BLOOMINGTON – Welcoming in the spring, this March Constellation Stage & Screen opens three new visual arts shows in the Waldron Arts Center featuring artists from Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design Fibers area, as well as painters Karen Johnston and Elaine Oehmich
In the Miller Gallery, BFA, MFA, and faculty artists from Indiana University’s Fibers area present their group show, Threshold. With a variety of methods and medium, including weaving, quilting, paper making, and documenting, this collective’s works speaks to the notion of both conceptual and physical boundaries while contemplating, celebrating, or dismantling relational thresholds. Using intuitive methods, they strive to explore ideas around culture, identity, and trauma, while utilizing precarious and reflective fiber structures.
Nashville, Tennessee, artist, Karen Johnston, presents Extending Hope in the Spotlight Gallery. Johnston’s work reflects on the seven years she spent in Bloomington, using an abstract dialogue of layered acrylic glazes, mixed media gestures, automatic drawing, and asemic writing to celebrate the resilience within the human experience. With the idea that art is a potent medicine for the wholeness and well-being commonly sought after in today’s world, Karen Johnston furthers her message of hope with a commitment to donate a portion of the proceeds from any sales to Bloomington’s Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard.
Elaine Oehmich presents a series of paintings titled Heart of the Music in the Educational Gallery. In this series of work, Oehmich explores inspiration taken from sound, including paintings referencing works by Tchaikovsky and Wagner, among others. Visitors to this show will have an opportunity to listen to the musical works inspiring Oehmich’s paintings using their own devices.
These shows will open during March’s First Friday Gallery Walk, March 6, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
