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Keith BraveHeart: Stepping on the Stars,
Reaching for the Sun
Oct 24
– Dec 7, 2008
Bruce
Lien Cultural Café
and Gallery
Opening
Reception
Fri, Oct 24, 5-7pm
Everyone is Welcome, Free Refreshments, Childcare Available.
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Keith BraveHeart represents a new generation of Native American
artists and the Dahl Arts Center is proud to present the first solo
show for this emerging talent. The exhibit will feature 20-30 new
works including paintings, mixed media and original prints.
BraveHeart, who is Lakota and Isleta, grew up in New Mexico and
South Dakota and currently lives in Rapid City. A 2006 graduate of
the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Keith received
the Diederich award for Most Improved Artist at the Red Cloud Indian
Art Show 2007, numerous awards in 2007 & 2008, and was an instructor
for the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute in Vermillion in 2008.
The exhibit is sponsored by: Doug and Justine Estes, McCarthy
Properties and Great Western Bank
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Stephen Knapp's Lightpaintings
Jan 17 - Mar 8, 2009
Adelstein Gallery
Opening Reception
Sat, Jan 17
Everyone is Welcome, Free Refreshments, Childcare Available.
To view
a selection of Stephen Knapp’s work, go to
www.stephenknapp.com. |
Stephen
Knapp’s lightpaintings expand the concept of light sculpture and
light art and continue the traditions of kinetic art, op art and
abstract painting. His sculptural canvases appear to be painted but
are all created with light and glass. Lightpaintings are the
intersection of painting, sculpture and technology, exploring color,
light and space and are a harbinger of the future of painting.
Stephen
Knapp has over thirty years experience creating installation art and
exploring the possibilities of light. His work can be found in
museum, public, corporate and private collections.
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Ross Rudel Jan 17
- Mar 8, 2009
Ruth Brennan Gallery
Opening Reception
Sat, Jan 17
Everyone is Welcome, Free Refreshments, Childcare Available.
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The Arts Council at
The Dahl Arts
Center is pleased to welcome Ross Rudel home for the inaugural
exhibition in the Ruth Brennan Gallery. Born in Billings Montana,
Rudel lived in Rapid City for much of his youth, graduating from
Rapid City Stevens High School in 1978. In 1983, he received his
B.A. at Montana State University and later received his M.F.A. at
the University of California, Irvine in 1985.
His public collections are displayed all across the
world, including Switzerland, Italy, and California. In 1993 Rudel
was awarded the Regional Visual Arts Fellowship from the Western
States Arts Federation. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Rudel is
currently busy with a new body of work for the grand opening show in
his hometown Arts Center. It is a fascinating journey that promises
an equally fascinating exhibit. And it is truly an honor to have
this internationally acclaimed artist pay homage to our town. As a
Los Angeles art critic recently stated “Ross Rudel is a devotee of
the god of elegance. In his most recent show...he once again, as is
his way, confounds with beauty, all the while riding the
undercurrent of dissent.” We are truly indebted to Ross for this
immense effort on behalf of the Dahl Arts Center.
At a distance the forms in
Rudel’s sculptures tend to be just simple, elegant shapes with
little embellishment. But surface contributes tremendously to the
effect of Rudel’s work, and the close view is essential. It is from
nearby that the subtleties emerge and the workmanship is
inescapable. Whatever the materials used. Rudel’s sculpture relay a
sense of calm, a feeling that he works at it until everything is
just right.
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The Art of Personal
AdornmentJan 17 - Mar
8, 2009
Shaver Gallery
Opening Reception
Sat, Jan 17
Everyone is Welcome, Free Refreshments, Childcare Available.
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The inaugural exhibit of
the Shaver Gallery is called The Art of Personal Adornment. The
things that we choose to wear on our bodies help to define us. These
objects may serve to communicate where we come from and how we think
of ourselves. Jewelry can indicate status, prestige or community.
The pieces in this show are individual testimonies to the
extraordinary levels of craftsmanship achieved by regional jewelry
and adornment artists. The display celebrates the artists’ ability
to produce artistically exquisite and unique works of art that also
communicate a sense of person and place.
The exhibit is designed to
explore the breadth and depth of personal adornment through objects
created by artists. Influences of the North American Plains Indians
and the Southwest Indian Tribes. in addition to pieces inspired by
ancient South American and African civilizations, are found
alongside pieces created from the muses of modern life.
Adorning the body is as
old as civilization itself. Relevant to our current culture or the
images of a past culture, what we wear and what we create says who
we are. This show pays tribute to all of our traditional and modern
influences. The artists were selected through a competitive process
with the help of Anaconda, MT studio jeweler/instructor, Ken Bova;
Lanesboro, MN goldsmith-designer, Elizabeth Bucheit; and Billings,
MT artist, curator and writer, Bently Spang.
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