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SUMMARY:In collaboration with De Buck Gallery: Devan Shimoyama
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Devan Shimoyama we are collaborating with De Buck Gallery in New York\, and are honored to offer collectors the opportunity to acquire works by Devan Shimoyama\, currently on view at the Ulrich Museum of Art on the Wichita State University campus. Shimoyama’s work\, inspired by classical mythology and the cultural influences of his youth\, blends intricate embellishments with deeply personal narratives. His mixed media canvases celebrate identity\, queerness\, and transformation\, transporting viewers to mesmerizing\, dreamlike spaces. \nFor inquiries or to schedule a consultation\, please contact trish@reubensaundersgallery.com. \nDon’t forget\, the Ulrich Museum will be hosting an artist talk with Devan Shimoyama in conjunction with his Spring 2025 exhibition\, Devan Shimoyama: Rituals. An award-winning contemporary multidisciplinary artist\, Shimoyama will share insights into his creative process\, themes of vulnerability and metamorphosis\, and the diverse cultural narratives that shape his work. \nThis free program will take place on February 27th at 6:00 p.m. in McKnight Art Center\, Room 210 (WSU Campus). \n(Artist Profile Image by: Zac Riggleman)
URL:https://www.reubensaundersgallery.com/exhibit/de-buck-gallery-devan-shimoyama/
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SUMMARY:"Tangled Roots"- Christina Rodriguez\, Michael Pointer\, Scott Randol
DESCRIPTION:This group exhibition will feature new artworks by local & regional artists\, Christina Renee Rodriguez\, Michael Pointer\, Scott Randol\n\n\nWe hope you will join us for our opening reception on First Friday\, April 4th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\nCHRISTINA RENEE RODRIGUEZ:\n(b.1968 Newton\, Kansas) Rodriguez is an intuitive\, contemplative photographer. Autodidactic by nature\, with a voracious appetite for learning\, Rodriguez is wholly un-indoctrinated. “Photography brings me joy and fulfillment. There is a certain kind of awareness that is gained through looking longer\, closer and deeper at the world. Intuition sharpens\, creativity sparks and imagination is set free to explore infinite possibilities.” Rodriguez pushes the limits of her art through exploration of materials\, concepts\, visual boundaries and process (both analog and digital). She endeavors to make quality\, innovative\, unique and thought-provoking imagery. “I ask the viewer to join me on a creative journey— to step with me into the secret\, magical\, strangeness that lingers beneath the world of appearance.”\nRodriguez has received many awards including Critical Mass Top 200\, 2024. She has exhibited nationally in galleries and museums across the country and is held in private collections nationally and internationally.\n\n\n\n\nMICHAEL POINTER:\nMichael Pointer is a fourth-generation artist. He received his first camera at age nine and began working in the darkroom when he was twelve. He has won numerous awards for photography and drawing\, as well as exhibiting extensively in the United States\, Taiwan\, and Europe. After a solo exhibit in Wichita\, Kansas he was invited to teach Photography at Wichita State University\, he taught there for three years. He is best known for his large scale semi-abstract analog photography work. In 2009 Pointer lived in Afghanistan supporting a free dental clinic in Kabul and working with the Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan. Until recently he served CCAA as an advisory board member.\n\n“My work is generally about the relationship between painting to photography. The images in this exhibit are explorations of organic forms and other miscellany played against the wooden grid of a large vintage paper cutter. They provide interesting visual textures. Each piece works to expand photographic language through the combined influence of abstract composition played against real photography. I have titled the pieces with familiar song titles so that the viewer\, if they are familiar with the music\, will hear the song in their head which will facilitate a connection between my mind and theirs. I have always been involved with the surface of my paper\, often showing swathes of gelatin silver paper torn at either end. I want the viewer to experience my paper in the way I do. Using encaustic to finish these images lets me work that surface further and enhance metaphorical possibilities.”\n\n\n\n\nSCOTT RANDOL:\nScott Randol is a sculptor from Kansas City\, MO. Before he identified as a sculptor\, Randol spent his working career in union jobs to support his family but began exploring his artistic questions independently in sculpture classes and through internships with working artists. Instead of attending college\, Randol spent his early artistic career in the studio with other sculptors\, such as John Beasley\, Kwan Wu\, Elden and Kim Tefft\, and Robin Richerson. He learned casting methods and foundry work a little over time with the help of books from the local library\, mentors\, and lessons from constructing his own blast furnace in 1987. His sculptures start conversations about nature\, history\, and the human ability to create art from any available tools. Today\, Randol’s work has appeared throughout the area in galleries\, Union Station\, private residences\, business lobbies and offices. Scott Randol lives in the KC area with his wife and experiments with new sculptural methods in his fire-proof garage.\n\n“Working mostly in bronze\, Scott makes sculptures in his own facility. Inspired by nature\, history and archeology\, valuing inspiration by the imagination above all. His sculptures exist as physical representations of a deeply contemplative practice.”
URL:https://www.reubensaundersgallery.com/exhibit/tangled-roots-christina-rodriguez-michael-pointer-scott-randol/
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SUMMARY:"Into the Garden" - Denita Benyshek
DESCRIPTION:This solo-exhibition will feature nature themed artworks by local artist\, Denita Benyshek. \nWe hope you will join us for our opening reception on First Friday\, April 4th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm! \n\n\nINTO THE GARDEN:\nAfter living in the Cascade Mountains for 25 years\, Denita Benyshek returned to Wichita in 2022\, with her son.\nOpenStudios selected Benyshek as the artist-in-residence for Botanica. Benyshek’s son has difficulty walking\,\nwith constant pain. Anticipating multiple surgeries\, her son asked her to plant a garden around their home\, so\nthat he could sit in the garden and enjoy nature. So\, Benyshek began designing and planting a new garden\naround their 1930s home in Crown Heights. \nWhile Benyshek’s son recovered from surgery\, she went into the garden with a cup of coffee\, for a moment of\nrespite from caregiving. Inspired by the beauty of flowers\, plants\, and trees\, Benyshek brought her\nwatercolors\, inks\, and gouache paints outside. With her two poodles nearby\, she painted\, representing\nmorning and evening light\, conveying the magic of growth\, and celebrating life\, through transparent veils of\noverlapping color. Her dance training is evident in graceful lines and gestures\, her musicianship in the rhythm\nof colors and brush strokes. When completing a painting indoors\, at night\, she is usually singing.\nVibrating and glowing\, the plants\, trees\, and rocks are depicted in the act of taking form\, in an emergent\,\ntransformational stage of “that which is coming into being.” In these small scale\, intimate paintings\, the viewer\nmay enter a world that is dynamic yet peaceful\, ecstatic and calm\, pausing for a still moment in the fleeting\,\nsweep of time. \nARTIST BIO:\nIn early childhood\, Dr. Benyshek lived in a farmhouse\, amidst a Czech immigrant community in Kansas. She\nearned a BFA (Wichita State University)\, an MFA (University of Washington)\, and a graduate certificate in the\npsychology of creativity\, MA and PhD in humanistic and transpersonal psychology (Saybrook University).\nBenyshek attended the Pilchuck Glass School on a full scholarship and was an artist-in-resident at the Ucross\nFoundation\, Wyoming. For 15 years\, she taught visual art and dance in the bush villages of Alaska. Her\nresearch focuses on contemporary artists as shamans\, with publications in the USA\, UK\, Poland\, Hungary\,\nand China. \nHer artworks were included in group exhibits in west coast museums (Bellevue Museum of Art\, Whatcom\nMuseum of History and Art\, Yakima Valley Museum\, Coos Bay Museum\, Corvallis Art Center\, Museum of NW\nArt)\, with solo exhibits in Seattle\, WA\, Portland\, OR\, Sun Valley\, ID\, Wichita\, KS\, and Santa Fe\, NM. Dr.\nBenyshek’s work is in the public art collections of the University of Washington Medical Center\, Harborview\nMedical Center\, King County Ethnic Heritage Collection\, Glasmuseet (Glass Museum) of Ebeltoft\, Denmark\,\nand Snoqualmie Point Park. In 2022\, OpenStudios selected Benyshek as the Botanica gardens artist-in\nresidence\, in 2024\, she was awarded a Koch Cultural Trust enabling grant\, and\, in 2025\, Benyshek received\nan artist access grant from Wichita Arts Council. \nFriday\, April 11\, 2025\, 6:00pm\, Dr. Benyshek will present a lecture on “Contemporary Artists as Shamans:\nNear and Far\,” at Harvester Arts\, 120 E First St N\, Wichita. The presentation includes the story of the garden\npaintings and the creation of the book of poetry\, Into the Garden. \nHer work will be featured at the Clio Art Fair\, New York City\, May 8-11\, with a solo exhibit in the main gallery of\nthe University of Michigan medical center\, September 8 – December 5\, 2025. Coreopsis: A Journal of Myth\nand Theater will feature an interview with Dr. Benyshek in the spring 2025 issue.
URL:https://www.reubensaundersgallery.com/exhibit/into-the-garden-denita-benyshek/
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