2021 Painting
Deb Baughman | Pulaski
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Plein air, landscapes and Midwestern scenes in oil and watercolor. I look for the rhythm in lines in fields and industrial views. I like barns, elevator, bins, alleys.
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Nancy Carlson
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I draw what I see. I see the shadows and
create the colors and shapes in an object to reflect those. I have discovered that by using a black paint pen and acrylic paint on glass, an impression of stained glass is created on the windows. I especially like to view the windows and other flat glass pieces against different colored backgrounds. The changes in the color on the glass is nothing short of amazing. I graduated in 1984 with a BA in Graphic Design from Iowa State University and spent my professional career in advertising sales. |
Mark Doherty | Urbandale
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I am an emerging artist in retirement, I love to paint in abstract acrylics but have truly found my voice with textures and acrylics. I have actually had customers as far away as the Netherlands. Life is good!
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Jennifer Drinkwater
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A Mississippi native, Jennifer Drinkwater has lived in a lot of places - including the Mississippi Delta, a state park in Western Massachusetts, New Orleans, three Appalachian Trail crew base camps, a Blackfoot reservation in Montana, along the shoreline of Lake Turkana in Kenya, Eastern North Carolina, Atlanta, and artist residencies in several states. She has spent one year of her life in tents, and currently lives with her beloved husband and dog in an almost tiny house in Ames, Iowa.
Jennifer explores how we bring artwork from the studio into the world, and how art-making can both build and shape community. Over the years, she helped to organize a community-wide steamroll printmaking event in Perry, Iowa; created installations in restored prairies in Nebraska; collaborated on public art projects in vacant sites on Iowa main streets; spearheaded a community knit-bombing project; and has painted murals with middle school children on a juke joint in the Mississippi Delta and behind City Hall in Perry, Iowa. |
Cheryl Gates | Perry
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I am a born and bred Midwest girl with a Bachelor's of Fine Art degree from Ball State University.
My art can be classified as traditional art on a modern medium. I am a digital artist who uses her iPad Pro to create watercolors of my favorite places to travel, landscapes, florals and most recently people's beloved homes. My interpretations of my subjects can be abstract or lean more towards realism, depending on the subject and my mood! I also create bright and cheery illustrations for greeting cards. I love this quote about art, as it sums up what I wish for my art to accomplish: "Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope." Kehinde Wiley |
Louise O'Donnell | Ames
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I graduated form Iowa State and went on to follow a professional career across the country, specializing in creative and design for mail order companies. I came back to Iowa, promising myself to start painting again.
I like to paint Iowa scenes, the big sky and the people, too. I want a painting to evoke a feeling when it's viewed, hopefully the same feeling that motivated me to paint it. I work in watercolor, pastel and oils. |
Shawn & Misty Palek | Slater
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Shawn Palek mainly uses the airbrush to paint things he enjoys, whether it be pop-culture to hyper-realism. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Palek touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matters can be recognized, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations. His paintings often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation. His works are characterized by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. Shawn Palek currently lives and works in Des Moines, IA.
Misty Palek is a self-taught watercolor artist, who enjoys releasing her bountiful imagination on paper. She specializes in surrealism mainly of food, including her love of fruits and vegetables. Spending time over the past five years and developing her technique in watercolor, she is quite proficient in creating one-of-a-kind paintings that appeal to all generations. Misty lives in Des Moines, Iowa. She has won many awards, in the watercolor category and she is part of several clubs, such as the Iowa Watercolor Society, Art-A-Holics Anonyms, and several others. |
Betsy Peterson
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Art has always been a part of Betsy, with early expression naturally spilling out as she experienced the world around her. Following a formal art education at University of Iowa, Betsy taught elementary art before home-schooling her two sons. Inspiration was everywhere and Betsy continued to express what she experienced in soft-sculpted figures with twig limbs, paintings and drawings.
With bright colors, whimsical figures, and meaningful words, Betsy’s art draws from her soul. Her love of words, color, and childlike spontaneity pour into each piece creating art that inspires generosity, gratitude and joy. Beyond the gallery, Betsy has created award-winning pieces, commissioned work, and public art with the talent and heart that are a part of each project she pursues. |
Autumn Rozario Hall | Des Moines
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Autumn Rozario Hall is a painter, dreamer, mother, and creator of stories. She lives and works in Des Moines, Iowa. She is a recipient of two Community Art Grants from the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and is currently working within the rewilding movement, blending art with environmental outreach in the form of gallery shows, native plant workshops, and writing. Her paintings have been shown in art galleries throughout the U.S. including Brooklyn, Portland, San Diego and Nashville. She is active in her local art community, shares her work in solo and group shows, and participates in art fairs and community art projects.
Through her work, she seeks to share a sense of wonder and create art that inspires and uplifts. Her acrylic and mixed media paintings explore story and human connectivity to nature. In my paintings I use flowers, leaves, seed pods, and other bits of nature for reference. I collage book pages, lace, insect wings, tissue paper, and found objects into the substrate of the piece and paint into it to create a layered painting. I paint on a variety of surfaces including up-cycled panels, canvas, heavy paper, and cradle wood. My paintings focus on the idea of finding wonder, and a personal connection to nature. They often contain figures immersed in the landscapes around them. They act upon the environment, as it in turn, acts upon them, symbolizing the inextricable connection between person, earth, and the process of growth. |
Kelsey Wilson
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Kelsey Wilson is an artist and illustrator from Nevada, Iowa. Her artwork is executed in a variety of traditional mediums including watercolor, acrylics, and pastel pencils. With an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and seven years of freelancing Kelsey pursues her studio mission to bring "Joy through Art" in whatever form that may be.
My motivation to paint stems from an intense appreciation of traditional artwork and techniques, coupled with a drive to explore the details, shifts of color and textures of plants, animals, and objects. I create highly detailed, naturalistic, and time-consuming artwork. Through my artwork I hope to bring beautiful details into focus because they promote a sense of wonder about the natural world. My process of slow creation supports my goal of breaking from a stressful, tech-infused reality and moving towards a more peaceful attentiveness to the beauty around us. |