KBAC Gallery

April 5–27, 2013; Opening reception Friday, April 5 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

From Dutch still-life paintings to Campbell’s Soup cans, our obsession with food is a readymade subject for art! Open to all emerging and established artists, this exhibition features two-dimensional works of art—fine prints, paintings, and collages—that incorporate food in their subject. This exhibit shared it’s opening with our Eighth Annual Edible Book Festival.
Featuring art by:  Gina D. Mucciolo & Ann C. Payne, Angela Lorenz, Beverly Fitzpatrick, Jeff Heaton, Barbara Goodsitt, Dana LeMoine, Fritzi Huber, Thimgan Hayden, Ron Testa, Ruta Butkus Marino, Aimee Lee, Maryann J. Riker, Christopher Vaughn Couse.

March 1—29 Opening reception March 1 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

March 21, 7pm—Poetry reading at the Kalamazoo Public Library

Hours is an event comprised of artists and writers working around a notion of hours borrowed from The Book of Hours, a medieval monastic tradition of meditation and prayer recited at specified times. With a grant from the Kalamazoo Artistic Development Initiative (KADI) through The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, Sydnee Peters organized this program allowing local artists and writers to work at the KBAC studio on collaborative projects. For more information visit us at HoursKalamazoo on Facebook.

Participating Artists and Poets:
Mindi Bagnall, Kate Borgardt, Traci Brimhall, Bonnie Campbell, Matt Cashen, Kat Cole, Kristin DeKam, Michael Dunn, Sharon Eckstein, Debbie Eisenbise, Morry Edwards, Heidi Fidler, Deborah Gang, Donna Groot, Maryellen Hains, Jana Hanka, Ladislav Hanka, Renee Jensen, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Elizabeth King, Amelia Hansen, Kathy Kreager, Dave Marlatt, Marsha Meyer, Amy Newday, Paul Nehring, Christine Parks, Austin Peters, Sydnee Peters, Katie Platte, Robert Post, Susan Ramsey, Vicki VanAmeyden, and Mary Whalen

KBAC Gallery
August 3–24, 2012; Opening reception August 3 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

This exhibit is a historical memoir of the paper industry in Kalamazoo, and its dominance of the ecological and economic environment. Inspired by the story and the repercussions of paper manufacturing in the region, these works take a dead industry and create a contemporary  perspective through handmade paper and organic motifs.

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Alice Simpson, Preserved, Acrylic on stitched, stuffed canvas

KBAC Gallery
April 6–27, 2012; Opening reception Friday, April 6 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

From Dutch still-life paintings to Campbell’s Soup cans, our obsession with food is a readymade subject for art! Open to all emerging and established artists, this exhibition features two-dimensional works of art—fine prints, paintings, and collages—that incorporate food in their subject. This exhibit shared it’s opening with our Seventh Annual Edible Book Festival.

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KBAC Gallery
February 3–24, 2012; Opening reception February 3 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

Bill Hosterman: "Reach" etching (detail)

Bill Hosterman was a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa where he studied printmaking, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including exhibits in Hawaii, Italy, Germany, China, and the United Arab Emirates.

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KBAC Gallery
June 3–24, 2011; opening reception June 3 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

PRINTS: Recent Works
Ginger Owen-Murakami & Vicki VanAmeyden

Owen-Murakami from "Umbra" and VanAmeyden from "13 Ways"

The exhibit features:
• Umbra: A suite of platinum prints exploring family history
• 13 Ways: A suite of intaglio prints and an artist book inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem

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KBAC Gallery
April 1-29, 2011; opening reception during Art Hop Friday, April 1 6 to 9 p.m.

Good Eats: an exhibition about food 2011

The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center presents a juried exhibition “Good Eats: An Exhibit About Food” sponsored by the Kalamazoo People’s Food Co-op.

From Dutch still-life paintings to Campbell’s soup cans, our obsession with food is a readymade subject for art! The exhibition will feature two-dimensional works of art—fine prints, paintings, and collages—that incorporate food in their subject.

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KBAC Gallery
Feb. 4-25, 2011; opening reception Feb. 4 during Art Hop, 6 to 9 p.m.

Art created by KBAC artists, staff, interns and others

Michael Dunn, "Cat Fishing," 48" x 24" relief print / artist proof

This exhibtion demonstrates the diversity of KBAC’s creative members and friends. Among the works will be Poets in Print broadsides created by KBAC artists and a variety of prints, handmade paper, books, and more.

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KBAC Gallery
Sept. 10-25, 2010; opening reception Sept 10, 6–9 p.m. during Art Hop

John Kollig, from Dada print series

John Kollig, the first KBAC Resident Artist for 2010, has been working in our studio since January to create a series of printed images.

Kollig received his MFA in painting from Western Michigan University and has exhibited his work widely in Michigan. In 2009 he was invited to participate in the Seventh Annual Biennale of Art in Florence, Italy.

About this new work Kollig says:

“The images, all appropriated, are used in combinations of monotype, transfer, collage, and drawing. The process of using mixed media was through intuition and random selection. Nothing was planned. The only criteria for choosing an image were my personal taste and aesthetic. The whole series was worked simultaneously. There is no narrative or context for this work that I was consciously thinking.”

For more information about Kollig’s work visit: www.johnkolligfineart.com

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KBAC Gallery
May 7-29, 2010; opening Friday, May 7, 6 to 9 p.m. during Art Hop

Cat Crotchett
Cross References: The Indonesia Paintings

Cat Crochett, "The Introduction (West meets East)" 4 of many - an installation

Join us to celebrate the opening of Cross References: The Indonesia Paintings during Art Hop, 6-9 p.m., Friday, May 7. This installation of encaustic paintings by WMU Professor of Art, Cat Crotchett, is inspired by Cat’s research in Indonesia and is a dialog between encaustic painting and the art of Javanese batik.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This exhibition describes a recent project is to initiate a cross–cultural dialog between wax working artists by introducing encaustic painting techniques to Indonesian visual artists, most specifically to Javanese batik artists, through a series of encaustic workshops. These workshops created an opportunity to exchange information about the use of materials and tools from different wax working traditions in addition to speaking to our divergent and intersecting uses of pattern and pattern structure. From this unique experience, I have begun creating a series of encaustic paintings that incorporate Indonesian batik patterns and the use of traditional batik tools to make connections between eastern and western traditions and practices in visual art and culture.

This work was supported by grants from the Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award; The College of Fine Arts; The Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education; The Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University and The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo. This project also received donations from R & F Handmade Paints in Kingston, NY and received support in Indonesia from Anetena Projects, Barbaran Segaragunung and Taman Budaya.

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KBAC Gallery
March 5-26, 2010; opening Friday, March 5, 6 to 9 p.m. during Art Hop

Dwellers: Prints and Drawings
by Todd Freeman

"The Grampus" Todd Freeman, hand colored copper etching on paper

The KBAC Gallery presents Dwellers, An Illustrated Wilderness: Folklore, Field Reports, Hunting Traditions & Alleged Happenings in the Wild. Prints and drawings by Todd Freeman.

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