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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.

“Traversing Abstraction: Chris Jordan, Mary Jane Duffy, Steve Sherrell and Andrew Lloyd Goodman”

Time: February 15, 2009 from 1pm to 4pm
Location: H.F.Johnson Art Gallery, Carthage College
2001 Alford Park Drive
City/Town: Kenosha
Contact Info: 262-551-5853
Organized By: Diane Levesque

Event Description:
From traditional media such as painting to digital media and time arts, this exhibition representing artists from the west coast, the mid-west, and the east coast, displays a sampling of abstraction in postmodernist art.