25 May 2004

Artists Transform Themselves in Gallery West Show

By Michael LoGuidice
The current show at MidCoast Gallery West is all about transformations by artists perfecting their work and style. The exhibit, featuring 37 photo-paintings by Dave Sorensen and 25 sculptures by V. Skip Willits & Kristin Garnant, runs through June and is well worth the trip to downtown Rock Island.
04 May 2004

No Surprises at Welcome-Center Exhibit, Just Quality

By Michael LoGuidice
The current show at the MidCoast Fine Arts Gallery in LeClaire features two well-known artists in the Quad Cities scene, and for those who know their work, the exhibit holds no surprises. Katie Kiley and Akiko Koiso have highly developed styles, and their work is of a uniformly high quality, using themes, colors, and shapes that do not depart much from the artists' recent compositions.
30 Mar 2004

Exhibit Showcases a Who's Who of Quad Cities Artists

By Administrator
Move over Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy. It's time to bestow honors upon the Quad Cities' artistic community. The 28th Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition boasts a roster that reads like a venerable who's who of local visual artists.
23 Mar 2004

Growth and Happy Accidents in Asian-Tinged Show

By Michael LoGuidice
The current MidCoast Gallery West exhibit featuring work by Caroline England and Ken Bichell is a striking exposition of Occidental Asian-influenced artists in two and three dimensions. England's floral watercolors, with their black backgrounds, borrow from Chinese black-lacquer works, while Bichell's wood-fired pottery grows out of the Chinese tradition in ceramics.
09 Mar 2004

Mystery Box

By Jeff Ignatius
For his current art exhibition, Felix Morelo started small, creating intricate painted boxes that can fit in one's hands. One wall of the Peanut Gallery is covered with them. But as intriguing as these works are, Morelo was unhappy with them.
24 Feb 2004

Regional Artists Make Their Presence Felt at New Trinity Hospital

By Jodie Shagrin Kavensky
There's plenty of hub-bub surrounding the new Trinity at Terrace Park Hospital in Bettendorf that opened last week. With good cause, too. After all, it's the first hospital for Bettendorf since its incorporation 100 years ago.
17 Feb 2004

Tangled Up in Blue*

By Judith Malone
It's not too surprising that Pete Schulte talks a lot about music. He resists describing his recent works as paintings, drawings, or sculpture; more than anything, they are riffs. Visual riffs. Meditations on a theme.
10 Feb 2004

New MidCoast Exhibit a Beacon of Midwestern Talent

By Jodie Shagrin Kavensky
From the ethereal to the surreal aptly describes the art exhibits by Gene Anderson and David Hast currently on display at Midcoast Fine Arts Gallery at the Mississippi Valley Welcome Center in LeClaire, Iowa. The ethereal comes from Gene Anderson's large, modernistic sculptures that mimic the smoothing effect eons of time have on boulders and stones.
10 Feb 2004

Accomplished Artists Impress with Mastery

By Michael LoGuidice
MidCoast Gallery West has works from two accomplished artists on display through the end of February. Bruce Walters has 16 two-dimensional works and Marilyn Davis has 15 porcelain pieces. Both artists demonstrate a mastery over their medium with a high degree of competency.
20 Jan 2004

Black-and-White Reality Meets Full-Color Fantasy

By Michael LoGuidice
In their current exhibit at Quad City Arts, Sandra Dyas re-creates the realism of photojournalism with the sensitivity of individual subjects, while Todd Snyder gives us a glimpse into his vision of actual places painted through the lens of unreality.

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