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Some of Lisa Grossman’s artwork is of low-contrast landscapes with wisps of high contrast and sunshiny bright light in small areas.
Her work includes images of the sun on the horizon, while others show a winding Kansas River reflecting sunlight. Titles of her work include “Rising Cloud,” “Thunderheads Before the Cold Front” and “Spring Weather.”
Grossman’s work is on display at the Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. Sixth St. in Newton, and will be featured during the Love Your Gallery Celebration, which is from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the gallery.
“It does capture some of the unique aspects of the Plains — a little different perspective on things,” the gallery’s interim director Laurie Tietjen said Wednesday afternoon about Grossman’s artwork.
The local gallery and Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan are teaming up for the next year as the Manhattan gallery is bringing mid- to late-career regional artists’ work to the Carriage Factory Gallery.
“We’re really excited because (of) what we have going on,” Tietjen said.
She said the gallery believes there’s nothing in south-central Kansas that does that.
Grossman is a full-time printmaker and painter.
Her “landscapes focus on wide Kansas skies and prairies and the Kansas River Valley,” a gallery news release stated.
Grossman is a nationally recognized artist with degrees from The University of Kansas and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She was awarded the Kansas Arts Commission’s Mid-Career Fellowship in 2009 and has had 17 solo shows.
“For nearly 20 years, my prairie work, primarily plein air, has been a sustained meditation on open spaces,” Grossman said in an artist’s statement on the Strecker-Nelson website. “The power of this place, and my visceral responses to weather and shifts in light, color and seasons, have been the true subjects of my work. My work has always been about shifts and the ephemeral. I’m not so much trying to freeze moments in time as much as I am attempting to convey my experience of them. My wish is to share some of what I’ve discovered, offering a new way a seeing these waterways and open prairie spaces that hopefully, ultimately, awakens a new appreciation for them.”
In addition to Grossman’s work, also featured during the celebration will be refreshments, piano music by docent Bob Wambold, and special recognitions of Dr. Frances Allen, Walter Claassen, Martha Knudsen, Robert Regier, Ericka Stucky, Mary Jean Wells and Naomi Wenger.
Tickets to the celebration are $50. Carriage Club membership starts at $500. Call the gallery at 284-2749 to purchase tickets.
Another change at the gallery is on the third floor in what is called the Loft Gallery. Local contributing member artists have spaces dedicated for their artwork, Tietjen said.
Some of Lisa Grossman’s artwork is of low-contrast landscapes with wisps of high contrast and sunshiny bright light in small areas.
Her work includes images of the sun on the horizon, while others show a winding Kansas River reflecting sunlight. Titles of her work include “Rising Cloud,” “Thunderheads Before the Cold Front” and “Spring Weather.”
Grossman’s work is on display at the Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. Sixth St. in Newton, and will be featured during the Love Your Gallery Celebration, which is from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the gallery.
“It does capture some of the unique aspects of the Plains — a little different perspective on things,” the gallery’s interim director Laurie Tietjen said Wednesday afternoon about Grossman’s artwork.
The local gallery and Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan are teaming up for the next year as the Manhattan gallery is bringing mid- to late-career regional artists’ work to the Carriage Factory Gallery.
“We’re really excited because (of) what we have going on,” Tietjen said.
She said the gallery believes there’s nothing in south-central Kansas that does that.
Grossman is a full-time printmaker and painter.
Her “landscapes focus on wide Kansas skies and prairies and the Kansas River Valley,” a gallery news release stated.
Grossman is a nationally recognized artist with degrees from The University of Kansas and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She was awarded the Kansas Arts Commission’s Mid-Career Fellowship in 2009 and has had 17 solo shows.
“For nearly 20 years, my prairie work, primarily plein air, has been a sustained meditation on open spaces,” Grossman said in an artist’s statement on the Strecker-Nelson website. “The power of this place, and my visceral responses to weather and shifts in light, color and seasons, have been the true subjects of my work. My work has always been about shifts and the ephemeral. I’m not so much trying to freeze moments in time as much as I am attempting to convey my experience of them. My wish is to share some of what I’ve discovered, offering a new way a seeing these waterways and open prairie spaces that hopefully, ultimately, awakens a new appreciation for them.”
In addition to Grossman’s work, also featured during the celebration will be refreshments, piano music by docent Bob Wambold, and special recognitions of Dr. Frances Allen, Walter Claassen, Martha Knudsen, Robert Regier, Ericka Stucky, Mary Jean Wells and Naomi Wenger.
Tickets to the celebration are $50. Carriage Club membership starts at $500. Call the gallery at 284-2749 to purchase tickets.
Another change at the gallery is on the third floor in what is called the Loft Gallery. Local contributing member artists have spaces dedicated for their artwork, Tietjen said.
