29 Jan 2002

New Acquisitions Highlight Augustana Exhibit

By Michael LoGuidice
Should the point of a visual-art exhibition be intuitively obvious based on viewing it? Or is it appropriate that one has to read significant commentary to get the exhibitors' point? Whatever your view, to fully appreciate the new exhibit at Augustana College, you need to read the narratives.
15 Jan 2002

Artists Offer Seriously Strong Works

By Michael LoGuidice
The two artists currently showing at Quad City Arts in The District take their art very seriously. The artist statements of Eric Mart and Christopher Bradshaw suggest that these men have a higher purpose in their work; they seem to create art not with joy but out of a sense of responsibility.
18 Dec 2001

Artist Brings Realism to Watercolors

By Michael LoGuidice
"Painting flowers is my passion. It is my way to express life with a belief in goodness, life with hope." With that first line from her artist statement, Davenport resident Caroline England shows that she's articulate in addition to being a talented watercolorist.
04 Dec 2001

Stieglitz Gets His Recognition in Traveling Exhibit

By Michael LoGuidice
According to urban legend, the young schoolteacher from Texas stormed into the powerful man's office and demanded, "How dare you display my drawings without my permission!" At 56 years old, Alfred Stieglitz was already taken with Georgia O'Keeffe's abstract charcoal drawings; now he would fall in love with the woman.
20 Nov 2001

Artists Explore Different Facets in Strong Show

By Michael LoGuidice
Akiko Koiso's ceramic sculptures have always exhibited fine craftsmanship and attention to detail, with a refinement, beauty, and a sense of proportion that attract me. Her works transcend their media, letting form, color, and beauty attract.
06 Nov 2001

Portraits of Isolation

By Michael LoGuidice
"Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship," said the ancient Greek painter Zeuxis, in his most famous quotation. With that admonition, this review is duly cautioned. Zeuxis is also a national group of professional painters who support the art of the still life.
18 Oct 2001

Artists Create a Seasonally Haunting Exhibit

By Michael LoGuidice
Bruce Walters' Two Crosses reminds me of a walk in a New Orleans cemetery with the crypts above ground and the iron-grate doorways; it is a graphite painting that uses a dramatic portrayal of lights and darks to give the eerie feeling one would get while walking alone at night in a burial ground.
02 Oct 2001

Strong Exhibit Ignores Brutal History

By Michael LoGuidice
Mark Twain was part of a worldwide movement against the use of slave labor to harvest wild rubber in the Belgian Congo. He was protesting King Leopold of Belgium's treatment of the native peoples of Africa that accounted for an estimated five million to eight million deaths.
18 Sep 2001

More Drawing Clinic than Art

By Michael LoGuidice
Give an artist tremendous talent in draftsmanship, shading, and painting but omit the passion, purpose, and message, and you have Joyce Treiman. A critic for the Los Angeles Times once described her as "an artist's artist," and that's how I feel about the show of Treiman's work at the Augustana College Centennial Hall Art Gallery.
04 Sep 2001

A Document of Hope and Love

By Michael LoGuidice
If your parents know who Big Brother & The Holding Company, Jeff Beck Group, Sly & The Family Stone, Steppenwolf, and Jefferson Airplane are, don't let them kid you: They probably did drugs, and they most likely inhaled, unless it was a pill.

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