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Rockport Center for Arts announces January exhibits
The Rockport Center for the Arts kicks off the new year with a watercolor retrospective in the main gallery and a Pysanka Egg exhibit in the garden gallery which will be on display through Jan. 27.
A special reception for the exhibition will be held at the Art Center Saturday, Jan. 6 from 5 until 7 p.m. Prior to the reception, the artists will offer gallery talks, which will allow visitors to ask questions and learn more about the artists' work and process.
Titled “from there Š to here,” the watercolor showcase features the work of Oklahoma artist and author Monte Toon.
A member of the Kansas Watercolor Society, Toon was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kansas State Teachers College. He taught art in the public schools before serving as an art director/graphic designer for a Tulsa television station.
Inspired by the work of Andrew Wyeth and Charles Sanderson, Toon injects himself into every painting. “My focus is on subjects I know. I have seen what I am painting ... been there Š talked to the person. The subject matter has meaning to me. I feel something for the subjects I paint,” he said.
His work has been highlighted in solo shows throughout the Midwest and his art is on display in many civic locations, art galleries and private collections.
Toon is also well-regarded as an author. He won the Tulsa County Regional Library Writing Contest and is a contributor to The Tulsa Tribune and publisher of his Navy Squadron newsletter. His first novel, Asylum's Bridge, was published in 2003 and a sequel is now in the works.
A resident of Dallas, Larry Tate's interest in the ancient art of Pysanka Eggs, wax-relief, hand-dyed, ornamental eggs, began seven years ago after he received one as a gift. “It was absolutely the coolest thing I've ever seen and it totally intrigued me,” he said. After doing extensive research and ordering equipment, he began making his own eggs.
“It is a painstaking process and my first pieces were less than stellar,” he remarked. His perseverance paid off and the eggs took on a life of their own. Soon, he was displaying his creations at the Dallas Museum of Art and taking private commissions.
Tate gets his inspiration from pottery designs crafted by Native Americans in Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, and the residents of Monto Ortiz, Mexico. His ideas are then rendered onto either ostrich or goose eggs.
For more information about the exhibits, please call 729-5519 or visit www.rockportartcenter.com
A special reception for the exhibition will be held at the Art Center Saturday, Jan. 6 from 5 until 7 p.m. Prior to the reception, the artists will offer gallery talks, which will allow visitors to ask questions and learn more about the artists' work and process.
Titled “from there Š to here,” the watercolor showcase features the work of Oklahoma artist and author Monte Toon.
A member of the Kansas Watercolor Society, Toon was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kansas State Teachers College. He taught art in the public schools before serving as an art director/graphic designer for a Tulsa television station.
Inspired by the work of Andrew Wyeth and Charles Sanderson, Toon injects himself into every painting. “My focus is on subjects I know. I have seen what I am painting ... been there Š talked to the person. The subject matter has meaning to me. I feel something for the subjects I paint,” he said.
His work has been highlighted in solo shows throughout the Midwest and his art is on display in many civic locations, art galleries and private collections.
Toon is also well-regarded as an author. He won the Tulsa County Regional Library Writing Contest and is a contributor to The Tulsa Tribune and publisher of his Navy Squadron newsletter. His first novel, Asylum's Bridge, was published in 2003 and a sequel is now in the works.
A resident of Dallas, Larry Tate's interest in the ancient art of Pysanka Eggs, wax-relief, hand-dyed, ornamental eggs, began seven years ago after he received one as a gift. “It was absolutely the coolest thing I've ever seen and it totally intrigued me,” he said. After doing extensive research and ordering equipment, he began making his own eggs.
“It is a painstaking process and my first pieces were less than stellar,” he remarked. His perseverance paid off and the eggs took on a life of their own. Soon, he was displaying his creations at the Dallas Museum of Art and taking private commissions.
Tate gets his inspiration from pottery designs crafted by Native Americans in Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, and the residents of Monto Ortiz, Mexico. His ideas are then rendered onto either ostrich or goose eggs.
For more information about the exhibits, please call 729-5519 or visit www.rockportartcenter.com
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