NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 1 IN GALLERY I

MARILYN NIEWOEHNER

“ADROIT ENCHANTMENT”

in GALLERY I

Marilyn Niewoehner is an artist who is well-known for her works in many mediums, but it is her expressive modern art paintings in watercolors, oils, and pen and ink that bring out some of her most dynamic creations.

Drawing on her home economics BS, she first started her artistic journey BY playing with color and texture on her sewing machine, thereby turning textiles into works of art.

In 2013 she picked up a paintbrush and started experimenting with watercolor, acrylic and pastel. She finds her greatest freedom of expression with watercolor and pen and ink.

Her early introduction to creating art for the pure pleasure of it was from her mother. Her mother was an artist, and Marilyn would come home from school to see a wondrous painting her mother had created that day. In her experience, she thought that’s just what all mothers do. It wasn’t until high school that she learned not all mothers paint in the afternoon!

With a nod to her mother, Marilyn continues to bring beauty to the world with her avant-garde touch. 

This exhibition is sponsored in part by the North Dakota Art Gallery Association (NDAGA), a statewide service organization for non-profit museums & galleries, and supported in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 1 IN GALLERY II

ABSTRACT ART SHOW BY THE WILLISTON COMMUNITY

in GALLERY II

COME CHECK OUT THIS ALL-AGE ART SHOW AND TALENT FROM OUR COMMUNITY!

OCTOBER 2 - NOVEMBER 3 IN GALLERY II

AMANDA EL-DWEEK

in GALLERY II

“Garage Sale” seems like a weird title for an art show, does it not?

When I was in art school at the University of North Dakota, there was varying advice about how to curate one’s art show, specifically one’s B.F.A. Show, which was a student’s “final” in Visual Arts. One professor had a rather inimitable way of describing what not to do: “Don’t make it look like you’re having a garage sale.”

And by that he meant, do not have a hodge-podge of different styles, themes, or mediums. It should be somewhat homogenized; it should be cohesive since it’s the final summation of your work for the past four (or so) years, the pinnacle of your area of study. It should not look like ten people and their ten different styles came together to sell their possessions.

“Don’t make it look like you’re having a garage sale.”

That’s been rattling around in my mind for the last 20+ years. I understood what they meant, and I still think it is good advice. It informed my own B.F.A. show, meaning, I did the opposite of that advice.

My argument for this is: I was a kid at that time, and I spent my years there figuring out what I liked, what worked, what clicked, and what I was not good at. Meanwhile, I was making my way in the world; I was aging, learning, working, and figuring things out. So I never really had one theme. I had many.

Now that I am older, I have realized that I kind of am ten different people with ten different styles. I have many interests and I do not want to choose just one.

I want to have a garage sale. 

OCTOBER 2 - NOVEMBER 3 IN GALLERY I

ARVIN DAVIS, JR

in GALLERY I

Arvin Davis Jr. uses bright colors, strong brush strokes, detailed line work, and splatters, WHICHEVER technique is required to obtain work with a strong compositional and chromatic rigor; it’s a contained chaos. he is a multifaceted illustrator and fine artist. He'll collaborate with his kids, ANother artist, or work alone.  Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, art allows him to process the emotions, traumas, and self-created pressures, thus becoming a real therapeutic path aimed at understanding himself and his feelings. Self-taught  in mixed media: watercolors, inks, graphite, fluid acrylics, and standard acrylics.