| Shafer Gallery Features Harris Collection and CIVA's 25th Anniversary Codex VI |
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| by Linda Jerke | |
| Friday, 05 September 2008 | |
Barton Community College's Shafer Gallery will host an opening reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, for its two new exhibits, the John P. Harris Collection and Christians in the Visual Arts' "Silver: Codex VI." The exhibits will continue through Oct. 19. La Danse á la Campagne - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - (John P. Harris Collection)  Self Portrait in Fur Coat - Anders Leonard Zorn - (Harris Collection) A work by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the collection is "La Danse á la Campagne (Dance in the Country)," a soft-ground etching on paper celebrating Renoir's joy in depicting life's pleasures. Also included in the Harris Collection are the works of French artists Paul Adrein Bouroux, Auguste Brouet, Albert Decaris, Charles Jean Forget and Emile Auguste Renault (aka Malo-Renault); American artists Samuel V. Chamberlain, Joseph Pennell and C.A. Seward; German/American Otto August Kuhler; British artists Rowland Langmaid and William Douglas Macleod; Australian Lionel Arthur Lindsay; Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso; Dutch artist Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt; Swedish artist Anders Leonard Zorn; Swedish/American Birger Sandzén; and Czechoslovakian artist Tavik Frantisek Simon. "Silver: Codex VI" celebrates Christians in the Visual Arts' 25th anniversary with 25 prints by 25 artists. Each work responds to a work in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., a national repository of both Christian and secular images. The Codex CIVA series was begun in 1994 by James D. Stambaugh, then director of the Billy Graham Center Museum in Wheaton, Ill. The series has continued as a showcase for CIVA artists working in multiple originals who have generously donated their art in order to make the ongoing project possible. The "Silver" portfolio project was conceived and administrated by Edward Knippers, expressive realist painter/printmaker, and long-time resident of the Washington, D.C., area. "Artists have always learned by working with master artists and/or studying a master's work," Knippers explained.  Vanity Fair Series No. 17 - Tim High - After Manet's Bright Clear Morning - (CIVA Silver) Contributing artists include: Sandra Bowden, Katherine Brimberry, Tanja Butler, Guy Chase, Tyrus R. Clutter, Fred Folsom, Donald Forsythe, Wayne Lacson Forte, Leah Renée Gregoire, Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, Kathy Tolsma Hettinga, Tim High, Doug Jaques, George Langbroek, Edward Knippers, Scott Kolbo, Jonathan Millet, Margaret Adams Parker, Joel C. Sheesley, Timothy P. Sheesley, Chris Stoffel Overvoorde, Sassandra Jacques Richard, Sarah Sears, and Tim van Laar. The prints run the gamut from every possible traditional printmaking technique - intaglio, aquatint, drypoint, lithography, woodcut, linoleum relief, serigraphy, collagraph, embossing, and chine collé - to works that combine traditional methods with digital ones, such as Jonathan Millet's "Trinity," after Paolo Veneziano's, "The Crucifixion," which combines ultrachrome inkjet with etching and drypoint.  Trinity - Jonathan Millet - After Paolo Veneziano's The Crucifixion, 1340 - (CIVA Silver) "This work from 1340 by Veneziano was the most intriguing image to me," said Millet. "Perhaps the most obvious reason I chose this work was the theological implication of the imagery of Christ on the cross. The use of this image implies the significance of justification, atonement and redemption. It is by this underlying, deeper context that I find myself most engaged." Millet said he chose to expand upon those doctrines through additional imagery of the Holy Trinity. The range of images in "Silver," combined with the variety of printmaking techniques, demonstrates that CIVA artists are not only rooted in the past, but also are looking forward to the future. All Shafer Gallery exhibits are presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays. The gallery is closed on Saturdays. For more information, contact Shafer Gallery director Megan Benitz, 620-7920-9342. Keep up with the latest Barton news by clicking on www.hilltopics.bartonccc.edu.
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