Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
WARM member Shari Zimmermann exhibits at Coloplast. The Coloplast Corporation, a medical-technology company based in Denmark, has partnered with WARM to provide our artists with a unique opportunity to exhibit in their award-winning North American headquarters built in 2009.
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Artist Statement
I find beauty in weathered surfaces that show a history of human touch and the evidence of time passed. Using acrylic paint, ink jet printouts, and sometimes stencils and stamps, I look for surprising results while experimenting with technique and color combinations. Little pieces of thought find their way into the picture through symbols and typography. Most of my paintings are about memories, long ago and recent, and they all tell a story.
I often rethink my painting in the middle of the process and recreate entire sections. Sometimes I start completely over an old painting of mine that I never liked, allowing textures from the hidden layers to become part of the composition. When I’m happy with the finished piece it feels like the company of a friend who has seen me through troubled times.
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For more information about Shari and her artwork, visit her online gallery.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
WARM member Therese Krupp exhibits at Coloplast. The Coloplast Corporation, a medical-technology company based in Denmark, has partnered with WARM to provide our artists with a unique opportunity to exhibit in their award-winning North American headquarters built in 2009.
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Artist Statement
When buying her house in 2002 Therese also inherited a treasure trove of images from her previous residents- the Kristensen’s. Helen and Jens immigrated from Denmark in the 1950′s and monthly -a rolled up version of Danish Heaven came to them in the mail. Luckily, ” the day I came to help them pack -I was able to save them all from the trash heap!”
The print “As You Wish” was a newsprint coupon ad for a back yard swing set . The title is from the movie Princess Bride…the man serving the ice tea could be saying it… With the ” The 1967 Duplex” I was shocked when I found the image. That these monstrosities existed in 1967 surprised me. And that it was called the Duplex was perfect. ” The Pollination Schedule” is a playful commentary on the life of a honey bee when all the flowers are in bloom.. With the print ”I Must of Counted at Least …58 So Far!” its with a remembrance of the crow flocks (also called a Murder) that one could see last Fall in South Minneapolis.
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For more information about Therese and her artwork, visit her mnartists.org page and Highpoint Center for Printmaking page.
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
WARM member Deborah Vander Eyk exhibits at Coloplast. The Coloplast Corporation, a medical-technology company based in Denmark, has partnered with WARM to provide our artists with a unique opportunity to exhibit in their award-winning North American headquarters built in 2009.
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Artist Statement
The styles I seem to be drawn to are Abstract Expressionism, Impressionistic Painting and Traditional Photography.
I have a tendency to create art forms using color, different textures and soft lines to convey feelings and thoughts. These images seem to speak to an audience at an unconscious level inducing more of an individual reaction. As an artist I continue to develop within these styles.
My academic education began during the early 1970’s in Central Minnesota and Wisconsin. I was able to study under a variety of scholarly abstract artists and photographers. This provided an opportunity to experiment with watercolors, acrylics, photography and mixed media.
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For more information about Deborah and her artwork, visit her mnartists.org page.
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
WARM member Rochelle Woldorsky exhibits at Coloplast. The Coloplast Corporation, a medical-technology company based in Denmark, has partnered with WARM to provide our artists with a unique opportunity to exhibit in their award-winning North American headquarters built in 2009.
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Work Statement
These assembled photos are of the Hudson River in New York State. They are shot from a moving train, often through smudgy windows. This is a train trip that I have made many times… always photographing out the window and sketching in my notebook to record favorite views, changing weather and light conditions. It’s landscape on the run as I am unable to stand in one spot and carefully position myself for a photo composition. In printing I leave all the imperfections such as flash spots, fuzziness, in and out focus to allow a more impressionistic image to emerge. The landscape itself is so compelling that it comes through the rough edges. From a moving train with constantly changing views it is possible to be captivated by the stillness of a scene, to isolate it but also feel the drama of the larger panorama. This is what I am attempting to present with these works.
I put two images together; the Mississippi River viewed from the windows of Coloplast on the opposite wall where my photos of the Hudson River were hung was an interesting juxtaposition (see image at top right).
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For more information about Rochelle and her artwork, visit her mnartists.org page.
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
WARM member Bettye Olson exhibits at Coloplast. The Coloplast Corporation, a medical-technology company based in Denmark, has partnered with WARM to provide our artists with a unique opportunity to exhibit in their award-winning North American headquarters built in 2009.
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Still in love with painting after more than 60 years, Minneapolis artist Bettye Olson, 83, is a living monument to hard work and steady vision. A pioneering feminist, Olson founded the West Lake Gallery in 1964, and the artist-run Minneapolis cooperative persisted for 20 years. Her new painting show spans nearly six decades, from her college days at the University of Minnesota (1941-1945) to her most recent watercolors of swirling ocean whirlpools. Throughout, Olson honed her own style of colorful, upbeat imagery under the inspiration of nature and the experimental techniques of 20th-century abstractionists. (Source: Star Tribune, Mary Abbe, Nov. 2006).
Bettye is a native of Minnesota and a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received a Masters Degree in art education at the University of Minnesota in 1949. She taught art at the University of Minnesota, Concordia College (St. Paul), Augusburg College (Minneapolis) and founded the West Lake Gallery (artist-run cooperative) in 1964 where she studied art under Jo Lutz Rollins. Bettye has shown in national watercolor exhibitions and has exhibited in Sweden, Finland and Italy along with her regular regional exhibits. She served as the artist in residence at Holden Village in Chelan, Washington and her work is in the collections of the Minnesota Art Museum in Swede, Kuopio Art Museum in Finland and Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She maintains a studio in the Dow Building in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Source: Gloria Dei Lutheran Church website, library art collection).
Bettye describes her Red and Greens watercolor (at right): “After creating flower paintings in watercolor every way I could conceive; this was a change in medium, size and abstracting the forms.”
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For more information about Bettye and her artwork, visit her mnartists.org page. To see a 1965 photo of artists from the West Lake Gallery (including Bettye, she’s in the top row, middle), click this link to the Minnesota Historical Society’s Visual Resources Database.
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The Coloplast Corporation, a medical-technology company based in Denmark, has partnered with WARM to provide our artists with a unique opportunity to exhibit in their award-winning North American headquarters built in 2009. While the exhibits are private, they are seen by hundreds of Coloplast employees and visiting doctors and scientists every day. Coloplast has designated a beautiful architectural space for these exhibits, informally called the “WARM Wedge.” In selecting WARM to exhibit in their contemporary setting, Coloplast is providing WARM more visibility in the art world, while recognizing the high quality of work by WARM artists.
Marcia Soderman, WARM mentor and artist, is currently exhibiting a series of 13 paintings at Coloplast, curated by Bonnie Sather. The paintings are installed to create a progression from intensely-emotional works, through joyous images about experiencing Iguacú Falls, Argentina, to lighter toned paintings, evoking peace and serenity.
Exhibit dates: Feb. 1 – March 23, 2012.
Marcia describes how The Iguaçu Falls series came about:
“The Iguaçu Falls series is a response to a most beautiful place, the widest series of waterfalls in the world, with the thunderous roar of the falls, and prismatic rainbows in the mist everywhere you look. The paintings are, at once, about my sheer joy in being there; the sound of the constant roar; and also about the waterfall’s being reduced by two-thirds due to severe drought in Brazil in 2008. Fortunately, environmentalists could then go down into river basin to collect the trash tourists had thrown in the river, (thus the red ‘detritus’). Ironically, recent flooding has restored the water level. The water in the river basin is a bright red-orange due to iron, but it seems like ‘fire-water’ to me. And finally, it all culminates in a white mist.”
On right: images of Marcia Soderman’s exhibit at Coloplast.
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Marcia Soderman serves as a WARM board member and has been a WARM Mentor since 2008. Her work has been published in several art books, including International Contemporary Artists, Vol. 2, and Studio Visit, Vol. 9, and, by invitation, the cover and featured artist, of Exploring TOSCA, a Twin Cities arts magazine, Summer issue, 2011. You can see more of Marcia’s artwork by visiting her website.
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