I will have three paintings in this exhibit which is part of the Wellness Walls for Art Program. The show will run from July 6 - October 2, 2015. The University Medical Center is located on the campus of the University of Alabama at 850 5th Ave E, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401.
Avalon (detail)
My painting "The Heart of the Spring" has been selected for the exhibition "Yeats, Poetry and Place" at The Hyde Bridge Gallery in Sligo, Ireland. The gallery is located in the Yeats Memorial Building and is celebrating the 150th birthday of their native son William Butler Yeats. The following is a passage from his short story "The Heart of the Spring" that inspired my work.
It was one of those warm, beautiful nights when everything seems carved of precious stones. Sleuth Wood away to the south looked as though cut out of green beryl, and the waters that mirrored them shone like pale opal. The roses he was gathering were like glowing rubies, and the lilies had the dull lustre of pearl.
March 27, 2015 - Opening Reception at 632 Agua Fria Street (Railyard Arts District), Santa Fe, NM 87501. There are multiple gallery spaces inside this beautiful building.
Once again three of my photographic works will be available as prizes in the fundraiser for Gateway, Birmingham's oldest social service agency established in 1891. The event will take place April 23, 2015, 6:00-8:00 pm, Rosewood Hall at Soho Square, Homewood.
The Encaustic Art Institute will be moving its galleries from Cerrrillos, NM to 632 Agua Fria in the Historic Railyard Art District in downtown Santa Fe. The grand opening is set for Friday, March 27, 2015 and I will have a new painting, Close Encounter, on exhibit in addition to my work displayed in the permanent collection.
Doug Mehrens, EAI Founder, in the new space
Alexander Calder's Mountains and Clouds, an enormous sculpture in black aluminum, has dominated the 90 foot atrium of the Hart Senate office building in Washington DC since 1986. But for the last decade of its tenure, the "clouds" that once gently rotated have hung motionless due to a bearing failure.
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Nelson Young, an engineer who helped construct and program the clouds when they were first installed thinks repairing them would be a relatively inexpensive and painless endeavor. "Washington may complicate this, but it ain't difficult" he said. "It's not rocket science."
My painting Dispersant was selected to be in this show at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville, Florida. The exhibition will be located in the McIlroy Gallery from January 12 - February 13, 2015.
Dispersant, 2014, encaustic and iron oxides on panel 12" x 12"
Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, October 31, 2014 - February 22, 2015.
The Singing and the Silence dovetails with two significant environmental anniversaries—the extinction of the passenger pigeon in 1914 and the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964. Separated by a mere fifty years, these two events serve as mileposts in our journey from conquest of the land to conservation of it. Although human activity has affected many species, birds in particular embody these competing impulses.
A little more than a century ago, skies darkened for hours as millions of passenger pigeons migrated up and down the eastern United States, a phenomenon so removed from contemporary times that it’s hard to fathom. The ornithologist and artist John James Audubon described an encounter with the birds, writing, “the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse.” Once the most populous birds of North America, commercial exploitation of pigeon meat on a massive scale and deforestation of the birds’ habitat led to their demise. The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died in September of 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Joann Brennan, Extinct Species, Passenger Pigeon, 2006 chromogenic print
Wonderful exhibit of new work by my friend Sky at the Dinah Washington Cultural Art Center in downtown Tuscaloosa, Al until November 26, 2014. She is a professor of painting at the University of Alabama.
From the press release: This year Shineman was awarded a research grant by The University of Alabama to investigate new painting materials including powdered pigments and organic mediums. The works in “Seismic Shift” are a product of this inquiry, serving as a record of elemental relationships and physical processes.
