Upcoming Events      |   Current Month   |       Events by Year: -> Select Year200920102011-- All Events --

November 2009

Museum of Mystery: A Thirty-Year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies (Arts & Crafts, Education)

Add To My Event List Email To A Friend

Dates: October 5, 2009 - November 17, 2009 Days of Week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Time: M-F: 10a-3p / M-Th: 6p-8p / Sat: 12p-2p Target Audience: General Audience Location: Parkland Art Gallery 2400 W Bradley Ave. Champaign, IL 61821 217.351.2485 Contact Info: Phone: 217.351.2485 Web: Visit web site Please log in to contact event poster. - Log In Ticket Info: Price: Free Event Details: Museum of Mystery: A Thirty-Year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies Monday, October 5 - November 17, 2009 Reception: Thursday, October 15, 6-8 p.m.; Gallery Talk: Glen Davies at 7 p.m., Music by The Parkland College Guitar Ensemble Additional Artist Lecture: Tuesday, 1 p.m., November 3, Room D244, Parkland College “Museum of Mystery” exhibition to feature a retrospective of canvas painting by local artist Davies is a native of Champaign and is an accomplished artist of over 25 years whose work can be seen throughout the country. His artwork has been on exhibition at he Art Institute of Chicago, Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and the Hunstville Museum of Art in Alabama. His work is included in many collections including the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship and has part of the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts in Education Program since 1985. Through this program he has done artist residencies and workshops and has completed over 80 murals using students as his assistants. Davies is also asked to do lectures for various educational venues. His experience as a self-employed artist in a non-traditional area gives him expertise to encourage emerging artists to break out on their own. Visiting colleges and Universities, serving as artist-in-residence through the Illinois Arts Council’s Artstour, he has provided insight to over seventy primary and secondary schools, community centers, and museums. I have conducted specialized residency programs at the Lakeview Museum in Peoria, the Rockford Art Museum, and Bradford College in Bradford, Massachusetts. He states “Through slide presentations of paintings, sculptures, and installations, I try to forge a link between personal vision and my experiences in travels and alternative art pursuits.” Influenced by his experience travelling with the circuses and carnivals in the 1970’s, this retrospective focuses on his banner paintings that allowed him to express his mysterious narratives through a personal visual language. Responding to the loose canvas format in that it relates to the kind of signage commonly associated with carnival attractions, fraternal lodge rituals, and medieval religious pilgrimages, he relates life experience as a moral drama, played out in a public forum. Davies will be a part of the Parkland Art Gallery’s 14th Annual High School Seminar. This seminar is held at Parkland and all 35 High Schools in the Parkland College #505 district are invited to attend. Davies will give a lecture among all of the other activities that the students participate in and includes a tour of the gallery, two hands-on workshops, an art-related video, and a tour of the art facilities. He states “As an artist, everyday life fuels my vision. This insight helps me experience the interplay between career alternatives and studio interests. Through residencies I strive to introduce young artists to some of the information and "hands on" experience that made this vision come alive for me. Sharing this experience with others lays the groundwork for future artists and non-artists alike, by introducing processes for thinking, planning and exploring new techniques toward the completion of a large scale collaborative project.” Davies’ commissions take him all over the country. One might recognize his murals that are located in the Champaign-Urbana area including the Illini Union, The Urbana Free Library, Market Place Mall, and Centennial High School Library. But his work is also across the country including places like Las Vegas and Miami and some of his artwork travels in the circus and the carnival. His travels for his commissions take him all over the country and the various platforms that he uses provides him with a unique perspective and outlook that has changed his outlook and helped form his continuing evolving body of work. The documentation of this work and experiences working in these art forms provides me with a unique perspective on the everyday life and work processes of these creative industries. While Davies in not travelling across the country he has an avid interest in visionary artists. He is in the process of curating an upcoming exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum opening January 29 and running though March 28, of 2010 entitled “Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster”. This exhibition provides an in-depth survey of Finster's career, covering the variety of themes inherent in his work, much of it relating to his visionary experiences.