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Destruct | Construct

Exhibit dates: September 12- October 10 | 2008

Artist's Reception & Awards

September 12 | 6-9pm

Open Free to the Public

Closing Reception

October 10 | 6-9pm

Open Free to the Public

Juror, Gregg Hertzlieb is the director/curator of the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. 

Juror's Statement

I had a fine experience judging the Union Street Gallery's Destruct | Construct exhibition.  I commend the gallery for choosing a theme that has real complexity to it and that evidently inspired the participating artists to interpret the theme in exciting ways.  I stand behind...read more click here

Linda Alterwitz - Wynn 2

Scott Anderson - USS Rummy, Chicken Hawk Class

Cousandra Armstrong - And we all fall down

Matthew Barton - Your Name in Vein

Iris Blumenthal - Subdivision - no web image available

Robyn Bomhof - Thinking of You - no web image available

Christopher Bradshaw - Emminent Reign

Chantel Philipon Cegede - Cohesion

Phillip Chan - Untitled (Fallen Angel)- no web image available

Glenn Comtois - Nautilus

Karen DePirro - Anger Management

Richard DePirro - The Man Who Likes Butterflies

Leslie Richardson Dryg - Topple

Larry Samuel Estes - Salt and Pepper

Maja Georgiou - Bridge Over Bayou Rigolettes, New Orleans, LA

Ladan Ghajar - Identity

Louis Greer -  Spirit Launcher

Jennifer Barnett Hensel - The Line Drawn

Murray Hidary - Main Street, Salt Lake City - no web image available

Harold Jeffries -  Untitled #10

Michael Julian -  New Glarus

Renee Fladen Kamm - Los Demoiselles Elves 15 - no web image available

Ken Kaplowitz -  Ritual

John Langdon - A Lot to Like - no web image available

Michael Lasater - One, Two (2008)           VIDEO- no web image available

David Levenson - Embedded Landscape - no web image available

Mary Lingen - Claire's Walk - no web image available

James Mai - Integral (1 x 1)

Donna M Meeks - GSW 6

Susan Strong Muir - 2 Hours and 45 Minutes

Felicia Olch - Daybreak - no web image available

Howard Oransky - Shard 2

Candace Compton Pappas - Dog and Bird

Claudia Quintero - Bedroom

Justin Rabideau - One Days Comfort and the Art of Consumption         

              

Timeline Book Stack 1980-2008

Robin Monique Rios - Face II Face

Amy Richardson - Untitled #2

Jean Schuster - Angular Abstract

Joan Sowada - Memories Fading

Stephen Spretnjak - Poet's Breath - no web image available

Robert Sulkin - Prototype 1A - 03

Frank Tumino - Rut I

Marilyn Avery Turner - Going Through the Motions - no web image available

Ben Utigard - All Cut Up

Bill Vose - Embark - no web image available

Tom Wagner - Water

Melisa Washburn - Above Her Head, Beneath Her Feet

Gail Werner - Rainbow Canyon - no web image available

Michael Yeomans - Dikke Bloem

Juror Gregg Hertzlieb
Director/Curator Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN

Gregg Hertzlieb is the director/curator of the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.  Hertzlieb has a Master’s degree in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  An exhibiting artist working primarily in watercolor and pen and ink, Hertzlieb has shown his art in numerous exhibitions.  His art is represented by Uncle Freddy’s Gallery in Highland, Indiana.  In addition to performing his duties at the museum, Hertzlieb teaches Museum Studies, serves as art editor for VU’s literary magazine The Cresset, and contributes essays on Brauer collection objects to the Valparaiso Poetry Review.  Hertzlieb is a native of Northwest Indiana and lives in Chesterton.

Jury Process

All media accepted. Original work only.

Please download prospectus for details.

The juror is asked to select work based on the merits of the art and theme of the exhibit.

Artist determines whether the work fits the theme(s).

Destruct | Construct

 

Definitions from Webster Dictionary

Construct  

1: to make or form by combining or arranging parts or elements

2: to draw (a geometrical figure) with suitable instruments and under specified conditions

3: to set in logical order

Construct

1: something constructed by the mind: as a: a theoretical entity  b: a working hypothesis or concept

2: a product of ideology, history, or social circumstances

Destruct

1. Destroy

2. Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

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