City Lights: The Photographs of John Dowell

January 22 – March 4, 2012

SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT
Indianapolis, Inkjet print

Presented in partnership with an ANONYMOUS FOUNDATION

The Evansville Museum’s 2012 art exhibition series opens with the January 22 – March 4 Old Gallery presentation of CITY LIGHTS: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN DOWELL. Philadelphia native and Professor of Printmaking at the prestigious Tyler School of Art at Temple University, John Dowell captures the pulse of various American cities in his large scale color photographs.

Dowell has worked as an artist for over four decades. A master printmaker whose prints, paintings and photographs have been featured in 49 one person exhibitions, he is represented in the permanent collections of 70 museum and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Boston Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France. Dowell’s photographs have been added to the collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum of Harvard University, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Lehigh University Museum.

Dowell writes about his current imagery of American cities at night, “There is an excitement of the city that is often overlooked. These structures of our culture soar to the sky and hold intimate details of our lives. They embody our energies with moments of magic. I want to capture all aspects of time – the past, the present and the hopes for the future.”

For additional information about Dowell and images of his photographs: www.johndowell.com

John Dowell will present an illustrated lecture about his work to the public at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 19, at a Champagne Brunch at the Museum.

EXPLORING ELEMENTS: STONE/WOOD/BRONZE

February 1 – April 1, 2012

FREE SPIRIT
Bronze

The hand carved wood and cast bronze sculpture of John Evans will be featured in a February 1 – April 1 exhibition EXPLORING ELEMENTS: STONE/WOOD/BRONZE in the Museum’s Second Floor Alcove Gallery.

A sculptor for over 20 years, Evans maintains a studio just outside Columbus, Ohio, in what were originally the outbuildings that surround his mid-19th century Italianate country home. A native of Ohio, Evans received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University in Athens and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Instituto Allende at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico. His major artistic influences include the sculptors Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, Clement Meadmore and David Hostetler, his professor and mentor at Ohio University.

Evans comments, “Initially, my goals were to simply carve wood in such a way as to create an illusion with the process itself – almost as if I had just twisted the wood into its new form by hand instead of carving it. These explorations evolved into various themes and my primary interests are the capturing of motion in time, emotional expression, and investigating the potential of two dimensional ideas in three dimensional space.”

Represented by galleries in Nantucket, Massachusetts and Columbus, Ohio, Evans produces work for corporate and private collections throughout the United States.

For additional information about John Evans and photographs of his sculpture: www.evanssculpture.com