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Current Exhibition May 2012 "Painted Moments" John Lautermilch oil paintings and "Earth & Fire - Opus 3" David Andrew Midkiff ceramic vessels Reception - Sunday, May 6, 2PM to 4PM View Exhibition Catalog: John Lautermilch David Andrew Midkiff Next Exhibition Prior Exhibition Archived Exhibitions Gallery•III at Compônere, showcases selected works of one or two artists every month. Click here to review the 2012 Calendar exhibitions. Is that portion of the Gallery devoted to affordable art and fine crafts from the artists of Missouri and the region. @ Currently Featuring Mark Hurd's digital art renderings of St. Louis Landmarks Mark Florida's 20 Years @ COMPÔNERE Gallery of Art 314-327-7794 Custom Museum quality Framing at very affordable prices! Offering special discounts to all artists framing their own work.
	John Lautermilch, Yellow Glow, acrylic painting
	This “Painted Moments” exhibition by John Lautermilch features paintings glorifying one of the simple pleasures of life: the beauty and tranquility of a quiet lily pond. The light, color, and mood of a lily pond change throughout the day with changes in sunlight, breezes and other natural forces; but any one moment can be captured and immortalized in a painting. The same characteristics are reflected in his underwater scenes as well.

	David Andrew Midkiff, Ritual Vessel: Covered Bowl, ceramic vessels
	Since the early history of humankind, people have performed special rites and rituals. Vessels to hold the elements essential in the execution of these ceremonies are important and necessary. Artists assumed the role of transforming ordinary containers into extraordinary ones befitting the significance and solemnity of these occasions. The clay objects exhibited in Earth and Fire, Opus 3 are ritual vessels, extraordinarily embellished containers, created for ceremonial use: The chalice, the flask, and the covered container. Each is fashioned to hold a special item or substance for a special occasion, rite, or observance. The use of wheel-thrown and hand built elements, highly-textured surfaces, and the ancient Japanese raku firing technique with its characteristic contrast between matte-black clay and glittering metallic glaze, results in heightened visual and tactile contrasts. Thus, these vessels take on an exotic nature, removed from the common and mundane. Although they function the same as any ordinary container, their resplendence elevates them as objects for high solemn purpose.
	COMPÔNERE Gallery of Art Feature "Ebbs and Flows" Selected works of four regional Print Artists: Mary Bookwalter (Mid America Print Council, Executive Board Member), Stan Gellman (of the award winning firm, Stan Gellman Graphic Design, Inc.), Debbie Murphy (recipient of the Milliken Printmaking Award, Washington University School of Art) Kay M. Pick Zivkovich (Assistant Director, School of Art and Design, Southern Illinois University Carbondale). Each artist brings their own unique style and printing processes to this feature, linoprint, collagraph prints, monoprint and silkscreen.
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