Oct. 25, 2010

Morningside College faculty exhibits artwork

"Still Life with Grapes" by Dolie Thompson

The Morningside College Art Faculty Show is on display through Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the Eppley Art Gallery, 3625 Garretson Ave.  A reception for the artists will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in the art gallery.

Paintings, photographs and sculpture from full-time and adjunct faculty fill the gallery. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public.

"Sun Spots" by Amy Foltz

Dolie Thompson is exhibiting three large digital photographs, with the rich colors in the still lifes of bread, cheese, grapes and lemons being reminiscent of a Baroque painting, while Pauline Sensenig is exhibiting actual oil paintings of appetizing food. Jim Bisenius plays with words in his mixed media painting collage, while Shannon Sargent provokes viewers with titles to his altered found object sculptures.

"Kim is to Blame" by John Bowitz

John Bowitz is exhibiting a series of small alkyded oil paintings with subjects of lizard, fish and frog dreams and a large piece about painting, while Karen Emenhiser-Harris is exhibiting a small oil painting that is an abstraction based on a 20th-century chair. Terri Parish McGaffin is showing two acrylic paintings investigating naturally occurring visual phenomena and 12 paper and panel mixed media paintings interpreting Lakota names according to Black Elk, while Amy Foltz is showing three acrylic paintings all featuring brilliantly abstracted sun spots.

In the field of graphic design, John Kolbo is displaying three posters for the Evangelical Orthodox Church’s Mission Rwanda. The posters call attention to the need for schools, tools and food for the youth of this nation.