Post-War Bohemians in Northern Nevada

University of Nevada Reno

Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

1664 N. Virginia Street

Reno

The University of Nevada Reno's Knowledge Center presents, Post-War Bohemians in Northern Nevada, an exhibition of work by local artists who experimented with art styles and lifestyles out of Nevada’s mainstream. While many Nevadans were settling into cozy, traditional “apple-pie” American lifestyles after World War II, a tight-knit group of artists were producing colorful, nontraditional art, and living lifestyles that matched. For the first time, the work of this talented group is presented together, at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno through September 16.

Post-War Bohemians in Northern Nevada contains the work by 16 of these artists who often gathered in Virginia City, as well as took classes and encouraged one another at the University of Nevada, Reno campus.

The featured artists include Zoray Andrus, Betty Bliss, Nancy Bowers, Gus Bundy, Robert Cole Caples, Ben Cunningham, Joanne de Longchamps, Robert Hartman, Ruth Hilts, Craig Sheppard, Yolande Sheppard, Louis Siegriest, Adine Stix, Marge Tanner, Richard Guy Walton, and Ed Yates.

University Professor of Art Emeritus Jim McCormick and Christopher Schwartz, an accomplished student intern, co-curated the show and published a 44-page catalog about northern Nevada’s post-war art community. It is the first time that the artists have been featured together in one publication. The catalog is available free at the exhibition.

The exhibition is open to the public through September 16: Monday through Thursday, 7:30am – 8pm; Friday 7:30am – 5pm, Saturday-Sunday 1 – 5pm. Some select pieces are available for viewing only in the Special Collections Department on the Third Floor, 9am – 4pm, Monday through Friday.

For more information, please contact the University of Nevada, Reno Special Collections Department at 775-682-5665 or specoll@unr.edu.

[Photography by Gus Bundy – Reno’s Valerie Gallery, November 1952; painting by Adine Stix; information from UNR press release]

Artist Reception Friday February 12!

Friday, January 12 | 5 - 7 pm
CCAI Courthouse Gallery
885 East Musser Street
Carson City

Jim McCormick
Site-specific exhibition: "Work Bench Project"

From the press release:
"Jim has played a central role in the development of contemporary art in northern Nevada for fifty years. His irrepressible spirit of creative discovery, combined with his generous dedication to promoting the work of his students and peers have been critical to the cultural life of the area. In Work Bench Project, he encourages us to imagine new ways to think about place, participation and both personal and civic life."

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Gallery Hours: M-F | 9 am – 5 pm

through May 7

[graphic from CCAI show announcement. Special thanks to Simpson Creative.]

Save the Date! - "Work Bench Project"

Save the Date!

Artist Reception:
Friday, February 12 | 5–7 pm
CCAI Courthouse Gallery
"Work Bench Project"
Site-specific exhibition by
Jim McCormick

[Staff photo of artist Jim McCormick at work. January 2010. Click to enlarge.]

Exhibitions in the WNC Galleries

[Click on image to enlarge. CCAI extends best wishes to WNC and the participating artists, with a special 'shout-out' to Jim McCormick who will be featured in a special exhibition of site-specific work opening winter 2010 at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery.]

Eureka at 4

Eureka Gallery
41 N Main Street
Eureka, Nevada

4th anniversary Exhibition

Saturday June 27 | 4-7pm
Open House | Reception

Featured artists include: Sidne Teske, Jim McCormick, Elaine Parks, Margaret Pense, Mimi Patrick, Deon Reynolds, Trish Reynolds and George Johanson.

Gallery hours: Wed – Sat 11am – 5pm | Sunday 11am – 3pm

Information: 775-237-5303.


[graphic from Google image search for 'Eureka, Nevada' on the Nevada Women's History Project website. The photograph of Teresa (Tracy) D’Alosio Knight born June 19, 1891 in Eureka, Nevada. Photographed by daughter Teresa Maria Knight-Bumgardner]

The Dark Side of the Moon

John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Art Gallery
15650A Wedge Parkway
Reno, NV 89511
775. 329-2787

The Dark Side of the Moon
Jim McCormick

Pen and ink drawings based on driftwood found at Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Through August 7.

[image courtesy of the artist. "Dancers in the Pool II." Pen and ink. 3.5" x 5.5." 2008.]

Printmakers' Conspiracy

Truckee River Gallery
Printmakers Conspiracy
11 North Sierra Street, #100
Reno

February 27 - March 16
reception: March 8, 4-7 p.m.

"In May of 2006 well known artists and educators, Jim McCormick, Candace Nicol, and Nolan Preece called together other northern Nevada artists to form the Northern Nevada Printmakers’ Conspiracy. The group is organized around a love of printmaking and the objective is to expand the audience for fine art prints. Fine art prints, or original prints, are works of art printed from a matrix which is hand made by the artist for the sole purpose of creating the desired image. The matrix may be a carved block, an etched plate, a cut stencil or other device for transferring an image. The resulting impression is not a copy but an original work of art."


[graphic from google image search for 'conspiracy']

Biggest Little City Call for Artists

For Immediate Release

1/16/2008

Sierra Arts seeks small, but wide-open, art from Nevada artists The biggest little art show in nevada VI deadline extended to January 31

Sierra Arts invites artists living within the borders of the state of Nevada to submit entries for the latest installment of a juried art show unique to the Silver State . The ‘biggest little’ art shows comprise original artworks that measure precisely 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches.

This year’s theme for the biggest little art show in nevada is “Nevada Wide Open.” Artists may submit works that follow this theme, such as images related to the state’s natural resources, the thriving arts communities, the bright lights and neon of the gaming industry, or other topics as the individual artists see fit.

All entries will go through a juried process to limit the number of pieces in the exhibition to 50. The selected pieces will compete for ten $100 awards. The juror for the biggest little art show in nevada VI: Nevada Wide Open will be MaLynda Poulsen-Jones. Poulsen-Jones was born and raised in Idaho and now lives and works in Walla Walla , Wash. She received her M.F.A. from Boise State University in 2004, and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in permanent collections worldwide.

The biggest little art show in nevada began 14 years ago and was conceived by local artist and UNR Professor Emeritus Jim McCormick. [editor notes: Jim was also an inaugural CCAI "CAP" award winner in 2007!]

A pdf of the biggest little call to artists, information and entry form is available for download at www.sierra-arts.org. More information is available at the Web site or by calling 775-329-ARTS.