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The Space Between Heaven and Earth, Katherine Steichen Rosing |
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The Space Between Heaven and Earth, Katherine Steichen Rosing |
I entered my mixed media portrait "Nice Tie" which had won a state award at the Richland Center Regional WRAP show earlier in the year. This piece was similar to my other Portrait collages mixed media on board with an original portrait drawing. It is 17" by 5.5 " and the portrait drawing is an old one of a model from Madison that I did about 10 or 12 years ago. Unlike my other portraits however, I added some 3D embellishments around the collar and added a tassel as a tie...hence the name.
I was delighted, and honored, that it won one of the awards at the show - the Aaron and Ruth Bohrod Memorial Award.
Eleven participants worked diligently and made a whole lot of beads! It was great fun.
The annual Drift Exhibit at Rountree Gallery in Platteville features submissions from Regional Artists residing within 100 miles of Platteville.
The exhibit runs from:
March 7th thru April 20, 2024
Artist reception on Friday, March 8, from 4-7pm
Sneak Peek exhibit will also be on view in the Upper Space Gallery.
This year I am delighted to have two of my small faux encaustic blocks in the show:
I am so pleased to once again have a piece accepted into the annual Teeny Tiny Bold Exhibit at Roundtree Gallery in Platteville (my third year!).
The show was juried by Chicago artist, Margie Criner and includes work from over 30 artists, some local/regional, but mostly from across the nation. Really fun pieces.
Concurrently, the Roundtree upper gallery will be showing a solo exhibit of Bill Mitchell's always intriguing work and a treat to see.
Both shows will be up through January 13, 2024. Not to be missed.
Below, my entry - a mixed media collage portrait based on a drawing I did many years ago of Carl, who was a neighborhood fixture on Chicago's north side back in the day.
Wonderful evening at the Mash-up exhibit reception on August 5th. Nice to see everyone - neighbors, fellow local artists, out-of-town visitors.
As always, Richard did a great job of hanging the show. He mixed up my various mixed media looks which showed them off at their best.
I was invited to present the workshop portion of the 2023 Richland Center WRAP Show. I did a demo on how I develop my collage portraits, with an emphasis on how I create the mixed media backgrounds.
Here's a collage I prepared for the demo showing a recent work-in-progress. Starting with gluing collage elements onto watercolor paper (lower right), then adding layers of color wash and stamping (right side middle and top), then collaging in a figure that was scanned from a drawing (lower left), and finally defining the background with some acrylic paint and punching up the "drawing" with alcohol ink (top left).