2008 Woodie Awards
Man takes on nature in art with 'I-70 Series' at Hunt Gallery
By: Tiffany Johnson
Issue date: 3/9/06 Section: LifeStyle
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The first in a series of art shows connecting the cities along a Missouri highway is now on display at the Cecille R. Hunt Gallery.
The show "I-70 Series: Kansas City" was organized by curators Dana Turkovic, a Webster alumna, and sculpture professor John Watson.
St. Louis is too close to Kansas City to not have an interchange of art, Watson said.
Turkovic said she and Watson were old friends who worked together to put the art show together.
The Hunt Gallery displays art from five different Kansas City artists and includes ink on paper, sculptures, ink jet prints and mixed media styles. The art ranged from violent to serene
images.
Artist Miles Neidinger displayed two sculptures made out of red straws. His pieces, designed in 2005, were titled "Oscillastraw," and "Bitriangularjumboscillastraw."
Davin Watne, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, designed a series of mixed media prints he said were inspired by his trips to Denver from Kansas City. Watne said he has hit two deer in his travels and that the prints were a reflection of those incidents.
The prints feature animals that are disproportionate in size to the vehicles they are destroying. One print shows a larger-than-life buzzard sitting on top of a truck that has been tipped on its side. Other prints show a herd of buffalo pushing a vehicle off a cliff and an anaconda wrapped around a truck.
Webster alumna Emily Benner said she liked the prints of the animals and the vehicles.
"It's a concept that I've seen before," Benner said. "I like the idea of man versus nature."
Benner said she also liked the series of cloud photos by artist Rebecca Dolan.
"I liked the clouds, it felt like I was on an airplane," Benner said.
Peregrine Honig's work featured a series of women with titles like "Locket," "Ghost Bride," "Maria" and "Hydrangea." The prints, designed in 2006, were made of ink and color on paper.
Artist Leo Esquivel said his work was meant to look like an art gallery wrapped around an image. His work featured pillows, made out of plaster and white bead Styrofoam, with a depression in the center of the images. The depressions are meant to show that the image is being cradled, Esquivel said.
The show "I-70 Series: Kansas City" was organized by curators Dana Turkovic, a Webster alumna, and sculpture professor John Watson.
St. Louis is too close to Kansas City to not have an interchange of art, Watson said.
Turkovic said she and Watson were old friends who worked together to put the art show together.
The Hunt Gallery displays art from five different Kansas City artists and includes ink on paper, sculptures, ink jet prints and mixed media styles. The art ranged from violent to serene
images.
Artist Miles Neidinger displayed two sculptures made out of red straws. His pieces, designed in 2005, were titled "Oscillastraw," and "Bitriangularjumboscillastraw."
Davin Watne, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, designed a series of mixed media prints he said were inspired by his trips to Denver from Kansas City. Watne said he has hit two deer in his travels and that the prints were a reflection of those incidents.
The prints feature animals that are disproportionate in size to the vehicles they are destroying. One print shows a larger-than-life buzzard sitting on top of a truck that has been tipped on its side. Other prints show a herd of buffalo pushing a vehicle off a cliff and an anaconda wrapped around a truck.
Webster alumna Emily Benner said she liked the prints of the animals and the vehicles.
"It's a concept that I've seen before," Benner said. "I like the idea of man versus nature."
Benner said she also liked the series of cloud photos by artist Rebecca Dolan.
"I liked the clouds, it felt like I was on an airplane," Benner said.
Peregrine Honig's work featured a series of women with titles like "Locket," "Ghost Bride," "Maria" and "Hydrangea." The prints, designed in 2006, were made of ink and color on paper.
Artist Leo Esquivel said his work was meant to look like an art gallery wrapped around an image. His work featured pillows, made out of plaster and white bead Styrofoam, with a depression in the center of the images. The depressions are meant to show that the image is being cradled, Esquivel said.