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Jack Kirkpatrick | Joseph Rejholec
| Carol Weber | Sergio Gomez
Jack Kirkpatrick - Art Department Chairman
- MFA School of the Art Institute
- BFA Illinois State University
I have a broad based background. Initially trained as a functional potter, I gradually became interested in drawing and sculpture
as an expression of clay and its relationship
to art making. My large-scale figurative terra cotta sculptures draw inspiration from ethnographic art and mythologic archetype.
I make art like I cook. There's a recipe and then you forget it, making do with what's in front of you.
Art...cooking...life...teaching... it all blends within the form, the recipe's lost, but reinvented.
Joseph Rejholec
- MA Northern Illinois University
- BA Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
- Also attended Syracuse University and The Art Students League of New York.
There are many influential elements that I must consider and understand before I can start a
piece of Art work. To begin to comprehend and piece together these various facets becomes
the very ideas I incorporate in my work. Being
sensitive, visually aware and conscious of the mystery beyond myself becomes the spirituality
of making Art for me.
The foundation for my work comes from the experiences that have occurred in my life. Visual,emotional and psychological events that have somehow touched, challenged and changed the way I see and understand myself. These changes that have affected me, coupled with a need to express myself, develop into a conversation with abstract shape and form. The work ethic I take into my studio becomes another factor in the realization of my Art. The physical nature of the materials, processes, and tools I use sometimes dictates responses that I might incorporate in my work. This process of arranging, rearranging and establishing a juxtaposition of shapes allows me intuitively to orchestrate shapes into singular symbol. Similar to the word structure of poetic form or phrasing used in music, particularly Jazz.
Therefore, the works that I construct and exhibit are to be engaged as a symbol on a visually intuitive level. Each piece should also involve the viewer in mutually intellectual and psychological bond between the formal elements and their metaphorical references. Consequently, I don't work with a conscious and specific conviction about each piece or group of works, but rather they are always open to change and new association.
Carol Weber
- MFA Northern Illinois University
- MA Northern Illinois University
- BA Principia College
The involvement I have with my work happens
on many levels. The act of art-making
combines with personal experience and spiritual awareness to express the metaphorical statements within my work. Carol is also the curator of the Photo-Four Gallery located on SSC's main campus.In life, as in art, there is always an unknown.
The creative process allows for me an avenue to pursue this ongoing experience within a visual and mental realm. Communication through art has served mankind well throughout time. Teaching is another way for me, besides the making of art, to share my commitment to art as a fundamental communicative experience.
Sergio Gomez
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