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. January Gallery Hours* (no appointment required) are as follows:
Thursdays: 6-7:30 pm
Saturdays: 10 am - 2 pm
*Subject to change please check the website regularly.
Surprising Growth
January 14- February 27
Lievense Gallery
Artist Meet & Greet: Saturday, 2/13 from 10:30 am- 12:30 pm
Lievense Gallery
Artist Meet & Greet: Saturday, 2/13 from 10:30 am- 12:30 pm
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Nora paints intuitively on clayboard listening to her heart and gut for inspiration. She calls this anti-intellectual, as often she has a feeling she is representing in an abstract way. Nora is inspired by the Holy Spirit, Nature, and love. She often will pray while painting for propagation for groups, individuals, circumstances, and the earth. The aim of her art is to effect the soul, rendering it capable of love and healing. Surprising Growth represents her hope in our future and in the human race to lift one another up, to spread and promote joy, and to propagate new life in surprising ways.
About the Artist: Nora Fabor Overvoorde
Nora Faber was born in Grand Rapids, MI in 1975, moved to McBain, MI when she was 3 with her parents Mark Lagerwey and Ellen Van Laar. Nora attended Calvin College where she received her Bachelors degree in Art Education and Psychology.
Nora taught Art for 18 years primarily at WMAAA of Spring Lake, and North Pointe Christian in Grand Rapids. Currently she teaches for ACT- Artists Creating Together, Kendall College, and the 4-Square Homeschool Program in Byron Center. Primarily she is a professional painter renting a downtown studio.
As an artist Nora has been in Art Prize for 6 years, winning an award for Best of Calvin Alumni in ArtPrize 2015 with her painting Heavenly Choir now donated to Madison Church at the Square where she enjoys worshiping.
Nora’s process of painting is layered. She adds acrylic mixes, matte medium, salt and sand to provide a texture of foundation to her Clay Board. When these layers dry they become a layer for her revelatory rubbing technique of oils. She also etches into the clay or removes areas of paint to create more depth, often using a detail brush to add more detail to finish her renderings.
Painting is a form of worship for Nora; a way to express thoughts and prayers through abstract renderings of songs, Bible Passages and nature. Her plant series work is an emotional response to nature, which she adds natural objects for texture and actual plants to create surrealistic landscapes. Nora’s work is ever evolving as she uses her work as therapy-when needed, and always reflection. She also enjoys creating windows of Grace or Rest for viewers within her abstract Creations.
Nora taught Art for 18 years primarily at WMAAA of Spring Lake, and North Pointe Christian in Grand Rapids. Currently she teaches for ACT- Artists Creating Together, Kendall College, and the 4-Square Homeschool Program in Byron Center. Primarily she is a professional painter renting a downtown studio.
As an artist Nora has been in Art Prize for 6 years, winning an award for Best of Calvin Alumni in ArtPrize 2015 with her painting Heavenly Choir now donated to Madison Church at the Square where she enjoys worshiping.
Nora’s process of painting is layered. She adds acrylic mixes, matte medium, salt and sand to provide a texture of foundation to her Clay Board. When these layers dry they become a layer for her revelatory rubbing technique of oils. She also etches into the clay or removes areas of paint to create more depth, often using a detail brush to add more detail to finish her renderings.
Painting is a form of worship for Nora; a way to express thoughts and prayers through abstract renderings of songs, Bible Passages and nature. Her plant series work is an emotional response to nature, which she adds natural objects for texture and actual plants to create surrealistic landscapes. Nora’s work is ever evolving as she uses her work as therapy-when needed, and always reflection. She also enjoys creating windows of Grace or Rest for viewers within her abstract Creations.
Intuitive and Untamed
January 14- March 4
Padnos Gallery
Artist Meet & Greet: Friday, 2/26 from 5:30-7:30 pm
Padnos Gallery
Artist Meet & Greet: Friday, 2/26 from 5:30-7:30 pm
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Presenting the paintings of Sheryl Budnik and Barbara Hoffman in the Padnos Gallery. A “parallel” exhibition rather than two separate exhibitions, the artworks relate to one another while each was made with different mediums, in different spaces, and with different ideas.
Sheryl Budnik's paintings seem to cross the line between representational and expressionist art. her paintings are not an exact record of nature, yet they often communicate a palpable sense of place or perhaps her opinion.
She draws inspiration from the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean she visits, and the fields and orchards near her home. The show has a variety of works. there is a dreamscape (journey to the island still unborn) and a political landscape— utilizing hot colors (delete to match) as in dissent: descent.
Working intuitively, each mark of oil color is made with a palette knife (not brush). She looks intently at the painting from a vantage point of 20 feet away, then approaches the canvas and makes each mark. She calls her painting an intuitive dance. the painting leads the way - creating itself - the artist's eye guides the palette knife to create an expression of place.
Barbara Hoffman says painting to her is a way to process significant experiences, a walkway to discoveries, and an attempt to connect deep within my soul with those who appreciate my work. certain moments and impressions seem to catch an essence of a place, time a thought, or a feeling.
"I have been drawn to the ever changing landscapes. The rugged landscapes are my primary source of my paintings. abstracting the landscape has become experimental to my work. What abstract has taught me is to go push beyond the range of my own limits, and of what i want my paintings to be – powerful yet gentle, bold yet intricate, quiet yet expressing energy," says Hoffman.
"My work is primarily abstract and intuitive. To compose my paintings, I re-imagine the essential elements of a small section of a landscape. My process then is to build cumulative layers of oil and cold-wax on a flat surface. These layers create the foundation of color, texture, and though they are eventually covered, the emerging patterns direct the final outcome – working to express feelings and relations visually through the paint itself."
Sheryl Budnik's paintings seem to cross the line between representational and expressionist art. her paintings are not an exact record of nature, yet they often communicate a palpable sense of place or perhaps her opinion.
She draws inspiration from the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean she visits, and the fields and orchards near her home. The show has a variety of works. there is a dreamscape (journey to the island still unborn) and a political landscape— utilizing hot colors (delete to match) as in dissent: descent.
Working intuitively, each mark of oil color is made with a palette knife (not brush). She looks intently at the painting from a vantage point of 20 feet away, then approaches the canvas and makes each mark. She calls her painting an intuitive dance. the painting leads the way - creating itself - the artist's eye guides the palette knife to create an expression of place.
Barbara Hoffman says painting to her is a way to process significant experiences, a walkway to discoveries, and an attempt to connect deep within my soul with those who appreciate my work. certain moments and impressions seem to catch an essence of a place, time a thought, or a feeling.
"I have been drawn to the ever changing landscapes. The rugged landscapes are my primary source of my paintings. abstracting the landscape has become experimental to my work. What abstract has taught me is to go push beyond the range of my own limits, and of what i want my paintings to be – powerful yet gentle, bold yet intricate, quiet yet expressing energy," says Hoffman.
"My work is primarily abstract and intuitive. To compose my paintings, I re-imagine the essential elements of a small section of a landscape. My process then is to build cumulative layers of oil and cold-wax on a flat surface. These layers create the foundation of color, texture, and though they are eventually covered, the emerging patterns direct the final outcome – working to express feelings and relations visually through the paint itself."
About the Artists: Sheryl Budnik and Barbara Hoffman
Sheryl comes from the Westside hills of Grand Rapids. She knew she was an artist at age four. Kindergarten at Mount Mercy had to wait, while she recovered at home - drawing and coloring. First in her family for college, she finished two years at GRCC, then earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her Master of Fine Arts degree was next from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. She traveled to Europe and Greece, then settled and married in northern Wisconsin. She taught art at the area college, raised a family of 6, all the while painting and selling her early Realism work in a Madison, Wisconsin gallery.
Back in Grand Rapids in the mid eighties, she taught art in area colleges and exhibited in many shows and galleries — including Chicago, New Work and several solo shows in Sag Harbor in the Hamptons. Retired from 20 years in Marketing at the Grand Rapids Press, Sheryl now has a studio and gallery for her collectors at her home.
www.Sherylbudnik.com
Back in Grand Rapids in the mid eighties, she taught art in area colleges and exhibited in many shows and galleries — including Chicago, New Work and several solo shows in Sag Harbor in the Hamptons. Retired from 20 years in Marketing at the Grand Rapids Press, Sheryl now has a studio and gallery for her collectors at her home.
www.Sherylbudnik.com
After retiring as an elementary art teacher, Barbara began searching and painting for a true purpose in my own painting and mark making. She is an artist primarily working in an abstract contemporary style, as her work consists mostly in expressionism and intuition.
She becomes excited by the process; mark-making, along with layers of color, cold wax, and texture. Her process is primarily instinctive, using many different tools and materials which allows more risk taking to happen in my paintings. She searches for more expressiveness and emotion rather than the literal truth in my context of painting. Every painting is a mystery in the beginning and then is revealed in the end.
To quote artist Edward Corbett... "For me the unknowns of the process make for a journey of self discovery and a more meaningful painting experience."
Barbarahoffmanstudios.com
She becomes excited by the process; mark-making, along with layers of color, cold wax, and texture. Her process is primarily instinctive, using many different tools and materials which allows more risk taking to happen in my paintings. She searches for more expressiveness and emotion rather than the literal truth in my context of painting. Every painting is a mystery in the beginning and then is revealed in the end.
To quote artist Edward Corbett... "For me the unknowns of the process make for a journey of self discovery and a more meaningful painting experience."
Barbarahoffmanstudios.com
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