Students, families, faculty, and the public all met at the Prairie Center of the Arts last Saturday night for the opening of 4 concurrent BFA exhibitions: Still Finding Myself, by James Flanigan, life, the universe, and everything, by Rebecca Lydia Goughnour, Death, Detrius, and Decay by Ryan Horvath, and Clastic Aureoles, by Sarah Rebholz. These shows are up through Friday, so if you haven’t seen them, head down to the Prairie Center and check it out!
Gearing up for the BFA Shows…
They’ve worked hard for years, striving towards this point of completion. The four BFA students who will be installing their shows this week have made big strides within their creative output, and all of them have created new work just for this culminating exhibition. These four students will be presenting their work to the public beginning this Friday, March 27th through April 10th. The reception will be on Saturday April 4th, from 7:00 – 9:00pm. All of this is taking place at the Prairie Center of the Arts, in the warehouse district in downtown Peoria. As you can see below this is a large space with lots of character.
32nd Bradley International opens this FRIDAY
Join us for the grand opening of the 32nd Bradley International this Friday, March 6, 2009. The opening will begin at the Heuser and Hartmann Galleries from 6:00 – 8:00pm, next we will move to the Peoria Art Guild from 7:00 – 9;00pm and then finally we will end at the Contemporary Art Center from 8:00 – 10:00pm. At each location you’ll find exciting art, good food, and good people! We look forward to seeing you there…
The Awards are In
Juror Lynwood Kreneck has given nine awards to nine spectacular pieces in the bradley International. Even though he’s singled out these artworks Lynwood said he felt that all of the artwork in the Preview Show was worthy of an award. Here are the winners:
Under the LA Bridge by Yu Ji; charcoal on paper; 42" x 52"; 2007
Sunny Day Over The Bay by Endi Poskovic; 5-block, 12-color woodcut; 52" x 37"; 2007
The Bat's Advice by Carrie Ann Parks; prismacolor, graphite, and alkyd, with inkjet print; 10" x 13"; 2006
Waiting for Godot by Diane Allire; multi-plate gravure with chine colle; 10" x 6.5"; 2005
The Contents of a Monument by Chul Beom Park; mixed media; 31" x 21" x 2"; 2008
A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real by Judithe Hernandez; pastel on paper; 44" x 32"; 2007
Book Body SPine by Kimberly Wardenburg; sculptural book with wood, paper, intaglio, releif and polymer plate prints; 34" x 2" x 3"; 2008
The Association for Creative Zoology: Trichopiscedae by Beauvais Lyons; lithograph; 34" x 29"; 2007
A Race to the End by Michael Barnes; lithogrpah; 12" x 15"; 2007
BI32 Preview Show
If you weren’t able to make it to the Heuser Gallery last Thursday you missed more than just a good show…Lynwood Kreneck, the juror for the 32nd Bradley International was here to give out his awards and to talk about his own impressive career. Lynwood made nine awards, one for best in show, three for merit, and five honorable mentions. As he announced each winner, he explained his reasoning for selecting the work, and he also discussed his thoughts behind the entire jurying process. It was an informal yet informative talk, the evidence of which can be seen below.
Though the talk and lecture have already passed, the preview show which opened last Thursday will be up until February 27th, so there’s still time to see it if you haven’t.
Another Visiting Artist this Week!
Lynwood Kreneck, the Juror for the 32nd Bradley International will be at Bradley this week. While he’s here he will be giving a lecture, awarding prizes, and working with the printmaking students to make a print.
His lecture will be at 6:30 on Thursday, February 12th in the Horowitz Auditorium in the Caterpilar Global Communications Center.
The reception for the Preview show of the Bradley International will be from 4:00 – 6:00pm also on Thursday, February 12th, in the Heuser Gallery. The Juror’s awards will be handed out at this reception.
Former Visiting Artist on PBS: Carmon Colangelo
Carmon Colangelo, the 2008 Cradle Oak Visiting Artist, was recently interviewed on PBS in connection with his show at the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, “From Big Bang to Big Melt”. You can watch the video below and if you do, see if you can spot the other Bradley person who was part of the interview!
Updated Schedule: Mary Barringer
We have an updated schedule for Mary Barringer’s visit tomorrow and Friday, and here it is…
Thursday
9:30 am – 12:00 Workshop (rm 105 Heuser)
12:00 pm – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 Afternoon Studio (rm 105 Heuser)
4:00 pm – 6:00 Gallery Reception (Hartmann)
6:30 pm – 7:30 Lecture (rm 126 in GCC)
Friday
9:00 am – 12:00 Workshop (rm 105 Heuser)
12:00 pm – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 Afternoon Studio (rm 105 Heuser)
This Week’s Visiting Artist: Mary Barringer
Mary Barringer has been a studio artist for more than 30 years, and most recently she has been focusing on functional ceramic objects. Within her work there is a balance, “between form and function, texture and line, color and image, hard and soft, warm and cool.” This balance creates an amazingly refined feeling in objects which manage to retain their earthy feeling through richly textured surfaces. This work is must see, because photos do not do it justice!
Mary will be with us on February 5th and 6th. (Click to see her updated schedule.) There will be a reception in the Hartmann gallery with the artist on Thursday form 4:00 – 6:00pm. Her lecture will be on Thursday, February 5th at 6:30 pm in the David Horowitz Auditorium as per usual.
