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Fragility of Life in Patterns in Flight

Life is fragile.  This tenuous state is particularly evident in the smaller living creatures around us.  When I first decided to use butterflies as my subjects for a painting series, I ordered 12 Painted Lady larvae from a science company.  It was November, and I wanted to have a physical reference to work from as well as to study the life cycle of the subject...

Searching for Beauty in the Ice

An ice storm is something that holds rare beauty.  My first memory of one was the 2003 ice storm when I was in college in Kentucky.  In December ’09, I was with my family during the ice storm that hit Illinois.  On the morning of the storm, I spent several hours with my father, Allen Steely, out in the freezing rain taking pictures of the ice.  We would run out of the car and take a p

First Friday Art Tour Part II

April 3, 2009 -Part II:  Mass Ave

I continued the First Friday art hop by traveling down Mass Ave to the McFee Gallery and Studio.  The main artist shown this month is Kelly Gentry.  Her work falls easy on the eye.  There seems to be three related series of works.  One has a silhouette of a single person, usually walking away from the viewer, holding a colorful umbrella.  The backg

First Friday Art Tour Part I

April 3, 2009 – Part I:  Circle Center Industrial Complex

This month had a pleasing array of good art shows in the downtown gallery scene of Indianapolis, Indiana.  I started off my evening by visiting wUG LAKU’s STUDIO & gARAGE.  The current show is a representation from Wug’s earlier work, and is entitled “Raw.”  The developments of his ideas concerning his in