Lacey Lee's newest efforts to be unveiled in Madison this Thursday.
Come on out this Thursday, as The BrickHouse will be fully loaded with several debuts from Lacey Lee and Jennifer White, and music from the wicked mind of Chad McKinney, so of course, we’ll see you there!
Lacey Lee
Emmeline Elliott
Two regional artists will have their paintings featured at this month’s Double Header art show.
Abstract painters Jennifer White of Sioux Falls and Lacey Lee of Brookings are participating in the Madison Area Arts Council event held Feb. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. at The BrickHouse Community Arts Center, 106 S.E. 2nd St. Music will be performed by Chad McKinney. The one night event is free and open to the public.
White has been creating artwork for years. She had an interest in drawing in high school and – with the encouragement of her teacher Mr. E. Johnson – moved into ceramics, which she continued to pursue in college. She now considers painting her art form of choice, primarily working with oil on canvas.
Jennifer White
In the summer of 2010, White turned to painting as a means of coping with the struggles her family faced during the recession.
“We had to move to a different state and that’s when the urge to create art took over. I had no control over what was happening to me. I was lost, and my sweet husband bought me some paint and canvas and told me to paint. So that’s what I did,” White said.
Some of her paintings reflect that experience, such as her work titled “Ice Cube Degenerate.”
Jennifer White
“This piece lets the illusion of control slowly disappear like an ice cube melting on a hot rock. That is a feeling most people can relate to,” White said.
White usually works on canvas, but she also paints on nontraditional mediums such as windows, doors, plates, bed sheets and even a satellite dish. She uses materials like sand, wood, cloth, metal, glue and toilet paper to create textures or a sense of depth in her paintings.
“It is that love of clay that feeds the urge to paint something you want to touch. The chunky goodness of dry oil paint on canvas is literal depth,” White said.
Lee is making her second appearance at a Double Header event with this month’s art show. She graduated from the University of South Dakota with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting in 2008. She earned her teaching certification in 2011 from South Dakota State University.
Lacey Lee
Lee said her recent work has become more expressive. She likes to bring humor and sarcasm to her pieces by adding silly features to her characters.
Lee has commissioned a number of private pieces as a freelance artist, including a five-piece medical series for Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center in Wessington Springs and was featured in Sioux Falls Woman magazine.
Lacey Lee
MAAC meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. at The BrickHouse Community Arts Center. Visit us on Facebook for more community art news and events.
Good thing The BrickHouse was warm, cause that was some wicked cold that greeted a handful of guests on Wednesday evening for our last Double Header with Angela Meyer, Kevin Bierbaum, and Tom Weismantel. A huge thanks goes out to our artists for visiting and sharing their work with our community, we appreciate that, and thanks to those in our community who came out shared their love and support of the arts with our guests!
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Our next Double Header is scheduled for Thursday February 9th, with Lacey Lee, Jennifer White, and the music of Chad McKinney, check it out, and help us pack the house in appreciation and support of our guest artists, nobody likes coming to an empty house.
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Lacey Lee
Our famed Double Header returns again Thursday, February 9th, with three incredible talents and personalities, which is sure to make for another memorable evening at The BrickHouse.
Regional painters Lacey Lee and Jennifer White have taken the arts community by storm this past year, with their standout abstracted work and jaw-dropping talent. Lacey will make her second appearance with us, having last shown in April, and Jennifer will be joining us for her first showing in Madison.
Jennifer White
Regional musician and acclaimed song-writer Chad McKinney of ‘Wumpus’ and ‘Petrified Man’, will be sharing with us an intimate acoustic set. Chad is joining us for the second time, as Wumpus played during our past White Night Festival in June, and well, we jumped at the opportunity to get him back.
All Double Headers are free to attend, open to all ages, and refreshments are always served, we’ll see you there!
Emmeline Elliott
Weismantel, a 2004 Madison High School graduate, will play a live solo performance Jan. 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. at The BrickHouse Community Arts Center, 106 S.E. 2nd St. The work of regional abstract artists Kevin Bierbaum and Angela Meyer will be displayed at the one-night event hosted by the Madison Area Arts Council. The Double Header art show is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
Weismantel, who now lives in Sioux Falls, has played instruments since middle school, focusing on the guitar, bass and analogue synthesizer. He has been writing and recording music for several years.
“I’m really looking forward to a nice night of art appreciation in my hometown. Art in all forms is important to me, and I’m very excited for the opportunity to promote art in Madison,” Weismantel said.
Local music fans may recognize him as part of the White Waves band. Before that, he played with Welcome to the Cinema for three years. As a solo act, Weistmantel has worked under the name Hippocampus for about 10 years.
“As far as solo performing goes, I have vowed to do my best to replicate the original mood I was in while creating each song as much as I can. I think this is key to good performance,” Weismantel said.
Weismantel will play a number of songs at the Double Header art show. He wrote most of the songs to be played with a full band, but has redone many of them as acoustic covers for solo performance.
Love and emotion is a recurring theme in Weismantel’s songs. Weismantel, who is a pharmacist, said the song “Medicine” is about the metaphor of love as a necessary medicine for everyone. He wrote about falling in love in his song “Shelves,” and “Tired When I’m Sleeping” is about accepting loneliness as a part of life.
Sioux Falls artist Kevin Bierbaum relates to everyday experiences as what inspires his paintings. He said a slight sense of coldness and tragedy is conveyed by his work.
Kevin Bierbaum
Bierbaum is exhibiting pieces at the Double Header art show that explore vertical shapes and composition. His materials include multiple types of paint, oil, acrylic, latex and spray paint.
Angela Meyer
MAAC meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. at The BrickHouse Community Arts Center. Check out MAAC on Facebook and Twitter for more community art news and events.
We’re eager to welcome our next guest visual artists, Angela Meyer and Kevin Bierbaum, to The BrickHouse for another talent-packed Double Header here in Madison on Wednesday, January 18th from 7-9pm.
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This looks to be a stand-out show for sure, and with the music of Madison native Tom Weismantel of Hippocampus, its a night not to be missed.
We’re really excited about our next Double Header at The BrickHouse this January, as we’re eager to bring home Madison native, noted musician Tom Weismantel. Tom is known for being part of the powerhouse ‘Welcome to the Cinema‘ and now for ‘White Waves‘ and ‘Hippocampus‘, and he’ll be performing live with us for the first time.
Kevin Bierbaum
Also joining us at The BrickHouse will be regional abstract artists Angela Meyer and Kevin Bierbaum, who have been building themselves a well-earned and deserved reputation as artists to watch for in 2012, and we thought there would be no better way to kick off our year with these two hanging on our legendary walls.
Angela Meyer
All Double Headers are free and open for everyone to attend, amazing refreshments are always served, and we’ll look forward to packing the house again this January!
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What a packed house, we hosted well over 60 guests this past Tuesday, probably more, as our guest artists Linn, Cody, Megan, and Joe brought a few great pieces to share with everyone.
We’re thinking about hosting another Double Header event this December, we’ll see if we can get something together yet…
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