The library is hosting a
reception for artist Catherine Vesce, whose work is currently displayed in our
upstairs gallery, this Friday, November 30, from 4-6 pm. There will light
refreshments served, and everyone is welcome to stop by to meet Catherine and
our curator, Melissa Roundtree.
Here is more information regarding Catherine Vesce and her work from Melissa Roundtree's press release:
"The works in Catherine
Vesce's Elements series are informed
by meteorology, mathematics and alchemy.
Inspired by antique weather maps, current weather headlines, and a
19th-century Euclidean geometry text, she uses the basic "elements"
of design - line, form, primary colors - to create minimal works that are rich
in references and meaning. For Vesce,
they describe not only, ”hurricane
winds, flooding waters and moving earth, that are raised to the top of our
consciousness with increasing regularity," but also the "disorder in
nature that corresponds to the turmoil in human interactions" and "mankind's
drive to seek the embedded order in the universe."
Catherine
Vesce received a Master of Arts degree in Printmaking & Painting from the
University of Missouri, Kansas City and a Master of Arts in Art Education from
Oberlin College in Ohio. After thirty
years of teaching art at the secondary level, she retired in 2004. During her years of teaching, she continued
producing art and exhibiting regionally.
She has had solo exhibitions at Morgan Gallery, Park University
Campanella Gallery and The Central Exchange in Kansas City. Her work is
included in the collections of the University of Kansas Medical Cancer Center;
H&R Block World Headquarters; City of Overland Park; Rockhurst University;
Heartland Regional Medical Center, St Joseph, Missouri and the Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri."
