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Posted April 03, 2024in Art News

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 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 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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Posted May 31, 2023in Art News

The melancholy master and his ilk

The Des Moines Art Center’s Print Gallery is an underappreciated gem. Almost every show provides great lessons in history, culture and “there is nothing new under the sun” humility. “Rembrandt [...]

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Posted May 03, 2023in Art News

Chris Vance’s ‘Moderate Restraint’

Chris Vance is Des Moines’ artist. His murals are seen all over town. His paintings are so popular that even before his new show, “Moderate Restraint” at Moberg Gallery, opened, [...]

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