Parkland Art Gallery
Reception: Thursday September 30, from 5 - 8 p.m., Gallery Lounge
Jodi Bowen received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and is a professor of Art at Lake Land
Community College in Mattoon, Illinois. Ms. Bowen currently lives and
practices art in Champaign, Illinois.
“Pathways throughout life take on a variety of journeys that
often converge towards a reason or meaning. Yet it’s this unknown
path that I find compelling. These path drawing installations represent
memories and visions of life through my past and present. I think
of the school blackboards and their layers of white transparent chalk.
I think of the meandering of rivers and the deeper movements of lakes,
marshes and oceans as well as the cracks in the earth during drought.
I think of the wavering of clothes hanging on my Grandmother’s
clothesline and the subtle and sensuous undulating horizon of the
Midwest flatlands. All these strong sensory experiences ignite abstract
thoughts for interpretation through line, form and installation.”
—Jodi Bowen
James Ibur received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and is a associate professor of art
at Saint Louis Community College/Meramel. Mr. Ibur currently lives
and practices art in Saint Louis, Missouri.
“My concerns over the past 10 years have embraced a wide range
of ceramic expressions for approaching ideas about containment…most
recently, bio/anthropomorphically inspired urns, vases, tureens,
bowls and huge cups have been made to look encrusted and ancient,
even broken, to imply use and age and ultimately, perhaps suggesting
time passing. Pots grow out of sensual sea forms; sea forms surround
and overwhelm vessels as a way to acknowledge nature’s unyielding
and persistent power. I want to suggest our own fragile existence
and that it is ultimately given over to memory in the form of fossils.”
—James Ibur
All events in the handicapped-accessible gallery are free and open
to the public. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.,
Monday - Thursday, 6 - 8 p.m., and Saturday, noon - 2 p.m. To find
the Gallery when classes are in session, we suggest using the M
parking lots. Enter through any door and follow the ramps uphill
to the highest point, where the gallery is located. The gallery windows
overlook the outdoor fountain area. This exhibit is partially supported
by Parkland College Student Activities. For more information, call
217/351-2485.
