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Keokuk artist displaying works at three art shows
For the Daily Gate City
Five works by Keokuk artist Rita Noe are on exhibit in an international juried exhibit in St. James, N.Y., a national juried exhibit in Mableton, Ga., and a state wide juried exhibit in Cedar Falls.
The works, Mystery Woman and Life Patterns, were accepted by juror Dr. Connie Koppelman, professor of women's studies and Women's Art at SUNY Stony Brook, for an exhibit called Circling the Globe Through Women's Lives. The exhibit is at the Mills Pond House Gallery of the Smithtown Township Arts Council in St. James.
“Women around the world have quietly made their presence known by becoming part of their environments,” Noe said. “Life Patterns is a perfect example.
“The subject was tending her donkey in a small village in Croatia. I was struck by the repetition of patterns, both in the landscape and in her clothing. Rocks from the mountainside become walls which rise into buildings, all the same color and texture. The intricate patterns and colors of her clothing act as a counterbalance to all the sameness, yet are in perfect harmony with her surroundings.”
Mystery Woman depicts an intriguing presence in the Matsumoto Castle in Yamanashi, Japan. At first she is lost in the intricacies of the castle, but once the eye settles on her form after following the swooping rooflines, the mysteries of who she is, what she is doing there, what is she looking at and what she is holding in her hand begins.
“Recognizing the visual analogies around me has long been the focus of my work, along with my belief that humans are most fulfilled when they live with their environments,” Noe said.
Juror Ernest Varner II, art professor at Kennesaw State University, selected Noe's digigraph, Walking in the Light, for the World of Art Exhibit at the South Cobb Arts Alliance's Mable House Gallery in the Atlanta suburb of Mableton, Ga.
The subject is a pigeon strutting along a shaft of sunlight reflecting from the cobblestones of the Stradun, in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
“Patience paid off in this case,” Noe said. “Why the human beings were staying in the shadows while the bird chose the sunlight is a mystery, but it makes for a dramatic, yet humorous, expression.”
Iowa landscapes are the subjects of two prints selected by jurors Sean O'Harrow and Dan Strong for the competitive exhibit at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, a venue for Iowa artists for nearly 20 years.
“Twin Monuments to Progress is an environmental statement,” Noe said. “When Airport Road north of Keokuk was being prepared for widening, two stately evergreen trees were ‘trimmed' to make room for a displaced power line. The visual result reminded me of the Washington Monument. When I discovered Queen Anne's Lace forming a similar obelisk, I had the perfect combination of ugliness and beauty.”
A sudden Iowa summer storm is the subject of Storm Abrewing, depicting Northeast Iowa hayfields washed by a yellow setting sun under the dark, roiling clouds of a pending thunderstorm.
“I was awed by both the dramatic diagonal lines of the scene and the contrast of peacefulness and trouble,” Noe said. “Which of us never knows the sudden turnabout?”
The Hearst exhibit opens May 31 and runs through Aug. 17. The STAC exhibit closes April 28 and the South Cobb exhibit closes on May 26.
Access Noe's work at her Web site, ritanoe.com, and at Lock 19 Gallery and Java River Coffee House in Keokuk.
Five works by Keokuk artist Rita Noe are on exhibit in an international juried exhibit in St. James, N.Y., a national juried exhibit in Mableton, Ga., and a state wide juried exhibit in Cedar Falls.
The works, Mystery Woman and Life Patterns, were accepted by juror Dr. Connie Koppelman, professor of women's studies and Women's Art at SUNY Stony Brook, for an exhibit called Circling the Globe Through Women's Lives. The exhibit is at the Mills Pond House Gallery of the Smithtown Township Arts Council in St. James.
“Women around the world have quietly made their presence known by becoming part of their environments,” Noe said. “Life Patterns is a perfect example.
“The subject was tending her donkey in a small village in Croatia. I was struck by the repetition of patterns, both in the landscape and in her clothing. Rocks from the mountainside become walls which rise into buildings, all the same color and texture. The intricate patterns and colors of her clothing act as a counterbalance to all the sameness, yet are in perfect harmony with her surroundings.”
Mystery Woman depicts an intriguing presence in the Matsumoto Castle in Yamanashi, Japan. At first she is lost in the intricacies of the castle, but once the eye settles on her form after following the swooping rooflines, the mysteries of who she is, what she is doing there, what is she looking at and what she is holding in her hand begins.
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Juror Ernest Varner II, art professor at Kennesaw State University, selected Noe's digigraph, Walking in the Light, for the World of Art Exhibit at the South Cobb Arts Alliance's Mable House Gallery in the Atlanta suburb of Mableton, Ga.
The subject is a pigeon strutting along a shaft of sunlight reflecting from the cobblestones of the Stradun, in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
“Patience paid off in this case,” Noe said. “Why the human beings were staying in the shadows while the bird chose the sunlight is a mystery, but it makes for a dramatic, yet humorous, expression.”
Iowa landscapes are the subjects of two prints selected by jurors Sean O'Harrow and Dan Strong for the competitive exhibit at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, a venue for Iowa artists for nearly 20 years.
“Twin Monuments to Progress is an environmental statement,” Noe said. “When Airport Road north of Keokuk was being prepared for widening, two stately evergreen trees were ‘trimmed' to make room for a displaced power line. The visual result reminded me of the Washington Monument. When I discovered Queen Anne's Lace forming a similar obelisk, I had the perfect combination of ugliness and beauty.”
A sudden Iowa summer storm is the subject of Storm Abrewing, depicting Northeast Iowa hayfields washed by a yellow setting sun under the dark, roiling clouds of a pending thunderstorm.
“I was awed by both the dramatic diagonal lines of the scene and the contrast of peacefulness and trouble,” Noe said. “Which of us never knows the sudden turnabout?”
The Hearst exhibit opens May 31 and runs through Aug. 17. The STAC exhibit closes April 28 and the South Cobb exhibit closes on May 26.
Access Noe's work at her Web site, ritanoe.com, and at Lock 19 Gallery and Java River Coffee House in Keokuk.
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