2010 Exhibit Schedule
JANUARY 22 - FEBRUARY 21
Supporting Artists: Krasl Art Center Members’ Exhibition
Location: All Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, January 22, 5:30-7:30 pm
Exhibition underwritten by Keller and Keller
When the artist is alive in any person... he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for better understanding. ~ Robert Henri
The Krasl Art Center is supported by our members. In turn, we wish to recognize this support and give a little of our own. Regular course offerings, changing exhibitions, public programming and gift shop discounts at the center reach several individuals annually. However, every other year (alternating with our student/faculty show) the KAC premieres members’ artworks in our galleries. We delight in professionally presenting the hard work and talent of our members that comes to us in a multitude of mediums and styles. Additionally this year, the KAC will offer members the opportunity to speak about their work at the opening reception with the return of last year’s popular Artist on the Soapbox gallery talk. Be sure to attend this lively, fun event and prepare to be impressed by the wealth of talent that resides in our community. Click here for exhibition application.
FEBRUARY 26 - APRIL 25 
Grand Valley State University Ceramics Exhibition: Instructors, Students & Alumni
Location: Dar Davis & Gallery II
Abstract Organic: Ceramic Sculptures by Yumiko Goto
Location: Gallery III
Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition underwritten by Edgewater Bank
Everyone has a relationship with ceramics, be it quotidian, functional, scholarly, inspired, or otherwise. ~ Hoon Lee
Grand Valley State University’s ceramics program utilizes a cross-disciplinary approach combined with national and international opportunities to allow students to develop content, explore diverse working methods, push boundaries and surpass expectations. This exhibition will feature ceramic art by program coordinator Hoon Lee, instructor Daniel Bare, and select students and alumni.
Yumiko Goto draws upon her childhood connection to nature to create ambiguous and abstracted organic forms. Her ceramic artwork evokes transcendence, beauty and softness. In addition to working in her studio, Goto is an instructor at Art House, Inc. and Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.
APRIL 30 - JUNE 13
 Ladislav Hanka’s Marker Trees & Coastlines
Fifth Third Bank supports the Arts
Marcia Perry’s Abstract Wood Sculptures
Location: Dar Davis & Gallery II
Intimate Viewing: Fresco & Sculptural Works by Judith Mullen
Location: Gallery III & Lobby
Opening Reception: Friday, April 30, 5:30-7:30pm
Ladislav Hanka uses traditional etching techniques to explore the Native American tradition of marker trees; purposefully deformed by the human hand, these trees serve as sign posts for travelers and demarcate important sites. Hanka’s poetic interplay of line, texture, m eaning and form is kindred to the organic forms Marcia Perry reveals in her found wood sculptures.
Judith Mullen is a Chicago-based artist creating contemporary frescoes and sculpture. Like the cave paintings of Lascaux, Mullen’s paintings on wet plaster are fluidly populated, resonating both joy and reverence for life. Mullen’s sculpture, like the artwork in the adjacent galleries, calls upon, among other things, trees for form and inspiration. Her work exhibits greater artifice but also cohabitation with the ancient and the new.
JUNE 18 - AUGUST 29
2010 Biennial Sculpture Invitational: New Works 
Location: All Galleries, KAC Grounds, in the Community
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 18, 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition underwritten by Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council
Since 1996, the Krasl Art Center has presented its Biennial Sculpture Invitational. Exploring a variety of themes created by artists near and far, showcasing three-dimensional artworks inside the galleries and out, on art center grounds and throughout the community, this exhibition is a platform for public art, community and the KAC’s commitment to contemporary sculpture. The 2010 invitational will host sculpture and installations by regional artists never before seen in this series, particularly emerging artists developing new ideas, inquiries and expressions through the three-dimensional form.
SEPTEMBER 3 - OCTOBER 24
 Ultra-Realistic Sculpture by Marc Sijan
Location: All Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, September 3 or 10, 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition underwritten by Chemical Bank
In their last visit to the galleries in 2003, Marc Sijan’s ultra-realistic sculptures made quite an impression. Visitors continue to ask what happened to the affable museum guard that fooled them into thinking he was alive. The tradition of mirroring life through art is a longstanding pursuit. Marc Sijan captures this ambition with exceptional clarity and wit through his 3-dimensional, figurative portraits.
NOVEMBER 19 - JANUARY 9, 2011 
Killer Kitsch by Three Contemporary Artists
Location: Dar Davis & Gallery II
Christmas Kitsch
Location: Gallery III
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition underwritten by Modern Dentistry Associates
The stories I tell through my work reflect the way I view the world - often a brash voice in a room of hushed tones. ~ Wendy Huhn
Take the sentimentality and popular aesthetic of kitsch and turn it on its head. Rather than pandering to the lowest common denominator, Killer Kitsch punches it in the nose. Tom Allen’s photographs, based on tableaux the artist hand crafts from pulp novels, create eloquent gender plays of hyper masculinity and femininity. Wendy Huhn’s narrative textiles take aim on contemporary concerns while Kr isten Cliffel’s ceramic cupcakes sugar coat notions of domestic bliss.
To celebrate the holidays, Gallery III will feature images of thrift store finds artist Tom Allen scouted out this past holiday season.
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