Seerveld Gallery

02/20/2024

01/19/2024

The Seerveld Gallery welcomes Kelly Kristen Jones. Artist’s Lecture: Thursday, Jan 25, 6pm. closing reception following.

08/24/2021

Judith Mullen, "Refuge"
Sculpture and mixed media
September 1–30
M–T 11–4pm F 11-2pm

Closing reception
Thursday: September 30
6-7pm Artist’s Lecture
ArCC North Lobby
Reception Seerveld Gallery 7–8pm

The Seerveld Gallery welcomes artist Judith Mullen as our opening exhibition of the 2021–2022 season. The title for her exhibition, "Refuge," comes from many years of walking in the forest as part of her studio practice. The forest acts as a 'refuge' or reprieve from daily life (put simply).

For Mullen, tree-forms act as metaphor, respite, teacher and model for her overall art practice. Her work combines many media and textures as she meditates on the interaction of cultural pressures, communication overload and isolation between the natural world and the human body and spirit. Curious about the psychic and spiritual effects experienced in this ritual of walking in the forest she senses a range of emotions such as joy, loneliness, uncertainty and fear. Beyond that she sees the resilience of the tree and its adaptability to changes in the landscape as a model for our shared human desire for strength and courage.

Judith Mullen’s engagement with specific materials has a long family lineage beginning with her great grandfather, Julius Schubert, who emigrated from Denmark in 1870. Schubert was one of a few fresco painters who helped to rebuild Chicago and vicinity after the Chicago fire. Her mixed media objects employ some of this the ancient fresco technique bringing historically grounded materials into contemporary sculptural and painting discourse. Mullen’s work reaches outside of the familiar and invite the viewer to engage in the shared nuances of the human condition.

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10/04/2018

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09/25/2018

Tim Lowly and Baby Mountain at the Seerveld Gallery

09/18/2018

Tim Lowly | August 27 - September 27, 2018