50 works of art by artists participating in this year's Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction.
January 25 - April 11, 2010
Paint Local II
A follow-up exhibition to Paint Local, an exhibition that featured the work of area artists Pirjo Berg, Zhimin Guan, Lori Esposito, Dyan Rey, Adam Kemp, and Mike Marth.
Paint Local II will feature work of Red River Valley artists Sarah Hultin, Jessica Mongeon and Jay Pfeifer.
The nineteenth annual Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction will begin with hors d'oeuvres at 5:30 pm followed by dinner at 7 pm. Tables for eight. Valet parking offered. Tickets now available.
Praised by musicians and critics worldwide, David Burgess is recognized as one of today's outstanding guitarists. His international appearances as soloist and chamber musician have taken him to concert halls throughout North and South America, Europe and the Far East.
February 17 - April 11, 2010 Carlos Runcie Tanaka Fragmento
Born in Lima, Peru, and a one-time philosophy major at the Universidad Católica del Peru, Carlos Runcie-Tanaka chose instead to dedicate himself to the art of pottery making, undertaking studies in Brazil, Italy and Japan. Since 1978 he has run a pottery studio in Lima. Carlos Runcie-Tanaka is an artist with superb artistic skills, compelling visual insights, and a profoundly spiritual sense of mystery.
Of Peruvian, Japanese and English heritage, his artwork presents contemporary universal symbols of inter-ethnic unity. He has absorbed the lessons of traditional pottery and pioneered an approach that goes beyond obvious or direct references to the traditions of his mixed ancestry. As a result, Tanaka’s works also bring the strands of his identity together with ancient mysteries that have a powerful contemporary resonance.
February 17 - April 11, 2010
Cecelia Condit Cecelia Condit: 1981 to Present
An American video artist, Cecelia Condit’s work focuses on the contrast between the everyday world and fairy tales, with topics ranging from female aging to the imaginary world of children to suburban cannibalism. Since the early 1980s Cecelia Condit’s narrative tapes have explored the not-so-average experiences of the “average woman” in a social climate of sublimated violence, fear, and misogynist aggression. Her dark-humored tapes conflate fairy tale morals with the grisly sensationalism of tabloid headlines, incorporating live action, appropriated television images, and original music into frequently operatic narratives. According to the artist, “My work centers around the theme of how bizarre events disrupt mundane lives. By contrasting the commonplace with the macabre, humor with the absurd, I address a reality that is both surprisingly believable yet strange enough to belong only to the realm of fiction.”
“I consider myself a storyteller whose work swings between beauty and the grotesque, humor and the macabre, innocence and cruelty. My videos explore the dark side of female subjectivity and address the fear, aggression and displacement that exist between ourselves and society, ourselves and the natural world.”
Condit is also Professor of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Hailed by critics as a “Grand departure from the usual”, the Manhattan Piano Trio is currently one of the most prominent, versatile, exciting and busiest emerging chamber music groups in the country.
