DuMA Biennial 2023

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 60 x 14 x 2
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 60X14X2
Medium: Wool, sourced mainly from Montana and Wyoming, pvc pipe with a wire hanger.
Artist's Statement: Gardens can be grown in straight rows, in boxes, or planted against fence lines. But at the Bloomery, flowers grow without knowing the restraint of rows, borders, or pre-drawn plans. Blooms unfurl fully without a plan or maintenance. And once a flower blooms there is only the promise of seeds for next year’s blossoms.

State: WI

Dimensions: 66 x 21 x 13
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 66x21x13
Medium: books, clay paint, ,epoxy, glass, steel, rammed earth, wood
Artist's Statement: This work is part of an ongoing series investigating time scale, the Anthropocene, resources and process.

State: Illinois

Dimensions: 15 x 9.5 x 9
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: This sculpture should be hanged high above - roughly 10 feet or more with a nice spotlight for shadows
Medium: Acrylic on Wood
Artist's Statement: Mossman's decidedly post-minimalist sculpture deals with relationships - formal and contextual. His architecturally-influenced forms, flavored by trips to Asia (China, Japan, and Tibet) and Europe as well as a passion for pre-gothic and early modernist forms (among them Corbusier, Loos, and Wright) comment on the creation and purpose of sculpture and its relationship to architectural forms in a space and other objects (security alarms, hand dryers, heating, and cooling units) that inhabit a space. They walk a thin line between the utilitarian and the purely abstract.

State: IA

Dimensions: 12 x 12
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 13x13c1
Medium: Oil paint in canvas papee

State: WI

Dimensions: 33 x 33 x 2
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 40" x 40"
Medium: Giclee

State: WI

Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 1.5
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 36" x 36"
Medium: casein on panel

State: IL

Dimensions: 71 x 51 x 21
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 71h x 51w x 21d
Medium: crocheted cording, dye, metal leaf, wire

State: IA

Dimensions: 24 x 20 x 1.5
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 24 x 20"
Medium: Oil on Panel

State: ILLINOIS

Dimensions: 30 x 22
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 36x28x1.5
Medium: charcoal on paper

State: IA

Dimensions: 69 x 64
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 64" w x 69"h
Medium: Fiber: Found polyester quilt, hand embroidered text.
Artist's Statement: Confession is a black, red, and white fiber work with hand-embroidered text which says "I am dyslexic". The text is from a note written by my daughter. Work explores familial relationships, and communication, and maps the domestic landscape.

State: WI

Dimensions: 24 x 24
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 26x26x1.5
Medium: Photography based digital image

State: IA

Dimensions: 12 x 8 x 4
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 12 x 8 x 4 in
Medium: Powder coated steel and cast concrete
Artist's Statement: This work expands on Robb’s ongoing investigation into the varied histories of material and reciprocal relationship of human, object and landscape — what society and culture hold to be sacred, what is considered commodity, and the impact of time.

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 63.5 x 30.5 x 2
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: 63.5" x 30.5"
Medium: Painted metal, distressed copper, steel, brass, found objects, photography
Artist's Statement: These Murals are an interpretation of the northeastern Iowa landscape. Creating murals started started when I lived in northern Illinois about ten years ago. Illinois was quite different from the rolling hills, cliffs, meandering streams and rivers where I live now. The new Iowa murals have acquired a more three dimensional quality incorporating found objects along with metal, copper, paint and photography. I have found the northeast Iowa landscape to be far more varied, more abrupt and textured. Hills, wooded areas and rocky cliffs interrupting light and color with shadows and walls.

State: Iowa

Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 32x42
Medium: Oil on canvas
Artist's Statement: Gentle spring Rain creates a moody late afternoon.

Third Place
State: IA

Dimensions: 4.125 x 1.825 x 1.825
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 4.5" x 2"
Medium: Sugar Maple and oil finish
Artist's Statement: I have often used familiar forms related to everyday objects as a basis for artistic expression. This goblet has become the base for an abstract image of wisteria, a beautiful hanging plant.

State: IOWA

Dimensions: 44 x 22 x 1
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 52.5" x 27.5"
Medium: This drawing was created using graphite, watercolor, charcoal and pastel.
Artist's Statement: The bulb that would become my model for "Magnum Amaryllis" was purchased in Omaha, shortly before the Covid lockdown and our much anticipated move back to Marion, Iowa.

State: WI

Dimensions: 15 x 8 x 6
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 15x8x6in
Medium: reclaimed boombox, hand built miniature wood structures, paint, clear finish.

State: IL

Dimensions: 23 x 35 x 2
Year created: 2023
Overall dimensions: 23"x35"x2"
Medium: Cut encaustic monotypes ‘stitched’ together with staples, screwed to a strip of wood
Artist's Statement: My work is abstract and begins with encaustic monotypes. After creating the monotypes, I cut them into small pieces and using encaustic medium put a backing on them. The puzzle-like pieces are then reconfigured, and ‘stitched’ together with staples, resulting in a paper sculpture that is screwed to wooden strips and hangs off the wall. I often feel that my works tells a story to which the viewer contributes.

Second Place
State: Wisconsin

Dimensions: 70 x 42
Year created: 2022
Overall dimensions: 70" by 42"
Medium: charcoal on paper
Artist's Statement: I met my girlfriend when I was not looking for love but it found me. Rather, she found me. In this piece I explore vulnerability. The bed is a personal place of comfort which you choose to share. I depict my girlfriend and I in a bed, sharing this space, exemplifying the scary, yet exciting process of getting to know someone intimately. Knowing what they fear and what makes their eyes light up. This two way process means that you also have to be ready to share a part of yourself. This bed represents us revealing and concealing parts of ourselves as we open up to one another.

State: IL

Dimensions: 40 x 14
Year created: 2021
Overall dimensions: See above dimensions
Medium: gouache on handmade paper
Artist's Statement: Kathy Weaver’s latest paintings are a series of figures titled “Avatars”, gouache on handmade Twinrocker paper, 40” x 14”. The intent of the Avatar series is to focus attention on particular behaviors exhibited around us in this time of racial inequality, cultural upheaval, climate change, pandemic, and the deepening economic divide. Weaver uses the tall, narrow format to emphasize the corporality of the figure. These characters are ready to act, challenge, persevere. In true Avatar fashion, they possess the different emotional and behavioral qualities humans project to the world.