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Maria Winston

Monday, June 14th, 2010

July 1- August 29

Cancer diagnosis leads to new art, South Bend Tribune, July 17

Maria Winston will be exhibiting a new series of paper-maché and ceramic wall reliefs concerning her experience dealing with cancer. Partly autobiographical, and partly inspired by other’s stories, these pieces reflect the profound feelings that one goes through when facing and recovering from this devastating disease.

Maria is a largely self-taught artist who, for over twenty years, has experimented with painted paper-maché and plaster to create large, highly expressive figurative 3-D reliefs. She was raised in Brownsville, Texas, and draws from Hispanic art and traditions, particularly ancient wall reliefs, for artistic inspiration. Her pieces have been exhibited in South Bend at Stanley Clark School’s Art for the Mind show, as well as the Colfax Cultural Center.

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Rodolfo Zárate Guzmán

Monday, June 14th, 2010

July 1- August 29

Two Views, One Show, South Bend Tribune, July 17

Rodolfo Zárate Guzmán will be showing a selection of paintings created in the surrealist tradition. His work often contains an ironic or humorous observation about our society, inspired from his personal experiences with life.

Rodolfo was born in 1945 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and has exhibited in the Michiana area for over 30 years. He apprenticed for Guillermo Chavez Vega on public murals in Guadalajara Mexico, and continued his studies at Indiana University/South Bend in the U.S. His work can be found at the Scarlett Macaw Gallery in Sawyer, Michigan.

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Song for Joe Casey

Monday, January 4th, 2010

As artists and now gallery owners, we are often asked how do you know when art is good – here is an example.

Marty and Corinne Lucas, (Return to Normal) who performed at Artpost during the Holiday Art Walk, were so inspired by the life and work of Joe Casey, they wrote this beautiful song for him -

You can listen to the song here – just click the big orange button:
Joe Casey by MLucas

Joe Casey

Joe Casey: Somewhere in America, oil on canvex, 22" x 28"

A woods of sturdy perfect trees,
seven cattle in a meadow standing strained.
A two-lane highway, a truck rolls down
loaded full with yellow grain.
Somewhere in America.

An empty house upon a hill,
the lights are on, the drapes are open -
an empty window, an empty porch,
beside an empty driveway.
Somewhere in America.

His daughter pearls, his wife knits,
he sets his easel up and sits,
and paints these scenes from yesterday,
takes his memory back a-ways.
To the Ozark hills, big Missouri rivers,
to the dripstone table at Meramec Caverns.
Where the James boys gathered to split the loot,
to the hollows and the ridges where they’d fish and shoot.

On his canvas the hills are melting, the hills are melting.
Hills are melting.

Here he’s a toddler on his mother’s knee,
all around is family.
Arranged on chairs and posed real nice,
look at the camera, smile –
twice as long as they ever smiled before.
He’s got suspicious eyes, he wonders what they’re smiling for.

Different colors, different days,
different people with different ways,
A common story, a simple scene,
a sky that’s blue above a land that’s green,
Somewhere in America.

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Gallery artists

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Joe Casey

www.joecasey.org

(1900-1987) Unknown as an artist to the South Bend community for most of his life, Joseph Sylvester Casey’s images of childhood memories and scenic landscapes now reside in many private collections in South Bend and Chicago.

Joe moved to South Bend in 1921 from Blackwell, MO, and worked at Studebaker and Bendix plants until retirement. Entirely self-taught, Joe loved to paint idyllic, rural Missouri farm scenes and wooded fishing spots, as well as portraits of his family.

Jake Webster

www.jakewebster.org

Jake Webster is a sculptor, mixed media artist and spoken word performer. His work speaks about his community and the environment in which he lives. He uses the tradition of direct carving, and applies a contemporary attitude by creating art with whatever is at hand to tell his story.

In Jake’s words: “I use simple tools to cut simple shapes to make a simple statement about a simple world we have made more complex.”

Jake’s work can be found in many private and public collections. His studio is located in Elkhart, Indiana and is usually open to the public on weekends and by appointment.

Kay Westhues

www.kaywesthues.com

Kay is a photographer who is interested in documenting the ways in which rural tradition and history are interpreted and transformed in the present day. She just completed a five-year project photographing rural culture in the Midwest, which was exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, as well as the Lodz Photofestiwal in Lodz, Poland.

She is a recipient of a 2010 Indiana Individual Artist grant, and is beginning a new series about people’s relationship to water.

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