Calling All Artists: Join us for ArtOut Stockholm

Abode Gallery is extending an invitation to artists representing a variety of media and styles to participate in "ArtOut Stockholm". This is an open invitational event taking place Saturday, May 17, 2014. Artists are asked to register before May 12, 2014. 

Participating artists are encouraged to set up around town and create artwork inspired by the quaint village of Stockholm and its surrounding scenic landscape. Tourists and villagers will be invited to walk around the town and visit with artists. This is a unique outdoor opportunity to be inspired by nature and fellowship with other creatives near beautiful Lake Pepin.

Your registration fee covers your box lunch, which will be from a local eatery. Artists are invited and encouraged to submit their artwork from the day to be included in a special ArtOut Stockholm Exhibition at Abode Gallery after the event. Works included in the Exhibition will be for sale. This is a special opportunity to show and sell work. All participating artists in ArtOut Stockholm will be included in a raffle for a local goods prize basket!

Where: Join us in beautiful Stockholm, WI.

What: Bring your art materials, set up around town and have a great time creating with other artists in the village.

Why: Because the quaint village of Stockholm is inspirational! Refresh your creativity outdoors!

When: Saturday May 17, 2014. Check in: 10:45am. Lunch at Noon. While artists are encouraged to create as long as they feel inspired the official end time will be 3pm. Raffle will be at 3pm. Artwork that artists wish to be considered for the ArtOut Stockholm exhibition should be submitted to Abode Gallery at that time.

Registration: $10.00. Sign up in person at Abode Gallery, or via email mariaabode(at)gmail.com. Pre- Registration is required.

This event is open to all artists; please pass this announcement along to friends.

New at Abode Gallery... Driftless: An Exhibition





 

Abode Gallery is proud to present our newest group show: "Driftless".

Diftless: An Exhibition
Now thru September 30th
Opening Reception: Aug 23rd., 5- 7pm
Abode Gallery, Stockholm, WI

The Driftless area of the upper Mississippi River Basin is a unique region with a landscape steeped in beauty. The area was bypassed by the last continental glacier, and as a result, natural weathering and erosion created steep, rugged, and breathtakingly beautiful topography.

"Driftless" depicts this distinctive sculpted landscape in paint, ceramic, metal and wood. The show highlights unique bluffs, forested hillsides, farmed countryside and cold-water trout streams.

New works from 7 local and regional artists, whose names you will surely recognize, will be featured:

Margy Jean Balwierz
Maria Dudley Kowalski
Robert Gehrke
Terrill Knaack
Denise Presnell Weidner
Dianna Shandorf
Jeff Stern

YOU'RE INVITED...

Join us for our opening reception on Friday, August 23, 2013, from 5-7pm. View the collection, meet and greet the artists, and enjoy refreshments and live music. The event is free and open to the public. Artists in attendance will include: Maria Dudley Kowalski, Robert Gehrke, Terrill Knaack and Jeff Stern.

Announcements about the exhibition and opening reception will also be announced on our Facebook page.

August 13: Summer Artist in Session: Julia Helen Rice, Painter

Julia Helen Rice, Painter:  In Session at Abode Gallery

Join Julia as she demonstrates artistry in oil and acrylic. Best known for her large scale pieces, Julia will be demonstrating and giving us a glimpse of other styles that in which she works.

"I was raised in Eau Claire, WI. At 18 I left the Midwest to attend Bates College in Lewiston, ME. I spent my junior year abroad in Florence, Italy. For nine months I studied Italian, art history, and was apprenticed to Massimo Giannoni. In 2007 I received a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art; for my thesis I painted sixteen portraits of the other art majors who were graduating with me. After school I moved to New York City for a year but found the art world vastly overwhelming and cutthroat. In the fall of 2008 I moved back to Wisconsin to live cheaply and focus on making art.

From 16 Portraits by Julia Helen Rice

"My work is about place, though not necessarily an actual, physical place but that can be part of the meaning. My paintings are more about internal, intimate places within me that get entangled in my physical surroundings. I make paintings to try to understand and express that entwining. 

"The landscapes are tangible, real places that define and structure my existence. They provide an order that I couldn’t otherwise establish for myself and are chosen mainly from the shock of how awesome the sky is. I wanted to talk about what to me is the most necessary of landscapes: the landscape of space. I have been continually surprised at how, even in unlikely places, there are still pockets of space left and that finding them has less to do with knowing of their existence then in being aware of their possibility. To me the awareness of openness creates innumerable possibilities; to me space allows multiple combinations of reality to be present at once."

Julia Helen Rice's blog
Julia Helen Rice Bio at Calhoun Art Crawl

Ron Germundson 6/18

Artist in session: Ron Germundson

Details to follow...