Quad City Arts
Gallery Exhibit
1715 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL 61201
Mon. by appoint. only, Tues. - Fri. 10 am - 5 pm,
Sat. 11 am - 5 pm - Free Admission
August 20 - October 1;
Opening Reception:
6 - 7:30 pm at the German
American Heritage Center
&
7:30 - 9 pm at
Quad City Arts Gallery
"Roots-Who's Your Momma?"
“Roots-Who’s Your Momma?”
is on
exhibit through October 1st at Quad City
Arts’ downtown gallery, as well as the
German American Heritage Center
museum (712 W. 2nd St., Davenport, Iowa
Both venues are located within a 5 minute
drive across the
Mississippi River by
Centenniel Bridge.
49
pieces of art by 29 regional artists have
been divided and arranged in the two
venues as a collaborative project designed
to call attention to the immigration
experience and the artist’s interpretation of
how his or her “roots” shaped who they
became. The term Roots refers to a
person’s original or true home,
environment and culture.
In
addition to the art exhibit, the public is
encouraged to explore the German American
Heritage Center’s museum and learn about immigrants’ journey by sea,
train and foot, to
their final destination at the German American Heritage Center building,
which was
originally a very busy hotel for thousands of immigrants in the 1860s.
The German
American Heritage Center museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from
10 a.m. to
4
p.m., and on Sundays from noon – 4 p.m. Admission is as follows: Adults:
$5; Seniors:
$4; Children: $3 (5 - 17 years old); Family: $12; Free for children under
5; and free for
museum members. Visit the museum’s website at
www.gahc.org
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Art @ the Airport Exhibit
Quad City International
Airport Gallery 2200 - 69th Ave. Moline, IL 61265
Open 24 hours - Free Parking &
Admission
July - August
Artists:Julia Kottal & Andrew
Casto
From July 9 through August 29th, Quad
City Arts @ the Airport will showcase
recent sculptures by Andrew Casto and
large abstract paintings by Julie Kottal.
Andrew Casto, from Iowa
City, creates
painted sculptural ceramic forms made
from multiple castings of sculpted or
found natural objects. “The architecture
of nature and human interaction in
natural processes inspire my current
body of work,” he states. “Just as natural
form repeats itself, creating
fractal lattice structures into infinity; our
scientific advancements lead us down
paths of shared permanence.” Casto
recently received his Master of Fine Arts
Degree from the University of Iowa.
Julie Kottal, from Cedar Rapids, is a gestural
and large scale abstract painter of strong
color with a fluent, confident palette knife. She enjoys the
juicy aspects of oil paint and
the physical act of painting. Her work combines tension and
calm, order and storm, and
seeing and memory. Her paintings are spontaneous,
energetic, and immediately
suggest the lush forms of Iowa landscapes. We sense the
presence of the artist in her
work. Kottal states, "My work begins with a feeling of
landscape but progresses to a
color exploration and a falling apart of the composition,
letting go the prescribed visual
references to a landscape and allowing me (and the viewer) to
wander and explore. I
used a palette knife to apply the oils to give a tactile
quality and enhance the painterly
and gesture activity. I am attracted to the energy and
resulting voyage painting emits. I
love the buttery quality of the paint's texture. It allows me
to enjoy the overlapping
partner-ships between the paint, the composition and the
painter's trance. Oil painting
for me is a solitary journey that ignites my curiosity and
draws me in to ask, what if?"
These two artists reflect the two
hemispheres of the brain, one analytic and scientific,
working in the lengthy planned process of ceramics; and the
other in the abstract,
intuitive, and spontaneous media of evocative paint.
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