Jung Hee Mun

Retracing Sensation, by local artist Jung Hee Mun. Drawings which seemingly float in the air, carried along by emotions and memories. Her work is being increasingly shown in galleries and exhibition spaces throughout San Antonio and South Texas.

Kurt Weiser

Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser brings the artist’s enigmatic, beautifully rendered images, which wrap around porcelain vessel forms, to San Antonio for the first time. His technical virtuosity evokes Eden-like images, often both innocent and sensual.
The exhibition is comprised of approximately forty ceramic sculptures and several drawings that illustrate Weiser's signature style. His porcelain vessels range from classically-inspired lidded jars and teapots, to unique mounted globes full of allegorical and mythological references and lush landscapes.

The artist’s work is featured in numerous international collections including: The Mint Museum of Craft + Design; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute Museum of Art; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Shiragaki, Japan; Helsinki Museum of Applied Arts, Finland; and the National Museum of History, Taipei, among many others. Weiser has received numerous awards, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Aileen Osborn Webb Award from the American Craft Council.

Studio visits with Meredith Dean and Dennis Olsen

Meredith Dean

My current magnetic wall installations, constructed paintings, and prints use puzzle-cut shapes that are created in interchangeable layers with varying fragments of information on each layer or piece. This work is an exploration of change and how choices influence results. Solutions grow organically from the basic building blocks of the work, which themselves begin with looking at a specific place through using various means of analysis. In the case of this body of work this includes physical maps, topographical surfaces, sky maps, magnetic flow patterns, wind directions, and placement by longitude and latitude. The inspiration for the work has come from years of trekking the land, fields, trails, forests, and mountains near our home in Italy.

Quiet Resonance/Floating World (Detail) Whole piece (size variable according to installation)--approx. 12’ x 8’ Magnetic Wall Installation--Mixed Media

Dennis Olsen

My recent work is a departure from my subject matter of recent years. These intaglio prints are based on drawings from portraiture on bank notes from around the world, and are, in part, a celebration of the consummate skill of the engravers who fashioned those visages. However, my borrowings from those notes do not respect their provenance. Like musical samplings after which they are titled, they are composite faces of kings, queens, tyrants, heroes, saints and sinners. The images seem much like the DNA of the human race as they provide a complex visual mixing that melds facial appearances of different races and genders.

Missi Smith - Paintings

Missi Smith's exhibit "Absorbed Continued 2010" is a study in the concepts that deal with our
environment and the issues and attitudes attached to these. At the core of this work is: found
objects used together with organic matter and paint mediums to creat assemblages, paintings
and prints. Missi, a Louisiana native, is a long time San Antonio artist. She has exhibited at
many local galleries and institutions as well as in New York, Louisiana and south Texas.

Jack Gron - Sculpture

Jack Gron's work tend to be personal statements and reflections on the times in which we live.
His choice of metal as his primary sculptural material goes back to his upbringing in the
steel producing town of Steubenville, Ohio. Jack received a BFA in Scupture from Columbus
College (Columbus, OH) and a MFA in Sculpture from Washington University. He is presently
the Chairman of the Dept. of Art at Texas A&M in Corpus Christi.
The sculptures in this exhibit "A View from My Toybox" reflects his belief that satire and humor
with an edge can serve as powerful tools to state his views on politics, society and pop culture.
He has used forged, fabricated and cast metals, as well as color (both local and applied).

Jake Zollie Harper

I am a lampworker and glassblower using borosilicate glass, or hard glass, as my medium. I use a torch, or "lamp" and my breath to manipulate glass into forms and shapes. My primary focus of work has been drinking vessels and home furnishings such as lighting and door handles.