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Senator
Adelstein & Lynda Clark Gallery: Iron &
Oil - John Lopez & Jenny Braig (Jan 17-Mar 7, 2010)
Ruth Brennan
Gallery: GREEN (Oct 30, 2009 - Feb 8, 2010)
Inez & Milton
Shaver Gallery: My Ranching Life -
Jean Laughton
(Nov 20 - Feb 7, 2010)
Bruce H. Lien
Cultural Cafe & Gallery: Permanent Collection of
the Rapid City Arts Council
Lobby
Gallery: Permanent Collection of
the Rapid City Arts Council
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GREEN
Ruth Brennan Gallery
Oct 30, 2009 – Feb 8, 2010
Opening
Reception
Fri, Oct 30, 5-7pm
Awards Ceremony 6pm
Sponsored by:
Black Hills Power
Karen Scherier & Tim Dougherty
Carver Insurance
Friends of Rapid City Parks
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For this
competitively juried show, artists were asked to submit artwork based on
the word GREEN. The call to artists was mailed out to a limited regional
mailing list and broadcast via e-mail, facebook and other internet
sources. The show received 232 entries from 92 artists. Approximately
half the entries came from South Dakota with the remaining majority
coming from all over the United States. There were also entries from
China, Turkey and Japan. Of these entries, 46 pieces by 32 artists,
including 22 artists from South Dakota, were selected to be part of the
exhibit.
Artists in the exhibit: Kathryn Addcox, Anne Aleshire, Jeanne
Apelseth, Steve Babbitt, Fiorenzo Berardozzi,
Ayesha Joy Burkey, Bernie Butcher,
Hope R Canaday, Susanne Clawson, Vi Colombe,
Bonnie Cutts, Denise DuBroy, Shirley
Jane Hobbs, Eden Hopkins, Jodi Jensen, Jerry Jessen, Don Jones,
Jeremy Kendall,
Debra Kern Workman,
Vicki Kessler,
Donna Kjonaas, Melisse Laing,
Laurieann Dygowski,
Jon Madsen, Deborah Mitchell,
Joseph Night, Marshall Reaburn, Maurice
Shortt, Donna Sinclair, Kathy Thaden,
Tom Thorson, Andrew Yff
Juror Candace Forrette
is a Rapid City, SD native now living in Billings Montana. Her studio
work is currently focused on sculpture and installation. She is the
Executive Director of a non-profit organization committed to Fair Trade
and sustainable business practices.
The Green 3 series
refers to 2 more events building on the Green Exhibit that will explore
the topic in the past and the future. Democracy in Action and Friends of
Rapid City Parks are co-sponsoring the activities as a way to encourage
more citizens to join the conversation about creating a sustainable
Rapid City.
Sun / Jan 17 / 3-5pm:
The History of Green will feature Gerard Baker, Superintendent at
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, speaking on Teddy Roosevelt, Our
Environmental President. Expanding the exhibit's visual arts into the
literary arts, Baker will be joined by Western South Dakota writers such
as Linda Hasselstrom, whose work reflects themes of land and nature. The
afternoon event will include opportunities for the audience to talk to
the authors. FOR DETAILS...click
HERE
Sat / March 20 /
2-4pm: Our Green Future. The last event in the series will
take the conversation about green and sustainability into the art of the
possible: a forum on public policy. Democracy in Action and Friends of
Rapid City Parks will facilitate an update on the activities of the
Green City Task Force, including a question and answer session with
audience members.
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Selections from the
Dahl Permanent
Collection |
See pieces from the Rapid City Arts Council's Permanent Collection
of art for free in the lobby of the Bruce
H. Lien Cultural Café and Gallery (entrance on 7th street, Mon-Fri,
9-5) and the main entrance lobby area (entrance on 7th Street,
Tues-Fri, 12-8pm, Sat & Sun 1-5). |
My Ranching Life
Jean Laughton
Inez & Milton Shaver Gallery
Nov 20, 2009 - Feb 7, 2010
Opening Reception:
Fri, Nov 20 , 5-7pm
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by:
Serenity Springs Funeral
Chapel
The Corn Exchange Bistro

Touchstone Energy
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With My Ranching Life, photographer
Jean Laughton brings panoramic images that capture both the expansive
beauty of the northern prairie and the uniquely gritty, romantic
lifestyle of the ranchers who live there. In her compositions, a
realistic balance of work, land and livestock celebrate and explore how
lifestyle is entwined with place.
Photographed from horseback, the black
and white images also play with our idea of past and present in the
contemporary documentation of an occupation that has remained virtually
unchanged for one hundred years.
Jean Laughton’s photographs are
testament to this artist’s singular drive and vision. Her unique
approach to in this work is the result of an unusual, some might say
courageous, decision to uproot herself from a life in New York City and
re-locate to the badlands to work as a hand on a cattle ranch.
The depth of the artist's involvement
with both the occupation and the image is often evidenced by the
inclusion of the ears of her horse or the shadow of herself and her
camera.
Anyone that has ever admired the rugged
life of a cowboy, found beauty in the sweeping prairies or noticed the
simplistic elegance of black and white photography will enjoy this
exhibit of large format photographic prints. Her visual images record
what text cannot and though the people and times may change, her
photographs will endure.
Answer to the trivia question in this week's
eblast.
What were the top 5 longest running TV Westerns of all time?
Rawhide was the fifth-longest-running American television Western,
beaten only by nine years of The Virginian and Wagon Train, fourteen
years of Bonanza, and twenty years of Gunsmoke. |
Iron & Oil
John Lopez & Jenny Braig
Senator Adelstein and
Lynda Clark Gallery
Jan 15 - Mar 8, 2010 Opening Reception:
Fri, Jan 17 , 5-7pm
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by:
Morgan Stanley Foundation
Black Hills Corporation/Black Hills Power
Sam's Club
Dallerie Davis-Raben Real Estate
Agents of Insurance |
Iron and Oil features scrap iron
sculptures by Eagle Butte, SD area sculptor John Lopez and oil on canvas
landscapes by Spearfish, SD artist, Jenny Braig. From the prairies to
the hills, and points in between, each of the two artists finds
inspiration from the materials they use and the things that surround
them, leading them to create unique representations of the familiar.
John Lopez originally made a name for himself creating western and rodeo
themed cast bronze sculptures. Past projects have included sculptures of
presidents John Adams, John F. Kennedy and John, Jr., Calvin Coolidge,
Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant for Rapid City’s City of Presidents
project. These sculptures can be found gracing the street corners of
downtown Rapid City. John has also created bronze monuments for the Pro
Rodeo Hall of Fame, including a sculpture of World Champion Barrel Racer
Charmayne James and Scamper when Scamper's bridle broke at the N.F.R.
and another featuring World Champion Calf Roper Paul Tierney dismounting
from his horse Coffee Jeff.
With this new series of scrap iron constructions, Lopez takes a very
whimsical approach to his subjects. In these sculptures, rusted metal
pieces from the ranch scrap yard ultimately come together as
recognizable animals, people and objects. Unlike the bronze sculptures,
which are sculpted then molded and may be cast more than once; each
scrap iron sculpture is truly one of a kind. The exhibit at the Dahl
Arts Center features more of the artist’s scrap iron sculptures than
have ever been shown at one time, including the unveiling of a brand new
life-size piece titled “The Colt of Many Colors.”
John Lopez has had the good fortune to build his career in sculpting
without leaving the prairies of western South Dakota where he was born
and raised. And if you ask him about his favorite thing to sculpt, the
answer is an easy one… horses. Lopez comes from a long-time South Dakota
ranching family well known for their horses, and has helped with the
Lopez-Hunt-Meyer annual production sale since he was a boy, so his
familiarity and ease with his subject come naturally. That is quite
apparent when you look at the sculptures that he creates. Looking
closely at these sculptures you will see that rasps, forks, wrenches,
tines, and sometimes even a cast bronze piece or two, have been bent and
twisted and welded in most unusual ways to form these balanced and
beautiful animals.
Jenny Braig takes an equally interesting approach to constructing
landscapes out of oil paint. She strives to create well-crafted and
beautiful objects that tell a simple but passionate story of a place.
And Braig is clearly passionate about the beautiful vistas in and around
the Black Hills of South Dakota where she lives. Nature is her greatest
source of inspiration and she finds the inspiration for her compositions
while enjoying a hike in the hills or a drive across country.
Back in the studio, Braig works quickly, building her landscapes with
layers of paint. The surfaces of thickly layered paint swirl across the
canvas in a way that brings to mind the icing on a cake. She then goes
back into the wet paint, drawing marks that not only reveal color from
the layer below, but also create a composition of even more complex
textures. The result is that from a distance the paintings look very
realistic but as you get close the image becomes more abstract and the
surface reveals a complex combination of vivid color and depth.
Jenny grew up along the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa, where she
graduated from Loras College with degrees in Art and Art History. She
moved to Spearfish, South Dakota in 1992, where she lives with her
husband and two children. Jenny has received many awards for her
paintings. In 2009 she was the recipient of an artist’s grant from the
South Dakota Arts Council and one of her paintings was purchased for the
Art in State Buildings program in South Dakota. Jenny also volunteers at
the Spearfish Arts Center and teaches piano. |
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