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University Art Gallery

Exhibitions - Spring 2025
Damon McArthur 鈥� Works on Paper January 15 鈥� February 14, 2025 Reception: Wednesday, January 29, 4:30-6:00 Damon McArthur Received his undergraduate education from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and his graduate degree from American University. He is a two-dimensional artist who works mainly with paper, watercolor, and assorted drawing materials. His work has been shown internationally and has received several awards. McArthur also makes single-panel cartoons for clients including the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. McArthur is a professor in the department of art and design at 春雨直播 Illinois University where he has taught for 21 years. His current bodies of work explore the expressive possibilities of figuration in drawing and painting.
Basia Krol 鈥� Wherever I May Roam February 4 鈥� March 21, 2025 Reception: Tuesday, February 4, 4:30-6:00 Barbara 鈥淏asia鈥� Krol was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting and printmaking at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and traveled through Europe to study old masters in major collections. She received her Masters Degree in Studio Art from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art in 2000. Following several Artist in Residency programs in the US, Krol moved to Chicago in 2004 and then downstate to Galesburg IL in 2011, to raise a family. Since the pandemic Krol has been painting almost exclusively landscapes based on native and restored habitats of the Midwest. She paints in oil on canvas as she considers that tradition the knowledge of our ancestors. Her paintings are loosely realistic but abstract upon closer inspection. She enjoys moving her body through spacetime both hiking and dancing while she paints. The painting is finished in meditative and calligraphy details with the intention of transporting the viewer to metaphysical place they don't know they miss.
David Linneweh 鈥� Veneer February 13 鈥� March 7, 2025 Reception: Thursday, February 13, 4:30-6:00 ANNEX GALLERY David Linneweh is an artist and educator who lives in the greater Chicago Metropolitan area and is director of the Studio Break Gallery and Studio Break Podcast. David's paintings have largely explored the landscape and architecture within the suburbs of contemporary America. He received his MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in (07') and his BFA from Illinois State University in (02'). Solo exhibitions include: Open House, Studio Break Gallery, West Chicago, IL (22'); Pembroke, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (18'); An Uncertain Nostalgia, RACA Gallery, Mankato, MN (18'); The Perkinson Art Gallery, Decatur, IL (16'); Diminished Landscape, Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA (15'); & Scavenged Landscapes, The Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL, (12'). Group Exhibitions: Pathways, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington IL (21'); Peripheries, Heartbreaker Gallery, Peoria, IL (19'); 21 & Counting, The Painting Center, New York, NY (14'); Country Living, The Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (14'); & The Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Davie, FL, (13'). Residences: Centraltrak Artist Residency, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX; Osage Arts Community, Belle, MO; The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts , Nebraska City, NE; Vermont Studio Center (Full Fellowship), Johnson, VT; and entelJ, Banner, WY. His work has been published in Create Magazine IX (18') and New American Paintings (11',07', 05', 03').
Jan Clough 鈥� Looking and Thinking February 25 鈥� April 4, 2025 Reception: Tuesday, February 25, 4:30-6:00 Jan Clough was a Professor of Art at 春雨直播 Illinois University. She came to WIU in 1991 after earning an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BFA degree from Drake University, Des Moines, IA. At WIU, she taught all levels of Drawing and served as the Academic Advisor to graphic design/studio art majors in the Department of Art & Design. She retired from WIU in August 2024. Jan continues to work and exhibit in a variety of two-dimensional media. Her drawings have earned awards and recognition in many regional and national exhibitions and are included in private and public collections. Jan is a native of Burlington, Iowa.
Ruby Warner 鈥� Bet on This Mavigliano Brabec Senior Art Prize April 9 鈥� April 23, 2025 Reception: Thursday, April 10, 4:30-6:00
Jae Florence Corales 鈥� Pearl of the Orient Seas April 1 鈥� April 17, 2025 Reception: Tuesday, April 15, 4:30-6:00 ANNEX GALLERY
Juried Student Exhibition Juror: Tyanna Buie April 15 - May 3, 2025 Reception: Tuesday, April 17, 4:30-6:00
Kieara Morey April 23鈥� May 2, 2025 ANNEX GALLERY
Carolyn Foster 鈥� Resist BFA Exhibition April 28鈥� May 9, 2025 Reception: Tuesday, April 29, 4:30-6:00

Exhibitions - Spring 2025

Damon McArthur 鈥� Works on Paper
January 15 鈥� February 14, 2025
Reception: Wednesday, January 29, 4:30-6:00

Damon McArthur Received his undergraduate education from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and his graduate degree from American University. He is a two-dimensional artist who works mainly with paper, watercolor, and assorted drawing materials. His work has been shown internationally and has received several awards. McArthur also makes single-panel cartoons for clients including the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. McArthur is a professor in the department of art and design at 春雨直播 Illinois University where he has taught for 21 years. His current bodies of work explore the expressive possibilities of figuration in drawing and painting.

McCarther

Basia Krol 鈥� Wherever I May Roam
February 4 鈥� March 21, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, February 4, 4:30-6:00

Barbara 鈥淏asia鈥� Krol was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. She studied painting and printmaking at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and traveled through Europe to study old masters in major collections. She received her Masters Degree in Studio Art from Warsaw Academy of Fine Art in 2000. Following several Artist in Residency programs in the US, Krol moved to Chicago in 2004 and then downstate to Galesburg IL in 2011, to raise a family. Since the pandemic Krol has been painting almost exclusively landscapes based on native and restored habitats of the Midwest. She paints in oil on canvas as she considers that tradition the knowledge of our ancestors. Her paintings are loosely realistic but abstract upon closer inspection. She enjoys moving her body through spacetime both hiking and dancing while she paints. The painting is finished in meditative and calligraphy details with the intention of transporting the viewer to metaphysical place they don't know they miss.

Krol

David Linneweh 鈥� Veneer
February 13 鈥� March 7, 2025
Reception: Thursday, February 13, 4:30-6:00
ANNEX GALLERY

David Linneweh is an artist and educator who lives in the greater Chicago Metropolitan area and is director of the Studio Break Gallery and Studio Break Podcast. David's paintings have largely explored the landscape and architecture within the suburbs of contemporary America. He received his MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in (07') and his BFA from Illinois State University in (02'). Solo exhibitions include: Open House, Studio Break Gallery, West Chicago, IL (22'); Pembroke, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (18'); An Uncertain Nostalgia, RACA Gallery, Mankato, MN (18'); The Perkinson Art Gallery, Decatur, IL (16'); Diminished Landscape, Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA (15'); & Scavenged Landscapes, The Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL, (12').

Group Exhibitions: Pathways, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington IL (21'); Peripheries, Heartbreaker Gallery, Peoria, IL (19'); 21 & Counting, The Painting Center, New York, NY (14'); Country Living, The Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (14'); & The Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Davie, FL, (13'). Residences: Centraltrak Artist Residency, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX; Osage Arts Community, Belle, MO; The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts , Nebraska City, NE; Vermont Studio Center (Full Fellowship), Johnson, VT; and entelJ, Banner, WY. His work has been published in Create Magazine IX (18') and New American Paintings (11',07', 05', 03').

Linneweh

Jan Clough 鈥� Looking and Thinking
February 25 鈥� April 4, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, February 25, 4:30-6:00

Jan Clough was a Professor of Art at 春雨直播 Illinois University. She came to WIU in 1991 after earning an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BFA degree from Drake University, Des Moines, IA. At WIU, she taught all levels of Drawing and served as the Academic Advisor to graphic design/studio art majors in the Department of Art & Design. She retired from WIU in August 2024. Jan continues to work and exhibit in a variety of two-dimensional media. Her drawings have earned awards and recognition in many regional and national exhibitions and are included in private and public collections. Jan is a native of Burlington, Iowa.

Clough