Quad Cities Convention and Visitors Center recently issued the following announcement.
Ralph Scott (East Galesburg, IL) manipulates cellphone images to create digital paintings. Through the use of software, Scott can achieve painterly effects or rework the composition to place emphasis on the most important details. He combines images, such as a tricycle with clouds, to create an otherworldly effect. The finished images are printed on aluminum.
Andrea Van Wyk (Pella, IA) paints realistic magnifications of flowers and spiral staircases on large canvases, ranging in sizes 48”x 72” and 60”x 48”. She collects images of what she wishes to paint while traveling throughout the U.S. and overseas, then settles into her studio to interpret her findings with oil paint.
Terry Rathje (Longrove, IA) creates sculptures (among other things) by first drawing out his ideas, then making a model, then laminating large quantities of wood together, then shaping the wood using a variety of tools including grinders, saws and sometimes fire.
Why go through all this effort? Rathje explains, “There are many reasons to make things, but at the heart of it is a compulsion for expression; an obsession to make things to get them out of your head and into the world, to leave yourself a milepost that marks the passage of time and an accumulation of effort.”
Event Location:
Quad City International Airport 2200 69th Ave. Moline, Illinois 61265
Phone: 309-793-1213
Event Category: Exhibits & Galleries
Admission Fee: free
Website: quadcityarts.com
Email: dwmetallo@quadcityarts.com
Original source can be found here.
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