From the Artist’s Eye

July 4 - September 23, 2015

Co-Curated by Kathleen Rabel and MoNA Exhibitions Director Lisa Young

Exhibition Date: July 4 - September 23, 2015

Artists: Russell Chatham, Stephen Hazel, Kathleen Rabel

This exhibition, From the Artist’s Eye, brings into focus a diversity of views. These artists share an authenticity that John Greally calls “an instinct for what’s important”. The images revealed in these works on paper allude to long explorations of perceptions, experiences, and observations on the part of people who have committed to art as a life’s work. Here we find meaning, subtle distinctions, symbols, and gestures, which broaden the threshold of their vision. When we walk through this exhibition we find satire, humor, history, story telling, language, abstraction, memory, and atmosphere. The viewer is encouraged to seek the works’ meaning through the artists’ eyes.

A photo of an art instillation in the MoNA galleries. Seven long panels hang from the ceiling, all with various images, shapes and writing in indigo blue, black and white.

Ma and Ki Keiko Hara, Topophilia, Mokuhanga print installation with mixed media, LED lights and monitors, 10’ x 10’ x 10’

A black and white print of a car stopped in the middle of the crossroads. Two men stand out side of it. In the sky, clouds part to reveal an unmade bed, a plane dropping an object, a rocket ship, a teacher standing at a chalkboard.

Bradley Taylor, The Devil and Dr. Feynman, 2012, Woodblock print, 39.5” x 58.5”
Courtesy of the Artist

Two people peer over a printing press, looking and pointing at a piece of paper.

Kathleen Rabel and Allyce Wood
Photo Credit: Stephen Tanner

A dark landscape print of a horizontal river, boats floating in early dusk and dark rolling hills in the background.

Russell Chatham, Missouri Headwaters Suite: July, Lithograph, 39.25” x 50.25”
2013.323.056, MoNA, gift of Safeco Insurance