What's New at The Venue!

Manhole Covers: The Israeli Series

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 Perry Olds

Perry Olds, award winning photographer and artist presents a selection of artistic rubbings featuring the art and architecture of Israeli made manhole covers.

While traveling through Israel to places like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Perry noticed that even the simplest utilitarian access cover was rich with texture and design, and he was inspired to capture their essence and bring it back with him to our community.

The Art of Brown County

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Monique Cagle

Monique Cagle lives in the hills of Brown County, Indiana, where she grew up. She finds never-ending inspiration for her art in her surroundings and her canvases fill with views of the fields, nearby Yellowwood Lake and old farm buildings.

Mostly self-taught, Monique gives a lot of credit for her artistic talent to her mother, who encouraged her children to be creative in a variety of ways and raised them in a television-free household. Monique’s art focused mainly on drawing, illustration and decorative painting until 2000, when her mother died. Painting then became both a therapy for grief and a celebration of the talent that was a gift from her mother.

She has won various local awards, including the 2007 Hoosier Salon “Best Work, First-Time Exhibitor, any Medium,” award, three first prizes in the acrylics division at the T.C. Steele State Historical Site Paint Out and a merit award in 2005 from the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association.

Abandonment Issues

Junked Cars

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Ray Perigo

Ray has long been fascinated by the Indiana tradition of taking a beautiful scenic piece of property and filling it with old, rusty cars. Any number of you I’m sure can reminisce on fall hikes that have lead you to the haunting remains of an old Chevy truck.

This series is both colorful and vivid while maintaining the similarities of rust and fall leaves. If you’ve ever had interest in the subject matter, then this show is not to be missed!

The Art of the American Landscape

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Amy Kaye Taylor

Amy Kaye Taylor is a landscape artist native to Ohio. After receiving her BFA from Bowling Green University, Amy taught art for several years on Navajo Reservations. Living among the Navajo culture and red rocks of Arizona inspired her career as a painter.

Amy continued to travel extensively throughout the United States before returning to her home state. There, she began to explore and capture the beauty and detail of her native terrain, on canvas. Using oils and an archive of outdoor experiences, her paintings reflect the stories of memorable landscapes using bright bold colors, simplistic details and rich contrast.  She brings the landscapes that inspire her back to the studio through sketches and photos, but that is a mere half of a painting. The true beauty of her pieces emerge through layering techniques, powerful imagination and talent. The results are crisp, intriguing, whimsical, paintings that allow the viewer to escape into a private retreat.

he Art of Exquisite Chain Maille Jewelry

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Curtis Scott &Carrie Foster

 The Venue is pleased to host an exhibition of the Chain Maille Jewelry of Curtis Scott and Carrie Foster.  These local Artists use stainless steel, copper, anodized/bright aluminum, sterling silver, and other metals, to create unusual and exquisite bracelets, necklaces, and earrings, in the traditional Chain Maille Style; affordable, one-of-a-kind, objects de art. 

Color! Color! Everywhere!

Carol Miller & Galina Herndon

The Venue is excited to present the latest works of two Venue favorites, Local Artist Carol Miller and traveling artist Galina Herndon.

Carol Miller, a longstanding member of the Bloomington Art community, has a well deserved reputation as a vivid colorist, whose paintings are sensual and mysterious.  Her color palate is lush and tropical.  Her well priced acrylics are varied in theme and size, and they never fail to please.

Galina Herndon came to Bloomington as an award winning 4^th Street Art Festival Artists and left her mark with her abstract and surrealistic architecturally themed paintings. A self taught painter that only uses a palate knife, her distinct style is recognizable and pleasing to the eye in a way that is uniquely Galina.

Constructions

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Marvin Lowe

The Venue is excited to host an exhibition of the Art of Marvin Lowe (1922-2010), A Master Artist and a true Renaissance Man; a Juilliard trained jazz saxophonist, an MFA printmaker, a student of Maurico Lasanksy, and himself a professor of Fine Art at the Hope School of Fine Art at Indiana University for 24 years.  

Lowe has deep roots in the Bloomington art community, having developed the IU printmaking program with Rudy Pozzatti and Wendy Calman. Together they created the most successful and highest-ranked printmaking program in the United States. 

 Lowe’s works have been shown in over two hundred national and international exhibitions, and can be found in eighty permanent museum, university, and corporate collections, most notably the British Museum, the Japan Print Association (Tokyo), the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.

The Venues collection includes eight large mixed media pieces and two signed and numbered intaglio prints.  No modern art collection is complete without a Lowe, and our museum quality pieces are a true value for the collector.  Don’t miss this rare opportunity. 

Timothy Carter-East

 The Art of Painting

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Flowers!

Patricia Coleman

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The Venue!

Venue Fine Art & Gifts is pleased to display the latest works of Bloomington’s multi-talented poet laureate, artist and wellness guide, Patricia Coleman. This exhibition expresses Patricia’s mission, to provide peaceful and uplifting imagery through color, shape, and form. Patricia’s art embraces and transports the viewer into an abstract realm of artistic intent. .

Historical Wooden Masks

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Mark Braun

The Venue presents an exhibition of Native American inspired Masks by Professor Mark Braun. Mark is a longtime resident of Bloomington, a woodworker and a strong supporter of the local arts scene.

Although not Native American himself, Mark has cultivated a life-long interest in Native American history, mythology, Indian lore and life-style. His study of Native American Shamanic art led to his interest in Native masks, their meaning, and how they are made. That interest quickly combined with his love of woodworking.

Mark was fortunate to be able to work with several Indian mask carvers of the Northwest Coast as he developed his carving skills and advanced his understanding of this Native American tradition. Most of his carvings are made from Alder, the traditional wood of Northwest Coast Native Americans, and he uses only non-motorized hand tools and knives. Mark’s masks are colorful, dramatic, and well carved. They demonstrate his talent and profound respect for his subject matter.

 Adams on Display

The Venue is pleased to host this very special photograph of Yosemite Valley From Inspiration Point,  by Ansel Adams. This photograph was developed in the late 30's and is hand signed and numbered by Ansel Adams himself. It is the number 1 of 66 of the "Special Edition Yosemite" series, abbreviated S.E.Y.

 This piece is presented behind glass on its original mounting, with Information of Authenticity  included.

Visit or contact Venue.Colman@gmail.com for any inquiries. 

The Art of Donna Whitsett

Donna Whitsitt has been involved in art for forty-five years. Her art experience includes poetry illustrations, crafts, art education for schools and Girl Scouts of American, and sharing a love of art with her children and grandchildren. At the age of sixteen Donna found artistic inspiration drawing plein air on various museum grounds.

Donna gravitates towards contrast between light and dark. She relies on her experience as a camper and a hiker to enhance the way she paints.

As an Artists, she use ink lines with her watercolors to accent an objects texture. In areas of darn and light, the ink lines provide details within the objects or the area of color.

“The lines of natural objects flow and are less static than manmade objects, especially in areas like Brown County…”

The Art of Steel & Glass

Anne Ryan Miller and Dean Howard

Anne Ryan Miller studied environmental education and ecology at the University of Michigan, and was an original member of Graphic Glass.  Her work, in the medium flat glass, expresses her deep love for the natural world and, in her hands, the mystical and mercurial qualities of glass.  To better express the complexities and details she finds in nature, Anne has developed a unique multi-layered copper overlay technique. She also uses a copperfoil construction to create her one-of-a-kind art treasurers.

Dean E. Howard forges and fabricates metal objects de art in his blacksmith shop, using a traditional coal forge, anvil and cross-peen hammer.  Every piece is made by hand, so each is unique.  His designs are inspired by nature and past masters of the blacksmithing craft, and many are both beautiful and functional. 

 In addition to their individual works, these remarkable artists have collaborated to create several jointly-constructed pieces, specifically for this show.

The Art of Abstraction

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Jacquee Ridenour

The Venue is pleased to present  the abstract works of Artists Jacquee Ridenour for her first exhibition in Bloomington. For Those of you unfamiliar with Jacquee's work, she paints with a style and flair for color that is singularly unique. Through her use of lines and curves, combined with her sense of composition, Jacquee has created a collection of paintings the likes of which have never before been seen and offered for sale in Bloomington.

In her artists statement Jacquee claims "Often while painting a piece I am striving for deeper understanding of a though or concept. I see in my mind a visual answer to that thought and go about painting that image from my mind. With Painting I am attempting to see beyond the shadow on the wall. I want to "see" the reality of a thing or a concept. it is a challenge to find the truth, the real thing, and not to be distracted by the shadow of the real thing."

If you appreciate abstract painting, viewing this collection is a  must.