New Exhibition Coming to the Buchanan Center for the Arts

By - Susan Van Kirk, President of the Buchanan Center for the Arts Board

The Buchanan Center for the Arts is excited to announce an upcoming exhibition with not one, but three artists. Dean Rockwell is a potter and a ceramics expert, and Janice Rockwell is a painter. Our third artist, Matthew Terry, is a photographer.

Their exhibit has been running from May 6 until June 27. The sponsors for the opening are Bryan and Linda Murray.

Dean and Janice Rockwell run the Earth, Air, and Water studio near Macomb Illinois. She is a retired art teacher and school counselor with a BS and MS from Western Illinois University. Concentrating on abstract realism, she paints with watercolors, oil, and acrylics. She also is versed in collage. Janice has been in solo shows at Foster Gallery (Peoria), WIU Student Gallery (Macomb), the West Central Illinois Art Center (Macomb), and the Metro Center Community College in Omaha. She has also displayed her work in juried exhibitions at the Illinois Watercolor Society (Oak Park), the Buchanan Center, the Galesburg Civic Art Center, and the Wichita Art Center.

Sculpture by Dean Rockwell. Photo courtesy of Susan Van Kirk.

Dean Rockwell is a former high school biology teacher. His artistic talents include pottery and ceramic artworks. He exhibits in art galleries and centers throughout Illinois and Iowa.

Matthew Terry is a contemporary photographer and graduate of the Academy of Art University where he attained his BFA-Photography with a focus in Fine Art Photography. He picked up his first camera in 2004 at age 16 and has exhibited and sold work at galleries in Rome, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Baltimore and more. His work has also been published in Iowa, Vermont, New York, Atlanta, Italy, and England.

Photograph by Matthew Terry. Photo courtesy of Susan Van Kirk.

Terry’s photographic exhibit, Revisiting Past Exposures, is inspired by the idea that when you see a place, an image of it is created in your mind. It isn’t until you revisit this location that you view it as you first saw it. Sometimes, when you return, you realize things aren’t quite as you remembered, and these two pieces of time don’t blend so smoothly into one another. His project recreates this experience through handheld, printed images aligned with modern scenes.

Endlessly intrigued by the ability to capture and hold a distinct moment in time within a world constantly in motion, Terry combines subjective perspective with universal appeal to create conceptual imagery that questions not only our identity, but also how we interact and relate to our surroundings.

All three will be on display at the Buchanan Center for the Arts at 64 Public Square, Monmouth, Illinois. See you in the gallery!