Riffing on the 1980s
Chris Vance’s annual show at Moberg Gallery cements his stature as Des Moines’ most popular painter. Some 32 of the paintings were sold before the exhibition even began. Vance consciously [...]
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Posted April 03, 2024in Art News
Posted March 06, 2024in Art News
Worlds in collision
Cecily Brown, whose one-person show at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) in 2016 was a major coup for the museum, is flying high after her “Death and the Maid” [...]
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Posted January 31, 2024in Art News
Jeff Fleming’s ‘Absurdities’
“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Jeff Fleming paints “absurdities,” delightful, sometimes ghostly, works on canvas using gesso, India ink, white charcoal and [...]
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Posted January 03, 2024in Art News
Picasso: He’s Pablomatic
It’s the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death. The museums of the world are giddy. The Spanish rapscallion attracts crowds to this day because post “Me too” people either love [...]
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Posted December 06, 2023in Art News
Moberg at 20
Moberg Gallery’s 20th anniversary show is up through Jan. 6. The gallery is a grand expression of Des Moines’ elevated role in the arts scene. When TJ and Jackie Moberg [...]
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Posted November 01, 2023in Art News
Art becomes you
Des Moines Art Center’s new show “Transform Any Room” is a call to everyone’s inner artist. A mish mash of crafts, weavings, assemblages and mixed media, “TAR” is designed to [...]
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Posted October 04, 2023in Art News
Perspective, birds, weather and psychopomps
Des Moines Art Center Print Gallery’s exhibition “Double Take” attempts to make a photographer’s involvement as much a part of the medium as his subject. Curator Laura Burkhalter and guest [...]
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Posted September 06, 2023in Art News
New years in September
One person’s new year is another’s equinox. The calendar new year comes with January, the fiscal new year in July, the farmer’s in March or April. In the art world, [...]
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Posted August 02, 2023in Art News
The religious and political powers of clay
The great Kickapoo artist Pahponee (Snow Woman) taught this writer about the religious qualities of clay. After seeing a sacred white buffalo and a white buffalo calf, she started dreaming [...]
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Posted July 05, 2023in Art News
Robert Moore – in his words
Robert Moore is an enthralling artist, a great story, and a humbling writer. His hand-touched archival prints recount his personal struggles within the context of the historic ordeals of black [...]
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