Clara Brian. Woman Displaying her Canning, c.1930.
Previous Exhibitions
SWIC Student Show
April 17 - April 25, 2008
High School Student Show
March 27 - March 4, 2008
Construction / Deconstruction
John Watson and Sandra Abrams
and Architectural Drawings from the
Labor & Industry Museum, Belleville
January 17 - March 8, 2008
One of the things that makes us human is our ability to use tools to construct shelter and to express ourselves. In this exhibit we invite viewers to complete the process by deconstructing art and architecture and create their own stories and meaning.
Yingxue Zuo:Abstract and Express Michael Miksicek:New Work Jeri Au:Punctuation
November 9 - December 14, 2007
Yingxue Zuo exhibits paintings that range from experimental abstractions with ink on canvas to expressive depictions of boats and Chinese peasant life. Michael Miksicek's Quadrille paintings are "rugged vessels of sensation that endure through time and circumstance," and Jeri Au's ceramic installations punctuate space in the Reiners Gallery.
View photos of the exhibit, taken by Victoria Tribout:
Absent: Peter Gifford Barbed: Agnes Pal Collected: Rachel Hayes, Courtney Henson, Christine Holtz
September 13 – October 26
This exhibit looks at the ways that works of art convey that most ephemeral aspect of our lives and identity - our memories.
In Absent, Peter Gifford’s photographs of "non-places" such as highways, parking garages, and city parks speak about the gaps in our memory of a place. In Barbed, Agnes Pal’s metal sculptures evoke her own childhood experiences in a German concentration camp in 1944. Read more about Agnes Pal and watch a short video about her work online at the Belleville News Democrat's website. In Collected, sculptures by Courtney Henson and Christine Holtz are the residual artifacts of their collections and examinations of consumer culture, while Rachel Hayes’s drawings visualize the many layers that combine to create and obscure our childhood memories.
Also on display in the Reiners Gallery are masks from the collection of the Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville Museum and curated by SIUE graduate students in the Museum Studies program. The student curators will talk about the exhibit on Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Ed and Helen T. Karasek
He Said. | She Said.
May 24 - June 29, 2007
Partners in art and in life for over 60 years, Belleville, Illinois artists Helen T. and Ed Karasek paint the world as they see it in portraits, the still life and landscapes. Ed favors oil portraits and landscapes; while Helen is known for her pastel and oil portraits and still life paintings with flowers. Ed describes their work as “art for ordinary people.” This is art that makes all of us who are ordinary people see the beautiful in the world. And that is an extraordinary life’s work for any artist, male or female.
Phyllis MacLaren
Message Series/Human Rights
May 24 - June 29, 2007
Phyllis MacLaren’s work deals with international human rights issues. Her message series began with boxes of what appears to be rocks with writing on them covered by sticks in a grid pattern. Later in her Human Rights series twenty five large independent rocks were constructed and covered with writing in the language of a human rights activist. Powerful two-dimensional portraits of some of these people grace the walls. www.phyllismaclaren.com
Laurie Blaes
May 24 - June 29, 2007
Laurie Blaes combines ceramic “seeds” with wood and metals in a series of sculptures that are abstract representations of relationships. The titles of the work; Seize, Affinity, and Entrust suggest the different ways that human beings relate to one another. Laurie Blaes is a 1982 graduate of SWIC (then Belleville Area College) with and undergraduate degree from Illinois State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramic Sculpture from University of Cincinnati. She teaches art at Villa Duchesne/ Oak Hill School in St. Louis, MO.
SWIC Student Show
April 19 - May 8, 2007
Juried exhibition of work by SWIC art students. Awards presentation at
7:00 p.m.
High School Art Exhibit
March 29 - April 5, 2007
Artwork by students from Belleville-area high schools. Awards presentation at 7:00 p.m.
Selections from the
Commerce Bank Fine Art Collection
February 8 - March 10, 2007
The Commerce Bancshares Fine Art Collection was initiated in 1963 to provide a stimulating environment for employees, customers and the general community. The Schmidt is pleased to host a selection of work from this quality collection of American realist and abstract printmakers and painters from the 1940s to the present.
Chris Berti: New Sculpture
February 8 - March 10, 2007
This exhibit features figurative ceramic sculptures from Chris Berti, a Parkland College, Illinois artist. His latest series of sculptures consist of works made of carved bricks, wood and fired clay. Working subtractively, the forms gradually reveal themselves while still maintaining the integrity of the original brick.
SWIC Faculty Art Show
December 14 - January 27, 2007
Arists:
Don Bevirt
Brad Eilering
Doug Eskra
William Evans
Nancy Friederich
Carol Gilpin
Robert Hilpert
Spyros Karayiannis
Daniel Lowery
Todd May
Shawn Niebruegge
Adelia Parker-Castro
Jennifer Rogenski
Dawn Schuck
Wayne Shaw
Dale Threlkeld
Nancy Weck
Fran Weible
Guy Weible
Cheryl Wimmer
David Woesthaus
Clara Brian: Home Bureau Photographs
November 16 - December 9, 2006
Photographs by Clara Brian paired with original objects from the 1920s opens at the Schmidt Art Center with a free public reception from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, November 16. Volunteers from the Labor & Industry Museum of Belleville will give a brief presentation about the work at 7 p.m.
Clara Brian’s job with the Illinois Home Bureau was to bring technological advances to the rural women of McLean County. She often photographed the women she encountered. Photographs in this exhibition, taken between 1918 and 1926, highlight rural life in Illinois in the post-World War I era. Exhibit continues through December 9.
Large scale watercolor paintings by Sheldon Helfman opens at the Schmidt Art Center with a free public reception from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, October 5. The artist will be in attendance to discuss his work at 7 p.m.
Sheldon Helfman was Professor of Architecture at Washington University until his retirement in 2002. His compositions are "deliberate descriptions of a raw, unplanned environment" and reveal his love for the geometry, surfaces and colors of the buildings around us.
Watch a video of Helfman speaking at the opening reception:
Jaye Gregory: Figurative Sculpture
October 5 - November 9, 2006
Jaye Gregory's work is a reflection of her commitment to the Western tradition of figurative sculpture.
Jaye Gregory's education includes study at Webster University, Washington University, SIUE, and Fontbonne University, where she received both her BFA and MFA. She teaches figurative sculpture and drawing at the Meramec campus of St. Louis Community College and continues to take classes at Fontbonne University.
