2010 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Area Show juror is open to variety of media, styles and approaches
March 29, 2010
Chicago artist Gladys Nilsson has been keeping active this winter, not only putting together a presentation of her 44 years as a painter, but also finding the time to help the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts select the best art in west Michigan.
They tried to select a show that would give that voice that there are a lot of things going on, Nilsson said.
Nilsson said she found it during sifting entries of those artists in the area that are not headed together in one direction. Rather, they are working alone and coming up with traditional and nontraditional uses of medium.
Nilsson is interested in considering what other people are doing and in Kalamazoo, the area definitely offers a lot of vibrant and energetic paintings, as well as some nice quiet passages too. There is room for everything, Nilsson said. Nilsson is a veteran juror, having lent her input in 1998 for a small format show.
Nilsson said the Kalamazoo art culture was very sturdy then and according to all of the slides that she has gone over, it's is still very strong,
Nilsson reacts auspiciously, to any given set of stuff, but it has to reach out and grasp her, no matter what it is. If it doesn't do that it gets passed by, Nilsson said. She thinks about broad approval factor. When something talks to you, it doesn't make any difference whether it's the use of color, use of shape or an image you find that truly makes you vibrate.
Labels: Art work, Famous paintings, Gladys Nilsson, Kalmazoo Institude of Arts
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