 | Grammy Award-winning cellist and member of the Paul Winter Consort Eugene Friesen will perform "Soul of the Cello," a benefit concert for Icicle Arts, on Saturday, November 6 at 7PM in "The Barn" at Barn Beach Reserve. Local wines and complimentary refreshments will be served and a silent auction will take place throughout the evening.Reserve tickets online through Brown Paper Tickets or call (509) 548-2278 to reserve (no fees for phone reservervations!) Tickets are $15 in advance, $12 for students and seniors over 60 (with valid ID), and $18 at the door. Learn More |
Friday, October 29, 2010
Benefit Concert and Silent Auction Nov. 6
Thursday, October 7, 2010
3 McConnells at Icicle Arts Gallery
Icicle Arts Gallery presents their first ever group show “3 McConnells,” featuring original artwork by Cashmere artist Dan McConnell and his son and daughter, Aaron and Bryn. The show opened September 24 and will be on display until mid-November. The gallery is open Thursday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment. The gallery is located along with Barn Beach Reserve and the Upper Valley Museum at 347 Division Street in downtown Leavenworth.
“3 McConnells” provides a unique opportunity for viewers to trace the artistic development of members of the same family who have shared the experience of making art while finding their individual voices and mediums of expression. The development of an artist is constantly in flux. The pieces on display tell the story of three different paths traveled by three individuals. As paths often do, they converge and separate. The works have been selected to highlight those points of intersection as well as the differences.
Meet the Artist - This Saturday!
Icicle Arts will host a "Meet the Artist" reception at the gallery this Saturday, October 9, from 5PM to 7PM with refreshments and local wines by Wedge Mountain Winery, Cascadia Winery, Icicle Ridge Winery, and Vin du Lac Winery. Admission is free and all ages are welcome to attend.
About the Artists
Dan McConnell started developing his passion for art early in life. By age four he was drawing cartoon dioramas of Cowboys and Indians waging wars with bullets, arrows and tomahawks flying through the air. He has pursued a wide variety of styles and mediums since those early days - Dan’s work includes oil painting, acrylics, watercolors, soapstone sculpture, Sculpey clay sculptures, pen and ink/brush and ink drawings, and computer graphics. His formal art education at Wenatchee Valley College, Western Washington University and Central Washington University culminated with a Broad Area Art degree and a provisional teaching certificate. The education focus helped him instill his passion for art into others, including his children Aaron and Bryn. “We drew as a family almost every day; it was an integral part of our lives. We drew in pencil and crayon and painted in watercolors. When they were older I introduced them to watercolors and oil painting.”
Some of Aaron McConnell’s first drawings were three panel comic strips obviously influenced by his Dad's semi-autobiographical weekly cartoon strip "Apple Andy" that ran in the Cashmere Valley Record for 20 years. His father painted the characters from his strip in a scenic mural on the bedroom Aaron and his sister Bryn shared, and the characters felt like members of the family. Aaron is sure that this vivid immersion into the comic strip medium shaped his own interest in comics. In high school (CHS) Aaron drew cartoons for the school newspaper and drew his first comic book pages in an after-school comic book class taught by his father. Aaron attended CWU, like his dad, and then went on to pursue a BA with an emphasis in painting and drawing. Painting was his passion at that time and he convinced his young family to relocate to Providence, RI to attend the graduate painting program at The Rhode Island School of Design. As fate would have it, the school offered a course on Comic Book Storytelling and that was all it took to bring him back to the medium of comics. Aaron has an extensive list of reasons he loves comics, but from a creative standpoint, the feeling of composing and arranging little boxes of drawings that build something larger as a whole is an exhilarating process (and endlessly challenging). Working in comics has given him the opportunity to collaborate with other talented writers and artists and has awakened a deep, previously unrealized interest in history. “I look forward to the daily exercise of working at a drawing board not only to develop the technical craft of drawing comics, but because I know that I'm guaranteed to learn something new about the subject that I'm building a story from."
Bryn McConnell first pursued painting at Western Washington University, and then transferred to Pratt Institute in New York where she earned her BFA. Her final semester at Pratt allowed her to study in Venice, Italy. Upon graduation she lived in the Czech Republic, then Belgium where she continued to work as a full-time artist. While abroad she studied as an exchange student, participated in residencies and exhibited her work in several locations throughout Europe. In 2008 she returned to New York City to study at the School of Visual Arts and earned her MFA. Bryn’s most recent exhibition took place at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York where she received much attention through reviews in both the New Yorker and Time Out New York magazines. Bryn paints images of women in an expressionistic style, seeking to display an internal spiritual force through the materialistic artifice of fashion. Her interest lies in representing the intangible spirit by utilizing contemporary definitions of identity, not particularly as cages of confinement but as tools of playful self-reinvention.
About the Gallery
Icicle Arts Gallery is a program of Icicle Arts, North Central Washington’s arts alliance since 2004. To learn more, join as a member, and support the arts in the Wenatchee River Valley, visit iciclearts.org or call (509) 548-2278. Iicle Arts Gallery presents six solo shows per year and two special exhibits. For more information on the gallery, to submit a show application, and to view e-shows currently online visit iciclearts.org/gallery or call (509) 548-2278.
“3 McConnells” provides a unique opportunity for viewers to trace the artistic development of members of the same family who have shared the experience of making art while finding their individual voices and mediums of expression. The development of an artist is constantly in flux. The pieces on display tell the story of three different paths traveled by three individuals. As paths often do, they converge and separate. The works have been selected to highlight those points of intersection as well as the differences.
Meet the Artist - This Saturday!
Icicle Arts will host a "Meet the Artist" reception at the gallery this Saturday, October 9, from 5PM to 7PM with refreshments and local wines by Wedge Mountain Winery, Cascadia Winery, Icicle Ridge Winery, and Vin du Lac Winery. Admission is free and all ages are welcome to attend.
About the Artists
Dan McConnell started developing his passion for art early in life. By age four he was drawing cartoon dioramas of Cowboys and Indians waging wars with bullets, arrows and tomahawks flying through the air. He has pursued a wide variety of styles and mediums since those early days - Dan’s work includes oil painting, acrylics, watercolors, soapstone sculpture, Sculpey clay sculptures, pen and ink/brush and ink drawings, and computer graphics. His formal art education at Wenatchee Valley College, Western Washington University and Central Washington University culminated with a Broad Area Art degree and a provisional teaching certificate. The education focus helped him instill his passion for art into others, including his children Aaron and Bryn. “We drew as a family almost every day; it was an integral part of our lives. We drew in pencil and crayon and painted in watercolors. When they were older I introduced them to watercolors and oil painting.”
Some of Aaron McConnell’s first drawings were three panel comic strips obviously influenced by his Dad's semi-autobiographical weekly cartoon strip "Apple Andy" that ran in the Cashmere Valley Record for 20 years. His father painted the characters from his strip in a scenic mural on the bedroom Aaron and his sister Bryn shared, and the characters felt like members of the family. Aaron is sure that this vivid immersion into the comic strip medium shaped his own interest in comics. In high school (CHS) Aaron drew cartoons for the school newspaper and drew his first comic book pages in an after-school comic book class taught by his father. Aaron attended CWU, like his dad, and then went on to pursue a BA with an emphasis in painting and drawing. Painting was his passion at that time and he convinced his young family to relocate to Providence, RI to attend the graduate painting program at The Rhode Island School of Design. As fate would have it, the school offered a course on Comic Book Storytelling and that was all it took to bring him back to the medium of comics. Aaron has an extensive list of reasons he loves comics, but from a creative standpoint, the feeling of composing and arranging little boxes of drawings that build something larger as a whole is an exhilarating process (and endlessly challenging). Working in comics has given him the opportunity to collaborate with other talented writers and artists and has awakened a deep, previously unrealized interest in history. “I look forward to the daily exercise of working at a drawing board not only to develop the technical craft of drawing comics, but because I know that I'm guaranteed to learn something new about the subject that I'm building a story from."
Bryn McConnell first pursued painting at Western Washington University, and then transferred to Pratt Institute in New York where she earned her BFA. Her final semester at Pratt allowed her to study in Venice, Italy. Upon graduation she lived in the Czech Republic, then Belgium where she continued to work as a full-time artist. While abroad she studied as an exchange student, participated in residencies and exhibited her work in several locations throughout Europe. In 2008 she returned to New York City to study at the School of Visual Arts and earned her MFA. Bryn’s most recent exhibition took place at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York where she received much attention through reviews in both the New Yorker and Time Out New York magazines. Bryn paints images of women in an expressionistic style, seeking to display an internal spiritual force through the materialistic artifice of fashion. Her interest lies in representing the intangible spirit by utilizing contemporary definitions of identity, not particularly as cages of confinement but as tools of playful self-reinvention.
About the Gallery
Icicle Arts Gallery is a program of Icicle Arts, North Central Washington’s arts alliance since 2004. To learn more, join as a member, and support the arts in the Wenatchee River Valley, visit iciclearts.org or call (509) 548-2278. Iicle Arts Gallery presents six solo shows per year and two special exhibits. For more information on the gallery, to submit a show application, and to view e-shows currently online visit iciclearts.org/gallery or call (509) 548-2278.
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