529 GROUP SHOW OPENING 6/17
MAINSITE CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, 5 2 9 Group Show featuring artists Bill Munsell, Sue Clancy, Carolyn Cornwell Faseler, Betty Wood, George Hughes, Vickie Maenza, Tim Sullivan, Corazon Watkins and Dixie Erikson.
The 5 2 9 Group of artists formed together in the late 1990’s as a way to establish a collective of artists that would meet to discuss, critique and exhibit work on a regular basis. This accomplished group of individuals will exhibit their variety of art works, including painting, assemblage, prints, sculpture and photography at MAINSITE Contemporary Art beginning June 17th and exhibiting until July 29th, 2005.
An opening reception will be held for the artists Friday June 17th from 7-9 pm and the public is invited to attend. The artists will be present for the opening.
Bill Munsell-
When asked about his work, Bill Munsell said “I need to say these things. With the photographs and painting I respond to new life, and love, and new spirituality. In the assemblages I examine the intersection of myself, and my profession, with tragedies in stranger’s lives.”
Bill Munsell began as an artist, became an engineer, but continues to pursue his artistic endeavors. Bill Munsell has exhibited regionally and has obtained three patents for his engineering work.
Betty Wood-
“Natural history, the environment and preservation of its fragile beauty provides motivation for use of nature’s discarded collectibles. Wild wheat, grasses, weeds, feathers, and other objects with textures and interesting shapes are used as expressive sources for my artwork”, said Wood.
Betty Wood’s work has been exhibited in over 300 national and regional exhibitions. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Art. Wood’s biography is included in the national marquis’ publication of Who’s Who of American Women, 2004-2005; 2006-2007. Her work is part of many public and private collections including the private collection of Former President Bill Clinton.
Dixie Erikson-
Utilizing mixed media material including maps, wall paper, and wrapping paper, Dixie Erikson assembles her collage compositions with an extreme attention to detail. Of her work, Erikson states, ‘ The present reflects the patterns of the past’. The imagery Erikson chooses to portray deals primarily with women and their link to past and present, using patterned papers and layering to create a mosaic.
Erikson’s work has been displayed nationwide, including exhibitions in Chicago, Illinois, Portland, Oregon, and Dallas, Texas. Erikson’s work is part of many private and public collections.
Corazon Watkins-
“Paintings are like personal journals that are open for the audience to read. Whether the meanings are boldly expressed or surreptitiously hidden, the audience is challenged to make its own interpretation.”
Influenced by her Filipino heritage, and her life in Oklahoma, Watkins utilizes the colors and imagery found in the natural world for her subjects. Watkins’ paintings are ‘expressions of the nostalgic thoughts of the past that are presented in bold color compositions and abstract forms.’
Watkins work has been exhibited world wide. In 2003, Watkins received a Fellowship Residency in painting at the Valparaiso Foundation in Almeria, Spain. Her work is part of many private and public collections, including the Mashburn Art Museum, the Fred Jones Museum of Fine Arts and the Salina Arts Council.
Vicki Maenza-
Maenza creates her paintings using acrylic medium on paper, canvas and Plexiglas, layering color and texture that is reminiscent of stained glass. Maenza allows the properties of the paint itself to emulate natural processes and topography.
“I am inspired by the visual and sensual world of nature and human experience” said Maenza.
Vickie Maenza’s work has been exhibited nationally, including exhibitions in Texas, California and New York.
Timothy R. H. Sullivan-
Sullivan said about his process, ‘ I take photographic negatives of different configurations of the human male nude and superimpose these negatives over reversed images, creating repetitive patterns, then juxtaposing the main image over the patterned background.’
Sullivan then uses this compilation of images to create brightly colored abstracted serigraphic prints of incredible depth. “Being dyslexic, I perceive form in unique ways. My perceptions are filtered through my dyslexia. It is my hope that these Rorschach-like images of the male nude transcend form and create unique spiritual meaning for the individual viewer.” Tim Sullivan has work in many permanent and private collections, including the Kansas City Art Institute, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the New York Public Library Print Department. Sullivan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibits in Texas, New York, California, France, Finland and Spain.
Carolyn Cornwell Faseler-
Carolyn Cornwell Faseler utilizes acrylic paint which she works toward a heavy texture using palette knives, brushes and acrylic modeling paste. Carolyn Cornwell Faseler’s work is inspired by Renaissance still-life paintings, especially those that contain food.
“Flowers plus prepared and raw foods are pictured in the glow of soft candle light --- a dead fowl, fruits and vegetables to be washed, ceramic jugs containing pickled edibles and breads and rolls with hearty cheeses. These small environments are peaceful and ordered suggesting the good life as viewed in those times.”
Carolyn Cornwell Faseler’s work has been exhibited nationally including exhibits in Texas and Kansas and across Oklahoma.
Sue Clancy-
Sue Clancy’s playful images are created by hand-making paper, often hand dyeing and hand marbeling the sheets making the paper the ‘Art’.
“Paper is - in spite of technology- still one of our most important means of communication, yet it is so ordinary that we don’t even think of it. Thus it suits my sense of humor to deliberately create an image or object that makes me smile and laugh.”
Sue Clancy’s work has been exhibited nationwide, including her participation in group shows in locations like the City Art Museum in Washington D.C., the Whitney Museum in New York and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Sue Clancy’s work is included in many private and public collections, including the Wexford Ireland Arts Centre in Wexford Ireland, the International Museum of Collage Assemblage and Construction in Monelo Mexico, and the Kennedy family private collection in Washington D.C. Her work is featured in the current issue of Fiberworks magazine.
George Hughes-
George Hughes’ compositions are self-described as having “multiple cultural and poetic undertones that defy singular interpretation.” Hughes is fascinated with the “relationship between the human body and mechanical objects”. George Hughes begins his paintings by layering washes of color as backgrounds in a very abstract expressionist manner. He then begins aggressively, but competently “chopping, slashing, scraping and scratching (the canvas).” Layers of oils prevail in his work, but Hughes also incorporates acrylics, photographs, and text to “ignite the surface and also to texture it.”
Born in Accra, and raised in Sekondi, Ghana, Hughes has worked and exhibited in Toledo, Ohio where he taught at Bowling Green State University, the University of Toledo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Hague, The Netherlands. George Hughes is an assistant professor of painting at the University of Oklahoma.
This exhibition can be seen June 4th through July 29th 2005 at MAINSITE Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main, Norman.
An opening reception for the artist will be held Friday, June 17th from 7-9 pm.
The 5 2 9 Group of artists formed together in the late 1990’s as a way to establish a collective of artists that would meet to discuss, critique and exhibit work on a regular basis. This accomplished group of individuals will exhibit their variety of art works, including painting, assemblage, prints, sculpture and photography at MAINSITE Contemporary Art beginning June 17th and exhibiting until July 29th, 2005.
An opening reception will be held for the artists Friday June 17th from 7-9 pm and the public is invited to attend. The artists will be present for the opening.
Bill Munsell-
When asked about his work, Bill Munsell said “I need to say these things. With the photographs and painting I respond to new life, and love, and new spirituality. In the assemblages I examine the intersection of myself, and my profession, with tragedies in stranger’s lives.”
Bill Munsell began as an artist, became an engineer, but continues to pursue his artistic endeavors. Bill Munsell has exhibited regionally and has obtained three patents for his engineering work.
Betty Wood-
“Natural history, the environment and preservation of its fragile beauty provides motivation for use of nature’s discarded collectibles. Wild wheat, grasses, weeds, feathers, and other objects with textures and interesting shapes are used as expressive sources for my artwork”, said Wood.
Betty Wood’s work has been exhibited in over 300 national and regional exhibitions. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Art. Wood’s biography is included in the national marquis’ publication of Who’s Who of American Women, 2004-2005; 2006-2007. Her work is part of many public and private collections including the private collection of Former President Bill Clinton.
Dixie Erikson-
Utilizing mixed media material including maps, wall paper, and wrapping paper, Dixie Erikson assembles her collage compositions with an extreme attention to detail. Of her work, Erikson states, ‘ The present reflects the patterns of the past’. The imagery Erikson chooses to portray deals primarily with women and their link to past and present, using patterned papers and layering to create a mosaic.
Erikson’s work has been displayed nationwide, including exhibitions in Chicago, Illinois, Portland, Oregon, and Dallas, Texas. Erikson’s work is part of many private and public collections.
Corazon Watkins-
“Paintings are like personal journals that are open for the audience to read. Whether the meanings are boldly expressed or surreptitiously hidden, the audience is challenged to make its own interpretation.”
Influenced by her Filipino heritage, and her life in Oklahoma, Watkins utilizes the colors and imagery found in the natural world for her subjects. Watkins’ paintings are ‘expressions of the nostalgic thoughts of the past that are presented in bold color compositions and abstract forms.’
Watkins work has been exhibited world wide. In 2003, Watkins received a Fellowship Residency in painting at the Valparaiso Foundation in Almeria, Spain. Her work is part of many private and public collections, including the Mashburn Art Museum, the Fred Jones Museum of Fine Arts and the Salina Arts Council.
Vicki Maenza-
Maenza creates her paintings using acrylic medium on paper, canvas and Plexiglas, layering color and texture that is reminiscent of stained glass. Maenza allows the properties of the paint itself to emulate natural processes and topography.
“I am inspired by the visual and sensual world of nature and human experience” said Maenza.
Vickie Maenza’s work has been exhibited nationally, including exhibitions in Texas, California and New York.
Timothy R. H. Sullivan-
Sullivan said about his process, ‘ I take photographic negatives of different configurations of the human male nude and superimpose these negatives over reversed images, creating repetitive patterns, then juxtaposing the main image over the patterned background.’
Sullivan then uses this compilation of images to create brightly colored abstracted serigraphic prints of incredible depth. “Being dyslexic, I perceive form in unique ways. My perceptions are filtered through my dyslexia. It is my hope that these Rorschach-like images of the male nude transcend form and create unique spiritual meaning for the individual viewer.” Tim Sullivan has work in many permanent and private collections, including the Kansas City Art Institute, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the New York Public Library Print Department. Sullivan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibits in Texas, New York, California, France, Finland and Spain.
Carolyn Cornwell Faseler-
Carolyn Cornwell Faseler utilizes acrylic paint which she works toward a heavy texture using palette knives, brushes and acrylic modeling paste. Carolyn Cornwell Faseler’s work is inspired by Renaissance still-life paintings, especially those that contain food.
“Flowers plus prepared and raw foods are pictured in the glow of soft candle light --- a dead fowl, fruits and vegetables to be washed, ceramic jugs containing pickled edibles and breads and rolls with hearty cheeses. These small environments are peaceful and ordered suggesting the good life as viewed in those times.”
Carolyn Cornwell Faseler’s work has been exhibited nationally including exhibits in Texas and Kansas and across Oklahoma.
Sue Clancy-
Sue Clancy’s playful images are created by hand-making paper, often hand dyeing and hand marbeling the sheets making the paper the ‘Art’.
“Paper is - in spite of technology- still one of our most important means of communication, yet it is so ordinary that we don’t even think of it. Thus it suits my sense of humor to deliberately create an image or object that makes me smile and laugh.”
Sue Clancy’s work has been exhibited nationwide, including her participation in group shows in locations like the City Art Museum in Washington D.C., the Whitney Museum in New York and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Sue Clancy’s work is included in many private and public collections, including the Wexford Ireland Arts Centre in Wexford Ireland, the International Museum of Collage Assemblage and Construction in Monelo Mexico, and the Kennedy family private collection in Washington D.C. Her work is featured in the current issue of Fiberworks magazine.
George Hughes-
George Hughes’ compositions are self-described as having “multiple cultural and poetic undertones that defy singular interpretation.” Hughes is fascinated with the “relationship between the human body and mechanical objects”. George Hughes begins his paintings by layering washes of color as backgrounds in a very abstract expressionist manner. He then begins aggressively, but competently “chopping, slashing, scraping and scratching (the canvas).” Layers of oils prevail in his work, but Hughes also incorporates acrylics, photographs, and text to “ignite the surface and also to texture it.”
Born in Accra, and raised in Sekondi, Ghana, Hughes has worked and exhibited in Toledo, Ohio where he taught at Bowling Green State University, the University of Toledo, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Hague, The Netherlands. George Hughes is an assistant professor of painting at the University of Oklahoma.
This exhibition can be seen June 4th through July 29th 2005 at MAINSITE Contemporary Art, 122 E. Main, Norman.
An opening reception for the artist will be held Friday, June 17th from 7-9 pm.
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