Liz Bashore and Bruce Preheim
July 22, 2008 - November 23, 2008

Artist Reception: September 19, 2008
4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Artist's Presentation: 5:30

Liz Bashore's recent body of work is a contemporary look at landmarks, culture, and symbols that associate with Midwest culture. This scrutiny arises out of a personal, genuine love for our region and a growing habit to seek out and artistically document common threads, trends, and situations of artistic interest in this region. Many of the paintings start with inspiration drawn from relics of regional design or local industry. These objects of the past are often combined with contemporary figurative references. The combination of symbolic objects and figures make visual her effort to link a local history to the personal, the everyday, and the creative.

Bruce Preheim earned a BFA degree in the visual arts from the University of South Dakota in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree from West Virginia University in 1972. He recently received an MFA in Painting from the University of South Dakota.

Preheim's work has been exhibited through the region and is represented in many private collections, including that of singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Preheim's work centers on deep-seated concerns for humanity, compassion, and the power and dignity of the individual within society. His numerous portraits of friends, acquaintances, and strangers represent his attempt to honor the individuality, strengths, and eccentricities of the characters who populate this world. His drawings in pencil, ink, or charcoal are characterized by a distinctive technical deftness and linear energy.
 

Untitled Landscape
Dorothy Morgan

Dorothy Morgan: Landscape painting
July 24, 2008 - September 28, 2008

Artist Reception: September 19, 2008
4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Artist's Presentation: 5:30 pm

Dorothy Morgan is a mid-career artist who is considered one of the Midwest's finest and most accomplished painters. She began showing with John Pence Gallery in 1987 and has staged four solo exhibitions in San Francisco.

Morgan's paintings have been acquired for numerous public collection in New York, San Francisco, Texas, and Minnesota to name just a few. She has won a number of prizes and awards and came to the attention of the South Dakota Art Museum in 1987 as a major prize winner in American Artist Magazine's Golden Anniversary Competition. Her work is currently on tour with the Tacoma Art Museum's "Lewis and Clark Territory" exhibition.

Morgan paints on panel with thick, juicy impastos'. She devotes herself to painting the environs of her home: the South Dakota landscape, excelling at the use of light and strong composition. Her paintings are unmistakably distinctive.

Stephen Knapp: The Art of Illumination
September 18, 2008 - November 30, 2008

The "lightpaintings" of Stephen Knapp are energy made visible. Their primary medium is light, which physicists define as a form of energy, observable to the human eye, made of moving charged particles with no mass that respond to electromagnetic force. Using micro-thin metallic coatings sandwiched between layers of glass, the pieces either refract or reflect color to produce effects of the saturation of hues, tonal mixing, and other components of the artist's palette. The entire process is quintessentially modern in that the artist developed these techniques totally outside the conventions of traditional artistic production.

Harvey Dunn: What Lies Beneath
February 24, 2009 - October 18, 2009

Contemporary Native American Art from the Heritage Center of the Red Cloud Indian School
March 6, 2009 - March 14, 2010