DuMA Biennial 2023

State: IA

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel
Artist's Statement: During the pandemic I have shifted my focus from watercolor to acrylic and mixed media. I began gluing fabric scraps onto wood panels, and painting around and over them. Cutting and gluing felt therapeutic in a time of extreme uncertainty. These works reflect my obsession with color, pattern, and texture- both visual and tactile.

State: IL

Dimensions: 48 x 42 x 1.5
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 48 x 42 x 1.5 inches
Medium: oil on canvas

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 18 x 12 x 7
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: Variable Dimensions
Medium: Stoneware, Vitreous Engobe, Underglaze
Artist's Statement: The vessel-like structures that are formed become more enhanced or dilapidated through simulation with multiple glaze applications as surfaces begin to either gain or lose information and represent themes of burial, excavation, decay and chemical processes that occur within a landfill. This new experimental way of building allows me more freedom to explore and continue to contribute as well as push the boundaries of the contemporary ceramic visual language that the work embodies.

State: Illinois

Dimensions: 9 x 15
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 18" x 22"
Medium: Archival Pigment Collage
Artist's Statement: Stories unite us – past, present, future. The stories of the American worker are the stories of our country. Backbreaking efforts, repetitive and toiling, yet full of dedication and hope for the future. Building the future from the past. With this series, I am honoring the immigrant worker. Hard work is what keeps us all moving forward.

State: IA

Dimensions: 25 x 16 x 17
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 25 " x 16" x 17"
Medium: Fabric wrapping on found wire
Artist's Statement: I construct surfaces or forms that reflect and emulate the beauty and mystery of nature or natural phenomena, akin to the idea of biomimicry. I love nature’s precise order which combines with its captivating dishevelment (think tangled vines or water rushing over jagged rocks). Observations of this energy and freedom direct my creative process. For this work, I wrapped wire fencing with cloth, a systematic process which I then altered by expressive crushing and crinkling, finally painting multiple layers of acrylics and finally scumbling the surface to create a bark-like appearance.

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 18 x 28 x 16
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 18" x 28" x 16"
Medium: ceramic

State: IL

Dimensions: 43.5 x 17 x 0.2
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 43.5 x 17
Medium: stitching on woven paper
Artist's Statement: messages from the past, woven and stitched, reveal the pattern of my life

State: WI

Dimensions: 17.5 x 25.5 x 1
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 23" High x 31.5" Wide; Can adjust photograph/frame size as needed. This dimension includes the frame.
Medium: Photograph; Dimensions above are for the image proper. Estimated weight includes the frame.

State: WI

Dimensions: 6 x 8 x 9
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 6" x 8" x 9" to be shown on a pedestal.
Medium: red brass, bronze, fine silver and copper

State: IA

Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 2
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: The overall dimensions of the framed work are 26"h x 32"w x 2.5"d.
Medium: oil paint, inkjet print, and fabric on board
Artist's Statement: "Joshua" is a part of my "Dictators and Dreamers" series. He is originally from Uganda and studied Business Administration at Hawkeye Community College. I interviewed him as one of the "Dreamers".

State: WI

Dimensions: 15 x 0
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 25 in. x 25 in. x 1.5 in.
Medium: soft pastel and pastel pencils on Stonehenge paper

State: Illinois

Dimensions: 12 x 17.5 x 1
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 13 x 18.5
Medium: Etching, with quill pen and ink, ink washes, and acrylic wash
Artist's Statement: This is based on a drawing that I've have had in my head for many years, and it is really about fear, more than anything else.

State: WI

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 12" x 12" x 1.5". No frame. Canvas has finished sides with black paint.
Medium: Acrylic paint on gallery canvas.
Artist's Statement: An abstract painting of Rime Frost. I never have seen this type of frost before. The frost creates beautiful, long and pointy ice crystals on all surfaces.

State: IL

Dimensions: 4.25 x 4.25
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 12" x 16"
Medium: Sepia and Selenium toned silver gelatin print, matted and framed

State: IL

Dimensions: 3 x 3 x 2
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 3x3x2 inches
Medium: Porcelain vessel Smoke Fired on Hach Hill 3” diameter x 2” high
Artist's Statement: These works are touchpoints in history from my family and place. I perform smokefirings on ancestral lands which hold fossils formed in seas that covered it millions of years ago, rocks left untouched by subsequent glaciers. In these firings I collaborate with fire which records its traces on clay. The process references the impact of fire in my family’s history as well as the force of nature’s elements which we only control to some degree. This place has a complex history, and that of my family is only one of the stories that could be told. My works engage multiplicity.

State: WI

Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 1.5
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 36 x 36 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 45 x 58 x 50
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 45"(H) x 58"(W) x 50"(D)
Medium: Felt, thread, foam, plywood.
Artist's Statement: Monica Correia is an artist and designer that lives and works in Iowa City, IA. She is originally from Brazil, where she grew up in contact with an exuberant natural environment. In addition, she was raised in a family where women kept alive many Portuguese craft traditions. The opportunity to move to Iowa brought her in contact with new technologies such as Computer Numerical Controlled that impacted the way she looked at fabrication processes. In her research, she seeks ways to utilize various technologies to empower her work and strengthen the reference to the Portuguese craft tradition.

State: IA

Dimensions: 36 x 56 x 1
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: H36"xW56"
Medium: ink on paper
Artist's Statement: Some of us did not pay attention to the conditions of the lives of our neighbors until 2020. Workers' conditions were recognized; we celebrated and supported essential workers' lives. We made hearts. We sang from our windows. Yet, by 2022, we chose to no longer see or care for those whose lives we previously acknowledged. This is an act of commission.

State: IL

Dimensions: 13.25 x 17
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 16" x 20"
Medium: Block print in relief oil ink on paper
Artist's Statement: When given a small chance, nature will thrive. Even in a spot where we humans thought we had obliterated it. Restored prairies are a lively and fascinating example of this. They are teaming with life and hope

State: IA

Dimensions: 18 x 18 x 0.75
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 19.5" x 19.5" x 15"
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Artist's Statement: My work focuses on the movements of the natural world, whether it be human-made or forces of nature. At times, these movements can work together, but often, they contradict each other. This piece brings those two forces to a head.