Throughout the year, the Alliance Art Gallery in Hannibal is featuring the collaborative works of two of their member artists. For June and July the spotlight is on potter Steve Ryan and painter/drawer Cindy Logan, both who are veteran artists at the gallery.
If you made it to the Alliance Art Gallery in June you may be thinking that you have already seen what Cindy and Steve have created together. You would be wrong. They have brought several new collaborations and well as pieces of their individual work. As they have walked this energizing path, the ideas have just kept coming. At one time Cindy had 12 pieces she was working on but Steve continued to bring her additional pottery of various sizes and shapes. Even their piece for the Second Saturday give away will be a collaboration.
Steve is a ceramicist from Quincy, Illinois and Cindy lives in Louisiana, Missouri. Steve is best known for his Obvara pottery which is one of the oldest known pottery techniques. Cindy works in a wide variety of two dimensional media and often paints landscapes of the river and pathways. Both artists say this collaboration has pushed them in many different directions, directions that will probably continue to affect their future work.
Also during the month of July, the gallery will host the work of the guest artist, Steven Walker. Steven is in his second year of teaching at Palmyra High School, working in the same room he took his own high school art classes. Prior to this he taught at Quincy Junior High.
Steven says he seemed to always have a pencil in his hand and was encouraged in his art by two very creative parents, but he never considered art as a career until he went to college. He enrolled at Culver Stockton College intending to major in physical therapy but while taking an art class he realized he was much more fitted to be in the field of art.
Steven considers himself a jack of all trade because he paints and draws and makes pottery. He participates in various plein air competitions both locally and throughout the region. His pottery starts with ordinary pots and then morph into more artistic pieces. He especially likes to do portraiture but like many artists finds it difficult to find sitters who are willing to do so for more that an hour so he has ended up doing a lot of self portraits. The work of his students also influence what he does in his own work. He enjoys capturing things around him and he and his fiancé travel so he can create his landscape paintings and black and white ink sketches.
Please join three these creative artists as well the other 21 gallery artists on July 13, 2024 for the Second Saturday event from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. Stop in the gallery at 121 N. Main in Hannibal anytime that day to sign up for a piece of art to be given away at 6:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
