Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, purchased six of my collages to hang in their Healing Center. I'm thrilled they thought my work would engage people in their healing process! I love the idea of people getting up close to the art, seeing the cut strips of imagery and then discovering the bits of text, shredded currency, postage stamps and maps, and getting lost in the art for awhile.
In April I was in a group show with three of my neighbors at Exhibit A Gallery in Peoria Heights. I showed my newest mixed media pieces combining a bird or animal with an Impressionist painting. My neighbor Theresa showed mixed media paintings, Dave Wood showed his creative art glass, and Joe Couri exhibited his photography. What a fun experience!
I've made some 16"x20 versions of two of the 5"x7" commissions I created in late 2024, the heron and egret in Claude Monet paintings. I also worked with a composite image of an owl and van Gogh's "The Starry Night". I'm enjoying the additions of birds in the foreground of these familiar paintings -- and working with these old masterpieces and seeing them anew.
I was asked to make 8 pieces of art for gifts. I made 5"x7" collages using an impressionist painting (in the public domain) as the background with a bird or animal in the foreground.
McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
Sept-Oct, 2024
I'm showing with my Art Sisters through the end of October at the McLean County Art Center in Bloomington, Illinois. The reception will be Sept 20th - I'm excited to see how they've arranged all of our art. After delivering my art for that show, I quickly made a new piece for the CIAO Show in Peoria - a group show of 49 area artists. I'm glad I made the new work as was awarded 2nd prize! "At the Corvid Convention" features a raven in the foreground of a Van Gogh painting "Wheat Field with Crows". After choosing 4 filtered versions of the composite image, I cut those into strips, assembled into a new scene and added copper and gold leaf.
I'll have 35 pieces of art on display the month of August at the Peoria Art Guild, downtown Peoria, Illinois.
