First Thursday
| When |
Thursday, May 2, 2013 5pm to 12:42pm |
|---|---|
| Where | Downtown |
| What | Art acrylic painting, drawing, first thursday, jewelry, mixed media, painting, pottery, printmaking, sculpture |
The Artist Within
313 S Walnut
May at the Artist Within will feature artwork by advanced high school art students from Muncie Central and Muncie Southside. Art instructors Helen Zacek and Britt Husman have selected "the best of the best" from their advanced two dimensional and three dimensional classes. The show, "Advanced Art", will include drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, jewelry and pottery. An opening reception with light refreshments is planned for First Thursday, May 2nd from 5-8pm. The show remains up from May 2-31, 2013.
Gallery 308
308 E Main
“Of Paint and Paper: A Selection of Figurative Works” showcasing the talents of artist Keith Perelli opens at Gallery 308 on May 2. The opening reception for the new exhibit will be held First Thursday, from 5 to 8 p.m. The public is welcome.
A native of New Orleans, Perelli has a strong connection to the colorfully rich texture of the Southern United States, its environment and its people. He works in painting, drawing and printmaking with an emphasis in mixed-media collage and monotypes. His figure-based narratives fuse illusory realism, abstraction and naturalism, focusing on socio-political and personal themes of conflict and discord.
Perelli says, “I am an artist with strong ties to the figurative tradition, and am most intrigued by expressing the human condition through the filter of my experience. Art, history and the rich history of narrative painting are perhaps the greatest catalyst of ideas. I am fascinated by both the beauty and cruelty of nature and man himself.
He added, “I try to see each work as the progenitor for the next idea. I have always been intrigued by images that might be layered or in a sense woven over time. Fabricating and creating collage elements in narrower windows of time allows me the ability to weave or shift disparate elements as one cohesive work, much like a quilter's patchwork, shifting from production within shorter blocks of time to composing when the time and space come together”.
Perelli also teaches painting and drawing at New Orleans Center for Creative Art, a pre-college conservatory for the arts. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Printing from the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA; and a MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
His work has been featured in seven solo exhibitions in New Orleans plus solo exhibitions at Found Gallery Los Angeles, CA and Nau-haus Art Space, Houston, TX. His work has been exhibited internationally in Innsbruck, Austria, in Como and Milan, Italy and in Tianjin, China. In 2010, he was awarded a commission for a public works project on Canal Street in New Orleans. In addition he has received numerous grants and Individual Fellowships from the SURDNA Foundation, Louisiana Division of the Arts and Ratti Foundation.
The gallery is open Friday from 3-7pm and Saturdays from 12:30 – 5:00pm. Admission is free. The show continues through May 31.
Gallery 308, located at 308 East Main in downtown Muncie, is a 501(c)(3) community art gallery which exists to provide exhibition space for artists, encourage innovative work and serve the community as a cultural and educational resource. The Gallery opens a new exhibit every First Thursday. Contributions to Gallery 308 are tax-deductible. For more information about upcoming exhibits, volunteer and donor opportunities, please call 765-289-8575.
Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co.
224 E Main
Like scores of artists before him, Seneca Weintraut keeps a day job. In fact, he keeps many, from trench-digging to casino work to hay bailing. It's how he pays the bills. But Weintraut is also a gifted painter who graduated from Ball State University in 2011 and spent a semester at Pratt Institute in New York City before returning to his father's farm in southern Indiana and all the labor that entails. This latest body of work, in keeping with his biographical and narrative nature, examines the return and what it means to be 'home'. His overall focus is America, and "the honesty of daily life." Using allegory and symbolism to help his audience relate to his images, Weintraut confesses, "I think of myself as a folk artist, telling the story of the American working class through pictures."
The fourth installment of our 2013 Small Exhibit Series will feature Jamie Gray Williams, a graduate from the University of Southern Indiana's art department and recipient of their first Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship in 2012. Her figurative acrylic paintings "explore personal and social issues using exaggerated brush strokes, patterning, and soft, feminine colors." A TOUR OF STRANGERS will be on view in our Nook gallery through the end of May.
Rose Court
125 E Charles
Rose Court is pleased to feature Julie Cranfill for May's First Thursday Arts Walk event. Julie is originally from Muncie, having grown up on an Arabian horse farm. Her interest in art emerged from drawing Arabian horses. Now, Julie's work encompasses a wide range of subjects and has been shown locally and as far away as Atlanta, Georgia at the Atlanta Mercantile. Julie also is a member of the Hamilton County Artist Assoc. and teaches private and group painting classes. Come visit with Julie from 5pm to 8pm at Rose Court.
