Tag Archive for ‘Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities’
Baroque Dance: Donna Bachmann
There’s a cohesive sense of theme and purpose running throughout Donna Bachmann’s Baroque-influenced work. The longer you look, the more you see how everything ties together.
Reconsider This: Joanne Schiller
In Schiller’s canvases, revolutionaries and proletarians, the intelligentsia and the bourgeoisie (all like as not to be painted in unnatural hues) find themselves in the same space as animals, scenes of destruction and scathing snippets of text. Is it protest art, a fist in the face of Big Business as usual and the advertising machine? Or is it a heaping helping of observational commentary, served up on dark wry?
The Music is Her Muse: Alexis Hejna
Hejna’s visual takes on various musical styles and individual songs range from the intricately cerebral to the smolderingly sensual.
Calming Challenges: Roger L. Cissner
Cissner’s work is calming and challenging at the same time. It invites the viewer to breathe and center and also offers a series of beautiful reminders to more closely examine the outside world for those same convergences of color, pattern, line and shape.
Blue Like Art : Joseph L. Smith
Smith offers three main notes: musical performers, still lifes, and women in hats. Each, on its own, is a strong tone. Together, they jar slightly … but in that entirely satisfying, jazz-chord way.
(ARTKC365) Resistance is Anything but Futile: Valerie Doran Bashaw at Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities
East meets West. Fiber meets bamboo and dye. Fiber meets bleach and more dye. Light meets pigment, and the two fall in love and make colors. The end effect is somewhere between soft stained glass and diaphanous abstract painting … but without Bashaw’s resist-dyed silk art losing its own identity.
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