April 5-28

Kathleen English,
“Joann’s Pears”, 11” x 14”, photographic c-print

Artpost Gallery is hosting “Perceptions,” a juried photography exhibition featuring work from the Focus Group, a student organization at Ivy Tech Community College/South Bend.

The show, juried by Artpost’s owner Kay Westhues, features twenty-five photographs by fourteen student artists. Achievements of the photographers who are exhibiting include military service, academic excellence, and ADDY (American Advertising Awards) award winning recognition.

Exhibiting artists include: Kathleen English, Alicia Ingole, Adam McIntosh, Joe Mancini, Susan Miles, Ryan Opick, Tracy Post, Susan Scott, Dawn Sult-Williams, Stephanie Sut, Anna Toner, Earl Vandygriff, Darci Young, and Gail Young.

Open hours for this exhibition are Thursday noon – 6 pm, and Sunday noon – 4 pm.

Ryan C. Opick, “Chevy panel truck and Lambeau Field #4″, photographic c-print

Darci Young, “Studebaker Corridor”, 8” x 8”. giclee print

November 1– December 16

Jake Webster, “Cheerios”, Mixed Media, 24’ x 36”

Natalie Klein’s paintings follow in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism where movement and gesture are central. Nature is her inspiration; landscape, seascape and natural objects are her subject matter.

Natalie has a B.F.A in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and an M.S. in Secondary Education from Indiana University South Bend. She also studied painting at the University of Notre Dame with Don Vogl, John Mooney and Doug Kinsey.  Her work has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago’s Sales and Rental Gallery, the Chicago Botanic Gardens, the Midwest Museum of American Art, the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, and the South Bend Museum of Art.

“Don’t Dig Here” is the theme of a new series of paintings by Artpost’s co-owner Jake Webster.  Some of this work was inspired by conversations with his grandchildren; others resulted from interactions with friends who posed for a series of portraits. Each model was asked to add to the painting by writing something that described them. Jake’s interpretation and the subject’s written word combine in a synergy that gives us a wonderful perception about each person.

Jake Webster is a sculptor, mixed media artist and spoken word performer who maintains a studio in Elkhart, Indiana. More information on Jake can be found on his website: www.jakewebster.org.

Natalie Klein, “Striated Rock,” acrylic 20″ x 20″	Jake Webster, “Juanetta Hill”, mixed media, 24” x 36”
Natalie Klein, “Cool Convection”, acrylic, 48” x 36”

Photographs by Steve Moriarty
Sept 6 – Oct 28

“Hack Hoffenberg Dies and Goes to Heaven”
Archival digital print, 18”x12”

Photographers’ forms mask similar themes, South Bend Tribune, September 2012

Steve Moriarty is the Curator Emeritus of the photography collection at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art. He has been photographing since his early twenties, and is probably best known for his documentation of the Civil War in El Salvador.

Moriarty explains, “The photos in this exhibition were inspired by the picture postcards we send while on the road to friends back at home. The ‘postcards’ here are not of outstanding scenery or important buildings or places. Rather, they more reflect my personal impressions at the moment of pushing the shutter button. Some may seem obvious, while others are more obscure. “

“The viewer is invited to imagine himself or herself as my travel companion in that place and time. Would you have been interested, bored, nervous, calm, intrigued, repelled? All responses are equally valid. “

“My Father’s Last Visit to the Grotto”, 2009. Archival digital print, 12’ x 18”

Sept 6 – Oct 28

The Moon in Passing, archival inkjet print

Jack Kapsa is Department Chair and a photography instructor at St. Joseph’s High School in South Bend. In 2006 he was the recipient of a Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship.

For the past twenty years, Jack has used a multimedia approach to his work; combining photography and painting. The photographs in this exhibit, made over the past three years, have evolved from his photo-collage paintings. His surreal images are now created from a combination of traditional and non-traditional darkroom processes and digital image making.

epyon5, “The Shield”, spray paint, vintage comics on canvas, 24 x 36 inches

July 5– August 26

Exhibition press:

• Is it street art or is it vandalism?, South Bend Tribune, August 2012

• Artpost Celebrates Public Art, South Bend Tribune, July 2012

“Post All Bills” is an exhibition dedicated to public art that is made for the street — stenciling, tagging, wheatpasting, street posters, yarn bombing, sticker art, and mural painting. Expect to see work inside and outside the gallery in this unique exhibition of Indiana-based artists who use the street art movement’s aesthetic and principles in their artistic practice.

Street art and graffiti are essentially about claiming public space as a place for artistic expression. Often controversial, over the last 50 years this movement has been embraced by the art world, and is often appropriated by the commercial design and advertising fields. The art in “Post All Bills” has many influences, including popular culture, ancient culture, language, skateboarding and hip hop.

Thanks to the following sponsors for Post All Bills:
Gilberto Cardenas and Dolores Garcia, Jerry Donaldson, RENEW Inc, Ramiro Rodriguez and Laurie Rousseau, and Charles Stewart.

Artists exhibiting include:

South Bend, IN

Richard Allen
Maclovio Cantú IV
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IZEK
Stacie Jeffirs
Adam Patti
RESOE CSG
Federico Rodriguez
Jason Schoppe

Bloomington, IN

David Ebbinghouse

Elkhart, IN

Stacie Jeffirs/Yarn Revolt

Maclovio Cantú IV, “Marcos”, Linocut, 7″x10″

ESES74

Fort Wayne, IN

cost

Gary, IN

epyon5

CISA/Omen 74

Indianapolis, IN

Christian Brock Forrer

Winona Lake, IN

Jason Rowland

Christian Brock Forrer, ”I’ll wait quietly”, mixed media on museum board, 32”x40”

Jason Rowland, “cryin 2.0″, multi layer stencil/spraypaint on plexiglass, 9″x12″

David Ebbinghouse, “Harijuku / Gosururi” (Skull/Bunny), stencil/spray paint on found wood panel

May 3 – June 24

Henderika Akkerman, “Composition II”, 38” x 30”, acrylic Hank Mascotte, “African Tulip Tree”, 6 7/8” x 11 1/2”, block print on rice paper

Artpost will be exhibiting work by two venerable South Bend artists in May and June – Henderika (Henni) Akkerman and Hank Mascotte. Henderika’s abstract work combines painting, monoprints, and collaged material to create work that is simply about joy, forms and color. Hank will be exhibiting a series of botanical block prints on rice paper, inspired by a series of visits to Maui, Hawaii.

Henni’s work has been exhibited in many regional venues, including solo shows at The Studio Arts Center, Spurious Fugitive Gallery, and Trio’s Restaurant and Jazz Club. She has a BA in Fine Art from Indiana University South Bend and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of Notre Dame, and is a member of the Michiana Calligraphy Guild and Northern Indiana Artists, Inc.

Hank Mascotte is a sculptor and designer who has maintained an art studio in South Bend for 25 years.  He has produced work for churches and religious institutions throughout his career. Educated at the University of Notre Dame, he graduated in 1968 with a Masters Degree in Fine Art. His work can be found in numerous cities in Northern Indiana, as well as in Charlottesville, NC, and Chicago, IL.

Henerdikka Akkerman, “Summer Play’, monoprint Hank Mascotte, ‘Desert Rose’, block print on rice paper

March 1 – April 29

James Palmore, "Being That We Are", 5 3/8" h x 5" w, mixed media on wood: metal, acrylic paint

“Regional artists in downtown South Bend,” The Observer, March 6, 2012

“Undiluted” features new abstract paintings by regional artists Julian Alcantar and James Palmore. Both artists make use of color, form, and line to create visual metaphors about human experience and emotion.

Julian Alcantar’s paintings use bold hues, organic forms and gesture to create paintings that radiate energy. He creates his own language of abstraction that is not confined solely to a canvas; his work also encompasses performance and mural painting.

James Palmore’s large, airbrushed, photorealistic portraits have gained much recognition, but recently his work has moved towards abstraction. The mixed-media paintings he will show at Artpost carry a different type of energy, which is visually translated through incorporating found objects and photographs to create heavily textured pieces.

Julian Alcantar is founder of the Independent Artists Association of Indiana, a collaborative living space for artists. Julian is a prolific muralist and painter whose work has been featured at Meet Me on the Island at the South Bend Museum of Art, in the Goshen Art Alley in Goshen, IN, and in the Elkhart Art Walk. His commissioned murals are in many private collections in the Michiana area.

James Palmore has been an integral part of the art community in Kalamazoo MI for the past 30 years. He is a founding member of the Kalamazoo Black Arts & Cultural Center, launched in 1986. He is currently an adjunct faculty at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, coordinates Youth Art Camps and Science & Art Camp activities at the Farm Research Cooperative in Bloomingdale, MI, and is a Theatrical set designer for the Kalamazoo Black Arts & Cultural Center.

He has exhibited his work in many venues in Michigan and elsewhere, most recently at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and at Midtown Gallery in Kalamazoo MI. His work is in many corporate and private collections. In 2010, James was awarded the “Reginald Gammon Community Artist Award” from the Kalamazoo Black Arts & Cultural Center.

James Palmore, "You Can See It Too", mixed media, 6"h x 12"w

Julian Alcantar, "Katz", 46” x 46”, acrylic, spray paint on cheesecloth

Julian Alcantar, "Untitled", 52.5” x 24”, acrylic and spray paint on canvas

January 5th – February 26th

Susan Moore, "Paul's Way", 24" x 30", archival inkjet print

“Local terrains: Two photographers, two very different viewfinders,” South Bend Tribune, January 29, 2012

This show features work by two South Bend-based artists, David Cory and Susan Moore.  The photography of Susan Moore uses a large format camera to document the landscape of a pastoral subdivision in north central Indiana. David Cory uses a Holga camera to create atmospheric photographs of familiar places in Indiana and Michigan.

Susan Moore’s series, Subdivided Views, depicts homes within the subdivision Ranch Acres, where she lives.  In these quiet places, the underlying bucolic nature of the suburb is most evident. The wide-angle lens exaggerates the expansive lawns and amplifies the distance between the home and the camera, illustrating the privacy and the quiet isolation embodied in the subdivision.

As a physician specializing in diagnostic radiology, David Cory has spent most of his adult life analyzing images of the human body, exploring normal and abnormal, and the overlap between. His photography series, Borderlands, focus on the point where things overlap — an indeterminate area that is hard to define because it contains qualities or features of the two overlapping things.  Sometimes these indeterminate areas may be depicted by a single exposure.  At other times, multiple exposures create the overlap.

Susan Moore is currently an Associate Professor at Indiana University, South Bend, where she coordinates the photography area.  Susan received a BA from Columbia College in Chicago in 1991, a Master’s in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998, and most recently, in 2003, she earned an MFA from Washington University, School of Art.  She has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission to support her landscape photography projects and her work was recently published in View Camera.

David Cory received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Evansville and an M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine.  After completing a residency in the department of radiology at IUSM, he remained there as a faculty member for five years.  David has been co-author of several articles in medical journals and also has published nonfiction and poetry.  His photography has appeared in the South Bend Tribune, and in the online periodicals F-Stop Magazine, Hawaii Magazine, and Foliate Oak.

David Cory, "Gates to Safetyville", 9.5" x 9.5”, archival inkjet print on cotton rag

David Cory, "Michigan Street Bridge", 9.5" x 9.5”, archival inkjet print on cotton rag

Susan Moore, "Comanche Drive", 24" x 30", archival inkjet print

November 3 – December 18

Jan Dean, "Home II," 7'h x 4'w x 4.5'd, polystyrene, light

Beyond the Natural features work by South Bend-based artists Jan Dean, Charles Jevremovic and Eric Souther. The show includes an installation by Jan Dean that was recently exhibited at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI. Charles Jevremovic will be showing a new series of multimedia pieces created from discarded computer circuits. Eric Souther, Assistant Professor of New Media at IUSB, will be exhibiting a new video installation created for Artpost.

Jan Dean’s intricately pieced, internally lit foam structure is titled Home II. This sculpture transforms discarded polystyrene packing material into a 7 foot tall block ‘home’. It’s all about the box that fascinates more than the toy on Christmas day. Jan has worked in Chicago as a sculptor and educator for the past 20 years and is currently a resident artist at Fire Arts Inc. in South Bend.

Charles Jevremovic’s work evolves from his understanding of place and time, materials and concepts, of which he finds inevitably intertwined. Departure Routes consists of several phenolic resin boards that illustrate joint, disparate elements. Through soldering, bolting and sewing these materials, man-made conduits can visually embody the nature of the circuits and reveal that integral connection with one another.

Eric Souther’s and Jason Bernagozzi’s installation The Nature of Video pushes the perceptual limits of a circle. Eric uses multiple televisions, each containing an original black and white outline of a circle, to show how editing and filtering can create several hundred video instances. Eric manipulates a circle to push and pull new ways one can view a familiar shape. The circular structure can expand beyond its limits into an abstracted place because of the unique nature of video.

Jason Bernagozzi, a video and new media artist living and working in Rochester, NY, created the sound for this installation. Central to his artistic practice is a desire to investigate and experiment with the significant features of time-based media as an evolving world language. Video, sound and other electronic forms allow him to work out ideas as a real-time process that reflects the impermanent relationships between knowledge and dialogue. Jason Bernagozzi received his Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2010.

Jan Dean grew up in South Bend and received an M.F.A in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1990 as well as a B.A in Fine Arts from Indiana University in 1982. She has taught for The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is a member of Chicago Sculpture International and a founding instructor for Gallery 7. Jan has exhibited at The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., Artemisia Gallery, The Illinois State Museum in Chicago and many other venues.

Charles Jevremovic, PCBL03, phenolic resin board, twigs, paint, 35”x51”

Eric Souther, The Essence of the Round (detail), video installation

Eric Souther creates custom software in order to manipulate audio and video in real-time. He obtained a B.F.A in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute and an M.F.A in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University. Eric is also a time based media teacher and artist. He is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media and Informatics at Indiana University South Bend.

September 1 – October 30

Ruth Andrews, "Menstruation", installation detail, neon and red marsh stick

Looking About in Ecstasy features recent work by Ruth Andrews and Mike Slaski. The show includes an installation of red marsh stick and neon by Andrews, limestone sculpture by Slaski, as well as paintings by both artists.

Andrews and Slaski are married and live in Cassopolis, Michigan. Their most recent collaborative piece is Nature’s Calligraphy, created for the Carnegie Center for Art and History’s Bicentennial Series, installed at the Farmer’s Market in New Albany, Indiana.

Ruth Andrews began her artistic career in Chicago as an experimental filmmaker in 1973. Her film, Incumbent Mama, was screened at Cannes in 1974. Stories and dreams are the source of much of Ruth’s work as a painter and muralist. She also enjoys acting, writing and directing for theatre, and creating comix. Ruth was recently the lead artist on “Sanctuary and Deliverance,” a community mural project sponsored by the Minority Coalition of Cass County, Michigan.

Mike Slaski has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Chicago. His work has been shown at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan; Studio Arts in South Bend, Indiana; Adelphi University in Garden City, New York; and Swords into Plowshares Gallery in Detroit, Michigan.

Mike Slaski, Object with No Particular Orientation, 22" x 14" x 13", limestone