Events

Pushing Parallels
Nov
21
to Mar 9

Pushing Parallels

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Pushing Parallels is a celebration of re-learning and questioning traditional art practices. Showcasing a diverse group of multidisciplinary artists from Aotearoa, they are encouraged to experiment, pushing the limits of their mediums to create a playground of colour and form. Curated by Abbie La Rooy, Kiki Hall, and Michael Prosee, the exhibition features works from The Arts House Trust collection alongside invited artists who, although formally trained in one discipline, have ventured into new artistic territories. By embracing this shift, they challenge conventional modes of artmaking and explore innovative ways to express their ideas.

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Luff
Dec
1
to Mar 3

Luff

“If you’re a yachtie and you’re “luffing”, your sail is flapping – you’ve gone too far easing out the sheet, and you’re no longer harnessing the wind – out on the water, an encounter with this term is familiar, known, and informative. Here in the gallery, the word comes across unexpectedly, cute, and perhaps with a hint of intrigue. In this way, the nautical verb plays its part in welcoming you to this space, providing an exotic encounter which takes you abroad in the mind, in an act of dépaysement – one that leads you out of your familiar territory – and into a new realm, replete with four seasons.”

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Midnight Cowboy
Dec
1
to Mar 5

Midnight Cowboy

1 December – 5 March, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 30 November, 6-8pm
Pah Homestead, Ground Floor Galleries

Midnight Cowboy focuses on the works that harness the power of neon as their primary material. Drawing on works held in public collections and the Arts Trust Collection, with the works by Bill Culbert, Paul Hartigan and Robert Jahnke, the show also includes recent explorations by local artists, such as Mary Louise Browne and Jacquelyn Greenbank.

Ghastly Studios (Rutecki, Kerr) Tortuosa Table is included in the show, supporting Bruce Parker’s neon sculpture Flowers.

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Tangerine Dream
Nov
19
to Feb 28

Tangerine Dream

Opening Wednesday 18th November 6pm

Tangerine Dream brings together objects drawn from the Wallace Art Trust Collection. Like the namesake German electronic band, the works in this exhibition focus on materiality, the artists’ response to medium, fun and experimentation. Curated from the diverse holdings in the Collection and encompassing ceramics, sculpture, assemblage, glass, painting and found objects, the exhibition explores how unconventional approaches to materials have allowed artists to push their practice in new and exciting directions.

Rutecki’s 2016 sculpture, Pink Double Bubble is included in this exhibition as well as her recent porcelain work, Chalice, after Horror Vacui puff sleeves, from the Roto O Rangi anagama kiln.

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Fierce: Women in Iron
Nov
1
to Nov 30

Fierce: Women in Iron

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The Prairie Center of the Arts is excited to announce the opening of
“Fierce: Women in Iron,” an exhibition of female identified artists working with cast iron. The
exhibition features the work of over thirty-five national and international artists as part of
Peoria’s month long Citywide Celebration of Women in the Arts. Fierce: Women in Iron is
co-curated by Kristen Tordella-Williams (Millsaps College, Jackson MS) and Jam Lovell (Black
Dog Metal Arts LLC, Peoria, IL). The exhibition opening is Friday, November 1, 2019 from 5:00
- 8:00 p.m. “Fierce: Women in Iron” is open to the public Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
or by appointment from November 1- November 30, 2019. An all-female iron pour will take
place November 2, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. at the Peoria Art Guild with a crew featuring several of
the artists participating in the exhibition.
Fierce: Women in Iron features artwork that incorporates iron, a historically industrial and tough material, created by women identified artists from across the nation. A dedicated community of artists cast iron outside of commercial or fine art foundries; these individuals tap into a 5,000 year old ritual. Since the 60s, the iron community has included women and men working together to build furnaces, break iron and coke (unrefined coal), make molds, and perform the dirty, physical labor to craft the sculptures and artworks out of iron, our beloved shared medium.
The iron community is a tight knit family of individuals who support and educate each other in spaces where everyone is welcome as long as they work hard and contribute. The cast iron
community embodies the optimism we need to unify and grow. There is a beautiful fluidity of
learning through making in iron and the iron community is a shining example of how we all can thrive together outside of a male-dominated culture. One hundred years ago, women would
never have been able to participate in an iron pour. Fierce: Women in Iron focuses on female
identified artists working with iron to celebrate our transition over the past one hundred years
from objectification, to taking control of our likenesses, to now being experts of our craft from top to bottom.

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Concept 2019
Jun
28
to Jul 14

Concept 2019

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CICA Museum
June 28 – July 14, 2019
2019. 6.28 – 7.14

Pierre Ajavon, Cristina Amiran and Khalil Charif, Tanja Balac, Hazel, Hyegyoung Choo, Louize Deh, Norman Fairbanks, Rodrigo Franzao, Houston Fryer, Rhea Gupte, Taihie Han 한태희, Eunsun Huh 허은선, Soonho Jo 조순호, Hanul Kim 김하늘, Alexandra Knox, Lilien Li, Heejae Lim 임희재, Katarzyna Wishqa Łyszkowska, Sjoerd Martens, Yelena Myshko, Yao Cheuk Ni, Ari Norris, Heejin Park 박희진, Jeongeun Park 박정은, Erin Pollock, Katherine Rutecki, Sandra Araújo, Jennifer Seo, Jackson Shim 잭슨심, Monika Sochańska, Rachel Wolfe, Kristin Wu, Jaesik Yoo 유재식

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CAST: Art + Object
Dec
8
to Jan 26

CAST: Art + Object

CAST: Art & Objects

Craft Forms 2018 Companion Show

December 8, 2018 – January 26, 2019
Wayne Art Center, Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery

This curated invitational exhibition will display a selection of cast art and objects continuing and building on the theme of the award-winning book, CAST: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process, by Jen Townsend and Renée Zettle-Sterling (Schiffer Publishing, 2017.) This first-of-its-kind book reveals how the process of casting — forming a material into a mold — has transformed our world through its history and omnipresence.

In addition to works by contemporary artists and craftspeople, the exhibition will include historical objects, as well as some everyday objects. The purpose of this show (like the book) is to encourage the audience to consider casting’s countless and exciting contributions to the world around us.

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Ceci n'est pas un spectacle d'art
Apr
24
to May 4

Ceci n'est pas un spectacle d'art

This is not an art show. Please don't come. You will see no works, either from the MFA in Media or Art & Design students at SIU. No fun will be had. No art will be shown. No truth will be revealed. There will be no refreshments. This is not an art show. Please don't come.

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Nov
8
to Nov 20

Depot Artspace Group Show: Small Object Exhibition

8 – 20 November 2014

Opening in the Small Dog Gallery Saturday 8 November 2pm– 3.30pm

The Depot Artspace supports and celebrates the innovative and socially conscious Sculpture on Shore with its own small scale object exhibition. This show offers lovers of the ‘small and perfectly formed’ a wide range of works in a variety of media, from sculpture to quirky assemblages and everything in between. 

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