This May, the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery welcomes you to our “New Growth” all member exhibition. The theme, New Growth, is up to each artist's interpretation, so a wide variety of work will be on display. The show runs today through May 31st. Please join us at the opening reception on Friday, May 1st, from 6 to 9 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.

For future updates on the gallery and its artists, please follow our new, refreshed social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. 

The Artists’ Co-op has been showing the work of respected regional artists since 1975. This cooperative group of artists conducts educational and cultural outreach activities, and it maintains and staffs a gallery that features works in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, pottery, photography, glass, jewelry, printmaking, and drawing. Monthly opening receptions provide opportunities to meet member artists and learn more about their work.

This June, the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery welcomes you to our “Life Force, An Artistic Journey” exhibition, featuring work by Amanda Frangella, Larry Jorgensen, Perry Peterson, Julie Seevers, and Trudi Woksa. The show runs today through Sunday, June 28th. Please join us for drinks and hors d’oeurvres on Friday, June 5th, from 6 to 9 p.m.

For future updates on the gallery and its artists, please follow our new, refreshed social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. 

 The Artists' Cooperative Gallery showing work from respected area artists since 1975. Members conduct educational and cultural outreach activities, and maintain and staff the gallery. The space features a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, jewelry, ceramics, photography and drawing.

To learn more about ACG and its artists, visit artistscoopomaha.com, or call 402-342-9617.

         My paintings and drawings are image based.  I do not consider my work to be photo-realism or realism.  Certainly the images have naturalism but that is not my concern when creating them.  I am interested in the pose, the gesture, the lighting and/or the overall mood of the subject.  I use either acrylics or oils because I enjoy each for their unique qualities.  In drawing I use either colored pencils or oil crayons depending on the look I am trying to achieve.

          My ceramic work consists mainly of polychromed earthenware pieces.  I use both wheel thrown and hand built techniques, choosing the method to use by what the finished piece is to look like.  I create mostly non-utilitarian works intended as art objects.  I have also made knitting bowls with traditional glazes.  But I dislike most earthenware glazes, so I have developed a method of multi-staining that is the signature of my ceramics.

Website: www.duaneadamsart.com

email: dadams@netins.net

I am always creating. Photography is my main creative outlet and with my creative background being primarily as a videographer or cinematographer, I like to challenge myself to tell stories through single frame photos. It is a challenge because I’m so used to being able to tell a full story through moving video and dynamic audio that removing all that noise really allows me to focus on setting the composition, to consider the lighting and color psychology of a scene, and I think all the skills and minutiae of creating a compelling video being distilled into a single silent frame creates powerful and striking images. Most of my photos feel like part of a storyboard where one could imagine what might happen in the next frame or even in the next minute of footage.

Gregory D. Brown has worked in a creative capacity for multiple ad agencies, universities, and medical centers, focusing on videography, photography, and creative design. Currently he works as a multimedia content strategist & creator for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center where he focuses on telling stories about the organization through video, photo, audio, and animation. Gregory is also the marketing chair on the board of directors for the Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards and serves as the producer of the annual awards show.

Contact info: oxyproductions@gmail.com

Instagram: oxy_video

Twitter: @Oxy_Video

Photo: oxyproductions.smugmug.com

Video: oxyproductions.com

email: artfarm07@cox.net

Cindia Carlson’s color palette has become part of her signature style. The organization and contrast of figure in landscape and lyrical-Arabesque line, lend to the uniqueness of her work. Personal motifs represent the content of prophetic dream narratives or back stories. Portraiture-to-mask and multimedia sculptures also hold special interest for her. Cindia is a Nebraska native, book author, and college professor with a long list of exhibitions and achievements.

email: cctsuda@yahoo.com

email: huskercort@gmail.com

email: rdsculpt@yahoo.com

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Jacqueline Eihausen

702-524-9703, text or phone

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--I have created images for as long as I can remember—probably like many artmakers.

--I have long been drawn to the human subject. In childhood my younger brothers often got stuck being models. I have always returned to the figure. The last several years with the Plein Air Painters of Nebraska and Iowa, I’ve swung more heavily into landscape and plantlife.

--A Notre Dame nun, my biology teacher who gave art lessons after school, started me in on oils. Later at Seattle’s Cornish Art School another favorite teacher introduced me to acrylics, which dry so much more quickly—for me, an advantage.

--Given enough time, I’ve veered into visual storytelling. When I read, I love novels, and when I paint, I seem to paint stories, vignettes that act to tell a story, a POV. The works of Remedios Varo, the Spanish Surrealist, are to me, stunning.

--By the time I stopped making art to begin teacher training (’02) I was combining collage with acrylic. Romare Beardon has been a beloved influence. Since retiring in ‘12 I’ve again picked up this exploration. I began using Nat’l Geographic only (“good paper, arresting images, endless pattern”) and have now expanded to other magazines and patterned papers. I began using only the color, texture, and pattern of the collaged pages, their abstract qualities, but now find I weave in pictures of trees, houses, autos. I like the work to invite the viewer to look closely to see where the painting leaves off and the collage begins—a marriage of parts.

--The words: I began adding painted words to my pictures in the ‘90‘s. Since returning to Omaha (’17), I switched to the “ransom note” style of including words, an extension I think, of the “more-collage-more-of-the-time” nature of the images.

--I am primarily a 2D perceiver, but have been dragged (protesting and later thankful) into sculpture by 3D artists/friends. I participated in Omaha’s J DOE public art project in ’01, and

DOECELLI’S BIRTH OF VENUS is in the Founders’ Garden at Lauritzen.

email: mandyfrangella@gmail.com

email: agnetag@cox.net

email: jacksongatzmeyer@gmail.com

Molding Lives & Clay (Omaha Magazine article)

email: thamiltonpp@gmail.com

website: www.thomashamiltonpottery.com

website: www.lindahatfield.com

email: lindahatfield555@gmail.com

My artwork is colorful, complex, and layered with meaning.

The natural world, which offers endless inspiration and reference, also provides my raw materials. For years I’ve collected lost, discarded and organic materials — selected either for their physical attributes or meaning. I incorporate these found objects into my artwork, building upon the associations they carry and the tension created by their unexpected juxtaposition with more refined and traditional materials. The work may also include glass mosaic, embedded items, collage, painted or carved text and representational images.   Manipulating context and creating metaphors, I examine nuances of relationship and the human condition. Recent works — titled “Memento Mori” — acknowledge the vestiges of life within the objects selected and are reminders of the ephemeral nature of life.

website: www.marciajoffe-bouska.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marciajoffebouskastudio/

email: mjbstudio@cox.net

email: larry@lizardcreek.net

email: pamaking@allophone.com

website: mkolarartcreations.com

email: mldrtist@aol.com

I attribute most of my aesthetic awareness as an artist to the places where I have lived or worked. These diverse places have given me the opportunity to look at art from the viewpoints of different cultures, each with different economies and political systems. I grew up in Central Asia in the former Soviet Union, where I was taught the aesthetic ideal of Socialist Realism. Living in Honduras shaped my fascination with color and how emotions are expressed through varying shades and hues on the canvas. Coming to the United States created yet more new and different settings for my works of Art. Here discovered for myself the power of Montessori and the amazing connection of Art and Math in Montessori Math and Geometry and this is my next path in artistic exploration.

My wearable art is based on the beauty of nature around me - the blossoms of the flowers and of the changing seasons. I paint my silks in my own flower garden, capturing the changing beauty of the flower landscape, trying to convey my love for the beauty of nature through my paintings on canvas and “paintings” on silks or “sculpting” through Nuno felting.

Currently I am working on using wool and silk to create 3-D paintings also based on Montessori. My love for felting came from Montessori as well: I was teaching about the beginning of civilization and the first exploration of textiles by ancient humans and I discovered felting as the first way of making clothing by our ancestors; where I came from (Central Asia) people in the mountains make a type of home called a Yurt using felting techniques!

www.saatchiart.com/innamontessori

www.etsy.com/shop/InnaKulagina

email: Kulagina.inna@hotmail.com

I find that I can see the world more clearly when I am drawing or painting. I get a thrill out of trying to capture the beauty of nature on canvas or watercolor paper. Given a thematic assignment, I enjoy the challenge of developing a composition that is meaningful to me, and translates to others. I work primarily in watercolor and acrylics, utilizing line and color to convey emotion.

phone: 402-319-5600 Please leave a message.

email: c.sue.loyd@gmail.com

My work explores the humanness of humanity and the relationship with ones self and how that is manifested with others.  This may present as a charcoal portrait or an oil of a Madonna with closed eyes painted with a surreal twist in bright colors or in a burst of nature portrait.

But even with diverse topics in diverse medium, the overriding theme is connection.  Connection to one’s self, to each other and the idea that there is more under the surface, off the page.

My abstract work allows a wildness and a permission for my input into the work to be done and allow the work to speak on it’s own.  The success of art is when it speaks on it’s own.  That is what keeps me creating, unleashing a voice that doesn’t even have a concept, yet. 

website: www.cindyraeart.com

email: cindymathiasen@gmail.com

My work is an exploration of texture and topography. Using wood as my primary medium, the organic material is altered through the use of modern tools and traditional techniques. The main themes of my work explore the juxtaposition of sterile and weathered, and the tension between organic and manufactured environments.

My aesthetic is informed by architectural influences, both the clean lines of modern design, as well as more ornate historic structures. The shapes and elevations point to the built environment and are inspired by aerial views of the urban footprint.

Contact: (402)-813-7440

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website: kevinmcclay.co

email: fortressco@mail.com

email: homestudio1@cox.net

Website: www.gretchenolberding.com/

My love of nature compels me to photograph and paint the landscape, capturing the light, shadows and colors that move me.  Growing up in Nebraska, I loved the wide-open land and rivers, and began painting those magical moments that caught my attention.  Retired in Arizona for 12 years, I have hiked in most deserts and mountains in Arizona & Utah, taking thousands of photos. 

Recapturing those scenes in soft pastels is my main passion. I hope my viewers will want to “walk into that scene” that I enjoyed. I have recently returned to my home roots in Nebraska and have begun capturing the landscape of the prairie and cottonwood trees that I love.

Originally a high school History/Political Science teacher and then, an elementary Art teacher, I experimented in all media.  Bachelor of Arts from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in history and political science-1967; Masters of Arts in History – 1971; Graduate work of 18 hours in Fine Arts from University of Nebraska, Kearney-1998-2005.

My journeys and love of challenges has led me to earn my pilot's license, fly a Cessna 182, fly a powered parachute, hike over 350 miles throughout Arizona, and zip-line down Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana.  I am working on getting my golf handicap down into the teens. 

I won't jump out of an airplane, though.

perrypeterson57@gmail.com

I enjoy experiencing nature in my spare time and many of my pieces are directly influenced by this time in nature. I love recreating plants and wildlife in my work.

I work in hand-built porcelain sculpture and use many different mediums, such as porcelain clay, alcohol ink, and experiment with techniques. I believe that working in a single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. Each idea manifests in its own individual style.

website: www.rosewoodenvironmentalart.com

email: charlene@rosewoodenvironmentalart.com

website: tomquestpottery.com

email: tqclay@hotmail.com

email: becca71@me.com

email: margie1150@centurylink.ne

Website: www.julieseeversart.com

Email: julieseeversart@gmail.com

Instagram and Facebook: @julieseeversart

The unique personalities and behaviors of blooming florals, wildlife, and the vast American landscape is the driving force of inspiration, and, authentic essence behind my work. Using graphite and colored pencils I create portraits of nature to celebrate everyday moments with my viewers. Each piece is a handmade original, delicately crafted to be enjoyed for generations.

email: skuo402@yahoo.com

“I have always been intrigued by the works of artists like Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and others, in which they distort ordinary and/or fanciful objects in various ways to create unique perspectives.”  Alan has a photography studio in the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, Nebraska, and teaches photography at Doane University in Crete, Nebraska.

website: www.alanrsmith.com

email: alan@alanrsmith.com

website: theartofdax.com

email: iburneverything@gmail.com

Holly Tarnish

Oil painting, watercolor, graphite drawing

Holly Tharnish lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha with a minor in art history in 2019. Holly’s first exhibition commenced in September 2019 at the Florence Mill Museum and Art-Loft Gallery, focusing on her own self-realization within the scope of her vast family history. Her work examines themes of history and heritage, introspection and identity, womanhood, memories, and the contrasts between the world we live in, the stories we tell, and the narratives we keep inside our minds.

Contact Info:

Instagram: instagram.com/withlove.holly/

Website: https://hollytharnish.wixsite.com/portfolio

website: ann-troe.pixels.com/

email: AnnieTroeArtist@gmail.com

website: www.darzart.com

email: darvandevoort@mac.com

My art is:

Dream inspired...

Music inspired...

& Sunset inspired...

Website:  www.artbytrudi.com

FB:  facebook.com/planetwoksa 

IG:  @artbytrudi