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by Lester Pitz

The powers that be at Carthage College should well be primping the feather in their hat. That was earned by having the foresight to bring to Kenosha the remarkable series of photographs currently on display in the H.F. Johnson Gallery.

SACRED WATERS
India’s Great Kumbha Mela Pilgrimage

These few words title this showing depicting a journey of millions of people in a sacred quest. This writer has not sufficient vocabulary to do justice to a description these photographs. So I will simply ask our readers to test the artistic veracity of photographer Jean-Marc Giboux. As he puts us in this great adventure. To archive a full understanding of just what you are viewing please take a moment or 2 to digest the accompanying verbiage.

And while you are there you will want to see an exhibit in the space next door by artist Anna Szymczak. Anna has titled her show “heat”.

H.F.Johnson Art Gallery at Carthage College
2001 Alford Park Drive
Kenosha, WI 53140

Sacred Waters: India’s Great Kumbha Mela Pilgrimage
Featuring pictures by Chicago-based photojournalist Jean-Marc Giboux
Feb. 9-March 27, 2010

A Circulating Library of Abstraction
John Himmelfarb exhibit opens Sept. 15 at
the H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art

The H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art begins its 2009-10 schedule of exhibits with a show featuring works by Chicago painter, sculptor and printmaker John Himmelfarb.

“A Circulating Library: John Himmelfarb, Selected Recent Works” opens Sept. 15 and continues through Oct. 17. An opening reception will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24.

Over the past four decades, Mr. Himmelfarb has built a complex and compelling set of approaches to creating abstract works that remain firmly outside mainstream stylistic impulses. While tangling and teasing out iconic images in the language of abstraction, Himmelfarb has incorporated references to real world objects such as plants, buildings, landscapes and trucks in other series of works. The complex vision that unfolds is a rich dialogue of color and themes that together form a library of resonant images. He counts among his influences Jackson Pollock, Pierre Alechinsky and Jean Dubuffet.

Mr. Himmelfarb has shown his work in more than 87 solo presentations and in major museum collections throughout the United States and overseas. Those museums include the Art Institute of Chicago, British Museum in London, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Johnson Art Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 6-8 p.m. Thursday evenings, and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays.

CARTHAGE POETS READING
Tuesday, May 19th
6:30pm at the Racine Public Library

The Racine Public Library, 75 Seventh St., is hosting an evening of poetry reading in a spring poetry showcase event on Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the Adult Services Dept. The library will feature Poets of Distinction: Spotlight Carthage College with readings from the local college’s recent poetry graduates.

The line up includes:

• Jean Preston
• Allison Gruber
• Nick Demske
• Eric Huff
• Sarah Welle
• Hanna Gichard

The event is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. For more information contact Nick Demske at 262.619.2571 or nick.demske@racinelibrary.info.

Join Elaine Mackevich, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, for a riveting presentation on Lincoln and his legacy. Learn why today’s politicians from right, left and center are eager to rally under the Lincoln banner.

April 28, 2009 • 7:30 p.m.

Kenosha Civil War Museum
5400 First Avenue, Kenosha
Free and open to the public

Ms. Mackevich is the Sam and Gene Johnson Distinguished Visitor at Carthage. This free presentation is sponsored by the Kenosha Civil War Museum and Carthage.

For more information, please call the Museum at 262-653-4141, or Carthage at 262-551-5858.