Looking In, Looking Out
by Karen Ragus and Leslie DeMuth

 

By Karen RagusBy Karen RagusBy Karen Ragus

Opens

November 5, 2009

Closes

November 28, 2009

Admission is FREE!

Frehner Gallery Hours
Tue: 9 a.m.  -  4 p.m.
Wed: 9 a.m.  -  4 p.m.
Thur: 9 a.m.  -  4 p.m.
Fri: 9 a.m.  -  4 p.m.
Sat: 9 a.m.  -  1 p.m.

 

The Frehner Gallery is also open during Entertainment Series performances and intermissions.

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These two painters from Lake Mills, Wisconsin create work with contrasting styles, inspiration and imagery.  What they do share is a passion for color, mood and personal expression.

Karen Ragus, with her abstract imagery, works from inside of her head and landscape painter Leslie DeMuth draws inspiration from the world outside of her. This combined exhibit shows the artists’ “Looking In, Looking Out” approach but shows their similarity in expressive works of art that reflect their love of the visual.

For Ragus, the elements of design are carried over from her day job as an interior designer.  Each painting is a visual representation of an interior dialog based on the combination of shape, line and colors that she creates with her brushes.  Using acrylic on canvas, she begins each painting with a single shape of color.  After that, everything she adds is a response to what she put down before.

DeMuth’s work is a direct response to the visual world.  Creating realistic oil paintings, she works on site or from sketches or photos to create scenes that reflect the rural and natural beauty of the countryside where she lives.

Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 5, 2009
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Artist Gallery Talk:
5:30 PM
 


Season Corporate Underwriter:
The Swiss Colony

Season Media Underwriters:
Monroe Publishing, LLC
Big Radio

Additional Underwriting by:

Michael & Shelley Muranyi
Deb Thompson
Lee & Chris Knuteson
Barb Woodriff & Pete Guenther

 

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