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        <p class="style84"><a href="ROCKFORD_MADE/ROCKFORD_MADE.html"><strong>Rockford Made 4356: Deill/Julin</strong></a><strong> | Aug 26-Dec 27, 2011</strong></p>
        <p><span class="style87">Born on the same day, in the same year-April 3,1956-in the same Rockford hospital, this exhibition celebrates the creative vision of noted Rockford artists John Deill and Jim Julin. Former Recipients of the coveted Jessica Holt Purchase Award, both artists are represented in the RAM Permanent Collection. Deill is a self-described painter with sculptural tendencies. Self-taught artist Julin is a sculptor best known for his monumental work in RAM's sculpture garden, title <em>The Big Chair</em>. Both artists share a remarkable sensitivity to materials and a keen eye for meticulous craftsmanship. They also have an innate feel for found objects. This exhibition is a mid-career look at the thought-provoking work of these two Rockford natives. The opening serves as a belated celebration of their shared birthday. Curated by Patty Rhea.</span>        </p>
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        <p><strong><span class="style84"><a href="FULL_DECK/FULL_DECK.html">Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art</a> | May 6-Aug 14, 2011</span></strong><span class="style84"></span> 
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        <p>Full Deck featured some of the most radical skate art from the 1960s to today, from handpainted and carved decks to limited and first edition designer boards. Since the first graphic was drawn onto a board (a &quot;deck&quot;), the culture of skateboarding has grown hand-in-hand with the visual arts. </p>
        <p>The skate artist's aesthetic-raw, passionate and personal-was energized by a devotion to the act of skating and a DIY embrace of skate culture. The eye-catching images on the bottom of skateboards are one of the purest forms of self-expression; highly personal and mostly created without artistic boundaries-just like skateboarding itself.</p>
        <p>More than 300 decks from artists, skaters, and companies across the country, including rare boards from private collections, vintage and commercial boards, video and photographs were on view. This traveling exhibition was organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts (Walnut Creek, Calif.), curated by Carrie Lederer.</p>
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        <p><span class="style84"><a href="PAUSE_AND_AFFECT/PAUSE_AFFECT.html"><strong>Pause and Affect: Gregory Scott and Joan Truckenbrod</strong></a><strong> | Jan 21-Apr 23, 2011</strong></span><br />
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        The cutting edge work of painter and videographer Gregory Scott will be showcased as a counterpoint to the installations and multimedia presentations of digital artist Joan Truckenbrod. The element of curiosity is playfully explored and celebrated by both contemporary artists.</p>
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        <p>Photography is pushed to a new level in Scott's interactive creations that masterfully combine the mediums of painting and video. Technically seamless, his novel works literally draw the viewer into the picture plane itself. A pioneer of digital media, Truckenbrod masterfully combines sound, video, textiles and sculptures into interactive presentations that explore the precarious nature of life. </p>
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        <p><a href="SPACES_WITHIN/SPACES_WITHIN.html"><strong>Spaces Within</strong></a><strong> | Sept 10, 2010-Jan 9, 2011</strong>
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        <p>Imagery relating to the architecture of interior spaces will be explored through the work of fellow Chicago artists Richard Hull and Nicholas Sistler. Each artist presents unique imagery composed of intimate spaces, angles, planes, bold perspectives and exuberant color. The principles of geometry will be further evident in a selection of works from RAM's permanent collection including paintings by Gordon Dorn and Michiko Itatani. A selection of bronzes from the late Chicago artist David Kotker (1961-2005) will add a sculptural element to the exhibition. Curated by Patty Rhea.<br />
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  <span class="style38 style21">The <em>Rockford Midwestern</em> is a biennial juried exhibition that originated as an annual showcase for local artists.  2010 marks the 71st presentation of this regional show that draws the best works from artists from a nine-state region.  Artists residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin are eligible. With this exhibition, Rockford Art Museum shows its commitment to presenting the breadth and depth of contemporary art in the Midwest. </span>        
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          <span class="style53"><em>Hollis Sigler: Expect the Unexpected</em> celebrates the mature work of noted Chicago artist and feminist Hollis Sigler. Opening in October to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and partially sponsored by OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, the exhibition will explore the deeply personal imagery of Sigler's autobiographical Breast Cancer Journal that chronicled her struggle with the disease that eventually took her life. Throughout her career Hollis Sigler (1948-2001) created psychologically complex narrative works grounded in personal experience. Her style was also a means of conveying difficult emotional content in a way that viewers could relate to and understand. Curated by RAM Curator Patty Rhea, the exhibition travels to the Chicago Cultural Center and will be on display January 29 through April 4, 2010.</span>
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        <p><span class="style84 "><a href="SPIEZER_COLLECTION_EXH/spiezer_exh.html"><strong>The Francis and June Spiezer Collection</strong></a><strong> | July 17-September 27, 2009</strong><br />
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          </span><span class="style53"><em>The Francis and June Spiezer Collection</em> celebrates this important gift to the RAM Permanent Collection by longtime promoters of the Chicago art scene, the late Francis Spiezer and his widow, June. Promised to RAM over 15 years, the collection is comprised of more than 200 objects in two main focus areas-contemporary studio glass and regional contemporary art. <br />
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          Representative of more than 30 years of Chicago art, the Spiezers immersed themselves in the lives of regional artists and the local gallery scene. A diversity of media, style and subject matter is represented in the collection, which is rich in paintings, prints, sculpture, and glass.<br />
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          <em>Moby Dick: Heart of the Sea</em> presented imagery relating to the classic Melville novel Moby Dick. Exhibiting artists George Klauba and Kathleen Piercefield are each natives of the Chicago area. Works by Robert McCauley, former chair of Rockford College Department of Art, provided a sculptural element to the exhibition. Their contrasts in style and media, Klauba's realistic paintings, Piercefield's expressive, multi-media prints and Robert McCauley's sculptural assemblages will make for a striking and challenging show. Author and <em>Moby-Dick</em> scholar Robert Wallace will led a gallery walk at the members preview on April 17, 2009. </span></span></p>
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        <p><span class="style84"><strong><a href="VISAGES_EXH/visages_exh.html">Visages: Face Revised</a> | January 15-April 5, 2009</strong></span><br />
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          <span class="style25"><span class="style26"><em>Visages: Face Revised</em></span> explores the genre of portraiture. The exhibition presents the work of seven nationally recognized artists that approach the image from a variety of perspectives. The styles are as wide ranging as each artist's intent. Working in a variety of mediums, ranging from painting, photography and glass.<br />
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        <p><span class="style84"><a href="VERA_KLEMENT_EXH/VERA_KLEMENT_exh.html"><strong>Vera Klement: Paint Into Icon</strong></a></span><strong><span class="style84"> | October 17, 2008-January 4, 2009</span></strong><br />
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        This much-anticipated retrospective celebrates one of Illinois' most distinguished painters, Chicago artist Vera Klement. The exhibition features an array of Klement's awe-inspiring, large-canvas paintings. Her love of paint is astounding: vibrant layered colors are applied in a lavish manner, echoing the gestural movement of Abstract Expressionism. </p>
        <p>Born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), she immigrated to the U.S. with her family just before the Holocaust, and was raised in New York. &quot;Her move to Chicago in the 1960s and her long and distinguished career as an artist and professor at the University of Chicago led her to play a key role in the development of one of America's major art centers, and her impact on our region as artist and teacher has been vast,&quot; wrote contemporary art critic James Yood. Guest curator is Ingrid Fassbender of Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago.<br />
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        <p><span class="style53"><span class="style84"><strong>The 2008 <a href="midwestern.html">Rockford Midwestern</a>  | July 11-October 5, 2008</strong></span><br />
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            <em>The 2008 Rockford Midwestern</em> marks the 70th presentation of Rockford Art Museum's juried exhibition, which began in 1913 as an annual showcase of local artists, then expanded eligibility and was known as the Stateline Vicinity Show through 1998. Now a biennial competition, the <em>Midwestern</em> is open to artists residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. <br />
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            Original paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs were eligible. Artists were allowed to submit three entries for consideration. Juried into the exhibition were 101 works of art by 90 artists. Awards, including the prestigious Dean Alan Olson Purchase Award ($2000), Best of Show ($1000), First Place 2-D ($750) and First Place 3-D ($750), were presented during the exhibition opening.<br />
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            This year's juror was noted artist Robert McCauley, who recently retired as chair of the department of art and art history at Rockford College. A Pacific Northwest native, McCauley received his M.F.A. from Washington State University in 1972, and B.A. from Western Washington University in 1969. He was first featured in the <em>75th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity</em> at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975; numerous group and solo exhibitions have followed. His gallery affiliations include Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle; K. Kimpton Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Perimeter Gallery, Chicago; and Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho. The 2008 Rockford Midwestern is sponsored by Art in the Garden and partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and Rockford Area Arts Council. <br />
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        The Zhou Brothers are one of the most accomplished contemporary artists in the world today renowned for their unique collaborative work process. They always work together on their paintings, performances, sculptures, and prints, often communicating without words in a so-called dream dialogue. Their thinking, aesthetic, and creativity are a symbiosis of Eastern and Western philosophy, art, and literature that informed their development since early childhood. Their indomitable spirit allowed them to leave behind their brilliant success in China, where they were hailed as national heroes for their early work, to step onto the world stage. They have since achieved international acclaim while continuing to work in the West.</span><br />
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        <p><strong><span class="style84">Divergent Minds Live Performance | June 13, 2008</span></strong><span class="style84"></span><br />
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          Rockford Art Museum presents Divergent Minds, an eclectic live fusion of visual and performing arts, featuring the Zhou Brothers, chinese collaborative painters, rock legend Rick Nielsen and classical composer Donald Fraser. Performed at the historic Coronado Theatre. <br />
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          Thanks to our Primary Sponsors: Alpine Bank, Eclipse Inc. Foundation on behalf of Roger and Wendy Perks Fisher; Supporting Sponsors: Bob and Patty Rhea. Contributing Sponsors: Forest City Gear, Hugh and Gail Funderburg, Rob and Cathy Funderburg, The Ben Harding Family Foundation, and Special thanks to Rockford Carving Company and Gibson Custom Guitars  for donating one of the guitars Rick Nielsen plays tonight-the 57 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top Reissue. After Nielsen performs with the &quot;R7 Goldtop&quot; this evening, the custom guitar will be auctioned off during RAM's Evergreen Ball on Saturday, December 6th. Company. <br />
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        <p class="style53"><span class="style84"><strong>Betsy Youngquist: Light of the Moon | January 18-March 23, 2008</strong> </span><br />
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  &quot;As fourth graders at Welsh Elementary School in Rockford, my classmate Kristin Henard and I co-authored and illustrated a book entitled The Two Friends. Xeroxed and stapled, this book tells the story of an eagle and a horse who meet in the wild and become friends. Two of the book&quot;s illustrations, both simple line drawings, picture the eagle, Bushy-Tail, riding on the back of the horse, Cherokee. It was a start.<br />
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          'Always in such a hurry to create enough work to fill my booth for the next show, I seldom take time to stop, breathe, and reflect. As I sit here at the computer, with beads accidentally glued to my pants, I'm further reminded that my life as an artist, and my story as a person, are intertwined with the significance of the animals that cross my path. Animals are as invested in our experience as we are in theirs. Sometimes I think we want to see ourselves in these creatures in order to hear the messages they bring.<br />
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        I know I do. &quot;The show Light of the Moon highlights the first decade of my life as a working artist. Whether two-dimensional or sculptural, the core of this work continues to explore my own interpretation of contemporary mythology. In the beaded painting entitled Surfacing, the white buffalo gently challenges a figure to come out of the darkness and find her heart as the subtle light of the moon looks on. Half of the viewers looking at my three-dimensional fox head Walden interpret him as an entirely different animal, a deer. Taking no offense, I relish the blurring between prey and predator. Lately I've come full circle, as the human heads of my earlier paintings have found their way into my sculptures as antique doll parts. That's always fun-when an unintentional connection becomes obvious.&quot; </p>
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        <p><span class="style84"><strong>Common Thread: Contemporary Craft | January 18-March 23, 2008 </strong></span><br />
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        <p>Artist included in the exhibition are: Renie Breskin Adams, Chris Berti, Beth Bojarski, Jenny Mendes, Nichael Nakoneczny, Chris Roberts-Antieau, Cathy Rose, Kurt Brian Webb, Lynn Whipple, and Mark Winter. Light of the Moon and Common Thread open Friday, January 18 with a preview gallery walk at 4:30 p.m., members reception 5:30-7 p.m., and free public opening 7-8:30 p.m. Both exhibitions remain on display through Sunday, March 23. </p>
        <p><span class="style53">Download <a href="DOWNLOADS/YOUNGQUIST_COMMON_THREAD_QP_article.pdf">exhibition article</a><br />
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        <strong><span class="style84">Fast Forward: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 21st Century</span><span class="style84"></span></strong><span class="style84"><br />
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        October 26, 2007-January 6, 2008</span><br />
        The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is often referred to as<em> America's Studio </em>for its legacy as a place where radical experimentation in form and idea in the arts prevail. From its founding in 1866 as the Chicago Academy of Design (known as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1882) it has been one of the premier art academies in the U.S. Its chartered affiliation with a great art museum, its distinguished alumni (including Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Richard Hunt, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Grant Wood, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Estes, Walt Disney, Thomas Hart Benton, Gladys Nilsson, Rirkrit Tiravaniji, Robert Indiana, etc.; many of these and other SAIC alumni represented in the collection of the Rockford Art Museum) and its superb faculty and facilities have led it in recent years to be regularly cited as the finest art school in America.
        <p>But it's never yesterday that makes an art school an exciting and viable place for visual thinking, it's tomorrow-always tomorrow. Keeping the SAIC vibrant, making it a laboratory for new ideas in a rapidly changing art environment, is the challenge facing its newer faculty. Fast Forward: The School of the Art Institute in the 21st Century takes a close look at the men and women who have joined the faculty of the SAIC this century, and who will lead it for decades to come. Beyond-but including-artists working in the media of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, fashion, etc., these artists also expose us to things Georgia O'Keefe couldn't have imagined during her time at the SAIC, culled from newer departments such as Architecture/Interior Architecture/Designed Objects, Film/Video/New Media, Art and Technology, Performance, Sound, and Visual Communication. These faculty represent diversity in every sense of the concept, and offer an overview of contemporary art in all its ambition and intensity, setting the bar high for future generations of SAIC students.<br />
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        <span class="style84"><strong>Glimpse: The Arnold Gilbert Photography Collection | July 20-October 7, 2007</strong></span><br />
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        In December 1974, Arnold Gilbert, a nationally prominent photography collector, donated a collection of prints to Rockford Art Museum that collectively represent almost the entire history of photography. After having already gifted several prints to museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Gilbert decided to donate his collection to RAM because of its strong photographic program, including its juried exhibits and photographic workshops. His vision for the collection was that it be seen and utilized by students and the general public, which has been realized through RAM's regular display of photography and, now, Glimpse<br />
        The exhibition draws from the 140 photographs that comprise the Arnold Gilbert Photography Collection of Rockford Art Museum, which boasts major figures in the history of photography. 
        <p class="style53">Works on display include landscapes by Ansel Adams, documentary images of the Civil War by Mathew Brady, documentary portraits of Mexico and its people by Manuel Carrillo, and landscapes by Brett Weston. The exhibition includes didactic material about the photographers, photographic processes, equipment, and the acceptance of photography in society via images, cartoons, newspaper reports and historic equipment. The earliest processes–daguerreotype, ambrotype and tintype-are also represented by samples from the collection.</p>
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        <p><span class="style84"><strong>HE &amp; SHE: Vallien and Hydman-Vallien | March 30-July 8, 2007</strong></span><br />
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          World-renowned glass artists Bertil Vallien and Ulrica Hydman-Vallien of Sweden mark their first combined exhibition of this magnitude in the U.S. when Rockford Art Museum presents HE &amp; SHE: Vallien and Hydman-Vallien March 30-July 8, 2007.<br />
        The Valliens create some of the most original, highly recognized and critically acclaimed glass pieces and installations in the world today. More than three decades of their work are on permanent display at Sweden's VIDA Museum, and both artists are represented in museums and galleries around the globe. Rockford Art Museum showcases sandcast sculptures by Bertil and paintings and ceramics by Ulrica in this extraordinary exhibition that shatters conventional notions about glass. An illustrated catalogue accompanies HE &amp; SHE.</p>
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<p><img src="CURRENT IMAGES/Halls_150.jpg" width="150" height="119" /></p>
      <p class="style91">Richard Hull, <em>Halls<br />
        <br />
      </em></p>
      <p class="style91">&nbsp;</p>
      <p class="style91">&nbsp;</p>
      <p class="style91"><em><br />
      </em></p>
<p><a href="ALCHEMY_IMAGE/ALCHEMY_IMAGE.html"><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/Carpetbag_150.jpg" width="150" height="124" border="0" /></a></p>
      <p><span class="style62">T.L. Solein, <em>Carpetbag</em></span></p>
      <p><br />
        </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p><a href="MIDWESTERN/RMB_2010_exh.html"><img src="CURRENT IMAGES/RMB_150.jpg" width="150" height="119" border="0" /></a></p>
      <p class="style62">Megan Klazura, <em><br />
        </em>Mille Guldbeck<em>, Approaching </em> </p>
      <p class="style62">&nbsp;</p>
      <p class="style62">&nbsp;</p>
      <p><a href="HOLLIS_SIGLER/Hollis_Sigler_exh.html"><img src="IMAGES/Sigler_Devil_150px.jpg" width="150" height="149" border="0" /></a></p>
      <p><span class="style62">Hollis Sigler, <em>I'd Make a Deal with the Devil</em> (detail)</span></p>
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        </p>
      <p><br />
        </p>
      <p><br />
      </p>
      <p><img src="CURRENT IMAGES/Paschke_Red_Sweeney_150px.jpg" width="150" height="192" /><br />
      </p>
      <p class="style67">Ed Paschke, <em>Red Sweeney</em></p>
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      </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
        </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
      </p>
      <p><a href="MOBY_DICK/moby_dick_exh.html"><br />
        <img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/Spirit_Spout_Moby_Dick_150px.jpg" width="150" height="192" border="0" /></a><br />
        <span class="style67"><br />  
          George Klauba, <em>Spirit Spout</em></span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
    </p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/RBH.Hummingbird.Master.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <span class="style67"> <br />
        Rick Beerhorst<br />
          <em>Hummingbird Girl</em> <br />
          © 2008, Eyekons</span><br />
          <br />
        </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
      </p>
      <p><br />
        <img src="IMAGES/VERA_BOXES_150.jpg" width="150" height="137" /><br />
        <span class="style67"> <br />
          Vera Klement, <em>The Stones of Camargo,  </em>(detail)</span><br />
        <br />
        <br />
        <br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp; </p>
      <p><br />
        <br />
        <br />
        <img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/apricot_tree-150px.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <span class="style67"><br />
          Frances A. Cox<br />
          Black Apricot Tree (detail) 2006</span></p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/01_Buisch_150px.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
          <span class="style67"><br />
          Derrick Buisch, <em>6FS1</em>,  (detail)<br />
          2007<br />
        </span></p>
      <p><br />
          <br />
        </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
        <br />
        <br />
      </p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/Dance_in_box.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <span class="style67"> <br />
        Zhou Brothers, <em>Dance in the Box </em>(detail) 1993</span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/Zhou_painting.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
          <span class="style67"> <br />
          Zhou Brothers painting<br />
        photo by Mike Hettwer</span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
      </p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/HumptyDumpty_Day_by150px.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <span class="style67"><br />
      Betsy Youngquist<br /> 
            <em>Humpty Dumpty Day</em> (detail)<br />
          2007, Photo by Larry Sanders</span></p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/Crabby-Baby.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <span class="style67"><br />
      Betsy Youngquist<br />
            <em>Crabby Baby</em> (detail)<br />
Photo by Larry Sanders</span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
        </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
      </p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/Fire_Dog150px.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <span class="style67"><br />
      Michael Nakoneczny<br />
            <em>Fire Dog</em> (detail)</span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><br />
      </p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/holmes_rockford_fresh.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
          <span class="style67"><br />
          Tiffany Holmes, <em>FRESH 1.0</em><br />
Video installation</span><br />
<br />
          <img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/tarkowski.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
          <span class="style67"><br />
          Christine Tarkowski<br />
        photo montage</span><span class="style67"> (detail)<br />
        </span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><span class="style67"><br />
        </span><br />
      </p>
      <p><span class="style67"><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/winningham_untitled_150px.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <br />
        Geoffrey Winningham, <em>Untitled</em>, (detail) n.d. Gelatin silver print</span></p>
      <p class="style67"><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/weston.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />
        <br />
        Brett Weston, <em>California</em>, (detail) 1941, gelatin silver print, Gift of Arnold Gilbert</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/3_heads_bertil.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><span class="style69">Bertil Vallien,<em> Three Heads</em><br />
        (detail) 2000</span></p>
      <p><img src="PAST EXHIBITIONS IMAGES/ulrica_eggs_01.jpg" width="150" height="150" /><br />  
          <span class="style67">Ulrica Hydman-Vallien, <em>The Nest</em><br />
          (detail) 
        2006, Glass and mixed media</span></p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>
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