FREEPORT - The Contemporary Gallery at the Freeport Art Museum will be home to an exhibition of art by two award-winners from the 4th Regional Juried Exhibition held in 2007. Jim Planting and Carolyn Pickard Handy won second and third place, respectively, for their work featuring Plantings intricate metal work and Handy's mixed media art.
Planting is an art instructor for Highland Community College where he teaches drawing, design, painting and sculpture while remaining active with the showing of his own work. He received a master of arts in studio art with a concentration in metals and jewelry from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and he often serves as juror for local and regional art shows.
Handy's work demonstrates her playful regard to the so-called 'traditional media' of art by incorporating felted wool, found objects, and even dried banana peels that often skirts the edge of representational images. Spontaneous yet graceful, her art reflects a journey through the ordinary object to reveal its shapes, textures, shadows and tensions held within.
She earned a master of arts in English Literature from Western Illinois University and has taught college composition courses for Highland Community College and Sauk Valley College for a number of years.
The show opens to the public at the Freeport Art Museum on Saturday, Jan. 10, and runs through Saturday, March 7.
Planting is an art instructor for Highland Community College where he teaches drawing, design, painting and sculpture while remaining active with the showing of his own work. He received a master of arts in studio art with a concentration in metals and jewelry from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and he often serves as juror for local and regional art shows.
Handy's work demonstrates her playful regard to the so-called 'traditional media' of art by incorporating felted wool, found objects, and even dried banana peels that often skirts the edge of representational images. Spontaneous yet graceful, her art reflects a journey through the ordinary object to reveal its shapes, textures, shadows and tensions held within.
She earned a master of arts in English Literature from Western Illinois University and has taught college composition courses for Highland Community College and Sauk Valley College for a number of years.
The show opens to the public at the Freeport Art Museum on Saturday, Jan. 10, and runs through Saturday, March 7.
