A celebration of diverse artworks by members of Sedalia’s oldest visual arts organization. SVAA’s members are award-winning artists from throughout west-central Missouri. Selections range from paintings and watercolors, drawings and photographs, to sculptural objects in clay and metal.
Artists have long used the serial format in order to maintain a sustained investigation of a particular subject over time. The goal might be to unfold a complex narrative, extrapolate compositional relationships, or describe a conceptual activity. Art in series presents the opportunity to engage in active looking: to compare, contrast, and make connections. Among ...
Taiwanese ceramist Ah Leon (b. 1953) is internationally celebrated for his masterful transformation of clay into fool-the-eye replicas of tree trunks, branches, and other objects made of weathered wood. He is best known for a 70-foot-long installation of a realistic “wooden” bridge inspired by examples found in rural Taiwan. Ah Leon’s rendering of the texture, ...
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public in January 2002. It is named for collector and benefactor Harold F. Daum, MD, and contains 9 galleries devoted to the exhibition of art created since the mid-20th century. At its founding, the permanent collection comprised 300 artworks collected by Dr. Daum. Today, the collection includes ...
The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently taking studio art classes at the college. Interested student-artists collaborate with art department faculty to select work that best represents them. Each year, some fifty students exhibit close to one hundred artworks in ...
A celebration of diverse artworks by members of Sedalia’s oldest visual arts organization. SVAA’s members are award-winning artists from throughout west-central Missouri. Selections range from paintings and watercolors, drawings and photographs, to sculptural objects in clay and metal.
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, on the campus of State Fair Community College, presents the exhibition Onement, in the Goddard Gallery, from August 31 until December 16, 2012. The exhibition comprises 18 abstract ceramic sculptures from the Daum’s permanent collection by 11 contemporary artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Richard De Vore, Yi-Wen Kuo, and Virginia Scotchie. ...
No art form has better suited the character of both the 20th century and the contemporary moment than has collage. The genre’s core conceptual traits—heterogeneity, fragmentation, and appropriation—have allowed artists to address with clarity and immediacy the circumstances of their own times for more than 100 years. Remix celebrates the rich legacy of collage by ...
Archie Scott Gobber's use of text in his paintings, sculpture, and works on paper relies on an engaging combination of wit, intellect, and artistry. Inspired by the strategies of commercial signage and advertising, Gobber's word play ranges from the nostalgic to the punning, political, and cryptic.
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel began collecting the work of emerging artists in 1962, eventually assembling a singular collection of more than 4,000 examples of cutting-edge art by over 177 artists. In 2008, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the Vogels launched a national gifts program, "Fifty Works for Fifty States", which distributed ...
