Now offering private exhibit tours!
Call (616)396-3278 or email helpdesk@hollandarts.org to schedule. Reservations for private tours must be made 24 hours in advance. Walk-in Gallery Hours* (no appointment required) are as follows:
Tuesdays: 10:30 am- 12:30 pm
Thursdays: 10:30 am- 12:30 pm & 6-7:30 pm
Saturdays: 10 am - 2 pm
*Subject to change please check the website regularly.
A Walk Through The Woods
September 16 - January 6
Lievense Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 7th 5:30-7:30pm
Lievense Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 7th 5:30-7:30pm
Artist Thomas Reverman displays his love of the Michigan outdoors and the creatures that live there in his exhibition “A Walk Through the Woods”. Many of his beautifully detailed exhibition pieces are created on wood using pyrography, or drawing by burning a technique he is known for. The show runs September 16-January 6 with a reception October 7th 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
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ARTIST BIO: Tom Reverman grew up in Grand Ledge, Michigan on his parents Christmas tree farm. His grandma sparked his interest in painting in her studio when he was a child. Tom graduated from Lake State University with a degree in Wildlife Management. His love for the outdoors and artistic talent inspired him to start his business, 5th Season in 2016. His art and products can be found at several locations as well as 5thSeasonMi.com. He currently lives in Hersey, MI with his wife Heather.
The World We See: Two Painters and a Poet
(Elaine Dalcher, Stanley Krohmer, and Patricia Clark)
(Elaine Dalcher, Stanley Krohmer, and Patricia Clark)
November 4- January 15
Padnos and Armstrong Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, December 10th 5:30-7:30pm
Padnos and Armstrong Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, December 10th 5:30-7:30pm
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Our exhibit is rich with juxtapositions--natural landscapes next to cell towers and power plants, inner personal landscapes feverish with mark-making and color, as well as poems honed in moments both of transcendence and despair. Where does the eye/mind settle? It roves across all of these— contemplating, imagining and taking away insights about the various media: how paint illuminates and transforms, how words console and enlighten.
Sharing a common interest in the environment, our work expresses, in language and images, our regard for fellow humans and our intimate personal connections. Elaine Dalcher, Stanley Krohmer and Patricia Clark, are friends and colleagues working in Grand Rapids making art and writing poems. Though each was born in another part of the U.S., all have lived 25+ years in West Michigan. Their cultural contributions to the greater Michigan community are widely recognized. |
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ARTIST STATEMENTS & REVIEW:
Elaine Dalcher Artist Statement
Passionate about the beauty of the land, I use a close-up, immersive perspective that invites the viewer into my paintings. Using strong, bold color and energetic brushwork, I strive to offer a fresh, intimate vision of the familiar.
My newest paintings are informed by the need to find meaning and relevance in the resilience and fragility of nature, even as she is threatened by human encroachment. By juxtaposing natural and man-made elements, I aim to create challenging and beautiful, yet dissonant images.
Our current collective landscape is being visibly changed as new infrastructure systems (such as wind turbines and cell towers) are built and old post-industrial, unsustainable structures crumble in our midst.
I cannot separate my love for the beauty and bounty of the Earth from my fear and anger at our global refusal to address climate change. Perhaps in experiencing my work, viewers will be moved to engage in the slow, difficult process of enacting environmental reform.
Passionate about the beauty of the land, I use a close-up, immersive perspective that invites the viewer into my paintings. Using strong, bold color and energetic brushwork, I strive to offer a fresh, intimate vision of the familiar.
My newest paintings are informed by the need to find meaning and relevance in the resilience and fragility of nature, even as she is threatened by human encroachment. By juxtaposing natural and man-made elements, I aim to create challenging and beautiful, yet dissonant images.
Our current collective landscape is being visibly changed as new infrastructure systems (such as wind turbines and cell towers) are built and old post-industrial, unsustainable structures crumble in our midst.
I cannot separate my love for the beauty and bounty of the Earth from my fear and anger at our global refusal to address climate change. Perhaps in experiencing my work, viewers will be moved to engage in the slow, difficult process of enacting environmental reform.
Stanley Krohmer Artist Statement
After having formally studied film photography in Baltimore, Maryland, I moved to Grand Rapids in 1996 where I worked as a natural and social landscape photographer for many years. In 2008, I began the transition to becoming a painter. Since then, I have kept a studio practice in Grand Rapids, exploring oil painting on canvas and wood panel, often without any initial conscious concern for pre-visualization of imagery and subject matter. My working methods are similar to spontaneous composition or improvisation, as jazz musicians sometimes call it. Beginning with bold color and energetic marks, most of my paintings emerge from a gradual building up of the surfaces and usually take several years to be completed. These paintings are my personal interior landscapes, paintings that are also a response to external environments I live in or near—the land and lakeshore I encounter in West Michigan, as well as urban/suburban Grand Rapids. Some of these works explore the growth and destruction of nature, as well as despair from human losses. I also seem to carry back to my studio some of the landscapes that I have seen and internalized from travel in North America and France.
My intention is always to resolve these paintings, while trying to identify who I am as a person in search of freedom and transcendence. After this dark and menacing year, I remain both committed and passionate about painting and, as the colors, plasticity and materials continue to change, it is the ongoing work which sustains me, that pulls me onward.
After having formally studied film photography in Baltimore, Maryland, I moved to Grand Rapids in 1996 where I worked as a natural and social landscape photographer for many years. In 2008, I began the transition to becoming a painter. Since then, I have kept a studio practice in Grand Rapids, exploring oil painting on canvas and wood panel, often without any initial conscious concern for pre-visualization of imagery and subject matter. My working methods are similar to spontaneous composition or improvisation, as jazz musicians sometimes call it. Beginning with bold color and energetic marks, most of my paintings emerge from a gradual building up of the surfaces and usually take several years to be completed. These paintings are my personal interior landscapes, paintings that are also a response to external environments I live in or near—the land and lakeshore I encounter in West Michigan, as well as urban/suburban Grand Rapids. Some of these works explore the growth and destruction of nature, as well as despair from human losses. I also seem to carry back to my studio some of the landscapes that I have seen and internalized from travel in North America and France.
My intention is always to resolve these paintings, while trying to identify who I am as a person in search of freedom and transcendence. After this dark and menacing year, I remain both committed and passionate about painting and, as the colors, plasticity and materials continue to change, it is the ongoing work which sustains me, that pulls me onward.
Patricia Clark Poetry Review
Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. And she includes us humans with wit and wisdom. In Les Rochers de Belle-Ile, she writes: Both the sea and the rocks/ show age/ It's a tired scene of their/ coming together...No escaping how the sea/ throws you repeatedly on the rocks/ of all you're stupid about. There's hard-won intelligence here. We see it in people sharing a meal and being especially kind to each other after a suicide: lots of please and thanks/ as we handed food around/ basket of steaming bread/for buttering. Always, there is a deep understanding of our interconnections, as in this lovely and evocative final stanza of "Near the Tea House at Meijer Japanese Garden," now tracing a pale blue vein/ under the skin like a leaf's midrib. We would do well to take Patricia Clark's guidance: The charge: note what is here, what departs.
Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. And she includes us humans with wit and wisdom. In Les Rochers de Belle-Ile, she writes: Both the sea and the rocks/ show age/ It's a tired scene of their/ coming together...No escaping how the sea/ throws you repeatedly on the rocks/ of all you're stupid about. There's hard-won intelligence here. We see it in people sharing a meal and being especially kind to each other after a suicide: lots of please and thanks/ as we handed food around/ basket of steaming bread/for buttering. Always, there is a deep understanding of our interconnections, as in this lovely and evocative final stanza of "Near the Tea House at Meijer Japanese Garden," now tracing a pale blue vein/ under the skin like a leaf's midrib. We would do well to take Patricia Clark's guidance: The charge: note what is here, what departs.
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ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS
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To privately view our exhibitions in person, work in the ceramics studio, or register for a class please call (616) 396-3278 or email helpdesk@hollandarts.org Holland Area Arts Council
150 East 8th Street Holland, Michigan 49423 |
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