Flotsam, 24″x 30″, oil on canvas

Artificial Pool,

Winter Sunset,

Spring comes a little early with the OAL’s spring show at OSU’s Urban Arts Space!  Come see what Ohio artists are up to.  This year’s juror is David Pagel, Associate Professor of Art Theory and History and Chair of the Art Department at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Mr. Pagel is also a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times as an art critic.

I will have two paintings in the show.  One of my heads above water series, Faye, and one of my series of trumpeter swans, Preening #2. 

Show dates are, January 27th- March 27th with an opening reception on January 30th,  5 to  7 p.m.

Holiday 2008

A winter group show featuring Ohio artists:

Laura Bidwa, Linda Gall, Rory Krupp,

Laura Sanders and Julie Taggart

Sunday, November 23, 1-4 pm*

Rebecca Ibel Gallery - in the Short North

1055 North High Street, Columbus

See my new work in Miami!  December 4 thru the 7th Rebecca Ibel will be representing my new paintings as well as artists Linda Gall, Robert Harms, Dion Johnson, Melissa Meyer, Billy Sullivan and Rob Wynne, at the Aqua Hotel in Miami, Florida.

Check out the link http://www.aquaartmiami.com/fairs/Aqua-Hotel/ to see other artist’s and galleries represented there.

Coming soon to bookstores!

Approaching

Faye taking a breath

Faye-Heads Above Water

Ava-Heads Above Water

Two Heads Above Water

Zoe-Heads Above Water Series

Emily-Heads Above Water Series

Elena-Heads Above Water Series

Melanie-Heads Above Water Series, oil on canvas,

In the Miranova Gallery:

SPLASH

a summer group show featuring:

Katherine Bradford ~ Sush Machida Gaikotsu

Linda Gall ~ Robert Harms ~ Stephen Mueller

Michael Reafsnyder ~ Laura Sanders ~ Patrick Wilson

Opening Reception:

Thursday, June 26, 5-8pm

Exhibition Open:  June 26- August 30, 2008

Rebecca Ibel Gallery

Two Miranova Place, Suite 150, Columbus, OH 43215

614.291.2555 - rebeccaibel.com

Exurbs: A Collected Environment

March 28- April 26, 2008

Paintings by:  Laura Sanders, Susan Danko and Dana Oldfather at

the Bonfoey Gallery, 1710 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115

WWW.BONFOEY.COM

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Published: April 2, 2008 

Exurbs: A Collected Environment — In this three-artist show, Laura Sanders, Dana Oldfather, and Susan Danko exhibit stylistically varied paintings loosely united by themes and settings exploring mindscapes as well as landscapes. In her “Heads Above Water” series, Columbus artist Sanders paints realistic pictures of children and adolescents swimming outdoors. This subject matter may sound suspiciously precious, but her paintings express a sense of isolation rarely found in images of youngsters. The children fight to stay afloat, gasping for breath as their faces break through the water’s surface. In her larger works, Sanders groups boys and girls wading together, but the children aren’t playing with one another. Instead, they gaze off into the distance or rub the water out of their eyes. Curiously, in some paintings Sanders includes muskrats swimming alongside the children. These semiaquatic creatures are at home in wetlands; positioning the effortlessly swimming animals next to the struggling children serves as a reminder that these humans don’t belong in the water. Self-taught Cleveland painter Oldfather presents a series of prints and paintings starring a sketchily outlined female figure navigating an imagined world of miasmic, abstracted backgrounds. Titles such as “We’re Going,” “The Long Commute,” and “Glide” reinforce her works’ sense of journey. Cleveland Institute of Art graduate Susan Danko’s flatly painted acrylic works resemble backgrounds from animated fairy tales. The highly patterned forest scenes forgo atmospheric perspective; the layered shapes representing trees, rocks, and shrubbery recede as they go higher up the canvas. Through April 26 at The Bonfoey Gallery, 1710 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, 216-621-0178, www.bonfoey.com. — Theresa Bembnister

Cleveland Scene