04 May 2004

No Surprises at Welcome-Center Exhibit, Just Quality

By Michael LoGuidice
The current show at the MidCoast Fine Arts Gallery in LeClaire features two well-known artists in the Quad Cities scene, and for those who know their work, the exhibit holds no surprises. Katie Kiley and Akiko Koiso have highly developed styles, and their work is of a uniformly high quality, using themes, colors, and shapes that do not depart much from the artists' recent compositions.
30 Mar 2004

Exhibit Showcases a Who's Who of Quad Cities Artists

By Administrator
Move over Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy. It's time to bestow honors upon the Quad Cities' artistic community. The 28th Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition boasts a roster that reads like a venerable who's who of local visual artists.
23 Mar 2004

Growth and Happy Accidents in Asian-Tinged Show

By Michael LoGuidice
The current MidCoast Gallery West exhibit featuring work by Caroline England and Ken Bichell is a striking exposition of Occidental Asian-influenced artists in two and three dimensions. England's floral watercolors, with their black backgrounds, borrow from Chinese black-lacquer works, while Bichell's wood-fired pottery grows out of the Chinese tradition in ceramics.
17 Feb 2004

Tangled Up in Blue*

By Judith Malone
It's not too surprising that Pete Schulte talks a lot about music. He resists describing his recent works as paintings, drawings, or sculpture; more than anything, they are riffs. Visual riffs. Meditations on a theme.
10 Feb 2004

New MidCoast Exhibit a Beacon of Midwestern Talent

By Jodie Shagrin Kavensky
From the ethereal to the surreal aptly describes the art exhibits by Gene Anderson and David Hast currently on display at Midcoast Fine Arts Gallery at the Mississippi Valley Welcome Center in LeClaire, Iowa. The ethereal comes from Gene Anderson's large, modernistic sculptures that mimic the smoothing effect eons of time have on boulders and stones.
10 Feb 2004

Accomplished Artists Impress with Mastery

By Michael LoGuidice
MidCoast Gallery West has works from two accomplished artists on display through the end of February. Bruce Walters has 16 two-dimensional works and Marilyn Davis has 15 porcelain pieces. Both artists demonstrate a mastery over their medium with a high degree of competency.
20 Jan 2004

Black-and-White Reality Meets Full-Color Fantasy

By Michael LoGuidice
In their current exhibit at Quad City Arts, Sandra Dyas re-creates the realism of photojournalism with the sensitivity of individual subjects, while Todd Snyder gives us a glimpse into his vision of actual places painted through the lens of unreality.
23 Dec 2003

Contrasting Styles, but Artists Share Sensuality

By Michael LoGuidice
Although Elaine Ball and Brent Langley have two very different artistic styles, both express a great deal of sensuality in their work in a joint exhibit on display through January at the MidCoast Fine Arts Gallery at the Iowa Welcome Center in LeClaire.
09 Dec 2003

Artists Mine Childhood Memories

By Michael LoGuidice
The current exhibit at MidCoast Gallery West is unique in that both artists work in different media but are using them toward the same end. Joann Winkler has six installations that illustrate her childhood memories, while Barbara Bianchi has 22 mixed-media pieces plus a video that do the same thing.
09 Dec 2003

Exhibit Fails to Capture Diversity of LGBT Youth

By Michael LoGuidice
The Quad City Arts Gallery last week opened a traveling exhibition called Exuberance! Faces of LGBT Youth, featuring 300 photos of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people. The gallery statement says that "we must begin to see them as they truly are: heroes, potential leaders, loving family members, gifted role models, regular kids.

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