A not-to-be-missed season starter and the Hardy’s most notable exhibits! We begin with a salon-style show open to both emerging and established artists. Featuring a wide variety of media by local and regional artists: including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, mixed media and more. The exhibit offers emerging artists the opportunity to gauge their development and established artists the opportunity to explore new ideas and techniques. The public is encouraged to cast votes for their favorite piece with the popular “People’s Choice Award”.

Gallery closed for the jurying of awards for the 63rd Annual Juried Exhibit.

About Kristy Deetz

Kristy Deetz is Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. Her extensive exhibition record includes national and international venues. With Reni Gower, she co-curated FABRICation that traveled to art museums, university art galleries, and art centers. She frequently serves as a visiting artist and has led numerous painting/drawing workshops at venues including Haystack, Oxbow, Penland, Anderson Ranch, and Arrowmont. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship. She received SECAC’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2015 Silver Award from Graphis Design Annual, NY. Her paintings have been featured in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century, Encaustic Art—The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax, and Full-Range Color Painting for the Beginner. Recently she served as Erasmus Visiting Lectureship at the University of Kassel, Germany and Artist-in Residence at The Burren College of Art in Ireland and University of Florida–Gainesville, and published two illustrated books with Elm Grove Publishing: The Singular Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy and Holidays Unfolding: The Continuing Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy with Edward Louis (pen name for Edward Risden). Currently her  Holidays Unfolding and Through the Veil series and corresponding books are traveling together across the country as the show, Threads, Folds & Rabbit Holes.

At present, she has separate series of work in painting, sculpture, and digital media (which include a traveling exhibition of industrial jacquard weavings, Rabbit Weaving: Complex Threads of Making. Recent painting series that imagine evolving ecospheres and investigate environmental concerns are Disrupted Gardens and Shifting River Ways.

“Kickin’ Up the Chroma”will feature three important artists in the Door County art scene: Lynn Gilchrist, Liz Maltman, and Reneé Schwaller. These artists work with color in expressive and inventive ways. Chroma is defined as the purity or intensity of color, and the work of these three artists notably “kicks it up.” All three artists draw inspiration from nature and enhance the chroma beyond what we typically perceive. Maltman and Gilchrist incorporate dizzying brushwork, shifting perspectives, layering, and patterned elements, defying many conventions associated with the landscape genre. Schwaller uses transparent glazes and opaque, graphic carved elements that complement the painterly mark-making of Maltman and Gilchrist.