Nov. 16, 2018 – Feb. 24, 2019
See crop rows through a prism of light and time with UNK professor and artist Steven Ramsey.
With family origins from Blair, Nebraska, Steven A. Ramsey attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio where he earned his BFA in glass. He continued his education earning his MFA, in glass, from Illinois State University. Steven taught for ten years at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Kearney where he is currently employed as Assistant Professor of Glass and Sculpture.
Artist statement:
The work prepared for my upcoming exhibition is an extension of the pieces created for the Ballad of the Farm: Then, Now and Tomorrow exhibit at the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art: May 2015. The Ballad exhibition was a unique opportunity. The process of conceptual development and the options in process of making the work generated many different ideas and options from which the final commissioned piece was selected in concert with the dialog with the primary curators: James Jones and Carol Kobza.
What remained from that experience was all the other ideas. These thoughts became intriguing options to explore. It’s necessary for an artist to see their ideas manifest in actual pieces in order to critically analyze the success of those ideas. The main feature of the work to be shown follows the exploration of the agrarian landscape in cast glass forms. Organic and inorganic pattern and texture as represented by plowed fields, the natural landscape and intervening elements that delineate boundaries are explored with a very special material that can expand the visual textures beyond the physical limits of form.