Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo - Fine Art/Craft Events

Infrared Photography by Christopher Light

info@kalamazooarts.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:09 EST

Saturday, December 3, 2011, to Sunday, March 18, 2012
All Day

December 3, 2011 - March 18, 2012

In this exhibition of his recent work, photographer Christopher Light explores the urban and natural world through infrared digital photographs. The human eye can see only a very small portion of the entire light spectrum. The portion of the spectrum with frequencies just below the lowest visible red light (longer wave lengths) is referred to as "infrared." Although invisible to the eye, digital cameras are sensitive to infrared light. Photographs taken with infrared light seem at once precise (due to the absence of atmospheric haze) and dreamlike (skies appear dark and natural foliage-tree leaves and grass-appear very light as they reflect the infrared light).

A Kalamazoo native, Christopher Light grew up with a darkroom and the use of his father's 4 x 5 camera. He earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and worked first as a newspaper reporter-photographer the later as a college professor and free-lance writer for the early microcomputer magazines. In 1995, after moving back to Kalamazoo, Light returned to photography, combining his knowledge of photography with his computer skills, and, as a refresher, took several photography courses at the KIA. Since then he has had more than a dozen one-person shows in several Michigan galleries and produced large-scale digitally printed photographs for public buildings in Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor. This exhibition is his museum debut.

The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux

info@kalamazooarts.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:09 EST

Saturday, December 17, 2011, to Sunday, March 4, 2012
All Day

December 17, 2011 - March 4, 2012

Annette Lemieux first garnered attention on the newly global art scene of the 1980s. Since that time she has continued to produce work that grows in depth and resonance, proving herself an artist of lasting significance. Lemieux's early use of traditional techniques painting, printing, casting, and photography expanded to include found materials laden with cultural meanings and evocative of personal memories. Whatever the material, Lemieux masters and invents techniques and processes that correlate with states of mind. Major themes she returns to within our shifting political and cultural climate include the horror of war, the nature of time, the elusive truth of memory, the nature of ideas and art-making, and the relationship between personal experience and cultural history.

This mid-career retrospective exhibition surveys Lemieux's work over the past 25 years, tracing themes such as the relationship between personal memory and cultural history, content and medium, and text as image. The illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays by exhibition curators Lelia Amalfitano and Judith Hoos Fox and guest essayists: critic Rosetta Brooks, cultural theorist Peggy Phelan, and critic and scholar Robert Pincus-Witten.

The exhibition was organized by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Major funding was provided by Rosann and Richard Noel with additional sponsorship by Fox Development Corporation; Fred and Donna Giertz; Nancy B. Tieken; Office of the Chancellor, U of I; Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, U of I; Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency; Krannert Art Museum Director's Circle; and Krannert Art Museum Council

Michigan Outsider's Art

info@kalamazooarts.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:09 EST

Sunday, December 18, 2011, to Sunday, February 5, 2012
M-F 10-4 Sat & sun 1-4

Opening Reception: December 16th (5-7pm)

A broad array of works from a number of best-known Michigan outsider artists will fill the galleries of the South Haven Center for the Arts. This exhibit explores the interest in Outsider art a.k.a. visionary/intuitive/self taught/ naïve art as it continues to grow from remote areas of the rural deep south to the far reaches of the north. This art form has been both shaping and shaking the American Art world for the past 30 years, and in the last decade and a half many of the genres best have been discovered right here in Michigan. Michigan Outsider's Art Curator: Bruce Cutean

Art League Lecture: America's Gilded Age

info@kalamazooarts.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:09 EST

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
10 a.m.

Dates: Wed Feb 8, 12

Time: 10:00am

Location:
KIA Auditorium

The February 8 program will focus on America's Gilded Age. Lise Dub -Scherr, Director of The Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago, will share information about the museum, housed in the culturally and historically significant setting of one of the grandest residential buildings of 19th-century Chicago, the Samuel M. Nickerson House.

Free for Art League members; $10 general admission; $3 students with ID from WMU, K College, KVCC or the Kirk Newman Art School.

Reception following the lecture included with admission.

Artists in Transition

info@kalamazooarts.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:09 EST

Friday, February 10, 2012, to Sunday, March 18, 2012
M-F 10-4 Sat & Sun 1-4

Opening Reception: February 12th (2-4pm)

Artist in Transition is an exhibit the middle school and high school area art students look forward to every year. It is a chance to see their works hung professionally in a gallery setting. It is also a juried show where the students not only gain recognition for their work but also receive a prize. This exhibit also is a part of the South Haven Center for the Arts community outreach program to enhance the experience of the arts for school age children in our area.