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Ruth Duckworth: Modernist Sculptor

Ms. Duckworth, 86, is one of the world’s foremost and influential living ceramic sculptors. The exhibition Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor will explore the full range of Duckworth’s creative life, featuring about 83 small- and large-scale works, along with original artist’s maquettes and photographs of monumental site-specific sculptures. Ms. Duckworth is internationally known for her visionary ...

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Jim Sajovic: Evolution

MOTION PICTURES 1989 – 1991 Motion Pictures represent archetypal pairings of male and female. The juxtaposed men and women are clearly separate, yet suggest the desire for intimacy and belonging that is forever delayed, tentative, and unstable. DANTE PAINTINGS DARK PAINTINGS 1991 - 1996 The Dante Paintings and Dark Paintings express a mood of profound ...

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Steven Montgomery: Broken

Montgomery has selected for his motifs pieces of engineering that serve in daily life as emblems of beauty and power – the high compression engines of swift and powerful automobiles and the doors of secure and powerful vaults where treasures are stored. But the once impenetrable vault is crippled, the high-speed engine is stilled. They ...

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Sharon Patten: Remembered

1943 – 1995 Sharon was born in Sedalia, Missouri in 1943. She received her B.A. in German from the University of Kansas in 1965. Moving from Sedalia to Kansas City in 1975, she began attending the Kansas City Art Institute full-time and received her B.F.A. in 1979. She attended graduate school at the Tyler School ...

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Local Voices – Annual Student Exhibition 2006

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.

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Udo Noger: Light as a Material

Udo Nöger’s work in art from around 1997 to the present day can be defined as one that has as its theme the abstract monochrome painting in the context of light. Nöger’s typical works are marked by the following characteristics: light, painted color, space, and object. Udo Nöger was born in 1961 in Enger, Westfalia, ...

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Matthew Zupnick: Adjustments

Matthew Zupnick is a Professor of art at Central Missouri State University. History and the slowness of time that it still requires are essential to Matthew Zupnick’s work, and references to it exist on multiple footings of understanding. Zupnick has concentrated on a rhythm of bronze, steel, and carved wood to create a body of ...

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Ruth Borgenicht: Articulated Spaces

Ruth Borgenicht lives and works just outside New York City in New Jersey. She studied mathematics at Rutgers University and only became exposed to ceramics in her final year of study. Evidence of her grounding in mathematics remains apparent throughout her work. Ruth’s artworks are composed of dozens, at times even hundreds of components that ...

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Hugh Merrill: Lucky Dragon Series

Hugh Merrill is a professor of art at the Kansas City Art Institute. His Lucky Dragon sequential etching suite was created in 1984 and exhibited by the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas in 1985. The suite of twenty unique etchings was acquired by the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in 2006 from a ...

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Tom Huck: Two Weeks in August and The Bloody Bucket

Tom Huck lives and works in St. Louis, MO where teaches printmaking at Washington University and runs his own press, Evil Prints. “My work deals with personal observations about the experiences of living in a small town in Southeast Missouri. The often strange and humorous occurrences, places, and people in these towns offer a never ...

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