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CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Peoria Art Guild announces a call for artists for the 50th Annual Fine Art Fair
located on the Peoria Riverfront, September 29 & 30, 2012.

Applications available online beginning January 1, 2012
www.zapplication.org

Looping. Michael Wille, Artist

Looping. Michael Wille, Artist. February 6-March 1, 2012. Monday –Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm .Opening reception on Saturday, February 11, 2012, 5:00 – 8:00 pm.

This particular project is somewhat of a departure from my traditional studio practice. I typically choose a location (South Africa, Rome, Cleveland, etc) that I am familiar with and make paintings that (in an abstract way) address the visual architecture and landscape of those sources in my pictures. I consider the physical and intellectual socialization process of existing in a new environment to be a simple analog for a viewer to consider when experiencing my paintings. One develops a greater understanding of a place by actively experiencing it. The same is true of looking more actively at a seemingly abstract painting. That process of choosing a city and then exploring ways to depict/consider it has been enough of a prod to develop work for nearly a decade.

This exhibition exists as a separate, new mode of my practice, leaving behind the referential characteristics of a location that might be noticed by an audience. Consequently, I have freely, confidently entered the realm of non-objective painting. When starting out, I wanted this body of work to ask what other ways a painting can serve as a “witness” a place.

Yet as I continued to investigate the manner in which I addressed formal potential, color issues, paint handling, etc, I began to think of the paintings as stand-ins for the constant questions rattling around my mind – how does abstract painting become meaningful? How does an audience engage in abstract painting when some of my intention is to deny certain historical, formal, logical methods of making? These are just a sampling of a few questions that I ponder as an artist a decade out of graduate school. This newest body of work has my mind racing with potential ways that the work can be interpreted, let alone continue to be made.

Sculpture Exhibit, Tim Roby, Artist

Tim Roby, Artist. February 6 – March 1, 2012. Monday –Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Opening reception on Saturday, February 11, 2012, 5:00 – 8:00 pm.

Sensory Landscapes

Sarah Nesbit and Lyn Wellhausen, Artist. March 7-31, 2012. Opening Reception March 10th , 2012 at the Peoria Art Guild

Chest is Wind, Head is Lion

Brandon Siscoe, Artist. March 7-31, 2012. Opening Reception March 10th , 2012 at the Peoria Art Guild

Bringing Art To The Community!

The Peoria Art Guild has formed a partnership with Adams Outdoor Advertising to develop a new project entitled Art in the Sky, featuring local artist on area billboards. THANK YOU to Adams Outdoor Advertising, Sora Technologies, Peoria Awning and Stellar Systems, Inc for sponsoring our billboards! Check the billboards out at the following locations: Knoxville Avenue near Junction City, and on SW Adams Street at the intersection of Adams and Sloan St.

THANK YOU to local artist Marlene Miller and the children who participate in our outreach programs for providing the outstanding artwork! If you would like to find out more about sponsoring or participating in the Art in the Sky project, please contact Jenny Parkhurst at 671-1092.