1 December – 5 March, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 30 November, 6-8pm
Pah Homestead, Ground Floor Galleries

Midnight Cowboy focuses on the works that harness the power of neon as their primary material. Drawing on works held in public collections and the Arts Trust Collection, with the works by Bill Culbert, Paul Hartigan and Robert Jahnke, the show also includes recent explorations by local artists, such as Mary Louise Browne and Jacquelyn Greenbank.

Ghastly Studios (Rutecki, Kerr) Tortuosa Table is included in the show, supporting Bruce Parker’s neon sculpture Flowers.

Opening Wednesday 18th November 6pm

Tangerine Dream brings together objects drawn from the Wallace Art Trust Collection. Like the namesake German electronic band, the works in this exhibition focus on materiality, the artists’ response to medium, fun and experimentation. Curated from the diverse holdings in the Collection and encompassing ceramics, sculpture, assemblage, glass, painting and found objects, the exhibition explores how unconventional approaches to materials have allowed artists to push their practice in new and exciting directions.

Rutecki’s 2016 sculpture, Pink Double Bubble is included in this exhibition as well as her recent porcelain work, Chalice, after Horror Vacui puff sleeves, from the Roto O Rangi anagama kiln.

The Prairie Center of the Arts is excited to announce the opening of
“Fierce: Women in Iron,” an exhibition of female identified artists working with cast iron. The
exhibition features the work of over thirty-five national and international artists as part of
Peoria’s month long Citywide Celebration of Women in the Arts. Fierce: Women in Iron is
co-curated by Kristen Tordella-Williams (Millsaps College, Jackson MS) and Jam Lovell (Black
Dog Metal Arts LLC, Peoria, IL). The exhibition opening is Friday, November 1, 2019 from 5:00
- 8:00 p.m. “Fierce: Women in Iron” is open to the public Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
or by appointment from November 1- November 30, 2019. An all-female iron pour will take
place November 2, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. at the Peoria Art Guild with a crew featuring several of
the artists participating in the exhibition.
Fierce: Women in Iron features artwork that incorporates iron, a historically industrial and tough material, created by women identified artists from across the nation. A dedicated community of artists cast iron outside of commercial or fine art foundries; these individuals tap into a 5,000 year old ritual. Since the 60s, the iron community has included women and men working together to build furnaces, break iron and coke (unrefined coal), make molds, and perform the dirty, physical labor to craft the sculptures and artworks out of iron, our beloved shared medium.
The iron community is a tight knit family of individuals who support and educate each other in spaces where everyone is welcome as long as they work hard and contribute. The cast iron
community embodies the optimism we need to unify and grow. There is a beautiful fluidity of
learning through making in iron and the iron community is a shining example of how we all can thrive together outside of a male-dominated culture. One hundred years ago, women would
never have been able to participate in an iron pour. Fierce: Women in Iron focuses on female
identified artists working with iron to celebrate our transition over the past one hundred years
from objectification, to taking control of our likenesses, to now being experts of our craft from top to bottom.

CICA Museum
June 28 – July 14, 2019
2019. 6.28 – 7.14

Pierre Ajavon, Cristina Amiran and Khalil Charif, Tanja Balac, Hazel, Hyegyoung Choo, Louize Deh, Norman Fairbanks, Rodrigo Franzao, Houston Fryer, Rhea Gupte, Taihie Han 한태희, Eunsun Huh 허은선, Soonho Jo 조순호, Hanul Kim 김하늘, Alexandra Knox, Lilien Li, Heejae Lim 임희재, Katarzyna Wishqa Łyszkowska, Sjoerd Martens, Yelena Myshko, Yao Cheuk Ni, Ari Norris, Heejin Park 박희진, Jeongeun Park 박정은, Erin Pollock, Katherine Rutecki, Sandra Araújo, Jennifer Seo, Jackson Shim 잭슨심, Monika Sochańska, Rachel Wolfe, Kristin Wu, Jaesik Yoo 유재식

CAST: Art & Objects

Craft Forms 2018 Companion Show

December 8, 2018 – January 26, 2019
Wayne Art Center, Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery

This curated invitational exhibition will display a selection of cast art and objects continuing and building on the theme of the award-winning book, CAST: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process, by Jen Townsend and Renée Zettle-Sterling (Schiffer Publishing, 2017.) This first-of-its-kind book reveals how the process of casting — forming a material into a mold — has transformed our world through its history and omnipresence.

In addition to works by contemporary artists and craftspeople, the exhibition will include historical objects, as well as some everyday objects. The purpose of this show (like the book) is to encourage the audience to consider casting’s countless and exciting contributions to the world around us.

Unperceived Existence explores the interplay between existence and perception through a series of solo exhibitions for women artists.

viewable online:

ig @unperceived_existence

www.unperceivedexistence.wordpress.com

unperceivedexistence@gmail.com

Katherine Rutecki and Jon Witzky

MFA Thesis Exhibition

Carbondale Community Arts

Artspace 304

304 W Walnut Street

Carbondale, IL 62901

Reception 4/20/2018 5-7pm

Bright Masses - Katherine Rutecki
5 - 24 July 2016
preview Wednesday 6 July from 5.30pm

New works by Katherine Rutecki