Races

Bobby Joe Scribner - Woodstock, IL

Purchase price: $16,000

Races was created to address hierarchies and struggle. Visually it displays a strong sense of movement and rhythm. It may evoke thoughts of shared struggle, hierarchies, competition, and/or progress.

Prairie Tussocks

Tim Adams - Webster City, IA

Purchase price: $10,000

Prairie Tussocks, constructed with aluminum and steel, represents the beauty of the seed head that is more impressive when you consider it's been the food source that allowed the evolution of man!. Before industrial farming, Iowa was once covered by prairie. We are the most changed landscape in the world as we have moved to industrial farming. The topsoil which once covered the state has now disappeared due to erosion. Are we being good stewards of Iowa’s land and water? Are we living interdependently with nature or are we taking it for granted?

Dimensions: 5' w x 3' d x 8' h

Intersections

Luke Achterberg - Onalaska, WI

Purchase price: $11,000

Intersections, fabricated out of welded steel, explores the contemporary subcultures of Americana found in automotive customizing, style writing, calligraphy, graffiti, comic books, snowboarding and skateboarding, and street art. It works to connect blue-collar subcultural movements with the culture of white-collar fine art academic study. Each sculpture is an attempt to create a connection, to stimulate conversation between two societal groups that are not usually in the same physical place, or headspace.

Dimensions: 3' x 7' x 9'

Grace    

David Zahn - Moline, IL

Purchase price: $12,900    

If You Build It...

Amelia Gotera - Cedar Falls, IA

Purchase price: $8,500

Assembled in a dynamic form that appears mid-motion, each block is activated by the conversations between the shapes. Windows create the opportunity to view the landscape from new and unique vantage points as you move around the sculpture.

The viewer is invited to reflect on learning through play, childhood magic, thinking outside the box, coming of age, and the universal language of the metaphorical and physical building blocks of the world around us.

Allura

Nathan Pierce - Cape Girardeau, MO

Purchase price: $22,000

Allura explores the idea of unity and how we learn to feel connected through new perspectives. That moment of surprise when see an out-of-the-ordinary thing in an ordinary place helps bring awareness to our surroundings and creates an opportunity to reimagine our sense of place.

Dimension: 3' x 3' x 7' 

Longing

Jeremy Rudd - Dyersville, IA

Purchase price: $12,500

The sculpture depicts a steeple-mounted weathervane. Atop is a scene of a Bison and a Bull staring at one another through a Mirror, one looking longingly at the other. Similar in many ways, but different in important ones. Each of them sees in the other something they lack. 

Oserving a pastured bull held back by a single electric wire, it occurs that the powerful animal is conditioned by culture and domesticated. In stark contrast, wild bison generally will not be contained and go where they will. That freedom comes with its own risks and rewards. Certainty versus uncertainty, safety weighed against freedom. The grass always looks greener.

Dimensions: 36" x 36" x 120"

Drop

John Bannon - Chicago, IL

Purchase price: $18,000

Drop is an object/action metaphor symbolizing the current status of the global climate culture presented through the tenuous connection of a dewdrop clinging to a blade of grass. The scale provides a unique perspective to suggest how one can experience nature. Conversation generator.

Dimensions: 2' x 2' x 12'

Listen

Chris Wubbena, Jackson, MO

Purchase price: $18,000

Harmony

Mark Hall - Kasota, MN

Purchase price: $11,000

This ‘Spirit Vessel’ is inspired by a genuine ceramic burial vase dating from the 17th Century, near modern day Niagara Falls. There is a curious common history to explore as we honor the stories of ancestors and realize our connections by living together in peace. The beauty of harmony refers to many parts, working together as a whole.

Dimensions: 52" x 52" x 62"

Lil’ Blue

Nathan Pierce - Cape Girardeau, MO

Purchase price: $8,500

In this modern world, where we constantly feel more connected through advancements in technology, we are simultaneously disconnected as a result of these devices. Through the radiating spokes of the abstracted satellite forms, Lil’ Blue is meant to engage the viewers’ curiosity and invite public interaction.

Dimensions: 5' x 5' x 4'