Held at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, this year’s Birds in Art exhibition features superb works of avian art by 113 artists from around the world. The event, which is currently in its 46th year, showcases the grace, beauty and allure of our feathered friends through paintings, sculptures and graphics created within the last three years.
Vida Pearson, Carmine Bee-eaters, hand colored linocut, 18½ x 22½"
The exhibition will include 21 artists who were named Master Artists during previous Birds in Art exhibitions, while the other 92 artists were selected to participate by a three-person jury. These artists were whittled down by the jury from a pool of 510 artists who submitted a total of 813 works for consideration.
Rose Tanner, The Gossiper, oil on linen, 10 x 20"
Don Rambadt, Understory, welded bronze and glass, 26 x 13 x 8"
James M. Clow, Roadside Attraction,oil on cradled birch panel, 18 x 24"
Among the artists with work featured in the show are Rose Tanner, Don Rambadt, Vida Pearson and James M. Clow.
“Art and nature are synonymous to me. I find our relationship with the environment to be the highest form of self-expression,” says Alaska-based artist Sara Wolman, whose piece Desert and the Roadrunner is in the 2021 show. “There’s a mastery of design within nature, little nuances of patterns and relationships in every leaf and feather…In my piece Desert and the Roadrunner, I chose to represent a bird from a land foreign to me, a roadrunner from the desert Southwest.” She continues, “I channel color into a digital format in ways that are accessible to people all over the world. I want everyone to pause and look at birds outside their windows. Birds represent so much that connects us. Their freedom in flight and their beauty in song are things we craned our necks to see from the dawn of humanity.”
Sara Wolman, Desert and the Roadrunner, digital multimedia print on archival paper, 48 x 48"Birds in Art 2021 will be on view September 11 through November 28. Exhibition opening festivities will be modified with COVID-19 precautions. —
Birds in Art
When: September 11-November 28, 2021
Where: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 700 N. 12th Street, Wausau, WI 54403
Information: (715) 845-7010, www.lywam.org
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