‘The Organics’ to be showcased at LCC
Laredo Community College will hold its last art show of the school year with an opening reception on Tuesday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. at LCC’s Teaching Gallery on the Fort McIntosh campus.
Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The Organics will feature art work by three prolific artists from New Mexico, Tennessee, and San Antonio.
The show runs from March 12 – April 23.
“In this show, we’ll have three artists from different parts of the country. We thought it was a great opportunity to showcase their work to expose LCC students and the community to other types of work that is being produced,” said Gary Brown, LCC art instructor.
“Since we saw organic and biological similarities in these art works, we named the exhibit The Organics,” added Brown. “The lines, shapes, and colors are very fluid and curvilinear. They are not geometric or images of things. They are very abstract and look like nature.”
The Organics is the fifth and last LCC art show of the 2008-2009 school year.
Wood, paper, molded polymer plastic, and other mixed media forms were used by the artists.
Margaret Craig, who is currently the Chair of Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at the Southwest School of Art and Craft in San Antonio, will have four works featured during the exhibit.
Craig estimated that over the years, she has participated in more than 100 art shows throughout the country.
“Art exists as an art of expression and has the ability to relate and transform ideas. It’s therapeutic,” added Craig.
Her passion for her organic, three-dimensional art is a reflection of earth’s natural process.
“The crackle, marbled pond scum, and mold infection are some of my influences for my printmaking,” said Craig. “My intent is not to preach but instead create work that will stimulate thoughts about the relationship between humans and their surroundings.”
Lea Anderson, adjunct faculty member at the University of New Mexico, also will be showcasing her art work during the exhibit.
“In nature, living organisms are made of many small, non-living components that, when combined in certain proportions and configurations, become alive. I aspire to play with this phenomenon,” said Anderson.
Crystal Wagner, from Knoxville, has been awarded the National Creative Achievement Award several times in the highly acclaimed art magazine, The Journal of Art and Design.
Her enthusiasm for surreal art work also will be part of the exhibit.
“I recognize the blatantly synthetic nature of the pieces themselves and, through the use of materials, am intrigued by the artificial nature of our impressions of the world we live in,” said Wagner.
This is the first time that these three artists have been featured at LCC.
After the exhibit, LCC art students are required to write an essay on their experience after the art viewing.
Brown said it will lead them to have a better understanding of how art translates into ideas.
“I think it’s good if they don’t understand what they’re looking at, because it forces them to see something that they haven’t seen before,” said Brown. “We try to educate our students to see a better world-view and see first-hand what is happening in contemporary art.”
For more information on The Organics art exhibit and gallery hours, contact the LCC Art Department at 721-5224.
The Organics, the fifth and final Laredo Community College art show of the 2008-2009 school year, will hold an opening reception on Tuesday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. at LCC’s Teaching Gallery on the Fort McIntosh campus. The art exhibit will feature 3 prolific artists from New Mexico, Tennessee, and San Antonio. Admission is free and open to the public.
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