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 ...
The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently talking 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 ...
In their second theme-related exhibition at the Daum, members of the Sedalia Visual Art Association take on the subject of self-representation. The resulting exhibition includes traditional self-portraits as well as more conceptual statements that make use of allegory, memory, abstraction, and symbolism. Selections range from paintings and watercolors, drawings and photographs, to sculptural objects in ...
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art will exhibit twelve large-scale drawings from the Hawser Series by Huguette Despault May from June 21 until August 25, 2013. The meticulously rendered group of drawings takes its name from the python-sized rope, or hawser, used in mooring or towing a ship. May draws a section of a single hawser ...
Fit to Print well-illustrates how contemporary artists have found the opportunity to expand their creativity through the print mediums’ varied avenues of investigation. Approximately 75 diverse prints, ranging in date from the late 1960s to 2012, will illustrate a variety of artistic movements, styles, and print-making techniques. Fit to Print offers examples of the germinal ...
Analogon: A thing which is comparable with, resembles, or is equivalent to another. The artwork assembled in the lower galleries was selected and arranged to highlight analogous traits shared among disparate objects. Although the works represent varied aesthetic and conceptual points of view, there exist between them revealing affinities, echoes, and correspondences. A careful consideration ...
This retrospective exhibition traces Chris Gustin’s evolution as a ceramist during a career that has spanned forty years. The eighty works in the exhibition range from diminutive tea bowls to sculptural forms measuring up to four-feet high. There are examples from almost every series of work the artist has made, with pieces from numerous public ...
The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently talking 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 ...
