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• Exhibit Dates:
  February 19-May 11, 2024
  Public Reception:
  Friday March 15th, 4:30pm-7:30pm

  

  Inclinations by Ann Royer

  Main Floor
  Ann Royer is a multidisciplinary artist with more than 60 years of artmaking experience. Her wide repertoire consists of abstracts, female figures, florals, and her beloved horses. Paintings are best known for growing tendril lines, sweeping bold blocks of color, voluminous shapes filled with patterns, and sharp geometry. Three-dimensional sculptures in bronze and ceramic are recognized as a focus on form and the personality of the subject or sitter. She says of her work, “I have always thought each person looks at art bringing with them their own experiences, which governs what they see- no one should interfere with that process.”

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  The Idea of Color by Julia Kottal

  Second Floor
  Julia is a native mid-westerner, born in Michigan. She has studied art in Florida, Maryland and California before moving to Iowa in 1992. She has a B.A., with painting as her emphasis, from Coe College. She has work in various collections nationally, including Alliant Energy, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Coe College, Kirkwood Community College, University Miami of Ohio, Millhiser Smith, Terry, Lockridge and Dunn, and United Fire Group. She is currently a full-time painter in Cedar Rapids. 

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• Exhibit Dates:
  May 20-July 20, 2024
  Public Reception:
  May 31st, 5:00-7:30pm

  

  Main Floor Gallery 
  Protected Landscapes: External & Internal

  Randy Richmond
  Randy Richmond works as a photographic artist. After spending 20 years in the dark(room) he carefully and suspiciously stepped into the light of a glowing computer monitor. Randy pursues several photographic projects while subverting the photographic paradigm, by converting silver based materials to digital, as well as using imagery that began as pixels and transporting that imagery back in history to handmade fictional cabinet cards and Van Dyke Brown and Cyanotype prints. He utilizes a cross-pollination of photographic mediums like ingredients in a photographic cookbook to communicate concepts and observations.

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  Midwest Landscapes

  Audrey Brown
  Audrey Brown has been a working artist for over 20 years. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, Brown began combining her academic education with her long love and experience exploring the natural world around her, to create her landscapes. Clouds, trees, sky and water combine to remind the viewer of the natural world. "River and streams move me, as well as the connection between land and sky," she states describing the shapes and color that she finds so important to the process of creating a mood or feeling.

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  ​Second Floor Gallery
  ​Brittle Branches

  Nancy Lindsay

  Nancy Lindsay was born in 1948 in Lincoln Nebraska. She studied art at Colorado State University and worked for many years in the commercial printing industry as a designer. While raising three children, she began painting seriously in the 1980's. Encouraged by other artists, she began entering and winning competitions. Later on, she attended Art Students League of New York and was a student of William Scharf. Moving to Iowa in 1998, she discovered the beauty of the Iowa landscape. Lindsay currently resides in Anamosa, Iowa, with her husband Lee.

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• Exhibit Dates:
  August 5-October 26, 2024
  Public Reception:
  Saturday, October 5th, 5:00-7:00pm

  

  River to River: National Juried Exhibition
  Iowa Clay Conference: Co-curated with Iowa Ceramic Center and Glass Studio

  Main Floor
  The Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio (ICCGS) located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is pleased to host the 6th Iowa Clay Conference (ICC) October 4th-6th 2024. In conjunction with ICC, the exhibition, River 2 River, which is a national call for artists, is hosted here at Gilded Pear Gallery. This exhibition was juried by Jonathan Christensen Caballero and Kate Schroeder. The exhibition highlights the richness and diversity of ceramic art in the nation.
  

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  Eastern Iowa Educators
  Concurrent Exhibition
  Iowa Clay Conference: ​Co-curated with Iowa Ceramic Center and Glass Studio

  Second Floor
  ​Troy Aiken 
  Heidi McKay Casto
  ​Jim Shrosbree
  

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• Exhibition Dates: November 11, 2024 - February 8, 2025
  Public Reception: November 15th, 5:00-7:30pm

  

  Unmoored
  by Mary Zeran

  Main Exhibition
  Zeran’s collage work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad.
  
  ​Mary Zeran received her B.F.A and M.F.A from University of Iowa. She was born in Iowa City in 1964 and now lives and works in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is the recipient of several awards and honors and her works are in numerous public and private collections as well as many notable corporate collections.

  

  Colorful Surrounding
  by Gordon Kellenberger
  

  Second Floor
  ​Gordon Kellenberger is a full-time painter working out of his Wasch Haus Studio in High Amana, Iowa, one of the seven historic villages of the Amana Colonies. He graduated with a degree in art from the University of Northern Iowa in 1965. Gordon is a past recipient of the Iowa Arts Council's Iowa Arts Award, which honors individuals for their commitment to excellence in the arts. His pastels are found in many private and public collections throughout the United States.
  
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  Jewelry Showcase:
  Holiday Cocktail Party
  
  

  Exhibition Dates: December 6, 2024 -February 15, 2025
  Holiday Party: December 6th, 5-8pm

  First Floor
  Our Holiday Cocktail party has become a festive tradition, join us for some holiday spirits!