We are pleased to welcome featured artist Kristy Deetz from Green Bay, WI, for a special on-site demonstration on Thursday, January 15, and Friday, January 16. Kristy will construct a collection of her sculptural Specimens—creature-like forms built from paint, wire, and natural materials such as rocks, branches, and found objects—on site. She places these Specimens into real landscapes to inspire her hyper-realistic Disrupted Gardens paintings.
This series imagines evolving environments in a not-too-distant future, where nature responds to environmental toxins and climate change by regenerating the Earth—our “Garden”—and populating it with new, often metamorphosing entities. Kristy’s paintings depict these Specimens interacting with one another and with their transforming environments.
Demonstration Schedule
• Thursday, 1/15, from 1:00–6:00 p.m.
• Friday, 1/16, from 3:00–5:00 p.m., followed by an artist talk and reception from 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Kristy Detz: Disrupted Gardens will be on view in the gallery from January 9 to February 27. The Art Gallery is open Wednesdays and Fridays from 1-6 p.m. and before most performances at The Lincoln Center.
Artists
Kristy Deetz
Kristy Deetz is emerita professor at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay (UWGB). She has exhibited extensively at national and international venues. As curator, Kristy has organized exhibitions that have traveled to art museums, university art galleries, and art centers. She frequently serves as a visiting artist and has led numerous painting/drawing workshops at venues including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI; Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO; and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship. She received SECAC (formerly Southeastern College Art Conference)’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2015 Silver Award from Graphis Design Annual, New York. Her paintings have been featured in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Ashley Rooney and Anne Lee (Shiffer Craft, 2016), Encaustic Art—The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax by Lissa Rankin M.D. (Watson-Guptill, 2010), and Dynamic Color Painting for the Beginner by Diane Edison (Abrams, 2008). An Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany, Kristy has also been Artist-in-Residence at The Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland and recently at Baer Art Center in Hofsós, Iceland.
Admission
Gallery Hours
Meet the featured artist and watch her demonstrate how she creates her sculptures.