Fibers 
Opposites Attract: Lori Miller(0)
July 9, 2011 —
Lori Miller’s fabric mosaic art is decidedly akin to stained glass, with a liturgical sensibility throughout, but also carries its own visual signature and feeling.
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Views and Visions: Tony Peterson
Tony Peterson covers a wide range of subjects, but the nature of structures and the structures of nature are common threads in his photographic work.
Soft, Colorful, Personal: Maddie Kamphaus
Maddie Kamphaus’ fiber art is soft, colorful and intensely personal, with moments from her life woven into each piece.
Meditations and Explorations: Terri Rogers
Terri Rogers’ fiber art is entering, yet encouraging growth and external exploration.
Follow the Threads: Colette Stuebe Bangert
Colette Stuebe Bangert’s work is intricately constructed and detailed, both homey and exotic.
Layers of Newness: mariaurora (Maria Creyts)
The most recent show by mariaurora raises (and answers) an intriguing question: Is assembling a piece of art, and then photographing/extending it into something bigger than the original, a form of copying or the creation of an entirely new work?
Monstrous Fun: Joanna Underwood
Joanna Underwood’s creations range in impression from the cuddly to the creepy, proving that art can be fun, thoughtful, a tiny touch unsettling … and wearable, all at the same time.
The Cocoon Opens: Eugenia Ortiz
Eugenia Ortiz’s fiber sculpture installation serves as a visual reminder that while Nature has a fairly strict regimen for its emergences, the human growth experience is not always a smooth, uniform transition from dark to light, smaller to greater and closed to open.
Wind (Long I) and Wind (Short I): Sandy Cahill
Sandy Cahill’s wall-mounted fiber sculptures follow sinuous, even sensuous organic curves.
SEASONAL NOSTALGIA
Brett Grill and Jo Stealey integrate nostalgia with the wisdom of natural cycles in the Perlow-Stevens Gallery’s “Fall Exhibit 2010,” on view in Columbia, Missouri, through December 30. Subdued tones and themes of domestic moments and the passage of time join these two MU faculty members’ work into a complementary exhibition.
Yellow Friday: Anne Lindberg
No matter when you view Anne Lindberg’s “Raume Yellow,” part of the “Museum Interrupted” show of installations at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, make sure it’s the last thing you see before you leave. Either that, or give your eyes plenty of time to reset before moving on.
Small Smiling Faces: Vickie Hover
Vickie Hover’s handmade dolls, clad in hand-felted garb, are full of personality, life and good humor. They also carry a sense of the perseverance it took to produce them.
Artistic Evolution: Jean Van Harlingen
No matter the medium, Jean Van Harlingen’s eye for shape, color and texture (even in the two-dimensional works) comes through loud and clear in her show at VALA Gallery in Mission.
Tugging at the Heartthreads: Kate E. Burke
Burke has created an exhibition true to its title, filled with heart images … not the stylized Valentine’s Day shape, mind you, but depictions accurate down to the ventricle. At the same time, it’s apparent at first glance that this is no coldly anatomical body of work.
The Fruits of Insomnia: Kahra Graebner
A visual diet of wee-small-hours cheese certainly hasn’t hurt Kahra Graebner’s productivity, as her show this month at Blue Valley Library demonstrates. And who knew a combination of horror and humor could produce such whimsical results?