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Birds in Art
The Saginaw Art Museum is pleased
to present Birds in Art, an annual juried exhibition organized by
the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum of Wausau, Wisconsin. The show begins
Saturday, January 29, 2000 in the Museum's second floor galleries and runs
through Sunday, March 26. Birds is comprised of 50 paintings and
works on paper and 10 sculptures.
Birds in Art includes works
by an international roster of artists "who find endless inspiration
in the graceful shapes, iridescent colors, and varying habitats of birds
the world over." The artists hail from Australia, Belgium, Canada,
England, France, Japan, The Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden,
and the United States. Their chosen subjects also span the globe, from North
American forest birds to the exotic creatures of Bali.
Mark Eberhard,
b. 1949, Summer Migration, 1999, Rock dove, Acrylic on canvas, Collection
of the artist "Most bird species migrate north in the
spring and south in the fall. Summer Migration depicts the human
species' peculiar habit of migrating during the summer months. Alone, in
pairs, or with fledglings nestled in the back of the station wagon, people
flock to the woods to escape the oppressive heat of the city. There, they
roam camp-grounds searching for that perfect trailer site so they can claim
their little piece of paradise."
Lee Kromschroeder,
b. 1951, Fallen Comet, 1998, Rufous hummingbird, Acrylic on canvas,
Collection of Douglas Royce. "Fallen Comet is
the first in a series of trompe l'oeil paintings that I am considering.
The technical challenges of this style of painting are obvious: all objects
must be life-size, lighting has to be controlled and consistent, depth of
field should be shallow, and the artist should not seek to manipulate the
viewer's interpretation of the subject. Nevertheless, it is the artist who
chooses the objects, their emotional content, and the abstract design created
by their placement on the picture plane."
Ron Parvu, b.
1942, Cold Turkey, 1998, Watercolor on Twinrocker paper, Collection
of the artist. "I paint what I see and how I feel toward
a subject. Much of what I paint is symbolic and connected to my past in
one way or another. Sometimes the subject just happens to be wildlife. Cold
Turkey is an excellent example. It's actually a painting about me ...how
I felt playing outside in the cold Ohio winters."
Andrea Rich,
b. 1954, Bullock's Orioles (12/30), 1998, Woodcut on Moyu paper,
Collection of the artist. "The Carrizo Plain in central
California is a 3,000-acre alkali wetland. There are few trees and those
available are heavily used. This old eucalyptus was full of orioles displaying
and building nests. Its peeling bark provides an abstract background for
the glowing plumage of the male orioles as they vie for the attention of
females. The graceful drooping leaves help direct the viewer's eye around
the composition."
Paula G. Waterman,
b. 1954, First Sun, 1999, Great egret, Scratchboard, Collection of
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. "Great
or common egrets, with their brilliant white feathers and graceful positions,
are an ideal subject for scratchboard. In First Sun I included enough
habitat to establish a context for the birds and tie them together in a
composition without too much distracting background. The setting is early
morning when sunshine first lights the marsh grasses and birds at a low
angle. The reflections ripple up the grass and bounce around the birds creating
unusual patterns."
Sue Westin,
b. 1950, Rhythms, 1999, Oil on linen, Private collection. "Birds
that grace the shoreline have their 'rhythms': coming and going, sleeping,
feeding, beating the air with their wings, or, like sanderlings, scurrying
along the finest skims of water. Layers of rhythms exist m high tide and
low, in dawn, day, dusk, and night. They are endless."
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Mark Eberhard,
b. 1949, Summer Migration, 1999, Rock dove, Acrylic on canvas, Collection
of the artist "Most bird species migrate north in the
spring and south in the fall. Summer Migration depicts the human
species' peculiar habit of migrating during the summer months. Alone, in
pairs, or with fledglings nestled in the back of the station wagon, people
flock to the woods to escape the oppressive heat of the city. There, they
roam camp-grounds searching for that perfect trailer site so they can claim
their little piece of paradise."
