Two new exhibits open on January 18
at the Illinois Central College art galleries, located on the East Peoria
Campus.
An artists’ talk from will take
place in Gallery 336B from noon to 2 pm to open Making a Life, an
exhibit featuring ceramics and sculpture by Erin Furimsky and Claire Hedden.
Gallery 336B is located in the Academic Building.
In addition, a printmaking exhibit
by Florin Hategan opens at noon in the ICC Performing Arts Center Gallery,
located in the lobby of the facility.
Erin Furimsky is a practicing
studio artist in Bloomington whose work focuses on the relationship of
sculptural form with highly ornamented surfaces. She received a bachelor degree
from Pennsylvania State University in 1997 and a master degree from The Ohio
State University in 2002. Furimsky has exhibited her work nationally with
inclusions of her work in international exhibitions in China and Taiwan. Since
1997, her work has been included in over 100 group and solo exhibitions, with
reproductions of her ceramic work being featured in numerous books and
catalogs. Critical reviews of her work have appeared on several occasions in
the journals Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics Art and Perception. In 2006,
Furimsky was selected as an emerging artist by the National Council on
Education of the Ceramic Arts. She has been selected as an artist in residence
at the Archie Bray Foundation, The Red Lodge Clay Center, The Watershed Center
for the Ceramic Arts and the Oregon College of Art and Design. She is featured
in a DVD called Layered Surfaces with Erin Furimsky.
As an educator, Furimsky has been a
featured presenter at several national workshops. In addition, she has served
as a visiting professor at Illinois State University and Heartland Community
College, both in Normal, Ill.
Claire Hedden resides in Normal,
where she is an artist and serves as curator at the McLean County Arts Center
in Bloomington. Originally from northeastern Pennsylvania, Hedden earned her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ceramics from the New York State College of
Ceramics (NYSCC) at Alfred University.
In addition to Illinois, her works
have been exhibited across the United States, including Ohio, Washington,
California, New York, Pennsylvania, Montana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Colorado
and California.
Hedden has served as an adjunct
faculty member at Illinois State University and NYSCC at Alfred University. In
addition, she was chosen to serve as visiting artist for a summer at NYSCC at
Alfred University. In 2009, Hedden was a recipient of a New York Foundation for
the Arts fellowship.
According to Hedden, her work
captures and animates moments in which objects, beings, emotions, and place are
interconnected and in flux. She is interested in postmodern abstraction of
amassing information, our contemporary domestic lifestyle and figurative
gestures connection to emotion. Hedden builds with common materials of our
domestic environment, including clay, wood, fabric and foam.
Florin Hategan has a master’s
degree in civil engineering and an undergraduate degree in fine arts. He has
been working in printmaking and oil painting since 1992.
His works have been internationally
presented in more than 90 national and international competitions and have won
awards in Canada, Serbia, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Japan and the United States. His
works are represented in private and public collections in Canada, Europe,
Taiwan, Japan and the United States.
His current project is polemical
discourse upon the disintegration and eventual disappearance of traditional
communities, a process Hategan calls “fragmenturalism” (a term he derived by
combining “fragmentation” and “fracture”). His works explore these contemporary
complex transitions, which have triggered unprecedented social fragmentation
with profound effects in the structure of the communities.
Hategan lives and works in Maple,
Ontario, Canada.
Hours of operation for Gallery 336B
are Monday through Thursday, from 9 am to 5 pm and Friday from 9 am to noon.
The Performing Arts Center Gallery is open Monday through Thursday from 9:30 am
to 7:30 pm, and Friday from 9:30 am to noon. Operation of the galleries varies
with ICC’s holidays and breaks. To confirm a gallery will be open at a
particular time, call the ICC Arts and Communication Department at (309)
694-5113. The Performing Arts Center Gallery also is accessible when the
Performing Arts Center is open for public events.
The exhibits are presented by the
ICC Art Program and the Arts at ICC. The Arts at ICC has a rich history of
enhancing the arts community and expanding education beyond the classroom. Arts
at ICC presents more than 500 exhibits, performances, lectures, rehearsals,
meetings, master classes, clinics, seminars, receptions, orientations, forums,
auditions and tournaments annually.
For more information, visit
ArtsAtICC.com, or contact the ICC Arts & Communication Department at (309)
694-5113.
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