Monthly Featured Artists in the Cellar
Pam Dennis & Ryk Weiss
Gallery Night, October 4th
Sculpture -Pam Dennis, Ryk Weiss
Pam Dennis has been a rostered IAC Artist in the Schools for 16 years. She has taught classes in many venues including schools, museums, and art centers, and has even presented mixed media workshops in Mexico and Nicaragua. Pam has exhibited her art nationally at museums and galleries.
In addition to producing her own art, Pam collaborates with her husband, Ryk Weiss. Together the have exhibited nationally at art fairs for over 20 years. In addition, Pam and Ryk have created and installed sculptures such as the Vision Sculpture Park “Calaveries” willow project in 2006 for the Blanden Memorial Museum in Fort Dodge. Other collaborative sculptures are located in the DOT main office in Ames, the DMACC campus in Boone, as well as other sites including homes around Iowa and the country. Their work can found at several galleries around Iowa, as well as their home studios near Ogden. For additional information, e-mail rykweiss@netins.net to schedule a visit, register for one of their workshops, commission a piece or purchase art.
Gallery Night, October 4th
Sculpture -Pam Dennis, Ryk Weiss
Pam Dennis has been a rostered IAC Artist in the Schools for 16 years. She has taught classes in many venues including schools, museums, and art centers, and has even presented mixed media workshops in Mexico and Nicaragua. Pam has exhibited her art nationally at museums and galleries.
In addition to producing her own art, Pam collaborates with her husband, Ryk Weiss. Together the have exhibited nationally at art fairs for over 20 years. In addition, Pam and Ryk have created and installed sculptures such as the Vision Sculpture Park “Calaveries” willow project in 2006 for the Blanden Memorial Museum in Fort Dodge. Other collaborative sculptures are located in the DOT main office in Ames, the DMACC campus in Boone, as well as other sites including homes around Iowa and the country. Their work can found at several galleries around Iowa, as well as their home studios near Ogden. For additional information, e-mail rykweiss@netins.net to schedule a visit, register for one of their workshops, commission a piece or purchase art.
Karen Cooper
Gallery Night, November 1st
Painting People's Stories
Karen is a figurative painter, who spent her college years at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, sampling just about every department available, with textile and fashion design eventually seizing most of her attention. That course of study required a fair amount of drawing classes from the art department, and the introduction to life drawing was made.
Many years and many experiences later, the focus of my work is again with the figure, intrigued by the stories that can be told with paintings of people, their postures, and their relationships to each other.
People say they enjoy people watching as a leisure activity. I do it with intensity. And then I paint it.
The current work is oil on canvas, a few are acrylic on canvas.
All are focused on people and their daily routines, and the thought-provoking images they make.
It’s the simple stuff that we all do, but when you attach it to a person, it communicates something of each one of us, to the other of us. And then there occurs that magic moment in which a story appears.
And what is a painting, if not for that magic moment that the artist wants, and needs, to share?
Karen Cooper
karencooper@karencooperpaintings.com
https://karencooperpaintings.com
Gallery Night, November 1st
Painting People's Stories
Karen is a figurative painter, who spent her college years at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, sampling just about every department available, with textile and fashion design eventually seizing most of her attention. That course of study required a fair amount of drawing classes from the art department, and the introduction to life drawing was made.
Many years and many experiences later, the focus of my work is again with the figure, intrigued by the stories that can be told with paintings of people, their postures, and their relationships to each other.
People say they enjoy people watching as a leisure activity. I do it with intensity. And then I paint it.
The current work is oil on canvas, a few are acrylic on canvas.
All are focused on people and their daily routines, and the thought-provoking images they make.
It’s the simple stuff that we all do, but when you attach it to a person, it communicates something of each one of us, to the other of us. And then there occurs that magic moment in which a story appears.
And what is a painting, if not for that magic moment that the artist wants, and needs, to share?
Karen Cooper
karencooper@karencooperpaintings.com
https://karencooperpaintings.com
Poste Print Exhibition
Gallery Night, December 13th
Gallery Night, December 13th