Previous Exhibitions
2009 . 2008 . 2007 . 2006
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.
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Memory
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.
Photos of the exhibit by Victoria Tribout.
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Catharine Magel and Greg Edmondson
Hybrid Illusions
July 19 – August 31, 2007
New work by Catharine Magel and Greg Edmondson, two St. Louis artists shown together for the first time.
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Unmasking Gender
Masks from the SIUE Museum
July 19 – August 31, 2007
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
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