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First Friday Art Walk September 6, 2024

Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, September 6, 5 – 8 pm. Enjoy art and refreshments at the downtown galleries and catch the Shircliff Gallery before it closes at 6.

Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Whiskers of Memory: Intimate animal portraits by Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis with new works traded in to offer an expanded experience of her work.

The exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Petrulis’ past ten years of work.  During this time domestic animals have been her focus, through which she has explored the power of visual decisions in delivering content.  She favors zoomed in views of her subjects, which result in intimate portrayals. Quirky shapes and negative spaces help the viewer perceive characters and relationships.

Petrulis received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana State University. Retired as curator at the Swope Art Museum (after work as registrar and preparator), she is also involved with Wabash Valley Art Spaces, all three institutions in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The artist will be present during the First Friday reception to speak with visitors.

Regular gallery hours Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm

812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present the Guild’s annual Members Exhibition, running through September 27.  Guild members will be submitting up to three entries in the categories of 3-dimensional Media, Photography, Works on Paper and Works on Canvas.  Monetary awards will be given for Best of Show and First, Second and Third Place awards in each of the four categories.  Honorable Mentions may be given at the judge’s discretion.  This year’s judge is Sara Rhoades, a jewelry artist who owns her own jewelry making business, S.K. Rhoades as well as a retail boutique, The Confectionary.  She is adjunct professor of metals and jewelry at the University of Evansville.

This highly anticipated annual show offers an excellent opportunity to see art in a wide variety of subjects and media done by local artists.  Guild members will be on hand to discuss their works with the public.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.

 The Open Gallery 329 Main will present an exhibition of works by members of the Knox County Photographers’ Club, whose members meet monthly at the Pantheon to critique photos, learn, and discuss photography as a hobby and profession.  The club was formed June 23, 2022 and now has 210 members.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm.   812- 881-6475.

The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Leopold Segedin: Chicago 2000-2024 through September 16.  Segedin has been painting since 1942.  While he has explored a variety of subjects, he always returns to his beloved city of Chicago.  In his artist statement he notes: “When I began painting, Chicago was the world I lived in, but today that Chicago exists only in my memory, and memory is always a reconstruction.   Every time I paint it, I create it all over again.  And now even the memories have their history.

The empty rooms, the streets and sidewalks I paint, remind me of the people who once lived and walked there.  Gritty side brick and wallpaper embody the passage of time on their surfaces and thus remind me of the passage of my own life.  As I look back on my life – my work – what strikes me is how fast time passes, the temporary, fragile quality of all life.”

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; 812-888-4316

Gallery will be open until 6 pm First Friday September 6.