mary Beth Whitley, Sean Wilkinson, and Leonard Williams.
Hours for the exhibition are Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm; Friday 9am-6pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; and Sunday 12-5pm. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering.
Lindsay Gustafson (Kettering Middle School, Rsoewood Arts Centre), To the Moon, 2015, mixed media, 10.5 x 10.5 x .75 in.
Reception: Saturday, December 2, 11am – 3pm during A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival
Rosewood Gallery in Kettering, Ohio is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition. The exhibition runs from November 27 through December 29, 2017. The public is invited to vote for their favorite artwork at the reception, which will be held during A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival on Saturday, December 2, from 11am – 3pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
People's Choice Awards
Thanks to all who attended the A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival event and the Art Ed: An Art Educators' Exhibition reception! We had incredible attendance and, as always, a very successful People's Choice Awards voting turnout!
Congratulations are in order for our FOUR award winners, who received the highest number of votes from attendees:
First Place: Andrew F. Dailey for Eidolon
Second Place: THREE-WAY TIE
Sharon Govender for Abstract I
Tim Langenderfer for Classroom Demos
Kristin Mitchell for Resilience
Participating artists: A. Joseph Barrish, S.M., Zac Benson, Peter Berwald, Carlee Bollin, Patricia Boone, Kelley Booze, Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow, R. Darden Bradshaw, David Brand, Matthew R. Burgy, Virginia Burroughs, Janet Butsch, Jim Champion, Molly Christian, Ronald Claxton, Bob Coates, Andrew F. Dailey, Greg Dearth, Mark Echtner, Mitchell Eismont, Aaron Gosser, Sharon Govender, Lindsay Gustafson, Leesa Haapapuro, Shirley Harbaugh, Kelly Joslin, Cydnie King, Christine Klinger, Tim Langenderfer, April Lemaster, Tess Little, Brian Loges, C. Pat McClelland, Tracy McElfresh, Diane M. Mitchel, Kristin Mitchell, Suzanne Mitolo, Kathy A. Moore, Sandra Picciano-Brand, Kate Huser Santucci, Rose Schultz, Megan J. Smallwood, Barb Stork, Sally Struthers, Sara Torgison, Joanne Von Sossan, Mary Beth Whitley, Leonard Williams, and Sharon Williams.
Hours for the exhibitions are Monday through Thursday, 9am – 9pm; Friday, 9am – 6pm; and Saturday, 9am – 3pm. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering.
Andrew F. Dailey, 'Drawn Through' and Mark T. Wiesener, 'An Orchestration of Movement'
Andrew F. Dailey, Death Votives, 2016-2017, graphite on paper, 8×10 in.
Andrew F. Dailey, Drawn Through
On view October 16 – November 17
Reception: Thursday, October 19, 6 – 8pm
Created over the course of a year, Dayton artist Andrew F. Dailey's nearly 60 graphite drawings reference elements of death, grief, loss, transformation and memory. This exhibition, titled Drawn Through, is dedicated to the life and memory of Gabriel P. Dailey. "[This work] was influenced by a series of events in 2015 and 2016 that resulted in multiple instances of great personal loss," Dailey says of this series. "Reflecting on the people, relationships, pets and objects of significance I have lost throughout my lifetime is the central theme."
Dailey, who has exhibited his artwork extensively in Dayton and the surrounding areas as well as nationally and internationally, holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Miami University in Oxford and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wright State University. He currently serves as Cultural Arts Program Supervisor for Rosewood Arts Centre and the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department. Dailey is an active member of the Dayton arts and art education community, and has received numerous artistic and professional awards including the Outstanding Alumni Award from Wright State University's Department of Art and Art History (2016) and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2011).
Mark T. Wiesner, Sunflower, 2017, mixed media, 36 x 48 x 9 in.
Mark T. Wiesner, An Orchestration of Movement: Sculptural Mark Making
Sculptor Mark T. Wiesner of Cincinnati will exhibit a series of mixed media works titled An Orchestration of Movement: Sculptural Mark Making. Regarding his use of cardboard as a primary material, Wiesner says, "My work is rooted in being true to this material and to the others that I work to reclaim from the waste stream of life. To these rather mundane yet delicate materials I bring a meticulous, technical rigor. It's intended to be transformative, magical."
Wiesner has exhibited frequently in the Greater Cincinnati area at venues such as Brazee Street Gallery, the Cincinnati Nature Center, Xavier University's A. B. Cohen Art Gallery, and the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. He earned a Master of Arts in Religion degree in religious studies from the Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Arts degree in art education from Edgecliff College, also in Cincinnati. Wiesner retired in 2015 from a 39-year career in art education.
11th HWD Juried Sculpture Exhibition
Laura J. Shope (Ann Arbor, MI); Pod II; 2017; plaster, latex, sea grass, jute, sandstone; 12 x 12 x 19 in.
Reception: Thursday, August 31, 6 – 8pm
This year, 42 artists submitted 117 pieces, from which the juror, Virginia Kistler, chose 32 artworks representing 17 artists. Kistler also selected the show's award winners, totaling $1,100.
Kistler selected five Juror's Choice award winners:
Connie Campbell of Franklin, OH for Series II #4
Jonah Jacobs of Mentor, OH for Green Internode #1
Henry Sheets of Ada, OH for Icon of the Faith, Pious Travel
Bradley Weyandt of Greensburg, PA, for Hair Block Pile
Summer Zickefoose of Canfield, OH for skin, gut, and debone
Participating artists include Connie Campbell, Michelle Droll, Eric Hamlin, Rebecca Hamlin Green, Doug Harlow, Jonah Jacobs, Christine Kern, Alice Kiderman, Brent Oglesbee, Henry Sheets, Laura Shope, Megan Smallwood, Rachel Smith, Bradley Weyandt, Jennifer Whitten, Summer Zickefoose, and Brian Zimerle.
This year's juror, Virginia Kistler, received a Bachelor of Science from The Ohio State University and Master of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and photography while using a variety of media—laser cut rubber, CNC router-cut plastic, and 3D printed plastic. Her work focuses on the ubiquity of urban landscapes and the absence of biodiverse spaces. She has shown work nationally and internationally and has been commissioned by the Lincoln Motor Company, the Dayton Metro Library, and the city of Columbus to create permanent works of sculpture. Kistler lives and works in Gahanna, Ohio.
Hours for the exhibition are Monday through Thursday, 9am – 9pm; Friday, 9am – 6pm; and Saturday, 9am – 3pm. Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering.
HWD, Dayton Daily News review by Pam Dillon
Frank Travers, What Remains
Frank Travers, "Tick Infested Moose," woodcut, 38 x 22 in.
July 17 – August 18
Reception: Thursday, July 20, 6-8pm
Printmaker Frank Travers, who also lives and works in Dayton, will exhibit a series of works titled What Remains. Of his work, Travers says, "I'm very interested in the details and the things that get a little gross; puss, guts, worms that live in guts and other parasitic activity. I think we all know fragility of the body and become more aware of it the older we get. I want to show through my pictures a stagnant decay that is also a sort of narrative perspective that is metaphysical but also recognizable."
Travers has exhibited widely both locally and nationally. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2010 from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2008 from Wright State University. Travers currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Printmaking at Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton as well as Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Edison Community College in Piqua and volunteers at Blue House Gallery and Studios in Dayton.
Nicholaus Arnold, No One Was Having a Very Good Time
Nicholaus Arnold, "No One Was Having a Good Time," 2015, found and hand-made paper bag installation, dim. var.
Both the receptions and exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Dayton artist Nicholaus Arnold's studio work, usually humorous and seemingly lackadaisical in nature, takes a more solemn turn in this exhibition titled No One Was Having a Very Good Time. This series of found object and hand crafted works is the culmination of Arnold's response to several months spent caring for, and ultimately saying goodbye to, his elderly grandfather. "The objects together summarize the experiences and confusion of what I was going through during the care of my grandpa, and lend a sense of approachability to the situation," Arnold says of this series. "The works themselves are created with a sense of analysis and depress emotions to allow the viewer to interpret the complicated nature of a death of a close family member."
Arnold, who has exhibited his artwork extensively in Dayton and the surrounding areas as well as nation-wide, holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from Syracuse University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, also in printmaking from Wright State University, and an Associate of Arts degree in fine art photography from Sinclair Community College. He currently serves as Adjunct Instructor of Printmaking and Photography at the University of Dayton and is a founder of Blue House Gallery and Studios in Dayton.
23rd Annual 'The View' Juried Landscape Exhibition
23rd Annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition
Reception, Thursday, June 1, 6 – 8pm
The View is Rosewood Gallery's annual, juried group landscape exhibition. All media are considered, and the artwork exhibited deals with outdoor themes, land imagery, the environment or world issues. Admission is free. Check out a recent review by Pamela Dillon of the Dayton Daily News.
This a juried exhibition for artists living in Ohio. This year, 82 artists submitted 238 pieces, from which the juror, Andrea Benedict Starkey, chose 47 artworks representing 37 artists. Starkey also selected the winners of awards totaling $1,100.Participating artists include George Armstrong, Beautiful Kilometer, DJ Berard, Patricia Boone, Douglas Brand, Virginia Burroughs, Bruce Campbell, Anita Dawson, Amy Deal, Phillip Erbaugh, Winifred Fiedler, Douglas Fiely, Bill Franz, Doug Harlow, Don Henry, David E. Horton, Martin Hunter, Kelly Joslin, Richard Jurus, Mary Baker Koch, Sean Leavell, Craig Lloyd, Richard Malogorski, Tracy McElfresh, Kevin McNeeley, Kathy A. Moore, Carroll Schleppi, Donald A. Schuster, Patrick Sims, Andy Snow, Gina Stevenson, David Stichweh, Barb Weinert-McBee, Mary Beth Whitley, Don Williams, Ronald Wilson, and Margaret E. Wittmer.Hours for the exhibition are:
Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Rosewood Gallery is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Kettering Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering. For more information, call (937) 296-0294 or visit our website: playkettering.org/gallery.
Image: Patrick Sims, Crossing North Fork, 2017, acrylic, 10 x 20 in.
Emily Moores, Cathedral
Reception Thursday, April 20, 6-8pm
Cincinnati-based paper artist Emily Moores presented a site-specific installation called Cathedral. Regarding her work, Moores says, "I cut, fold, and roll to transform paper into dense textures or towering structures. By hand cutting each shape, the repetition within the forms is not identical. The slight variation adds a tactile quality to the paper structures." She continues, "I use the limited nature of installation combined with the sensory experience of my ornamental paper constructions to focus attention on the present moment in time."
Moores earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She currently serves as Development Coordinator at Churches Active in Northside, a Cincinnati-area food pantry.
Darren Haper, Almost There
Darren Haper, Cyclops Dot to Dot
April 17 – May 19 , 2017
Painter Darren Haper, who lives and works in Dayton, exhibited a dynamic series of paintings in an exhibition titled Almost There. "I am interested in that time of life when innocence, freedom of ideas, and inspirations came naturally—a time before one knew what composition, line, texture, or color theory meant," Haper says. "Much of my inspiration comes from watching the free flow of ideas my children express as they create art and wishing I could achieve that again."
Haper, who has exhibited his artwork extensively in the Dayton area as well as in national and international exhibitions, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Miami University. He has given lectures at several of the region's universities and was the recipient of the 2007 MCACD Fellowship. Haper currently serves as Studio Manager at Mike Elsass Studios.
Heather Lea Reid, Intersubjective Indulgence
Reception Thursday, March 9, 6-8pm
Painter Heather Lea Reid, who lives and works in Dayton, exhibited a series of works collectively titled Intersubjective Indulgence. Of her work, Reid says, "I start from drawings and ideas derived from everyday experiences. Instead of revealing a narrative though, I relate an overall mood that encompasses the heart of an experience. In turn, my drawings build into detailed paintings that express the depth of daily experience. I am compelled to communicate something that I cannot express in words. Instead, I communicate my thoughts and feelings with the use of line, color, and form."
Cynthia Gregory, The Poet's Desk
Kentucky-based artist Cynthia Gregory, whose studio work integrates drawing, sculpture, and furniture-making to illuminate themes of time, history, accumulation, and containment, exhibited a body of work titled The Poet's Desk. "A significant source of inspiration fueling my work rests in my interests in literature, writing, history, the natural sciences, and astronomy," Gregory says of her process. "From these themes and sources, I choose subject matter that builds a personal vocabulary of recurring motifs, such as the experiential, tactile world of the everyday, as well as elements found in humanistic spaces of contemplation, knowledge, creation, and wonder—for instance, the stratified clutter of a poet's desk, star charts draped over an astronomer's table, or enigmatic objects, talismans, and scraps of paper lodged along a scholar's bookshelf."
Gregory, who has exhibited her artwork widely in national and international exhibitions and whose work is featured in various publications, holds several degrees including a BA in English (Northern Kentucky University), a BFA in Fine Art (College of Mount St. Joseph), an MLS (Indiana University), and an MFA (University of Cincinnati).
Works on Paper, 2017
John Hankiewicz, Fruit I, 2016, etching and chine colle
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6 – 8 pm.
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio.
This year, 91 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 237 pieces, from which the juror, Elizabeth Carney, Assistant Curator at the Akron Art Museum, chose 40 artworks, representing 35 artists.
Carney wrote, "Paper is a varied and beautiful material with a long history. The artworks in this year's 'Works on Paper' exhibition each communicate an intentional and studied approach to not only image-making, but also object-making. We think of paper as two-dimensional, but it in fact has depth and texture, no matter how fine. The selected artists make use of the nuances of their papers of choice, having crafting cohesive artworks with unique voices."
Carney also selected the winners of the United Art and Education Awards, totaling $1,100. Award winners are:
First Place: John Hankiewicz, Fruit 1
Second Place: Michele BonDurant, Exposed to Loneliness
Third Place: Doug McLarty, Dragon
Honorable Mentions: Sean Wilkinson, Library #13; Molly Christian, Pouty Girl
Participating artists include Amy Kollar Anderson, Pat Antonick, Michele BonDurant, Matthew R. Burgy, Bruce Campbell, Molly Christian, Joseph Chunko, Dan Cleary, Mary F. Clifford, Clara Coleman, Dorothea A. Crowley, Douglas R. Fiely, Ron Geibert, Kyleen Greene, John Hankiewicz, Dan Hayes, Katie Heine, Kelly Joslin, Sydney Joslin-Knapp, Tim Langenderfer, Doug McLarty, Betty Murray, Jaime Pacheco, Daniel Powers, Heather Lea Reid, Pat Robinow, Billy Simms, Erin Smith-Glenn, Andrea Starkey, Edward Steffanni, Doug Taylor, Stephanie Tyson, Mary Beth Whitley, Sean Wilkinson, and Margaret E. Wittmer.
Art Ed, 2016
Meghan Dillon, Independent Replication, 2016, dye and thread on muslin
Reception: Saturday, December 3, 11am-3pm, in conjunction with A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival.
Participating artists: Susan Bennett, Peter Berwald, Beth Bickert-Fensel, Michael Bonilla, Patricia Boone, Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow, R. Darden Bradshaw, David Brand, Matthew Burgy, Maria Cleary, Clara Coleman, Andrew F. Dailey, Dwayne M. Daniel, Greg Dearth, Meghan Dillon, Rhonda Duncalf, Mark Echtner, Mitchell Eismont, Sarah Fisher, Sharon Govender, Sam Grillmeier, Lindsay Gustafson, Leesa Haapapuro, Shirley Harbaugh, Rosie Huart, Sam Kelly, H. David Kirchner, Christine Klinger, Mary Baker Koch, Paula Willmot Kraus, Tim Langenderfer, April Lemaster, Diane M. Mitchel, Penny Park, Sandra Picciano-Brand, Loretta Puncer, Heather Lea Reid, Francis Schanberger, Rose Schultz, Gail Sells, Erin Smith-Glenn, Barb Stork, Sally A. Struthers, Alice Bordenkircher Tavani, Joanne Von Sossan, Wendy Wagener-Harris, Leonard Williams, Sharon Williams, and Brian Zimerle.
Visitors to A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival on Saturday, December 3 voted for their favorite works of art on display. The three top vote-getters and winners of $100 awards were:
Francis Schanberger for Kept Slipping
Lindsay Gustafson for To the Moon
Patricia Boone for Immersion
Stephen Goettsch, Beyond Tradition: The Art of Nantucket Baskets
Stephen Goettsch, Twilight
Stephen Goettsch, Twilight's Gentle Embrace, bronze and Brazilian rosewood bayberry and ziricote inlay on sycamore woven lid basket.
Sculptor Stephen Goettsch of Hamilton will exhibit a collection of hand-woven baskets in an exhibition entitled Beyond Tradition: The Art of Nantucket Baskets. Goettsch incorporates various metal and ceramic mediums and sculpting techniques into the very traditional Nantucket basket weaving methods to achieve his singular style.
"One of the things I try to do is help people see the beauty of wood," Goettsch says of his work. "I work to bring out the beauty that is in these woods whether plain or exotic, while changing them as little as possible."
Terry Glass, Route 66: An Artistic Journey
Terry Glass, Route 66 Diner Stools, 2011, photograph, 16 x 20 in.
Photographer Terry Glass of Tipp City is exhibiting a series of photographs entitled Route 66: An Artistic Journey. Inspired by The Mother Road, a book by Michael Wallis, Glass made this body of work during two separate trips to the iconic former highway in 2011 and 2012.
"After the road was decommissioned as a Federal Highway in 1985, there developed an interest by many in the nostalgic aspect of 'the Main Street of America.' This gave me the idea of travelling all 2448 miles and documenting some of the famous places enjoyed by so many people over the years," Glass said, regarding his interest in the project. "By averaging 100 miles a day this allowed myself to enjoy the history, talk to people, and photograph."
Having retired from a career in engineering, sales, and marketing communications in the electric motor industry, Glass now pursues his life-long interest in photography for leisure. He works primarily in black and white and alternative processes.
Jeremy Long, New Paintings
Jeremy Long, Backyard Ithaca, 2008-14, oil on canvas, 72 x 96 in.
Reception: Thursday, July 21, 6 – 8pm
Painter Jeremy Long, who lives and works in Dayton, will exhibit a collection of oil paintings in an exhibition entitled New Paintings. Long's highly detailed environments, to which he refers as "spatial worlds," he says, "can also be thought of as advocating thoughtfulness over excitement, or poetic meaning over novelty." Of the objective of painting, Long states, "The goal as I see it is to, on one hand, create an ordered, harmonious vision and, on the other hand, to understand that everything seen is relative."
Long earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in Washington, D.C. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Art and Art History, also at Wright State University.
Stefan Chinov, Double Reflection
Stefan Chinov; Untitled; 2014; paper, glue and acrylic paint; 10 x 5 x 5 in.
Sculptor Stefan Chinov of Kettering will exhibit a series of sculptures entitled Double Reflection. Regarding his art-making process, Chinov simply states, "[Form strives] to embody the dynamic that is its subject matter."
Chinov holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas as well as Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees from National Academy of the Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Sculpture and Drawing at Wright State University.
The View 2016
22nd Annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition
Keith Thue, Overlook, 2015, oil and cold wax
May 31 – July 8, 2016
Reception: Thursday, June 2, 6 – 8pm
The View is a juried exhibition for artists living in Ohio and working in all media. This year, 86 artists submitted 241 pieces, from which the juror, Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth, Kettering Exhibition Coordinator and Curatorial Associate at The Dayton Art Institute, chose 40 artworks representing 39 artists. Siegwarth also selected the winners of awards totaling $1,100.
Juror Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth is the Kettering Exhibition Coordinator and Curatorial Associate at The Dayton Art Institute. Prior to The DAI, Siegwarth served as Assistant Director to Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX) and was the Luce Curatorial Fellow for the photography department at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX). She has also worked at the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ) and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Siegwarth received a Master of Arts in Art History at The University of Arizona, specializing in the history of photography and museum studies.
Siegwarth wrote, "We strive for elegance, a way to seduce the viewer to stay just a moment longer, a moment we hope will take the viewer's breath away, even for just one fraction of a nanosecond. Such is the life of an artist."
Participating artists include A. Joseph Barrish, S.M., Jessica Beirise, John Benvenuto, Joletta Breland, Matthew Burgy, Virginia Burroughs, Mary Callaway, Bruce Campbell, Tom Croce, Jane Dippold, Diane Dover, Phillip Erbaugh, Peg Faimon, Douglas R. Fiely, Bill Franz, Stephen Goettsch, Kay Hissong, Kelly Joslin, Craig Lloyd, Richard Malogorski, Whitney Manfreda, Claire Moreland, Walt Murch, Stuart Pearl, Linda Phillips, Alice Robrish, Rose Schultz, Aaron Smith, Ashley Speelman, Jerry Spohr, Andrea Starkey, Sharon Stolzenberger, Barb Stork, Doug Taylor, Keith Thue, Mary Beth Whitley, Leonard Williams, Jim Witmer, and Brian Zimerle.
Siegwarth also selected the winners of awards totaling $1,100:
Best of Show: Alice Robrish of Yellow Springs for her sculpture Vision – Ghost of Matthew Shepard
1st Place: Andrea Starkey of Bellbrook for her woodblock reduction print Snow Day
2nd Place: Brian Zimerle of Oakwood for his ceramic piece titled Rise Like Brume #1
3rd Place: Craig Lloyd of Cincinnati for his painting Row
Jason Tanner Young, make/shift
Reception: Thursday, April 21, 6 – 8pm
Jason Tanner Young, night time bristles and low beams (detail), 2015, mixed media, 43 x 9.5 x 6 in.
Sculptor Jason Tanner Young of Athens, Ohio will exhibit mixed media sculptures in make/shift. Young's loosely narrative works, he says, "[ … ] Operate as markers. They tell a loose story, but function more as a description of an environment, an attitude or perception. [ … ] The work presented is composed of raw beliefs and curious fixations. These truths open memories and start a stumbling internal dialogue. Stories and lived events surface in the form of objects and installations."
Young earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Texas at Tyler. He currently serves as an instructor at Ohio University in Athens, teaching various courses both in sculpture and foundations in art.
Bridgette Bogle, Piecemeal
Bridgette Bogle, Ruffians, 2014, oil and mixed media on canvas, 10 x 46 in.
Painter Bridgette Bogle, who lives and works in Dayton, is exhibiting a series of mixed media paintings entitled Piecemeal. "This body of work was born out of my need to gather my failed pieces, examine them closely and find a way to reuse and remix them into new arrangements," Bogle said of her collection. "Soon it felt necessary to intervene further, tearing, cutting, and exposing the guts of the work or veiling it under a blank mask of canvas. What started as an act of camouflage grew into a game of revelation."
Bogle holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art at Sinclair Community College.
Nathaniel Foley, Flight of Obscurity IV
Nathaniel Foley; Yak-28 Firebar; 2013; aluminum, safety wire, field rivets, poplar; 24 x 12 x 15 in.
Reception: Thursday, March 10, 6 – 8pm
Sculptor Nathaniel Foley of Findlay, Ohio exhibits a collection of his aviation-inspired sculptures. These pieces, he says, make reference to the dichotomy of uses of flight: for travel and for warfare. "This fragile relationship of forms exposes the delicate balance between grace and imminent danger, similar to the fleeting ballet of courting birds or the hostility felt between foes engaged in a dogfight," Foley said of his work. "Through references to aeronautical form, the sculptures communicate tension and dance in direct opposition of fundamental forces."
Foley earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mi, and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Miami University in Oxford. He currently serves as an adjunct instructor at Bowling Green State University, Owens Community College, and Defiance College.
Foley also led a workshop on aviation riveting in conjunction with his exhibition at Rosewood Gallery on Saturday, March 12.
John Dickinson, The Humming Persists
John Dickinson, Clever Student, 2015, enamel and screen print ink on newsprint on board, 20 x 14 x 1 in.
Painter and sculptor John Dickinson, who lives and works in Dayton, is exhibiting a series of mixed media paintings entitled The Humming Persists. Dickinson's work uses layers to investigate a notion of art as filter, or vent. "As visual motifs, [the paintings] both reveal and conceal information, and act to filter gesture," Dickinson said. "Grids underlie most of the pieces, and serve initially to structure the composition, but eventually give way to entropic accumulations of pattern or deviant gestures in the form of marks, bleeds, slits, and tears."
Dickinson holds bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Art from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado as well as a Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Wright State University.
Michele Bon Durant, Cake Slice Shoreline III, 2015, cut paper, artist tape, oil.
Reception: Thursday, January 21, 6 – 8pm
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. This year, 102 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 272 pieces, from which the juror, Susan Li O'Connor, chose 39 artworks, representing 27 artists.
Juror Susan Li O'Connor was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Her work deals with the accumulation of everyday objects and the contradictory beauty of those objects as visual eye candy to the destructive quality they have on the environment. While the transformation of a mundane object is the first thing a viewer sees, O'Connor is also entertaining questions of identity, consumerism and consumption within our culture.
O'Connor teaches at the Columbus School for Girls. She taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design from 2005-2014. She is a recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) 2013 Dresden, Germany Artist in Residency program, has received grants through the GCAC, was a juror for the 2012 Columbus Arts Festival, was board member and programming committee member of the Ohio Art League from 2008-2010. Her work has been exhibited nationally in Ohio, Colorado, California, North Carolina, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.
O'Connor wrote, "We strive for elegance, a way to seduce the viewer to stay just a moment longer, a moment we hope will take the viewer's breath away, even for just one fraction of a nanosecond. Such is the life of an artist."
O'Connor also selected the winners of the United Art and Education Awards, totaling $1,100.
Participating artists include Nicholaus Arnold, Karen Becker Benedetti, Bridgette Bogle, Carlee Bollin, Michele BonDurant, Kurt Doll, Douglas R. Fiely, Kyleen Greene, Lloyd Greene, Jennifer Haack, Erin Holscher Almazan, Colleen Kelsey, Paula Willmot Kraus, Richard Malogorski, Colleen McCulla, Thom Meyer, Kathy A. Moore, Alexandra Morrissette, Jaime Pacheco, Amy Powell, Ellen Price, Billy Simms, Andrea Starkey, Sharon Stolzenberger, Frank Travers, Barb Weinert-McBee, and Mary Beth Whitley.
The exhibition runs from January 18 through February 26, 2016.There will be an opening reception on Thursday, January 21 from 6-8pm with a United Art and Education Awards presentation at 7pm. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
BEST OF SHOW: Erin Holscher Almazan, #3 from the series Letdown
FIRST PLACE: Kathy A. Moore, Self Portrait Drawing Still Life
SECOND PLACE: Michele BonDurant, Cake Slice Shoreline III
THIRD PLACE: Amy Powell, There is no danger here.
HONORABLE MENTION: Kurt Doll, Wright #11
HONORABLE MENTION: Paula Willmot Kraus, 3 and 20
Diane Mitchel, My Very Very Very Brief History of Art, 2015, acrylic.
October 26 – December 31
Reception: December 5, 11am – 3pm
Art Ed began in 2011 at the Rosewood Gallery as a way to celebrate our local art educators. All 46 participants in the Art Ed 2015 exhibition are currently teaching art in Dayton and the surrounding areas.
Participating artists: Stephanie Beiser, Susan Bennett, Bridgette Bogle, Michael Bonilla, Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow, R. Darden Bradshaw, Matthew R. Burgy, Tricia Calvert, Ed Charney, Bob Coates, Andrew Dailey, Gregory M. Dearth, Scott Dooley, Mark Echtner, Mitchell Eismont, Aaron Gosser, Sam Grillmeier, Lindsay Gustafson, Leesa Haapapuro, Aubrey Hackett, Shirley Harbaugh, Sara Hawkins, Kelly Joslin, Richard Jurus, Tom Kinarney, Janet Olney Lasley, Annie Lee-Zimerle, Joshua Merritt, Diane M. Mitchel, Kristin Mitchell, Kathy A. Moore, Penny Park, Roxann Patrick, Katrina Pierce, Amy Powell, Crispin Prebys, Wil Rowland Jr., Francis Schanberger, Billy Simms, Barb Stork, Sally A. Struthers, Peggy Trimble, Joanne Von Sossan, Leonard Williams, Sharon Williams, and Brian Zimerle.
Attendees at the A Rosewood Holiday Arts Festival selected three People's Choice Award winners. First Place: Leesa Haapapuro for Enchanted Garden; Second Place: Tom Kinarney for On the Prowl; Third Place: Lindsay Gustafson for Triforce.
Terry Welker, The Consent
September 21 – October 16
Reception: September 20, 2 – 4pm
Sculptor and architect Terry Welker, who lives and works in Kettering, exhibits an experiential installation of kinetic and interactive sculpture entitled The Consent.
Artist Statement:
Making mobiles comes from my passion for architecture, poetic space and meaningful places. Building on the tradition of Alexander Calder, I work to understand and extend the language of mobiles by animating form, space and surface with motion.
Working with abstractions, without the constraints of literal interpretation, many of my forms come from my memory of a shape rather than direct adaptation. I also see the process of creation as an intentional act of making that comes from experimentation, trial and error letting form come from the nature of materials and tools. Seeking simplicity and elegant strength in every composition, I use curves, arcs and lines as a continuous sub-theme as if to draw in three dimensions.
The unique character of mobiles reveals the inherent challenge of gravity and the mystery of delicate balance. By pushing the limits of form and space with these forces I work to orchestrate "near misses" and "soft collisions." The unpredictable and accidental nature of these movements allows the observer to move beyond simple viewing and become unconsciously engaged in the enjoyable act of watching.
Artist Interview:
What is unique about your process and how does this define your practice?
Making kinetic art depends on gravity and dynamic forces. Mathematically predictable but impractical from a creative standpoint, so I do very little drawing and simply model in three dimensions as quickly as possible. It's a lot more efficient to use my intuition with a trial & error process. Drawing is used as a recording process.
Experimentation is also a cornerstone of my work. I'm always surveying for new materials, tools and processes. These eventually work their way into new works and new series.
Lastly, I'm an architect so my passion for placemaking is central to my thesis.
What influences your work or your creative process?
I'm intrigued with memory, archetypal forms, symbols and dreams. I also consider myself a formalist infatuated with color but this stems from my memory of form and color more than direct adaptation. I try to be an astute observer of nature as an essential origin of form and color so I can recall them as potential quasi-symbols. In the end my aim is to create work and places that enable people to "get lost" in their observation, daydream and "be in the moment of staring" or evoke a memory.
I have to admit that I'm more influenced by things outside of the art world than inside it. Family, friends, music, poetry, pop culture and especially the natural world. Ideas don't usually come from staring at or commenting on art but from things outside of it.
What lessons have you learned from other artists?
Anyone making a mobile owes a debt to Alexander Calder. While there are plenty of books on Calder and museums with his work there is little about his process and techniques of construction so that must be learned the hard way: observation. I appreciate that his work bridges from figurative, fun toys to large abstract public art.
These are personal preferences but I study the color and forms of a number of 20th Century painters and sculptors: Joseph Albers, Klimt, Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Richard Serra, George Rickey, Harry Bertoia, Louise Nevelson, Alberto Giocometti, Franz Kline, Henry Moore, Brancusi to name a few but I'm also drawn to more contemporary sculpture of artists like Sarah Sze. Architecturally, I still study architects such as Kahn, Corbusier, McIntosh, Gaudi, Scarpa and Aalto.
Nikos Fyodor Rutkowski, Infinite Loop
Artist Nikos Fyodor Rutkowski of Columbus exhibits Infinite Loop, an abstract, mixed media painting installation.
Life can lead us on wild tangents: our lives are a cumulative history of strange paths taken, tangled and interwoven relations. Couplings, relationships, uncouplings; people come into our lives and affect us in some way, and then disappear as suddenly as they arrived sometimes. Outside stimulus, new knowledge and scientific discoveries creep in and act upon our lives and understanding of our world. Addictions, afflictions, interests are all cultivated and developed. Our lives, no matter how individual and unique, echo the lives of others. Our cycles as individuals echo other cycles. Narrative structure. Evolution. Development of styles, fads. Everything cycles through.
The birth of my son near the end of 2013 has profoundly affected my thinking on life and art. He has prompted me to think deeply about my own life, my evolution as a person and as an artist. His arrival has made me ponder my place in a continuum in a way that I never had before. As an artist, as a painter, there had always been a burden of awareness hovering over me, a burden of concern over the relevance of what I'm doing and whether it fits a narrative of art history or not. And that has been mostly supplanted by thinking of issues outside of art. It has pushed down aesthetic thinking into a more intuitive mode for me.
After what I can only describe as an unintentional hiatus from painting for a couple of years, I made the decision to make the largest painting of my career. By my way of thinking it's not so much ambitious as absolutely needed. The outlet had been stopped up for so long that I needed the maximum amount of space possible to unleash everything that had been building up.
I've pinned this work upon the bones of two overlapping concepts. The first is the concept of a cyclical, repeating movement: the painting loops back upon itself and does not have a beginning nor an end. The second is the concept of an abstract work functioning as a narrative. To that end I have tried to find visual evocations of story structure, the phases of a life, the stages of a style: birth, life, and death equivalencies. And then rebirth, or continuation.
My approach to creating art is based in a revelation that I had as a much younger man: that for me all materials and mediums are equal, and that nothing should be off the table as far as what to use. No material should be treated as if it were precious. I believe in an equality of materials. A cheap restaurant crayon for kids making marks on the back of a place mat should be used with the same attitude as gold leaf and fine Dutch oil paints on linen. This has also led to a respect for materials and their capabilities, and a better understanding of what they can and cannot do. I also tend to incorporate "craft ghetto" materials like glitter, glow in the dark paint, and day-glow colors into my work.
My process involves never relying on sketches or preliminary studies because in my mind those are their own unique art pieces. I also find there to be a huge disconnect in trying to reproduce something from, say, a hard medium like graphite to a more fluid medium like paint; something is always lost in translation.
Because of my view of medium equality and "medium specificity" my paintings are very layered, filled with erasures, overlays, washes, and other collage and painting techniques. What many artists would rectify in sketches or studies ahead of time, I do on the surface of the finished piece.
I would not call myself a formalist, but it is the easiest point of access to my work. Aesthetic issues are always of the foremost consideration in my paintings.
As an artist in my mid-thirties it's hard to exactly pinpoint my influences; however I hate to adopt a pose that I'm "beyond influences." There are always those exhibits that shock your senses and make you rethink the work that you're making, and make you consider for a moment mimicking their work. In the past decade or so I've had this experience in front of work by Julie Mehretu, Lee Bonteco and Mark Bradford specifically.
My earliest artistic influences would be Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Dieter Roth, and others (as an avid Art History aficionado I could keep going forever).
The biggest influence on my work beyond other artists is life itself. Having a very young son has opened me up to thinking about art in ways that I never would have before, and has allowed me to see with a new set of eyes.
The most important lesson I've learned from other artists is just how toxic most art supplies really are, and how to use them in a less brazenly reckless way than I did in my youth. Understanding the hazards that you're exposing yourself to is profoundly profane.
HWD, 2015
Carol Boram-Hays, Medulla, 2011, cast concrete, reclaimed metal, pigments
August 10 – September 11
Reception: August 23, 2 – 4pm
About HWD
HWD (Height x Width x Depth), a juried exhibition for sculpture artists in Ohio and surrounding states, is the area's only gallery exhibition devoted exclusively to sculpture. This year, 31 artists submitted 77 pieces, from which the juror, curator Steven Matijcio, chose 24 artworks representing 22 artists.
Matijcio wrote: "There is certainly no shortage of excess amongst a privileged class where money is no object, but this is a rarefied realm that most often perpetuates the same economic models that jettison all that which does not produce profit in the most immediate, aerodynamic way. The work in HWD alternately twists, warps, folds, skews and transforms – evidencing and amplifying its quintessentially human manufacture."
Matijcio also selected the winners of the United Art and Education Awards, totaling $1,100 (to be announced during the artist reception).
Participating artists include Carol Boram-Hays, Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow, Matthew R. Burgy, Rebecca Carpenter, Nicole Crock, Pamela L. Deaton, Mandy Goodwin, Jackie Holan, Ron Hundt, Sarah Hydell, Janet Kelman, Virginia Kistler, Irina Koukhanova, Carrie Longley, Carol McDonough, Rob Millard-Mendez, Jade Obrebski, Elizabeth Runyon, Gary Schmitt, Chuck Sharbaugh, Aaron Smith, and Jason Tanner Young.
Steven Matijcio is the curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to this position he served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Matijcio is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York and has held positions in a number of important galleries and museums including the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada.
Matijcio was honored in 2010 with a prestigious Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award for his project paperless. In the summer of 2011 he was chosen from an international pool of candidates to participate in curatorial residencies in Gwangju, South Korea (as part of the Gwangju Design Biennale) and Berlin, Germany (as part of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's SYNAPSE project exploring the relationship between art & science). In the fall of 2012 he curated the 4th edition of the Narracje Festival in Gdansk, Poland, which involved a city-wide program of installations, interventions and video projections upon the surfaces of historic buildings. Matijcio's 2013 essay "Nothing to See Here: The Denial of Vision in Media Art" was accepted into the RENEW: Media Art Histories Conference in Riga, Latvia.
Matijcio has also lectured on theory and criticism at the University of Manitoba, written for numerous catalogues and journals (including the Guide to the 27th Sao Paulo Bienal), and was commissioned in 2003 by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to curate one of their first online exhibitions.
Juror Statement:
"In the accelerating era of so-called digital evolution, sculpture has never seemed more antiquated. When progress is equated with shedding physical baggage (and being) in favor of a weightless virtual existence in an amorphous, yet omnipresent cloud, what purpose is to be served by material objects that fulfill no practical function other than to be? And yet it is precisely in, and of this exile that makes work like that which we see in this year's HWD all the more timely and necessary. Rather than succumbing to a societal pressure to streamline and minimize, these artists embrace a neo-baroque approach to making that revels in ornamentation, excess, melodrama and materiality. To do so is contrarian to the times and crucial to the psychological well-being of a populace too often corralled into thinking only about a future existence at the expense of reflection; reversing the "inefficiency" of taking time to look back over one's shoulder and linger in the mutations of memory. There is certainly no shortage of excess amongst a privileged class where money is no object, but this is a rarefied realm that most often perpetuates the same economic models that jettison all that which does not produce profit in the most immediate, aerodynamic way. The work in HWD alternately twists, warps, folds, skews and transforms – evidencing and amplifying its quintessentially human manufacture. Aaron Smith is especially, and intriguingly iconoclastic in his acts of metamorphosis – turning tired objects like a prayer bench and player piano into a guitar and birdcage respectively. In concert with Smith's instrumental reassignment, Jason Tanner Young conducts a more lyrical and at times macho manipulation of wood and structure – bending the history and integrity of wood into enigmatic riddles. Chuck Sharbaugh's treatment of wood is ostensibly more reverent upon first approach, but while he maintains an ecumenical grace to his material and craft his subject matter upon the tabletop suggests a more mysterious, somewhat disorienting flight. Artists Carol Boram-Hays and Sarah Hydell further elaborate the nascent theatricality that informs much of this work and their fellow artists in HWD, moving between post-industrial mutation and ceramic puppetry to suggest an unstable identity in the midst of re-formation. As a whole, HWD assembles work that grants its viewer permission to get lost in these knots, tangles and meanderings of uncertainty. It is not about spotless problem solving or providing direction, but rather about the delight of getting lost and rediscovering what we left behind too soon."
-Steven Matijcio
First Place: Aaron Smith (Nelsonville, OH); Psychometry 2: Vibes, Essence Spirit; 2014; brads, staples, dove, glue, prayer bench; 28 x 24 x 24 in.
Second Place: Jason Tanner Young (Athens, OH); Up on Plane; 2014; wood, steel, copper; 51 x 54 x 30 in.
Third Place: Chuck Sharbaugh (Holly, MI), Pale Male Soaring, 2015, solid Sapele wood/assorted veneers, 32 x 36 x 36 in.
Honorable Mention: Carol Boram-Hays (Columbus, OH); Medulla; 2011; cast concrete, reclaimed metal, pigments; 47 x 48 x 48 in.
Honorable Mention: Sarah Hydell (Centerville, OH), Hidden Identity, 2015, pottery, 12 x 5 x 4.5 in.
Stephanie McGuinness, Recent Works
June 29 – July 24
Reception: June 28, 2 – 4pm
Painter Stephanie McGuinness of Englewood shares Recent Works, a series that explores how life events in the outside world become apparent in the domestic landscape.
I have long been interested in how life events physically manifest themselves within the realm of private spaces. Collecting discarded notes and lists found in public spaces has granted me limited access to intimate and honest moments of strangers' lives. Using these found documents I create narratives told through the environments of a house. In a similar way to how I find the documents, viewers are granted access to personal spaces, but hover slightly outside of the frame, unconnected to its inhabitants. The surface of the paint is rough and sometimes transparent to signify the painting process itself, as well as to reflect on how rooms leave traces of their past as they continue to evolve.
For years I have been collecting discarded papers found in public spaces, often lists or notes documenting a large range of emotion and experiences. Using these handwritten documents, I begin creating a narrative in which I explore who I think the authors are and how they live. My process begins with writing, then evolves into drawing on paper, and finally accumulates on canvas with the finished piece.
It is hard to separate anything in my life from my creative process. While I am working, music is often too distracting for me, but I have found that listening to NPR or streaming television shows creates an appropriate level of distraction. Those environmental influences, along with books I am reading, tend to find their way into my work.
Regardless of medium, the lesson is always that you have to continue to make work—lots of work, your entire life. I look to writers, musicians, and other creative individuals for insights into the creative process. After the cardinal rule of constant work, I have also learned that artists have to work through "bad" work until they can get to the succesful work. While this is often hard and not the most relaxing way to spend one's time, I believe that pushing through those rough periods is what makes someone not only create successful work, but develops them into a true artist.
Tiffany Clark, Bonding
Collage artist Tiffany Clark, who lives and works in Dayton, exhibits a series of ink and paper collages entitled Bonding. Clark's work aims to investigate the physiology related to emotional experiences. Clark currently serves as an instructor at Decoy Arts Studio.
My work is inspired by both common and personal stories of the human experience such as lust, addiction, love, and grief. I illustrate moments in our lives and the neurochemicals released, hopefully gaining a greater understanding of the science behind our most potent emotions. Using my unique collage style, inspired by my love for chin-colé monoprints and sketching, my images become a surrealistic mix of illustration and anatomy art.
I try to keep the confident quick line quality of my original sketches. Often using my original sketch as a template, I strategically cut and glue different tones and textures of papers with an almost sculptural approach. Keeping with the desire to translate the feeling of a sketchbook into a finished piece, I draw over the collage paper using pen and ink.
My work is heavily influenced by my own life experiences and the desire to share those moments or understandings with others. Music is the primary influence in my creative process. I not only use lyrics as titles or visual inspiration for my work, but I use specific styles of music while cutting, gluing, and sketching to create an energy specific to each process.
A seemingly endless list of things I've learned from other artists would range from techniques to life metaphors. The artists I love and respect the most haven't just taught but have shown me the beauty and trials of living as an artist. Sleepless nights are a privilege and joy in order to fulfill our responsibility to create as much work as possible while we have time and inspiration.
Martin L. Hunter, Serpentine Path (detail), 2013, acrylic.
May 18 – June 19
Reception: May 17, 2 – 4pm
The View is a juried exhibition for artists living in Ohio and working in all media. This year, 108 artists submitted 317 pieces, from which the juror, Kristin Spangenberg, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum, chose 53 artworks representing 42 artists.
Spangenberg has more than 40 years of experience in her field, having previously served as Assistant Curator of Prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Assistant Curator of Graphic Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Ms. Spangenberg earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Davis, and a master's degree from the University of Michigan. She also served an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Print & Photograph Department and has participated in various seminars. She is a member of the Print Council of America and the Circus Historical Society. Ms. Spangenberg has lectured on many topics, including recent lectures on Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Duveneck. She has also written catalogues for many of the Art Museum's exhibitions on prints, drawings and photographs. Most recently she has contributed to and edited The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company (2011).
Participating artists include Rosemarie Bloch, Michele BonDurant, Arlene Branick, Michelle Burdine, Virginia Burroughs, Mary Callaway, Bruce Campbell, Tom Croce, Jane Dippold, Gina Duncan, Peg Faimon, Bill Franz, Pam Geisel, Jack Givens, Terry Glass, Lloyd Greene, Jim Hayes, Martin L. Hunter, William Jacobs, Danielle James, Amanda Kiplinger, Christine Klinger, Mary Baker Koch, Christine Landis, John Lemker, S.M., Terri Maloney-Houston, Sherrill E. Massey, Thom Meyer, Tom Millward, Chris Noah, Jan Noden, Lorraine Parmelee, Stuart Pearl, Linda Phillips, Ann L. Rebele, Carroll M. Schleppi, Sherraid Scott, Andrea Starkey, Walter Strubczewski, Kim Vito, Barb Weinert-McBee, and Leonard Williams.
Spangenberg also selected the winners of six awards, totaling $1,100:
Best of Show: Terry Maloney-Houston (Columbus), Leaf Ring, 2014-15, porcelain.
First Place: Chris Noah (Miamisburg), Poppy Field, 2015, alcohol paint.
Second Place: Martin L. Hunter (Centerville), Serpentine Path, 2013, acrylic.
Third Place: Bill Franz (Dayton), Evangelical Cornfield, 2011, photograph.
Honorable Mention: Pam Geisel (Yellow Springs), Sunflowers at Whitehall Farm, 2013, quilted fiber.
Honorable Mention: Andrea Starkey (Bellbrook), Tree No. 27, 2014, woodblock reduction print.
Landon Crowell, Constructed Landscapes
April 13 – May 8
Reception: April 12, 2 – 4pm
Mixed media sculptor Landon Crowell of Kettering will exhibit his collection titled Constructed Landscapes. Crowell holds a BFA in Sculpture from Wright State University. He currently holds positions as Adjunct Sculpture Instructor and Gallery Technician at Wright State University.
I have spent most of my life fascinated by the natural environment, taking odd jobs such as construction and factory work so I could spend my summers as a mountain guide in Yosemite national park, or the wilds of New Mexico. My "Constructed Landscape" series stems from those odd jobs, places I would explore, and even the airplane rides over the countryside getting to my adventure destinations.
In my "constructed Landscapes" series, I am working with basic construction materials: driveway sealer, plywood, construction chalk, hose clamps, wood, and adding natural materials such as bee's wax and branches. This body of work is a series of mixed media low reliefs, sculptures, and installations based off of the natural world. Some imagery comes from aerial views, map-making symbols, and the landscape itself. This work deals with such themes as memory, landscape, and the interaction we as humans have with the natural world. The work is meant to be stark and in some cases even feel un-finished. This is to create an inner tension between the art work and the viewer. The inner tension is meant to relate to the tension between human kind and the spaces we alter in the landscapes we occupy.
I think my process is unique in that I am always pushing my materials in ways most people don't think about. I use beeswax and driveway sealer together to create paintings and reliefs, and push the idea of basic construction materials slightly out of the world of construction and into ideas based off of landscapes. With very minimal alteration to the material itself, the materials come almost full circle. They come from the land and in a sense by turning them into landscapes, they return to a sense of their former state. I also am very conscience of the materials look and feel, I find the utmost beauty in that when I'm working.
I would say it defines my practice by having to be methodical, and sure of the direction I take with the materials, I Always keep in mind how the materials will shape or look when finished. I try to respect the material, and allow a symbiotic relationship to emerge between my direction and its inherent properties.
I would say the materials I use, my process and my love of the outdoors and the southwestern United States.
I would say one of the biggest lessons I have learned is that to let the materials speak on it's own terms. If I have a piece of warped wood let that warp guide me, use the warp to my advantage, and make that warp a highlight of the work.
Sophia Maras, Delicate Issues
Artwork by Sophia Maras
Found object sculptor Sophia Maras explores the use of recycled materials and common objects in a form of mixed media artwork. With this body of work, she hopes to create pieces that will challenge people to see a beauty in objects either over-used or over-looked. Maras grew up in Louisiana where she explored a multitude of creative avenues and developed a love for order and patterns in her daily activities, which she now applies to her artistic practice.
With this found-object-based body of work, I am striving to bring attention to the beauty in the used, neglected, or insignificant objects in our world. My work emphasizes the subtle aspects of these items by incorporating large numbers of them into a unifying whole. Arranging materials such as paper, screws, or plastic grocery sacks in a deliberate, yet unnatural order presents viewers with an opportunity to investigate. These juxtapositions are intended to pull individuals out of their normal realm of thought by giving them a different perspective on the material and perhaps the opportunity to see a new beauty in some of the minute building blocks of our daily lives.
I alter many of the materials through tedious processes such as weaving, wrapping, knotting, or stitching, which places a larger contextual gap between the final piece and the material's original appearance or purpose. Drawing viewers in with structured arrangements of color or shape, allows me to intrigue from a distance. I am fascinated with the way in which multiples can transform as their numbers increase, thus giving the viewer a range of aesthetic experiences as the they move closer to the work.
The uniqueness of my process revolves around my time spent with the material. For some of my work, using methods such as weaving or stitching contribute a key aspect of tenderness to the work. Through repeating these steps several times, I try to meditate on the material and the process, connecting the items original purpose or form to what I hope my viewers will grasp from the final piece. This process results in a practice centered on time, focus and transformation.
The world. There are so many examples multiples around us every day. For years and years I have been amazed at the multitude of waste, recycling, and just plain 'stuff'. Eventually, I began to transform those things into artwork: first in my mind, then in material. My purpose for this was to create something aesthetically pleasing, so that people could find a beauty in the items they see, use, and discard. Throughout my artistic development, I have discovered inspiring artists such as Vic Muniz and his work from the Wasteland documentary and Tara Donovan's magnificent use of multiples in her installation work.
Production of artwork takes extreme dedication and hard work. Sometimes it can be too easy to stay in the sketching, brainstorming, or thinking stage of a piece. Regardless of life happening around you, it is so important to strictly dedicate time slots for artwork. Treating it in this structured way will force those creative juices to flourish and one's practice to grow.
This is a hard lesson I have learned from a few artists over the last few years, and it is something I must keep working toward daily. As of recent, I was told to "just create." No matter how bad it was, she told me to just make sure I was creating something.
Artwork by Francis Schanberger
Reception: January 25, 2 – 4pm
About Works on Paper
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. This year, 70 artists from Dayton and the surrounding areas submitted 175 pieces, from which the juror, Sean Wilkinson, chose 39 artworks, representing 30 artists.
Wilkinson wrote: "I honor the intent of every artist that submitted work to this show, regardless of the acuity or failure of my ability to apprehend those intents as the artists would have wished. Rewards and rejections are largely irrelevant; neither should be taken too much to heart. All that matters for artists is to keep on doing what we need to do. The risk of attempting something meaningful is its own reward."
Wilkinson also selected the winners of the United Art and Education Awards, totaling $1,100 (to be announced during the opening reception).
Participating artists include Brent Beck · Bridgette Bogle · Bruce Campbell · Dan Cleary · Bob Coates · Tom Croce · Rhonda Duncalf · Douglas R. Fiely · Jennifer Haack · John Hankiewicz · Rosie Huar · Martin L. Hunter · Lisa Selvia Johnson · Kelly Joslin · Richard Jurus · Colleen Kelsey · Dave Kirkwood · Paula Willmot Kraus · Elizabeth Osweiler Martin · Pete Mitas · Kathy A. Moore · Walt Murch · Tres Roemer · Francis Schanberger · Billy Simms · Leah Stahl · Sharon Stolzenberger · Douglas R. Taylor · Rebecca Tsaloff · Diane Schwob Zubrick.
Sean Wilkinson had the good fortune to work closely with three of the greatest photographers and teachers of the second half of the twentieth century: Minor White, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind. Upon completing his M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design, he taught at Harvard University before accepting a position in 1973 at the University of Dayton, where he was hired to create a new course of study in photography. Wilkinson has also sustained an active career as a photographer, exhibiting his work in museums and galleries across the country. He has won numerous awards and grants, and his work is in many significant museum, individual, and corporate collections. Wilkinson retired from UD in 2014.
"What is art, these days? It has become an increasingly elusive term to define, encompassing as it does all manner of forms, ideas, practices, and purposes. Paper, on the other hand, remains a fundamental ground and medium for a great deal of art making. There is still a deep need to create things to look at, handle, and present to others, not just ideas but their embodiment, things that have their own existence, that can be set loose in the world, borne on this fragile yet enduringly important material.
"The photographer, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, has written: 'Art is risk made visible.' I believe this is true not only in the making of good art, but also when the artist seeks to put her work or his work out in the open for others to see. Ideally, a sense of awareness, connection, or illumination occurs in the synaptic transmission between artist and audience. But that is always an uncertain and highly variable matter. In the sending and receiving of signals, something is always lost, or at least altered; the intent and its reception are never entirely congruent.
"I honor the intent of every artist that submitted work to this show, regardless of the acuity or failure of my ability to apprehend those intents as the artists would have wished. Rewards and rejections are largely irrelevant; neither should be taken too much to heart. All that matters for artists is to keep on doing what we need to do. The risk of attempting something meaningful is its own reward."
Sean Wilkinson
Commenting on his own work, Wilkinson has written:
"I am interested in looking plainly at things that yield more than plain looking is presumed to reveal. The essential thing is to be fully present. Potential material is not hard to find, and in some ways, photography is as easy as it appears to be. The challenge is to see. Like breathing, it seems so simple until you give it your complete attention."
Wilkinson selected six works to receive awards totaling $1,100 sponsored by United Art and Education:
Best of Show: Colleen Kelsey, Night Letter, 2014, acrylic on paper.
First Place: Francis Schanberger, Barbie Best Buy Nightgown and Lucky Peignoir, 2014, hibiscun anthotype.
Second Place: Bridgette Bogle; Winter Drawing, Descent; 2014; gouache, gesso, and charcoal.
Third Place: Billy Simms, Did I Say Something?, 2014, etching with hand coloring.
Honorable Mention: Dave Kirkwood, Takes a Lickin', 2014, pen and ink.
Honorable Mention: Brent Beck, chair study II, 2014, acrylic.
Art Ed 2014
November 10 – December 12
Reception: December 6, 11am-3pm
About Art Ed
Art Ed was created in 2011 by the Rosewood Gallery as an opportunity to showcase the arts faculty at the Rosewood Arts Centre, and for Dayton area art educators to present their work to the community.
This year Art Ed features 38 art instructors, representing 18 Dayton-area educational institutions:
Lisa Becker · Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow · Matthew Burgy · Terry Chamberlain · Edward Charney · Bob Coates · Andrew Dailey · Meghan Dillon · Mark Echtner · Regina Emery · Aaron Gosser · Shannon Grecula · Sam Grillmeier · Lindsay Gustafson · Leesa Haapapuro · John Hankiewicz · Shirley Harbaugh · Rusty Harden · Kevin Harris · Rosie Huart · Kelly Joslin · Richard Jurus · Colleen Kelsey · Tom Kinarney · Annie Lee-Zimerle · Tess Little · Jeremy Long · C. Pat McClelland · Diane M. Mitchel · Kathy A. Moore · Katrina Pierce · Sarah Rodriguez · Francis Schanberger · Barb Stork · Sally Struthers · Leigh Waltz · Leonard Williams · Paula Willmot Kraus
People's Choice Award Winners
Viewers voted for their favorite pieces during the reception on Saturday, December 6th in conjunction with A Rosewood Holiday Open House. 478 votes were cast during the event. Three People's Choice Award winners were announced the following week:
First Place: TIE – Leesa Happapuro, Absent Butterflies AND Rusty Harden, Sylva
Third Place: Matthew Burgy, Thank You, Robin (A Tribute to Robin Williams)
Congratulations to our winners and a big thanks to all who attended this event!
Christopher Troutman, Dividing Time
Christopher Troutman, "Five Part Story, Recycling," 2012, charcoal on paper.
Christopher Troutman, who lives and works in Beaumont, TX, will exhibit his charcoal drawings. "I work from imagination, shifting points of view presented in drawings from the memories that initiate them," he said. "I strive to avoid external references until my ability to visualize a subject fails, after which I use observational sketches and photographs to complete final details." Troutman's drawings place the audience in unexpected and sometimes overwhelming spaces, enabling the resonant experiences from which the drawings are inspired to achieve a similar resonance with viewers.
Troutman holds an MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach and a BFA in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Art History from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
In my current body of work, drawing is my primary means of expression. The immediacy of drawing allows a close connection between mark and thought, as working from imagination is central to my process. I build content in my work through an interaction with drawing materials, particularly charcoal and sometimes ink, and use mark-making, layering, erasing and smudging, as opposed to selecting a medium offhand at the service of an idea. As a result, progressive stages of a drawing determine its content: compositionally, I begin with lines and shapes, yet occasionally with a specific subject in mind from previously completed sketches, which suggest figures and environments. This subject matter interacts to imply narrative and the passage of time, which I enhance by dividing drawings into multiple sections. Recently, I have used multi-sectioned drawings to examine similarities and differences between my memories of the U.S.'s Midwest and of southern Japan—the two places I reside each year—by juxtaposing visual and spatial features unique to both locations.
My subjects are human figures in contemporary urban settings, whom I enhance by depicting them from unfamiliar points of view, to reveal the value of exploring everyday visual experience in drawing. I work from imagination, shifting points of view presented in drawings from the memories that initiate them. I strive to avoid external references until my ability to visualize a subject fails, after which I use observational sketches and photographs to complete final details. My interests in depicting the passage of time, dynamic space defined by the human figure and linear perspective, and drawing from imagination come from the influence of comic book art—work by Lienil Yu, for example—as well as art examining the figure in urban and domestic settings within active compositions, such as in work by Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, and Robert Birmelin.
Lastly, my drawings are large-scale and hung unmediated by frames, bringing them into the audience's immediate space and making the process each drawing has undergone directly visible to viewers. The scale of the drawings, the figures within them, composition, and point of view place the audience in unexpected and sometimes overwhelming spaces, enabling the resonant experiences from which the drawings are inspired to achieve a similar resonance with viewers.
I think two aspects of my work that are unique are the large scale at which I work and the fact that I generally strive to draw from imagination and memory. I prepare ideas by sketching studies from observation and photographs, but I adapt source material to what a composition requires, filling in the gaps of information through invention. This process is made more challenging by working on a large scale. These two aspects of my process keep me interested in drawing and coming back to the studio.
My desire to draw from my imagination is influenced by my interest in graphic novels and my idealized mental image of the way comic book artists invent all aspects of their figures and environments. Dividing images up into multiple sections and suggesting the passage of time between them is also something I take from graphic novels as well as from other artists. Most of the imagery I work with comes from my personal experiences living with my family in the United States every fall, winter, and spring and living in Japan during the summer months.
Robert Birmelin divides continuous spaces or environments into sections and by varying the action taking place between each section he suggests the passage of time. Varying point of view and focusing on composition is something I've taken from Degas' work as well as comics. The faculty of the figurative track at California State University, Long Beach emphasized composition and the figure in space when I worked on my MFA from 2006 to 2008.
Christopher Troutman (Beaumont, TX), 2014
http://troutman.art.tripod.com
Rachel Clark, The Yearbook Project
Rachel Clark, "Giant Nord," 2012, oil on panel.
Rachel Clark's series of oil paintings, The Yearbook Project, is an evolving archive of portraits, cartoons and heads. "If seeing is selection, a process of framing, then I want the face right up to the painting's edge to amplify its intimacy with all of the fluctuating suggestions of makeup, skin condition, light and shade, using the masklike qualities of the medium," Clark said. "This perpetually expanding series straddles portraiture and abstracted figuration."
Clark holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Based in Athens, OH, Clark serves as grant writer and Instructor for the Upward Bound Program at Ohio University.
The Yearbook Project is an evolving archive of portraits, cartoons, and heads. If seeing is selection, a process of framing, then I want the face right up to the painting's edge to amplify its intimacy with all of the fluctuating suggestions of makeup, skin condition, light and shade, using the masklike qualities of the medium. This perpetually expanding series straddles portraiture and abstracted figuration. While employing the portrait as a pictorial device, I am interested in how I can be put to new, contemporary uses ideas from historic painting: the preoccupation with the face or window, the complexity and history on our faces, the openly stylized portrayals, and the search through the materials for signs of abstraction to represent the figure in cartoonish extravagant color.
I set up my studio to facilitate a conversation between works within a set, series, or chapter. These sets of painting can also take a familial resemblance thematically or in terms of the palette.
My relationship with portraiture stems from the photographic archive of the family portrait wall. I tend to present my painted "Yearbook of Portraits" within the context of the grid for a democratizing effect.
Humor influences my work in sometimes direct ways like the painting titled "Hair Baby" and indirect ways like using cartoonish / graphic formal qualities in my painting process. Sometimes I lean toward the historic lineage of smooth painting portraiture and other times I seek to obfuscate a more grotesque expressionism or playfulness of caricature.
Artists have similar obstacles to the process of creativity: 1. Momentum vs. inertia; 2. Developing a reverence for the studio practice and appointing time; and 3. Fear and failure. Time + trust in the process = commitment (maybe).
When I was in undergrad one of my teachers told me to read the writings of artists and their biographies. Lately, I have been reading about Philip Guston in his daughter's book the "Night Studio" and his lectures/conversations.
Rachel Clark (Athens, OH), 2014
http://rachelclark.org
HWD 2014
Elizabeth Runyon, Rocket, reed and seagrass, 2012.
Reception: Sunday, August 24, 2-4pm
About HWD (Height x Width x Depth)
HWD, or Height x Width x Depth, is a juried exhibition of three-dimensional artwork by artists from Ohio and surrounding states. Established in 2007, HWD is the region's only gallery exhibition focused exclusively on sculpture. This year, 48 sculpture artists from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky submitted 130 pieces, from which the juror chose 30 artworks, representing 27 artists.
The 2014 exhibition features works by the following artists:
Ann Bain · Tyler Bohm · Cynthia Bornhorst-Winslow · Rebecca Carpenter · Bill Danzig · Deb Davis Livaich · Scott Dooley · Patty Emerson · Nathaniel Foley · John Hunting Hansen · Ron Hundt · David Kenworthy · Virginia Kistler · Sarah Krupp · Todd Matteson · Rob Millard-Mendez · Emily Moores · Tybre Newcomer · Cozette Phillips · Elizabeth Runyon · Julia Sebastian · Chuck Sharbaugh · Janet Smith · Jason Tanner Young · Steve Totin · Christy Wittmer · Summer Zickefoose
2014 Juror: Carrie Longley
Carrie Longley is a studio artist and educator. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Indiana University East. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Wittenberg University MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Her artwork investigates the relationship between the art object and scientific specimen, celebrating the space between illusion and reality. She exhibits her work extensively throughout the United States and has received numerous awards including Emerging Craftsman from Ohio Designer Craftsman, The Bobby Kadis Award at the Penland School of Crafts, and the William and Dorothy Yeck Young Sculptor's Award.
"Having exhibited my own work twice before in this exhibition, it was truly an honor to be selected as this year's juror for the HWD exhibition. I am consistently impressed by the innovation, variety, and incredible skill sets of the HWD artists. The exceptional entries this year made the jurying process an inspiring challenge.
"As is the case with many juried art exhibitions, jurying was completed using digital images of the artwork. As a sculptor, I find it especially difficult to capture the height, width, and depth of my work with digital photography. The featured artists in the exhibition were able to clearly communicate varying degrees of dimension and surface details of their sculptures with digital images alone—a feat in and of itself.
"As a viewer, I'm drawn to works which feature unique combinations of the familiar and imagined. With much of the work, the use of familiar materials or repurposed objects such as wood, steel, ceramics, even shag carpet initially captured my attention, while the imagined aspects encouraged me to further investigate, admire, and wonder.
"I would like to commend and thank the artists for participating in this exhibition. My sincere congratulations to all artists who were able to transform their ideas and materials into innovative works of art."
Longley selected six works to receive awards totaling $1,100 sponsored by United Art and Education:
First Place: Nathaniel Foley, Three and One Wings, 2011, Baltic birch plywood, cable, drawings, bird bones.
Second Place: Christy Wittmer and Julia Sebastian, there, there, porcelain, plaster, felt, foam.
Third Place: Tyler Bohm, Ur, mixed media on plexiglass.
Honorable Mention: David Kenworthy, Inflated Wood, wood, plaster.
Honorable Mention: Virginia Kistler, Chiaroscuro Columbus, plastic sheeting, steel cable.
Honorable Mention: Janet Smith, Ann Bain, and Ron Hundt, Farm Door, wood, stone, paint, graphite.