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Exhibit opens in Gallery 450
MARSHFIELD - The exhibit "Contemporary Visions: Small Figurative Mixed Media Sculpture and Spiritual Encounters with Nature" opens Nov. 6 in Gallery 450 on the UW-Marshfield/Wood County Campus.
This third exhibition in the Arts at the UW Visual Arts Series "In and Out of Traditional Art" features the work of Nancy Blum-Cumming and Michelle Barfoot, both professors from the Art and Design Department at UW-Stout. The Gallery talk and reception for the artists will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, in Gallery 450 of the Helen Connor Laird Fine Arts Building. The public is welcome.
Blum-Cumming is a sculptor who recently has developed a series of figurative mixed media sculpture entitled "The "Champagne Girl" series.
“(The series) is based on my experiences celebrating life as a woman,” Blum-Cumming said. “They are based on abstracted portraits of my female friends who seem to love champagne as much as I do. These sculptures are almost bottle size and at the same time evoke a history of a love of playing with dolls and of being female."
Michelle Barfoot will bring multi media and digital media art to her "Spiritual encounters with nature" portion of the exhibition. Her research includes "Grasshoppers of Wisconsin" in collaboration with Dr. Charles R. Bomar of the UW-Stout, Biology Department. She is also working on a Web site for Digital Ecological Design begun in 2000.
“What is fascinating about these two artists showing together is that they both have very different approaches to creating their designed ideas, but the similarity is that design is the structural thread that constitutes this ‘Contemporary Visions’ exhibition,” said Julie Dierauer, manager of Gallery 450.
Blum-Cumming received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in visual art from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and her Bachelor of Science degree in studio art from UW-Stout. She has served on the art and design faculty at UW-Stout since the mid 1980'. She and her husband reside in both Menomonee and Southern France.
Barfoot earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Industrial Design from The University of the Arts and has won numerous awards for her work and developments in multi-media design. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art from the University of Rhode Island. She joined the UW-Stout faculty as an assistant professor/tenure track in Multi Media Design in 2003.
"Contemporary Visions: Small Figurative Mixed Media Sculpture and Spiritual Encounters with Nature" is the third exhibit in the “In and Out of Traditional Art” series. Other exhibits are as follows:
Gallery 450 is open free of charge from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Friday and during all performances in the Helen Laird Theatre.
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