If you received our yearly schedule of events postcard in January of this year, we've adjusted some exhibit dates and most receptions are now virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Stay up to date with the schedule on this page.
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2020
  • Making Arrangements: Ataraxia by Crit Streed
    ​January 23, 2020: 5:30-7pm
    January 30, 2020: 5:30-7pm
    along with video installation; exhibit will also display additional work by the artist.
    "Making Arrangements is an ever-changing configuration in glass positioned in relationship to a video projected on the wall. The woman in the video is endlessly moving two chairs in an empty room in pursuit of the perfect arrangement. The shelves of milk glass have equally been arranged to balance, flow, fill the eye and evoke an interest."
    Crit Streed was born in 1948 in Washington, Iowa, where she grew up. She received a B.A. in art from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, and her M.A. in painting and drawing and M.F.A. in painting and lithography from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Between short-term teaching positions, she lived and worked in Nepal from 1982 to 1984, and has participated in various artist residencies nationally and abroad. She has exhibited widely and is Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, where she had taught since the 1980s. Recently, she completed a residency in Cadaqués and currently lives and creates in Cedar Falls, IA.
  • Collector Showcase
    ​Reception: February 21st, 5:00-7:30pm
    Exhibit Dates: February 18 - April 4, 2020
    ​Select group exhibit of renown artists of the Midwest.

    This group exhibit celebrates the rich history of Iowan and Midwestern artists on a national stage. Their contributions to current regional arts programming, funding, and institutions are fundamental and they continue to garner attention on prominent platforms.
    Artists featured:
    Marvin Cone
    Bertha Evelyn Jaques
    Mauricio Lasansky
    Conger Metcalf
    Grant Wood
  • Stillness and Occurrence by ​John Beckelman
    Reception: [updated] May 22nd, 5:00-6:00pm
    Exhibit Dates: April 17 - June 13, 2020
    Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the gallery has adjusted the reception date to a "Closing" reception. On view dates will remain the same. Check back periodically for updates on virtual reception.
    Using the expressive potential of clay and a variety of other materials, the work explores liminal space and are often times referenced as topographic or cosmographic. At the same time, this work attempts to gently entice the viewer into the inner landscapes and interior spaces of our imagination and memory.

    John Beckelman's  work has been exhibited in shows throughout the country, including California, New York, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, South Dakota, Montana, and Iowa. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, commissions, and grants. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics and his Master of Science in Ceramics from Illinois State University. John is the Robert O. Daniel Professor of Art, Emeritus at Coe College. He lives and works in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he maintains a studio at the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio in the Historic Cherry Building.
  • Peculiar Reality
    Exhibit Dates: June 26 - August 8, 2020
    Virtual Reception with Mary Koenen Clausen: July 24th, starting at 5:30pm CST
    Virtual Reception with Jillian Moore: July 25th, starting at 11:00am CST
    *RSVP for video details
    Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the gallery is withdrawing submissions for the national call. Instead, Peculiar Reality, will be a 2-Person exhibit with the invited gallery artists to participate: Mary Koenen Clausen and Jillian Moore. Peculiar Reality: National Juried Exhibit will be announced at a later date when threat to health becomes less of a concern. For more information about the call, visit Call for Entries.
    Check back periodically for updated dates for the reception. We're navigating our schedule day-to-day.
    Mary Koenen Clausen’s mixed media collages are rich in texture and image. Her works frequently are comprised of three visual fields or planes: the heavens, earth, and underworld. Figures composed of mismatched heads and bodies float among animals, icons, musical notes, and foreign texts on backgrounds thickly painted with deep hues. Mary sees the musical notes, symbols and foreign text, many of which she reproduces in her own hand, as messages emanating from her spiritual guides while channeling energy from other time and space dimensions. She gathers her material from Italian magazines, 17th and 18th century Bibles, antique books, among other sources. Mary also uses photographs of her surroundings in her work. Her home and studio are full of paintings, photographs, wall hangings, dolls, and other collected objects, an environment that reflects the complexity of her work. Mary lives and works in Muscatine, Iowa.
     

    Jillian Moore is an artist and writer based in Iowa City, Iowa working primarily in the field of contemporary jewelry and small sculpture. Her work is inspired by forms in the biological world and amplified by an interest in the fantastical. Operating with a background in metalsmithing and a foreground in experimental resins and other plastic processes, Moore's work is comprised of a variety of new materials and techniques executed with the obsessive, monomaniacal approach of her craft discipline training. "Our natural tendency to seek out patterns results in a sensitivity to the congruities in biological forms. Deliberate exploitation of these phenomena results in objects that are both ambiguous and evocative. Some are organs removed from the body in which they once belonged, revealing structures with unknown functions.”
  • Vision: Inner and Outer by Marcia Wegman
    Exhibit Dates: August 21-October 2, 2020
    Reception: Virtual, September 18th @ 5:30pm cst.
    Due to the Derecho that impacted Cedar Rapids August 10th, the gallery opened the exhibit August 28th.
    Marcia Wegman lives in Iowa City, IA. She has worked in multiple media, including intaglio printmaking (which she studied for her MFA at the University of Iowa), oil, watercolor, collage, and paper making. Her landscapes of the Midwest capture the spirit of Iowa. In addition to pastoral pastels, she also paints abstract landscapes on Yupo. They convey a feeling rather than the exact details of a location. The layering of long brushstrokes fractures the landscape and rebuilds it in new and exciting ways.
  • Endless Planes
    by Julia Kottal and David Kupferman
    Due to the staff testing positive for (COVID-19), the gallery has adjusted the reception date with Julia to a "Closing" reception. On view dates have been extended.
    Exhibit Dates: October 16 - November 28, 2020
    Reception with Julia Kottal: December 4th, 5:30pmCST
    ​Julia is a native mid-westener, 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.

    Kupferman’s  work combines spontaneous, gestural imagery with geometric abstract shapes of color and linear patterns that weave a tapestry of flowing images in a unique fusion of Eastern and Western styles. He was born in Boston,and is son of artists Ruth Cobb and Lawrence Kupferman. He studied and apprenticed with his father, Head of the Dept. of Painting, at the Massachusetts College of Art and with sculptor Mirko at Harvard University.  He attended the University Of Wisconsin, Madison and MERU, Switzerland.
  • Mission Happiness by Mary Zeran
    Exhibit Dates: December 11, 2020 - January 23, 2021
    Virtual Reception with Mary Zeran: December 11th, 5:30pm CST
    Mary Zeran was raised in a family of women artists whose textiles, embroidery, and woodcarvings, existed as their visual language; enigmatic shapes and forms were their words.  Each time she picks up a brush or scissors she immerses herself in the language of her family, which brings her ever closer to their traditions, histories, and stories.

    ​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. Her collage works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad including  the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art; Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, in Kansas City; SOIL Gallery in Seattle; Higher Art Gallery in Michigan; and Chaing Mai University in Chaing Mai, Thailand.

  • ​Jewelry Cocktail Party

    Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the gallery will be navigating how to proceed with our yearly jewelry showcase. Check back periodically for updates on this event.
    Please join us for select custom crafted, holiday inspired cocktails to celebrate our 4th Annual Cocktail Party showcasing our selection of Contemporary Jewelry
    • This event is RSVP Only
    • Must be 21+ years of age
    Link to RSVP available in mid November

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