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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: Souvenir: Kim Flora | New Hybrids: Jon Swindler - 28 Sept 2007 to 26 Oct 2007 Current Exhibition |
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image by Jon Swindler, Assistant Professor, Wright State University
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Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center September 28 - October 26, 2007 Souvenir Recent Paintings by Kim Flora /main gallery Souvenir is a collection of recent paintings by Kim Flora, a Cincinnati artist, and 2005 Art Academy of Cincinnati graduate. Manifest is pleased to present this collection of works as the kickoff exhibit for our 2007/08 season. Flora's exquisite paintings are richly layered, dense meditations on reflections of travel in Europe in 2005. Having exhibited in Manifest's second exhibit, the all-student Gender, Engendered, she received the first prize award which provided an invitation to a full solo show at Manifest. Souvenir honors Manifest's commitment to encourage and stand by young artists as they progress from being students to exhibiting professionals. Flora's work was also seen recently in the 3rd Annual Magnitude 7 at Manifest. The works in Souvenir delicately suggest dream-like memories, sharing the flavor of sentimentality while mixing in an amazing formalist aesthetic. About her work Flora states: "I have always created artwork with the idea of leaving it behind, in essence as a souvenir. This exhibition explores that idea, along with referencing specific places both familiar and foreign. Reflecting on my experience studying in Europe, my childhood connections to the East Coast and my current home here in the Midwest, I create work that seeks to address the universal through intimate self-expression. This is realized through imagery that includes, maps, shells, birds and constellations, while investigating dualities such as the past and the present and the heavenly and the earthly." New Hybrids: Environmental Anomalies Recent Drawings by Jon Swindler /drawing room Manifest is proud to present this solo exhibit of recent works by Jon Swindler. New Hybrids assembles a exquisite collection of drawing-based works utilizing the artist's personal metaphors and references to his rural past to provoke a visceral response. Jon Swindler received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking and art education from Fort Hays State University in Kansas, and his MFA degree in printmaking and drawing from Southern Illinois University in 2003 Since 2004 he has served as Assistant Professor of Art at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio where he teaches introductory through advanced levels of drawing and printmaking. About his work Swindler states: "This recent body of work is the result of a desire to marry disparate imagery; divergent layers of botanical illustrations, inadvertent drippings and industrial protrusions are fused within the page. These peculiar vocabularies secure themselves within the economic process of drawing and erasing, ultimately retaining the visual and physical history of their development, producing a virtual palimpsest. All of which provides information to be lost or found, deemed relevant or irrelevant by the viewer, revealing the cyclical nature of my artistic practice." |
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