During the past 20 years, Richard Deon has explored the visual style and methods employed by Textbook illustrators from the 1950s. These unsung artists sought to introduce school-aged children to public institutions, history, and politics through the use of easily graspable images and situations. Deon draws on their methods, arranging figures with implicit cultural connotations ...
This exhibition consists of over 100 pieces by State Fair Community College Art Majors. The exhibition will be juried by a well-known art world personality. This is a wonderful opportunity to support a State Fair Community College student by purchasing a piece of artwork from the exhibition.
"Lipstick Traces: Women in the Collection" is a celebration of outstanding work by women artists in the Daum’s permanent collection, including signature compositions by Helen Frankenthaler, Betty Woodman, Pat Steir, Ruth Duckworth, and Michiko Itatani, among many others. The exhibition begs the question, Does gender influence creativity in the visual arts? At this point in ...
This mid-career survey reviews Herzog’s mixed-media sculptures and installations with seventeen works that date from 1996 to the present. A highlight of the survey is a site-specific installation created for the Daum Museum. Herzog’s oeuvre is centered on artworks that employ found materials associated with everyday domestic lift. She is best known for her manipulation ...
Sergei Isupov is renowned for his technically accomplished ceramic sculpture, whose complexly illustrated surfaces often depict figures and settings painted realistically but with a dreamlike strangeness. This exhibition features Isupov’s latest body of work, including fourteen large-scale ceramics heads and related drawings. Each subject has the particularity of portraiture, where individual facial expressions subtly reveal ...
This retrospective examines Leuthold’s signature work comprised by intricately carved ceramic discs, wheels, cones, and hemispheres that evoke metaphysical and cosmic associations. The show will also feature a room-sized installation specifically created for this exhibition.
This exhibition consists of over 100 pieces by State Fair Community College Art Majors. The exhibition will be juried by a well-known art world personality. This is a wonderful opportunity to support a State Fair Community College student by purchasing a piece of artwork from the exhibition.
For over 20 years, Dikeman has compulsively trained her camera on her parents and their home environment in suburban Iowa, recording in detail their daily routine: mornings at the breakfast table, household chores, sitting and chatting. Dikeman has an anthropologist’s eye for telling details, and viewers quickly find shared significance in this record of commonplace ...
Garrett’s mixed-media collages rework found photographic portraits into impious icons of satiric intent. His computer-manipulated and cloth-printed visages are subsequently painted, appliquéd, broidered, jeweled, and otherwise embellished with the fripperies of a committed bricoleur. Grouped in series by character types, Garrett’s portraits portend the gravity of documentary typologies. Closer inspection reveals them to be funny, ...
New*Now highlights additions made to the museum’s permanent collection during the past two years.
