I'm looking forward to my residency at
Grateful to return to VCCA and beautiful Virginia.
More to come ....
Paul artspace Residency
Residency at Paul Artspace in St. Louis, 10/15-11/30/16
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I’m joining images of my older work with those made more recently.The archival prints ( i’m holding one) always show the older image as
the left panel. The right panel always a more recently made image,even if the right panel is a painting from say, 10, 20 years ago.
These below, in progress, retain a dimensional quality. The left panelcontinues to be an older image made years ago, but now the rightpanel is one always made in present studio time. The form makesreference to that of a book, or tablet, which holds information. Withthis work the information becomes autobiographical.
my garage studio
The Epson 2200 (2003) still holding up !
(1976 / 2009), archival print abt. 4"x5", 2016
(1978/ 1980's), archival print abt. 4"x5", 2016
ROCKFORD MIDWESTERN 2016 Biennial
Rockford Art Museum (RAM) opens The Rockford Midwestern Biennial
JUNE 10–SEPT 25, 2016 • OPENS JUNE 10, 7:30–8:30 PM
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| TABLET, Volume 5, 8"x14", acrylic, ink on paper/canvas, 2015 |
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The exhibition remains on view through Sept. 25 at RAM, located at 711 N. Main St., Rockford.
Juried by DIALOGUE CHICAGO founding director Sarah Krepp, the 2016 Rockford Midwestern is the
74th presentation of the museum’s survey exhibition of new work by contemporary artists from across the Midwest.
INHERITANCE, Carla Drysdale's new collection of poems
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ORIGIN 2011, acrylic paint, graphite on paper, abt .10” x 8”
“Inheritance” by Carla Drysdale wins the Earle Birney Poetry Prize |
"The majestic, determined poems in Carla Drysdale’s stunning debut chapbook Inheritance act as a dual lens to art and motherhood. They reflect the thriving childhood of the poet’s sons and also refract their mother’s childhood, demonstrating that what is inherited can both be passed on and reversed. In Drysdale’s poems, the fruit of tenderness is always set inside a rind of candor. She practices a poetics of strength: not only does vigorous language define her poems, but their sheer force of character gives them backbone. Inheritance shines with Drysdale’s craft and passionate intensity." Molly Peacock, Author of Cornucopia and The Second Blush
TRANSIENT GALLERY: KEN DUBIN, BENJAMIN GARDNER, DENNIS KOWALSKI
March 21, 2015 Opening - 7pm
Ken Dubin, Tablet, Volume 5, 2015
In this recent work I’m joining two pieces differently then I have in the past. Previously sections were butted tightly together visually reading as one work. On their own each of the sections could be seen as different paintings, but bringing them together with some reworking, would allow for the reference of a past and present; a shift from one state to another. The more recent work allows for the same references, though I’m now choosing sections made even decades apart and joining them together in a much looser manner. I think of a book or a tablet that asks to be read.
Benjamin Gardner, Knots, 2015
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As an abstract painter, spatial illusion and color are my primary materials. The Knots are a new series of low-relief paintings on wood panel that emphasize spatial complexity, making it a process to discern the hierarchy of space. As an archetype the knot has typically been used to describe traditions with sacred bonds; I wish to employ this archetype as a secular symbol of the process of binding and unbinding in my life; a sort of visual thinking about complexity in all of its forms.
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| Dennis Kowalski, Aqua Boulder, 2014 |
One of my main considerations is to connect the common and domestic with the bigger world picture in an attempt to implicate the one with the other. The world and people are full of contradictions, as is my art and while being concerned about ecology and the environment, I often use materials that are synthetic and fake to make a point, but the works also contribute to the mess, thereby implicating me and perhaps most of us.
DUBUQUE MUSEUM of ART Biennial , 2013
 Origin + Return 2 16"x13" acrylic on paper , 2012 |
| Biennial Jurried Exhibition April 6 - July 21, 2013
Opening Reception Friday, April 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m
Juror: Mr. James Welu, Director Emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
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Mid-November 2012 until further notice
Library Phone: 641-472-1154
Library Hours:
9:30am-9:00pm M-F /
9:30am-7:15pm Sat /
7:15pm-9:00pm Sun
A collaboration with Poets writing in direct response to
my paintings include Carla Drysdale, Abeer Hoque,
Up until now I would initiate these poetry/art exchanges only if a poet first expressed a strong connection upon seeing my paintings. Now I’ve become less timid, and rather than wait for a studio visit from a poet, which seems to only happen at these residencies, if at all, I’ve decided to initiate the exchange with poets whose work I admire. I was honored when Rustin Larson agreed (2012) and am eager for New York poet Colette Inez's’ response to The Field of All Possibilities, who tells me she is meditating on it’s image.
Although these post at www.kendubin.com this is my first time printing the collaborations for exhibit. I’ve anticipated this for a long time and can’t think of a better place to begin then here in the MUM Library Foyer gallery.
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TIMES CLUB at PRAIRIE LIGHTS, 2012
TIMES CLUB at PRAIRIE LIGHTS, Iowa City
Closing Reception • Friday, NOV 30, 8-10
Closing Reception • Friday, NOV 30, 8-10
RESIDENCY: PRAIRIE CENTER of the ARTS
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| Residency in Peoria, IL over the holidays, 2012 |
My workspace
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Founded 2003, 125 years old, 140,000 sf, near the Illinois River
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RESIDENCY: RAGDALE, 2011
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Residency at the Ragdale Foundation. November 3 - 16, 2011
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Ragdale supports writers and artists in a retreat setting and makes the arts more accessible to the public through three core program areas: the artists' residency program, community programs, and preservation of the historic site http://www.ragdale.org/
Finished some good work and started others. Deb Derrickson Kossmann photo
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| the Barn House where we lived and the writers worked |
the back side of the Barn House looking out onto the prairie
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sitting room in Barn House looking out onto the prairie
walking to my studio in the prairie
getting closer
closer
The Meadows Studio - I worked in the old Meadows Studio twice before. It has since been torn down and in it's place this new Meadows Studio designed by IIT students. I was extremely lucky to get this wonderful studio to work in - the only one out on the 50 acre prairie.
Open Studio
Sioban Nora Lombardi, Eric Layer, me, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Mairead Case, Sara Schaff
Jane Fulton Alt photo
Jane Fulton Alt photo
Yvette Kaiser Smith photo
Eric Layer, Sara Schaff, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Deb Derrickson Kossmann, Sioban Nora Lomb
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Mairead Case, writer and Jane Fulton Alt, photographer enjoying the studio porch
Yvette Kaiser Smith photo