BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Springshare//LibCal//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250501
DTSTAMP:20250501T000000Z
SUMMARY:Exhibit: "Community" by Mark Echtner
DESCRIPTION:Mark Echtner is a Professor of Drawing and Painting at Sinclair 
 College in Dayton Ohio. Echtner received his B.F.A. from the University of 
 Wisconsin – Milwaukee and his M.F.A. from Miami University. Echtner’s 
 work has been exhibited nationally in juried\, group and solo exhibitions. 
 His work hangs in numerous private collections throughout the U.S. and 
 Europe.\n\n“Community” -- Artist's Statement:\n\nFor me\, this series 
 of work represents a shift from an anatomical rendering of the figure and a 
 move toward more abstraction of the human form and the spaces they occupy. 
 \n\nThe process for these paintings begins with an under-painting that is 
 either an old painting turned upside down or\, if one is not available 
 beginning with random shapes and colors and then working the imagery over 
 that. As the painting evolves\, I embrace the oddity of the original 
 gesture rather than correcting the proportion and refining the form. The 
 random shapes from the underpainting influence the design in ways I can’t 
 plan and must respond to intuitively as I go. Ultimately these shapes and 
 movements are used to create the abstracted order of the final image. 
 \n\nInitially this series was influenced by looking at the early work of De 
 Kooning and his use of line and color in the 1940’s. German Expressionism 
 for its bold darkness and Fauvism for its colorful exuberance have also 
 played a role. As the series evolves the previous works have begun to 
 inspire the next. \nOriginally planned as studies in figurative 
 abstraction\, with solitary figures broken down into line and shape\, it 
 quickly became clear that the paintings were taking on quiet narratives of 
 our daily social interactions bringing content through an underlying theme 
 of inclusive communities. \n
LOCATION:Library Lobby\, Woodbourne Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Debe D.":MAILTO:ddockins@wclibrary.info
CATEGORIES:Exhibit
CONTACT;CN="Debe D.":MAILTO:ddockins@wclibrary.info
STATUS:CONFIRMED
UID:LibCal-14239192
URL:https://events.wclibrary.info/event/14239192
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR