ARTIFICE ADORNED | Cathryn Mallory
01.20.12 -  04.28.12 
Sen. Stan Adelstein & Lynda K. Clark Gallery

With Artifice Adorned Mallory explores of the concept of clothing and materiality as a form of symbolic communication about the body.  

Formally inspired from historical and contemporary fashion, as well as the natural world, these works explore the psychological notions of entrapment and oppression through ornamentation. Selections of unconventional materials and obsessive construction processes further communicate this concept. 

Rapid City Arts Council Curator of Exhibits, Mary Maxon, states, “Cathryn Mallory’s work is very innovative and makes use of an inspiring range of materials and technique.  The adornment forms chosen for the formal framework of the pieces are potent, bringing to mind issues of vulnerability, fear, and comfort.  This works really tests the boundary between wearable work and sculpture.” 

DYSFUNCTIONAL BASKETRY
Julie Moore Peterson
11.18.2011 - 04.07.2012
Inez & Milton Shaver Gallery

Dysfunctional Basketry will open to the public on Friday November 18, 2011 with a reception for artist Julie Moore Peterson planned for Friday December 9, 5pm-7pm.

By day, Julie Moore Peterson is the Director of the Sturgis Public Library, but to some of us, she is better known as a creator of exquisite forms using traditional basket weaving materials and techniques.

Collecting inspiration from items found on walks in the hills, or in her backyard, or by barter, you will find this artist’s unusual basket forms constructed around a framework of antler or other organic and non-organic materials. The weaving of the basket may be with purchased reed. It may also be vines, willows, cattails, iris leaves or sweet grass both found and bartered. Many of the colors in the work come from natural dyes created by the artist from things she could gather or trade. With this exhibit, we celebrate and explore how Peterson makes everything come together in an artistically
beautiful, albeit not traditionally useful way.

IN WINGED SHADOW | Mavis Anderson
10.28.2011 - 02.11.2012
Ruth Brennan Gallery

Local Mavis Anderson has been working consistently and in an amazing variety of media for the past 50 years but has only shown her work publicly twice.

Included in this exhibit for the Dahl are masks, dolls, pen & ink drawings, abstract paintings done in house enamel or model airplane paint, drawings in crayon, mosaics (constructed from thousands of tiny tiles, each hand-cut from antique fine china) in all sizes and shapes, ceramic figures, collages … and a wonderful glimpse into the world of a remarkably creative spirit.

THREADS | Suzie Cappa Center for Arts
Extended until 02.06.12
Dahl Arts Center Lobby

Artists from the Black Hills Workshop's Suzie Cappa Center for Art Expression and Enjoyment will show their work at the Dahl Arts Center November 15-January 28. The show, Threads, features fabric arts.

Black Hills Workshop serves more than 600 people with a variety of disabilities. The Suzie Cappa Center gives people with disabilities the opportunity to discover and appreciate art and to develop as artists. Artists work collaboratively and individually in a wide variety of mediums.

For information, call Brad A. Winter at Black Hills Workshop,
(605) 718-8340.