Images from the 2011 Season
From “The beauty in everyday things,” “Along the Way,” “Conspiracy,” and “dancing forks in paradise,” three contemporaneous shows from March of 2011:
2011 KDHL/POWER 96 Gallery Season
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fetime of Art: The Rhody Yule Collection
Carlander Family Gallery Jan. 14th – Feb. 26th 2011
Rhody Yule
A longtime Faribault sign painter, Rhody Yule, now 92, painted more than signs in his lifetime. In his free time, he put brush to canvas and created hundreds of portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and religious scenes. View this sampling of oil paintings from Rhody’s seven decades of creating art.
Founded Upon the Waters:
A Collection of Works
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery
Jan. 14th – Feb. 26th 2011
Adam Kuehnel
Adam Kuehnel is a Faribault artist whose work exists somewhere on the path between Hemingway’s Two Hearted River and Keillor’s Lake Woebegone. Strong foundations in architecture and literature help him to understand the poetics of space and capture glimpses of his travels in the rural Midwest. He learned the art of watercolor while pursuing his Masters of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. When he is not painting, Adam is a teacher of English at a nearby school. All profits from the sales of these works go towards local faith-based missions.
“The beauty in everyday things” “Along The Way” “Conspiracy”
(3 Photographers with 3 different styles)
Carlander Family Gallery March 4th – April 23rd 2011
Loretta Verbout “The beauty in everyday things” – This show will include moments captured in time of everyday day sites that we normally pas by or do not give a second thought to, along with trying to look at things from a bit of a different angle. The majority of the works tend to be pictures of local nature, things from my own floral garden, and explorations of the nature of Minnesota, northwestern Illinois, southwestern Wisconsin, and northeastern/ east central Iowa.
Catherine Michele Adams “Along the Way” – Recently I toured the American South, Midwest, and Northeast. 
I found remote grottos, grand national monuments, street artists entertaining children, shopping center escalators covered in rubble, waterfalls, and the ocean. ”Along The Way” presents these sites and sightings in Vandyke brownprints, giving a glimpse on to the American way.
Laura Schenck “Conspiracy”- An exhibit of digital photographs of the seemingly unremarkable, sometimes ugly leavings of everyday life: rust and grime, deposits and stains, mildew and decay. Removed from the context of a clean and orderly world they reveal something quite unexpected: the art in accident and the ubiquity of beauty.
dancing forks in paradise
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery March 4th – April 25th 2011
Lauren S. Strom
This is a show full of joy, play, and color. Abstract pieces mingle with happy owls on canvas to inspire you to smile, sigh, and feel good.
Student Exhibit: Youth Art Month
Paradise Center Second Floor: March 8th- April 2nd 2011
The Paradise Center for the Arts is celebrating “Youth Art Month 2011” by having an exhibit that highlights the artwork of school age artists.
Northern Clay Center: Six McKnight Artists
Carlander Family Gallery April 29th – June 4th 2011
New work by 2009 recipients of McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists awarded by Northern Clay Center—Ursula Hargens (Minneapolis) and Maren Kloppmann (Minneapolis). The work of four McKnight Resident Artists: 2008 residency recipients Ilena Finocchi (California), Elizabeth Smith (Arkansas), Yoko Sekino-Bové (Pennsylvania), and 2009 residency recipient Cary Esser (Missouri). McKnight Artists Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artists and this are made possible by generous financial support from the McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis Minnesota.
Inner Image
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery April 29-June 4, 2011
Pearl E. Tait
A mixed media abstract expressionist, Pearl Tait’s artwork is rich in texture and color. She applies layers of transparent and opaque paints to the surface, adding materials such as sand, cloth, and ashes to achieve texture. Many layers contribute to the final result so each painting has a ‘history’ which creates an active surface without boundaries that, on close inspection, reveals interesting detail. She strives for a sense of spontaneity that goes beyond surface imagery toward underlying emotional content.
Mural Society Recycled Art Sale
June 9-12, 2011
Carlander Family Gallery
Look Through Any Window
Carlander Family Gallery June 17 – July 31, 2011
Jaclyn Garlock
This is an exhibit of large scale realistic figurative paintings in acrylic on canvas. They are of people who are telling a story about moments in their lives, but it is for the viewer to determine what the story is about. These images are all very up close and demanding – they will make you participate.
The Cartographer’s Art
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery
June 17th –July 31st
Shelley Cords-Swanson
A graduate of Minnesota State University – Mankato with a Master of Arts degree in Geography, Shelley finds her work as a fiber artist a perfect complement to her academic background as a former professor and practicing cartographer. Using commonly accepted forms of cartographic illustration and techniques, Shelley chooses in her artwork to represent ‘the map’ from a purely aesthetic perspective. Of particular emphasis, she specializes in quilted topographical maps, where the contour line becomes a central element of the quilted surface.
Ink & Iron
Carlander Family Gallery Aug. 12th-Sept. 24th
Karen Peters & Justin Peters
In her prints Karen Peters strategically places lines and circles to organize her observations. She uses a reduction process for her printmaking. Justin Peters is currently working with cast iron, concrete, fabricated steel and recycled wood. Vessels form and he tries to keep the materials as close to natural as he can.
Michael Connor
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery August 12 to September 26, 2011
Michael Connor
Paradise Center’s Annual Member’s Show
Carlander Family Gallery Sept. 30th – Nov. 12th 2011
Paradise Center for the Arts Annual Members’ Show showcases our members’ artwork in the beautiful Carlander Gallery. The Annual member’s show has been a tradition that dates back to the Faribault Art Center, the forerunner of the Paradise Center for the Arts visual arts programming.
Life Stories
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery Sept. 30 –Nov.12th 2011
Christine Tulgren
I paint life stories – your stories – and can’t imagine the mix of colors on canvas without them. The contemporary, abstract paintings I create require research, which follows a storyline. Before I get near a canvas, I have to be focused and secure in what I want to accomplish. In other words, I have to know the story you want to tell.
Creatively Connected
Carlander Family Gallery Nov.18th –Dec.23rd 2011
S. C. Rolf: Ceramics & Arlene Rolf: Fiber
“Creatively Connected” is an exhibition that highlights a dialog between two generations of artists within the same family; one working in fiber and the other in ceramics. The genesis of the work for the exhibition took place with the exchange of work between the two studios offering a specific starting point for new work and a conscious look at how one medium and one person influences the other.
Marcus Moller
Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery
Nov. 18th –Dec. 23rd 2011
My efforts in pastel are directed towards capturing drama, movement, light and shadow in a two dimensional view point. My subject matter varies however I am mostly focused towards horses and landscape/water scenes
