COMPACT: Small Works of Art
Juried by Tim Parsley
October 24 - November 17, 2024
Jenny Wu, "Right Here, Right Now," latex paint, .785 inches x .785 inches x .785 inches.
James Ehlers, "Favor as with a Shield," metal engraving, 4 x 4 inches.
Lynn Basa, "Geode with Ruffled Fungus," glazed stoneware, 4 x 5 x 6 inches.
Juliana Haliti, "Untitled," digital print, mylar, wood and shark vertebrae, 7 x 5.5 inches.
Adam Mysock, "25 Eyes," acrylic on paper, 3.25 x 2 inches.
Adam Mysock, "An Amalgamation," acrylic on paper, 3.5 x 2.5 inches.
Adam Mysock, "Trying to See Others," acrylic on paper, 2.75 x 2 inches.
Bartosz Beda, "Anastasia 01," ink on paper, 6 x 4.5 inches.
Natasha Romero, "Diamond Bobcat," bobcat skull and glass seed beads, 3.5 x 4 inches.
Rebecca Talbot, "Brush Aside the Unimportant," ceramic and quilted fabric, 3.5 x 2 inches.
Mel Kolstad, "Tomato Paste," drypoint and watercolor on paper, 3.5 x 3 inches.
Todd Johnson, "Vanilla Ice Creams," acrylic on paint chip," 4.5 x 2.75 inches.
Todd Johnson, "Peppermint Stick," acrylic on paint chip," 2.75 x 4.5 inches.
Britta Glass, "Nighttime Dreams," watercolor and mixed media, 6 x 6 inches.
Audrey Aronson, "Timeline," bloodwood, nu gold, borosilicate glass, 3 x 4.5 x 1.5 inches.
Tara Price, "Nektas," ink, 4 x 6 inches.
Monica Wiesblott, "Seelie" polychromatic photopolymer gravure on paper, 2 x 2 inches.
Monica Wiesblott, "Agni," photopolymer gravure, pyrography, gouache on paper, 1.5 x 2.5 inches.
Cathie Crawford, "Lunasity Diptych (left)," reduction woodcut monoprint, 4.5 x 4.5 inches.
Kelly Dunagan, "Reality," gouache and watercolor on paper mounter on panel, 6 x 6 inches.
Kelly Dunagan, "Looking Into the Light," gouache and watercolor on paper mounter on panel, 6 x 6 inches.
Jackie Daugherty, "Earth Vessel #2," wool, mohair, silk, linen yarns and beads, 3 x 5 x 5 inches.
Derek Bastian, "Spoon Bird," welded stainless cutlery on Bolivian Rosewood, 4 x 5 x 2 inches.
Greta Ruiz, "Blue Drop 2," wood-fired stoneware, 3 x 4 x 4 inches.
Cynthia Petry, "Unknown Series 8," mixed media collage, 5.75 x 5 inches.
Dolores Slowinski, "Radiation," thread on paper, 4.75 x 4.75 inches.
Colleen Pike-Blair, "Meadow House," stone lithography, 4 x 3 inches.
Colleen Pike-Blair, "Cuillins II," stone lithography, 2 x 4 inches.
Gail Baar, "Square #2," mixed media, 5 x 5 x 1.75 inches.
Sometimes small things can be quite powerful. Consider:
Bruce Lee’s iconic “One-inch punch”
The “snowball effect” resulting in an avalanche
Stepping barefoot onto a Lego piece
This same is true for small works of art. Of the various visual strategies used by artists, scale is a particularly dynamic strategy that, when leveraged effectively, often has a corporal impact on the viewer: a very large-scale work causes us to physically step back to take it all in… whereas a small-scale piece pulls us close, inviting an intimate encounter with the work. Artlink is pleased to offer an exhibition exploring and celebrating the focused power of small works of art, reflecting Van Gogh’s sentiment that, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
- Tim Parsley, Juror
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 24th from 5-8 pm!
Exhibiting Artists
Audrey Aronson, Gail Baar, Lynn Basa, Derek Bastian, Bartosz Beda, Cathie Crawford, Jackie Daugherty, Kelly Dunagan, James Ehlers, Britta Glass, Juliana Haliti, Todd Johnson, Mel Kolstad, Adam Mysock, Cynthia Petry, Colleen Pike-Blair, Tara Price, Natasha Romero, Greta Ruiz, Dolores Slowinski, Rebecca Talbot, Monica Wiesblott and Jenny Wu.
About the Juror
Tim Parsley is Program Director for Studio Art and Associate Professor of Studio Art (Painting and Drawing) at the University of Saint Francis, Division of Creative Arts in Fort Wayne, IN. Tim earned his BFA from the University of Cincinnati and his MFA from Miami University (Oxford, OH). He also works as a public artist and public art educator, creating numerous, large-scale, publicly-supported mural projects throughout the Midwest, New York, and Nairobi, Kenya. Tim previously served as Assistant Director of Manifest Creative Research Gallery in Cincinnati, OH and currently serves as Interim Executive Director for Artlink Contemporary Gallery. (www.timparsley.com)