Exhibitions
Indiana University Kokomo's Biosphere juried international exhibition is ending today! Here are some photos of my bas relief Surface on display. I offered the option of exhibiting it on the wall or on a pedestal, and they chose to emphasize the QCC relief by going the pedestal route.
Shelby Prindaville, group exhibition, Indiana University Kokomo, Biosphere, 2022, exhibition, exhibitions, international juried exhibition, Kokomo, Indiana, IN
I’ll be exhibiting a solo show titled Conservation Conversations at Omaha’s Lauritzen Gardens botanical center from August 17 through September 24, 2022. Mark your calendars!
If you can believe it, this exhibition has been in the works since 2020 (I’ll give you one guess as to why it took a couple more years). Below are the front and back of a rack card from Lauritzen Gardens advertising their 2022 exhibition calendar (you can click in for more detail) - I was honored that they selected one of my paintings for the large facing image!
I have my recent bas relief Surface (which I created while attending my Whiterock Conservancy artist residency) in the upcoming juried international exhibition Biosphere hosted by Indiana University Kokomo. Out of just under 200 submitted entries, 36 pieces were selected for display.
As per the below show flyer, this exhibition will be on display from June 9 - July 9, 2022 with an opening reception on Thursday, June 9th from 4-7pm. If you’re in the region of Kokomo, Indiana, you should check it out! The gallery is located inside the Kelley Center at 2300 S. Washington St, Kokomo, IN 46902.
IU Kokomo's 2022 Biosphere exhibition flyer
The reception for my Functional Aesthetic juried group show at the Le Mars Arts Center was really nice! I met some of the other exhibiting artists, and a group of my friends attended as well - then afterwards, we went out to dinner!
Here is an exhibition advertisement and a few photos of my five pieces in the show. In both the ad and the show design, my ceramics earned center stage! I was pretty pleased about that, since this is my first professional juried exhibition of ceramics; I only began working in the discipline in 2020 so it’s fulfilling to have my work in this field be received well so quickly. I haven’t even finished editing my portfolio images of all of my newest raku ceramics, so these pictures give you a sneak peek at some of my most recent ones.
Functional Aesthetic is still up for another couple of weeks, so please check it out if you’re in the area!
My chromatogram “Literal Landscapes - Whiterock Conservancy 7, Fig Ave” was accepted into the juried online group exhibition Vibrant Landscapes hosted by Red Bluff Art Gallery (which is located in Red Bluff, CA).
You can check the virtual exhibition out here! For anyone who finds that virtual exhibition format hard to use, I’ve included a screenshot of my own “wall” in the Lovely Landscapes room of the Vibrant Landscapes exhibition below.
This is a milestone - I have my first ever juried ceramics exhibition which will be at the Le Mars Arts Center later this month. I only began working with the discipline of ceramics in 2020, and so this is an exciting development. I will have five handbuilt pieces from my raku firings in July and October 2021 on display in this Functional Aesthetic group show.
Functional Aesthetic will be open from November 9 - December 18th, 2021. The opening reception will be Friday, November 12th from 5-7pm.
The Le Mars Arts Center is located at 200 Central Ave SE, Le Mars, IA 51031. Contact info: 712-546-7476, lemarsarts@gmail.com, www.lemarsarts.com. Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 1-5pm, Thursday 1-7pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
I have artwork in the upcoming group exhibition Haunted, hosted by the Vermillion Area Arts Council at the Washington Street Arts Center (located at 202 N Washington St, Vermillion, South Dakota).
This show will run from October 24-31, 2021 from 6:30-8:00pm, if you’d like to stop by and check it out! Entry fee to the exhibition will be $2 for VAAC members or $5 for non-VAAC members. Masks will be required.
Well, Earth Day 2021 was quite eventful! I’ll do a separate post on the ART 225 Painting I project we took on earlier in the day, but this post is all about how my opening reception went for my Artist for the Earth solo show at The Block Gallery in downtown Sioux City.
First of all, I want to say a big thank you to the Morningside Art Department federal work study studio art assistants Devyn Reilly and Rachel Steinkamp for helping me to install the show. While I’ve installed many a show alone, it is so much nicer to have skilled help working alongside you! I also had Rachel take some nice shots of the show after we installed it, so I might add more to the blog later, but here are a few photos I took tonight.
The last photo in the grid is thanks to some of my lovely friends, who not only came out to support me at the reception but also gifted me with a bouquet of flowers and purchased artwork and reproductions. A bunch of wonderful colleagues, students, and community members also came through and many left with various pieces of artwork as well. It was a lovely evening!
I was invited to have a solo exhibition at The Block Gallery in downtown Sioux City, and since my work is ecologically-focused, gallery director Gia Emory and I agreed that opening the show on Earth Day 2021 seemed appropriate! I also went ahead and registered it with the Earth Day Network, which coordinates Artists for the Earth and thus gave me an easy show title to boot!
This show will not only display some of my 2D work, but will also include pieces of my ceramics! I’m quite excited about that, as this will be the first time ever that I’ll be exhibiting ceramic artwork.
The exhibition poster for my Artist for the Earth show at The Block Gallery!
I have a painting, Comfort Zone, on display in the Packard Group National Exhibition 2021 in a drive-in movie art reception at No. 7 Center in Vermillion, SD, in addition to a virtual exhibition! The art reception will take place at 8:30pm on Friday, April 2nd, 2021, and on that same date an online gallery will open to viewers as well.
I have been juried into the Rhode Island Watercolor Society's Painting Through the Pandemic national online exhibition. They had just over 500 total entries and accepted 100 of those including my newest painting Velocity! The juror for this show is Jack Haran, former president of both the North River Arts Society and New England Watercolor Society.
The show will be posted online on their Facebook page on Saturday March 6th, 2021, with a virtual opening on the 6th at 7pm via Zoom - visit the show page on their website for more information and for the link.
In late December I was invited to participate in an upcoming exhibition and fundraising support event called The Maskuerade for local art gallery Vangarde Arts which has, as is unfortunately the case with many arts organizations, suffered during the pandemic.
Vangarde Arts has been a great supporter of the arts in Sioux City as well as of Morningside College, so I happily agreed to participate. Vangarde provided each invited artist with a white cotton 3-ply face mask, and asked that each mask be made into a unique artwork. The pieces are then to be auctioned off with the proceeds going to support their organization.
This was more of a challenge than I think many viewers might realize for several reasons:
The substrate (the face mask) is rather small and of a defined form already, so there’s limited room to work.
As an artist, I think you want to embrace the media you’re working with - so making it unrecognizable as a face mask to me ends up defeating the purpose of the challenge.
While I think one could pretty easily paint on a cotton mask as a canvas, I question whether viewers will easily differentiate an original painting from an existing fabric print. This meant I felt I needed to get somewhat sculptural while still embracing the substrate and its intended function in order to really make it transform identifiably into an original artwork.
I didn’t want to lose my own artistic focus and hand - I wanted to make this piece work within my oeuvre rather than existing outside of it.
I mentally wrestled for weeks just in trying to develop a concept, and then with only a vague starting point in mind I then physically wrestled with the mask itself for a couple weeks to try to see if that manipulation would inspire me to come up with an artistic solution. Finally all the reflection and experimentation paid off, and with an idea in mind all I then had to do was execute it!
This is Synthesis, a wearable mixed media artwork including a white cotton mask, thread, acrylic, gel, Cladonia rangiferina “reindeer lichen,” Tillandsia usneoides “Spanish moss,” pine needles, and bark. Its dimensions are 7x13x4.5”.
Synthesis, a wearable mixed media artwork including a white cotton mask, thread, acrylic, gel, Cladonia rangiferina, Tillandsia usneoides, pine needles, and bark; 7x13x4.5”, Shelby Prindaville, 2021.
The Maskuerade exhibition will have open house hours on February 11, 12, and 18 from 6-7pm in Vangarde Arts which is located at 416 Pierce St, Sioux City, IA 51101. An online auction will be open from February 15-18, and a silent auction and Fat Tuesday on Friday celebration will be held February 19 at 6pm with a live auction following at 7pm.
An image of one of my paintings (Velocity, if you’re curious, as I went with my most recent work to date) is going to be sent to the Moon on a shielded microSD card in a 'Moonbox' from NASA contractor Astrobotic, so my work will be in a lunar digital archive! (Until radiation breaks through and wipes it away.)
A fellow space enthusiast who purchased a Moonbox to send microSD cards up and had extra storage available shared this opportunity with me (and others) and I excitedly submitted and was approved. I wanted to know what kind of exhibiting artist this will make me since international is no longer enough (and galactic seemed too broad), so I asked a bunch of friends and students what adjective means the Earth and Moon together.
There was a lot of speculation - interstellar also seems too broad, and the offerings of stratospheric, universal, lunatic (haha), and interplanetary didn’t fit the bill either. But my friend Bernie Langer came through with "geoselenic,” which is exactly the term I was looking for! (Apparently it’s of Hellenic derivation; Bernie also followed up with the Latin-derived “terralunar” which I like even better but which sadly hasn’t yet made it into a dictionary.)
Also, I can’t mention being a geoselenic artist without linking some relevant forefathers.
I’ve had two pieces - Balancing Act and Camelflage - selected for exhibition at the Cultural Center for Cape Cod in Massachusetts’ international show Wild Things which opens November 20, 2020. Only 87 of 707 entries (the most they’ve ever received!) made the cut, so I’m pleased that 2 of mine are included in that number!
You can already view the online gallery here!
I have been juried by photographer and arts administrator Alison Erazmus into Webster Arts’ Relationships national exhibition! Of 586 submissions, 64 works were selected and my mixed media painting Littoral Layers is one of those 64.
The show will open with a Facebook Live event on November 17, 2020, at 7 pm CST. Additionally, all exhibition pieces will be available on their website http://webster-arts.org under the Exhibits tab.
I’m opening up the school year with a solo faculty exhibition, Contact, at Morningside College’s Eppley Art Gallery! If you’re in Sioux City and can safely visit, check out my poster below for all the pertinent details. I’ll show some gallery images later on for those of you who are further afield or unable to attend.
My relief Outreach will be on exhibit in The Vacant Museum’s two-part online exhibition Heat & Relief which will open on August 28, 2020. I’ll get a link out once it goes live!
I’m exhibiting my newest painting, Emerging, in the Art Museum of South Texas Chapman Gallery’s exhibition Creative Distancing: An Exhibition of Community Creativity. The show is being held online and awards will be selected by jurors and voted upon by the public at the close of the exhibition, so keep your fingers crossed for me! (I’m a little unclear as to how the voting will happen, but if I am notified I’ll share the news so that if you’d like to vote for my painting, you can.)
I’m participating in the Subversive Celebration: International Altered Card Exhibition at Gallery 110 in the Warren M. Lee Center of Fine Arts at the University of South Dakota, organized by artist Klaire A. Lockheart!
The show will be up from March 4-27, 2020, with an opening reception will be on March 4 from 5-7 pm. The gallery is located at 414 Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069. An online gallery will be available through www.klairelockheart.com.
