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Flatland: Imaging the Midwest

Presented by South Bend Regional Museum of Art at South Bend Museum of Art

October 20, 2007-January 6, 2008

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"Flatland: Imaging the Midwest" focuses on the way in which contemporary artists based in the Midwest incorporate and reflect the environment in which they are living and working. Featuring works in painting, printmaking, photography, installation, and video by local and regional artists, the exhibition will showcase a variety of takes on the idea of the physical and cultural landscape of the Midwest.

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  • Venue Info

    South Bend Museum of Art

    120 S. St. Joseph Street
    South Bend, IN 46601

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  • Admission Info

    Tickets: Free, suggested donation $5.00.

  • Dates & Times

    Dates:
    October 20, 2007-January 6, 2008

    Times:
    The galleries are open Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 5:00 p.m.

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    • Event Name: Flatland: Imaging the Midwest
      "The Flatlands of a Carl Sandburg Poem"
      Review posted by: Talia Reed from Walkerton, IN, Dec 07, 2007
      

      To someone used to scenery of clapboard, silos, co-ops, and rusted-over water towers, it is difficult to view it as art or substance. Flatland: Imaging the Midwest explodes these otherwise flat... Expand

      To someone used to scenery of clapboard, silos, co-ops, and rusted-over water towers, it is difficult to view it as art or substance. Flatland: Imaging the Midwest explodes these otherwise flat elements and assembles them into compositions of fantasy, history, reality, and identity. Janet Bloch’s bold paintings mix whimsical and organic lines with the synthetic ones of electrical towers and mechanical gears. In another of Foutch’s series, titled, Landscapes, he takes sparseness to the extreme by demonstrating how a simple horizon line can become an an entire landscape. Karen Perl’s familiar Main Street paintings, with their multi-leveled buildings existing consecutively, and trimmed with a repetition of windows, doors, and a awnings, create the surface rust of the Midwestern story: post-industry and post-agriculture that stands around waiting for the sort of rebuilding of a Carl Sandburg’s poem. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Flatland: Imaging the Midwest
      "The Flatlands of a Carl Sandburg Poem"
      Review posted by: Talia Reed from Walkerton, IN, Dec 07, 2007
      

      To someone used to scenery of clapboard, silos, co-ops, and rusted-over water towers, it is difficult to view it as art or substance. Flatland: Imaging the Midwest explodes these otherwise flat... Expand

      To someone used to scenery of clapboard, silos, co-ops, and rusted-over water towers, it is difficult to view it as art or substance. Flatland: Imaging the Midwest explodes these otherwise flat elements and assembles them into compositions of fantasy, history, reality, and identity. Janet Bloch’s bold paintings mix whimsical and organic lines with the synthetic ones of electrical towers and mechanical gears. In another of Foutch’s series, titled, Landscapes, he takes sparseness to the extreme by demonstrating how a simple horizon line can become an an entire landscape. Karen Perl’s familiar Main Street paintings, with their multi-leveled buildings existing consecutively, and trimmed with a repetition of windows, doors, and a awnings, create the surface rust of the Midwestern story: post-industry and post-agriculture that stands around waiting for the sort of rebuilding of a Carl Sandburg’s poem. Collapse

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