Justin believes there are a lot of parallels between this period of our history and what is happening today.  As he created this new body of work, he did so with this historical context in mind.

The show will run from September 13-October 9, 2010 and there will be an opening reception for the show on Friday September 17, 2010 from 6-10 p.m. at the Lala Gallery.

 

Time: September 22 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Location:The C.A.C. (Community Arts Center: 13300 Lincoln Plaza, Cedar Lake, IN 46303)

Created By: Ali Lauren Jacobs

 

Torluemke Lets It All Hang Out in The Exhibitionist

In a day of modern expressions and emotional detachment there is an artist who pours every ounce of energy into his work not holding back from sensitive personal and socio-political issues. Tom Torluemke will open his one-man show THE EXHIBITIONIST at Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 South Morgan St, Chicago on Friday, September 24, 2010 from 6 – 11 p.m. The exhibit will consist of work for all senses and sensibilities. Torluemke a versatile and prolific artist will treat viewers to many new mobile and sculpture works in addition to his tried and true passionate easel paintings and drawings.

Here are excerpts from what people are saying about Torluemke:

“This is painting (and, and) beyond words and language. Always beautiful, sometimes pretty; funny, dark, obscene, spiritual, gross. Enigmatic, but a mine for a psychoanalyst. I choke on the word “surrealism”, but in the best of that, not weird for its own sake, Tom gives a path or window or pointer to our sub-conscious or soul, through his.”

Michael Bulka, 8/10

“Tom is over there in Indiana in this half-world blur of the Urban the and the Rural — the sacred and the profane– and he whips together classic figuration, comics, porn and heartfelt Americaness like a modern day shaman. He stays out of the mix– stubbornly hacking away his own path through his own field– I cannot think of an artist that I admire more.”

Tony Fitzpatrick, 8/10

“Lari Pitman turned this self-denying modernity against itself with his post-Cubist-Futurist-Constructivist eye-candy flowcharts, and Torluemke brings a similar sumptuous sugar-vomit sensibility to the suggestive textures and crevices of Surrealism, nauseously multiplied in a dazzling Rococo prism of Technicolor fever dreams.”

Albert Stabler, 8/10

“In Tom’s work, I see someone who can do it all, and who blends styles, references, media in an effortless manner. I sense vulnerability and utmost confidence simultaneously in his creations.”

Gregg Hertzlieb, 8/10

“His Heimat underlines one of Torluemke’s many strengths as an artist, beyond his notable technical ability and visual inventiveness: his idiosyncrasy, in the best sense of the word.”

Mark Staff Brandl, 8/10

“Tom’s a watcher. He’s perceptive. He sees it all. He watches others. He watches life. He watches himself. These layers of observation pile up upon themselves in his art.”

Paul Klein, 8/10

THE EXHIBITIONIST opens

Friday, September 24, 2010 from 6 – 11 p.m.

Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 South Morgan St, Chicago

Exhibit runs through October 14

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays, 1:00 – 7:00 p.m., Friday & Saturday, Noon – 5:00 p.m.

Exhibit Programming

Museum Curator Roasts Artist and Exhibit – Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 p.m.
Gregg Hertzlieb, Director/Curator of the Brauer Museum of Art will roast the artist and the exhibit followed by Curator vs Artist a discussion of issues important to artists.

 

This is my first solo show at a great space in downtown Hammond.
I hope you will come out. Free parking lot just off of Fayette Street at the back entrance of the theater.

Life is Sweet is a series portraying iconic candies and sweets loved by American kids from the 1950s to today. Many of these foodstuffs are over the top—artificially colored, overly designed, prettily adorned, even disguised as cute bunnies or glamorous jewelry—and that is what always attracted me as a child. Their value to me was more in their appearance—how they were designed—than their taste.

Hanging with My Peeps

 

The exhibit We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball will be on display September 26 – December 19, 2010 and features original paintings by Kadir Nelson. It will be at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster. This exhibit is touring nationally and includes over 30 paintings as well as sketches.

It’s about the story of Negro League baseball—the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundreds of unsung heroes who overcame segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay to do the one thing they loved more than anything else in the world: play ball.

Kadir Nelson, "Diz and Satch", 2004, Oil on canvas, Collection of San Diego Padres

Kadir Nelson spent seven years creating paintings for a book which is dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Nelson interviewed former Negro League players, traveled to museums around the country, poured over old photographs, firsthand testimonies and documentaries, collected baseball memorabilia, sports equipment and uniforms, then posed and photographed himself in them, all with the intention of putting himself in the shoes of a former Negro Leaguer to recreate an authentic depiction of life in the Negro Baseball Leagues.

Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. In just a few years, the Negro National League grew into the third largest African-American owned business in the world. It reached its apex in the mid-1940s with its crown jewel, the East-West All-Star Classic that was held every summer at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.

Kadir Nelson, "Safe at Home", 2005, Oil on canvas, Collection of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Nelson’s book, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, was a New York Times best-seller and the New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2008. The book also received a Coretta Scott King Author Award, an Illustration Honor and the Robert F. Sibert Medal from the American Library Association.

The title of the book and the exhibit come from a quote by Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League: “We are the ship; all else the sea.”

If you have seen the new Negro Leagues Baseball stamps at the Post Office, you have already seen Nelson’s work. The Rube Foster stamp features his paintings.

So don’t miss this one. Mark your calendars and get over there already!

South Shore Arts
We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
At the Center for Visual and Performing Arts
1040 Ridge Road, Munster
September 26 – December 19, 2010

 

Who: Everyone

What:  Group Art Show

Where:  The C.A.C.

(Community Arts Center: 13300 Lincoln Plaza, Cedar Lake, IN 46303)

When: Friday October 1 at 6:00 – 10:00 pm

Why: Because art is awesome!

 

Download the PDF Flyer Here:

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Who: Everyone is welcome!

What: Bus trip to the Hamilton Factory

Where: Two Rivers Wisconsin.

When: October 2, 2010 (meet at Faith Church in Dyer, IN at 5:00 am)

Cost: $75 Per Person (Payment due Wednesday September 12! Checks made out to Faith Church and mailed to: Kevin Bruinsma 100 81^st Ave. Dyer, IN 46311) this cost includes a tour, instruction, and printing supplies. This does not include food.

Schedule:

5:00 am | Bus leaves Faith Church in Dyer

7:00 am | Stop somewhere for a quick breakfast

9:00 am | Arrive at Hamilton

9:00 am – 10:00 am | Tour of Museum & Press room

10:00 am – 11:00 am | Instruction Time

11:00 am – 5:00 pm | Play with the presses!

5:00 pm | Bus leaves for home

6:00 pm | Quick dinner stop

9:00 pm | Arrive back in Dyer

Contact Kevin_bruinsma@yahoo.com for more information.

 

Saturday October 2nd, Noon – 2pm, Sun: 10am – 2pm
Free Event

• FREE APPLE CIDER
• talk on the radio with WIMS Radio on Saturday
• Locally Grown produce and meats, Pumpkins, corn stalks
• food
• entertainment
• wood carvers
• antique car show
• Fall Decorations
• pumpkins
• food vendors
• local artisans
• Fall Gift Ideas
• Live Music by Grammy Contender Keenan Baxter on keyboards Sat. Noon -2pm ( Keenan’s music can be heard by visiting www.myspace.com/KeenanClassicalJazz )
• live music on Sunday by “The Steve and Mary Show,” Located at the Pioneer Pier, 234 E. 2nd st., Michigan City, North of the intersection of Hwy 35 & Hwy 12, 219-508-5650 http://www.riverside-market.com Both Keenan and Riverside can be visited on Facebook.

MARKET LOCATION:
Located at Pioneer Pier Development – North at the intersection of Hwy. 12 and Michigan Blvd./Hwy. 35 follow signs to 116 Taylor Street, Michigan City, IN 46304