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 November 01, 2023in Art News
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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Posted April 05, 2023in Art News
In the year 2184, if man is still alive
Tom Jackson is a dazzling, versatile Iowa artist. He has worked in painting, photography and ink brush drawing. His abstraction works tend to become fascinated with geometrics. His realist works [...]
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Posted March 01, 2023in Art News
Swan song as an ode to Iowa
Jeff Fleming is retiring from his directorship at the Des Moines Art Center in late April. That makes the new 75th anniversary exhibition his swan song. Because he came to [...]
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Posted February 01, 2023in Art News
Scott Charles Ross at Moberg Gallery
It’s barely February, but I can’t imagine 2023 will produce a more profound galley show than Scott Charles Ross’ Ukrainian Project at Moberg Gallery. Ross has made a career by [...]
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