Illinois and Iowa artists display at QC Airport gallery

The latest Quad Metropolis Arts “Artwork on the Airport” exhibit presents glass artwork vessels by James Scheller and Phillip Scheller of Staunton, Unwell., acrylic sculptural work by Sally Havlis of Chicago, and sumi-e work by Karen Kurka Jensen of North Liberty, Iowa.

Along with the gallery on the Quad Cities Worldwide Airport, Moline, the artists’ works could be seen and bought on-line HERE. The exhibit is on show by means of July 4, 2022.

Jim Scheller was raised in Mt. Olive, Unwell., a small city on previous Route 66 midway between Springfield and St. Louis. After twenty years on the Chehalem Mountain outdoors Portland, Oregon Jim moved to his dwelling studio to the Illinois prairie close to his son Phillip in 2018. Now in Staunton, Unwell., they make ornamental kiln fashioned glass artwork.

Jim turned enamored by glass in 2012 after an extended and rewarding profession as an engineer and technologist.  He has devoted himself to his craft and artwork.  Intensive research of and experimentation with the medium is a ardour and wholesome dependancy. The vessels on this exhibition are impressed by the work of early Twentieth-century painters (e.g., Mondrian, Gorin, Kandinsky, Klee, Tauber-Arp, van Doesburg). 

Phillip Scheller started his follow on the studio in 2019, creating a novel collection of intricate works.  He begins by reducing hundreds of 9×9-millimeter items of glass from a 3-millimeter thick sheet. Over a span of weeks these items are assembled, fused, and slumped in a kiln creating one-of-a-kind artwork.

Sally Havlis is a Chicago artist and instructor with an MA and MFA from Northern Illinois College. Her work explores non-literal communication by utilizing varied media to pursue imagery that’s devoid of symbols, however seemingly about one thing in an oblique manner.

“I’m all in favour of imagery that doesn’t convey or reinforce existent data,” she mentioned in a Tuesday launch from Quad Metropolis Arts. The Billow collection is made from kinds historically related to the home life of ladies whereas collaborating within the male dominated historical past and custom of summary artwork. The wall hung work exists between sculpture and work.

Karen Kurka Jensen makes use of the artwork of sumi-e ink portray to create summary landscapes. Rising up amongst forests, lakes, granite rocks, and glowing waters in Minnesota, Kurka Jensen all the time felt at dwelling outdoors.

“From mountain tops to abandon, deep blue skies to the mysteries of the cosmos, I’m impressed,” she mentioned within the launch. “Typically I simply sit and look. I let this stuff be. I breathe. I dwell on this presence, quietly, patiently.” Her work take the viewer on the same journey the place it’s doable to get misplaced and really feel at dwelling in the identical breath.

Artwork on the Airport within the QC Airport gallery is simple to seek out. It’s simply throughout from the present store and restaurant and proper earlier than the safety checkpoint. The gallery by no means closes, and parking is only one greenback.