[NEohioPAL]Beck Center for the Arts Invites Local and Regional Artists to Display Work

Wed Oct 25 11:29:35 PDT 2006

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

October 25, 2006

For more information, contact

Yvette Hanzel, Director of Marketing

216-521-2540, ext. 225

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Beck Center for the Arts Invites

Local and Regional Artists

to Display Work

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            Lakewood, OH - In an effort to come full circle with its
arts programming, the Beck Center for the Arts welcomes local and
regional artists to showcase their work in the Jean Bulicek Galleria and
their other gallery spaces located in the Creative Arts Therapies and
Music-Armory buildings on the Beck Center campus.  The Beck Center is
proud to present the following upcoming exhibits:

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Boatscapes and Landscapes

by Barbara Kinsman Swasey

Jean Bulicek Art Galleria

October 25 through November 26, 2006

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The Fields of Solomon, 2075 A.D.

by Daiv Whaley

Music-Armory Building

November 3, 2006 through January 8, 2007

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High Fire: Kiln-Transformed Glass

by Rene Culler

December 1, 2006 through January 26, 2007

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            These exhibits are free and open to the public.  The Beck
Center for the Arts is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood just
ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland.  For exhibit hours, call Patron
Services at 216-521-2540 or online at www.beckcenter.org.

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            The Beck Center for Arts is the largest comprehensive arts
organization on Cleveland's Westside offering professional theater
productions on two stages, arts education programming in creative arts
therapies, dance, music, theater, and visual arts for all ages and
abilities, and gallery exhibits including the Cleveland Artists
Foundation. =20

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~ Artists' Statements ~

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Boatscapes and Landscapes

by Barbara Kinsman Swasey

October 25 through November 26, 2006

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My love of the sea is unwavering and the architecture of a boat still
captivates me.  In this body of work, I have added, for the first time,
multi-layered color pencil drawings in addition to my transparent
watercolors.  I can only ponder that the new infusion of color in this
work was perhaps inspired by the brilliant colors of the pond boat sails
in Paris.  "Less is more" is expressed in the new simplicity of the
composition often a single focus, up close, of a familiar subject.

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The Fields of Solomon, 2075 A.D.

by Daiv Whaley

November 3, 2006 through January 8, 2007

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As a conceptual artist, I find myself working in several different
mediums depending on the need and the efficacy of certain technologies.
Polaroid photography, on the other hand, is simply a love-a joy and a
love of 'accidentally' capturing some perfect moment of beauty in the
natural world and watching it develop before my eyes.

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Flowers are amazing creations-their colors, shapes and sizes suggest
organic explosions out of the earth-floral fireworks. Again, their
organic systems-building themselves up out of the ground from tiny seeds
and synthesizing energy out of pure sunlight, water and soil-make them
amazing machines. Very good designs indeed from the greatest Designer!
With this juxtaposition in mind-the technology of nature-my Polaroid
photographs are attempts, hopefully successful, to fuse a science
fiction aesthetic to natural beauty with technological assistance

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Using unusual angles, close-up shots, light intensity, intentional
blurriness of the images, as well as my own manipulations of the film as
the pictures develop, I strive to create a modern or even futuristic
feeling with each photograph. The title of each piece also contributes
to this aesthetic, as words are important.

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As each Polaroid is an accidental capturing-and-creating process that
occurs 'in the field,' I use no computer manipulations or software to
create the effects seen in my images. In that sense, these photographs
are a new and 'natural' phylum of flower imagery.  And so the circle
completes itself.

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High Fire: Kiln-Transformed Glass

by Rene Culler

December 1, 2006 through January 26, 2007

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Glass is a challenging material.  The transformation is magical as the
plastic material cools to create a definition of form.  For
internationally-renowned artist Rene Culler, the process of creating
blown and cast glass works of art is as important as achieving the final
product.  She thinks of it as "trial by fire."  "For me, there is so
much refined glass produced that is beautiful and perfect. Often it is
so perfect that there is little evidence that an artist's hand was
involved in the making of the object," says Culler.  "I live viewers and
glass connoisseurs to be able to see the history of the piece as it has
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Rene Culler is a trained studio artist in the areas of glass, sculpture,
painting and drawing. Culler works primarily in glass at her hot glass
studio located in Cleveland, Ohio. She continues to develop a
wide-ranging body of work that includes glass paintings and public art
architectural pieces, as well as blown glass and cast three-dimensional
sculptures.  Through Culler's training at the Pilchuck School of Glass
in Seattle, Washington, she learned methods for flip-over and fold-over
lips for bowls while creating refined blown pieces.

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>FOR IMMEDIATE =
RELEASE:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>October 25, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information, =
contact<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Yvette Hanzel, Director of =
Marketing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>216-521-2540, ext. 225<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'text-align:center'><st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName
 w:st=3D"on"><b><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
  font-weight:bold'>Beck</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><span
 style=3D'font-weight:bold'> <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType></span></b></st1:place><b><span
style=3D'font-weight:bold'> for the Arts =
Invites<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Local and
Regional Artists<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>to
Display Work<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoBodyText><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>       &nbs=
p;    <st1:City
w:st=3D"on"><b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Lakewood</span></b></st1:City><b><span
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>, <st1:State =
w:st=3D"on">OH</st1:State></span></b> - In
an effort to come full circle with its arts programming, the =
<st1:PlaceName
w:st=3D"on">Beck</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
for the Arts welcomes local and regional artists to showcase their work =
in the
Jean Bulicek Galleria and their other gallery spaces located in the =
Creative
Arts Therapies and Music-Armory buildings on the <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName
 w:st=3D"on">Beck</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
campus.  The <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName =
w:st=3D"on">Beck</st1:PlaceName>
 <st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> is proud =
to
present the following upcoming exhibits:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoBodyText><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Boatscapes
and Landscapes</span></font></b><b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>by Barbara =
Kinsman Swasey<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>Jean Bulicek =
Art Galleria<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>October 25 =
through
November 26, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'text-align:center'><em><b><i><font
size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal'>The Fields of Solomon, 2075 =
A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></em></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>by Daiv =
Whaley<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'text-align:center'><st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName
 w:st=3D"on"><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>Music-Armory</span></font></st1:PlaceName>
 <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>November 3, =
2006 through
January 8, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>High
Fire: Kiln-Transformed Glass<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>by Rene =
Culler<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>December 1, =
2006 through
January 26, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'>          &nbsp=
; These
exhibits are free and open to the public.  The <st1:PlaceName =
w:st=3D"on">Beck</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType> for the Arts is =
located at <st1:Street
w:st=3D"on"><st1:address w:st=3D"on">17801 Detroit =
Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>
in <st1:City w:st=3D"on">Lakewood</st1:City> just ten minutes west of =
downtown <st1:place
w:st=3D"on"><st1:City =
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place>.  For
exhibit hours, call Patron Services at 216-521-2540 or online at
www.beckcenter.org.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'>          &nbsp=
; The <st1:PlaceName
w:st=3D"on">Beck</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType =
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
for Arts is the largest comprehensive arts organization on <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:City
 w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place>’s Westside offering
professional theater productions on two stages, arts education =
programming in
creative arts therapies, dance, music, theater, and visual arts for all =
ages
and abilities, and gallery exhibits including the Cleveland Artists
Foundation.  <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>###<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D4
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>~ Artists’
Statements ~<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></fon=
t></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Boatscapes
and Landscapes</span></font></b><b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>by Barbara =
Kinsman Swasey<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>October 25 =
through
November 26, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'>My love of the sea is unwavering and the architecture of a boat =
still
captivates me.  In this body of work, I have added, for the first =
time,
multi-layered color pencil drawings in addition to my transparent =
watercolors. 
I can only ponder that the new infusion of color in this work was =
perhaps
inspired by the brilliant colors of the pond boat sails in <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:City
 w:st=3D"on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place>.  “Less is =
more” is
expressed in the new simplicity of the composition often a single focus, =
up
close, of a familiar subject.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter =
style=3D'text-align:center'><em><b><i><font
size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal'>The Fields of Solomon, 2075 =
A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></em></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>by Daiv =
Whaley<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>November 3, =
2006 through
January 8, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

As a conceptual artist, I find myself working in several =
different
mediums depending on the need and the efficacy of certain technologies.
Polaroid photography, on the other hand, is simply a love—a joy =
and a
love of ‘accidentally’ capturing some perfect moment of =
beauty in
the natural world and watching it develop before my =
eyes.<o:p></o:p>

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Flowers are amazing creations—their colors, shapes and =
sizes
suggest organic explosions out of the earth—floral fireworks. =
Again,
their organic systems—building themselves up out of the ground =
from tiny
seeds and synthesizing energy out of pure sunlight, water and =
soil—make
them amazing machines. Very good designs indeed from the greatest =
Designer! 
With this juxtaposition in mind—the technology of nature—my
Polaroid photographs are attempts, hopefully successful, to fuse a =
science
fiction aesthetic to natural beauty with technological =
assistance<o:p></o:p>

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Using unusual angles, close-up shots, light intensity, =
intentional
blurriness of the images, as well as my own manipulations of the film as =
the
pictures develop, I strive to create a modern or even futuristic feeling =
with
each photograph. The title of each piece also contributes to this =
aesthetic, as
words are important.<o:p></o:p>

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As each Polaroid is an accidental capturing-and-creating process =
that
occurs ‘in the field,’ I use no computer manipulations or =
software
to create the effects seen in my images. In that sense, these =
photographs are a
new and ‘natural’ phylum of flower imagery.  And so the =
circle
completes itself.<o:p></o:p>

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size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>High
Fire: Kiln-Transformed Glass<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font =
size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>by Rene =
Culler<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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size=3D3
face=3D"Times New Roman"><span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>December 1, =
2006 through
January 26, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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Glass is a challenging material.  The transformation is =
magical as
the plastic material cools to create a definition of form.  For
internationally-renowned artist Rene Culler, the process of creating blown and cast glass works of art =
is as
important as achieving the final product.  She thinks of it as
“trial by fire.”  “For me, there is so much =
refined
glass produced that is beautiful and perfect. Often it is so perfect =
that there
is little evidence that an artist’s hand was involved in the =
making of
the object,” says Culler.  “I live viewers and glass
connoisseurs to be able to see the history of the piece as it has =
evolved
through its many stages and techniques.” =
<o:p></o:p>

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Rene Culler is a trained studio artist in the areas of glass,
sculpture, painting and drawing. Culler works primarily in glass at her =
hot
glass studio located in <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City =
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:City>,
 <st1:State w:st=3D"on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>. She continues to =
develop a wide-ranging
body of work that includes glass paintings and public art architectural =
pieces,
as well as blown glass and cast three-dimensional sculptures.  =
Through
Culler’s training at the Pil<st1:PersonName =
w:st=3D"on">chuck</st1:PersonName>
School of Glass in <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City =
w:st=3D"on">Seattle</st1:City>,
 <st1:State w:st=3D"on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>, she learned =
methods
for flip-over and fold-over lips for bowls while creating refined blown =
pieces.<o:p></o:p>

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