Artist Reception and Panel Discussion with Ute Stebich
Thu, Sep 26
|Waterloo Center for the Arts
WCA invites you to a reception celebrating the incredible talents of Ute Stebich while also honoring the many contributions Ute and her family have made to the WCA Permanent Collection.
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Waterloo Center for the Arts, 225 Commercial St, Waterloo, IA 50701, USA
About the event
Artist Reception and Panel Discussion with Ute Stebich
This fall, the Waterloo Center for the Arts unveils a new exhibition, Reverberations. For decades, artist, educator, gallerist, and collector Ute Stebich has guided the development of the collections at the Waterloo Center for the Arts. Through Ute, the WCA became a conduit to other collectors such as Janet Feldman and Larry Kent and countless others. The synergy and focus she stimulated have led to a rich and spirited international collection, unique to Waterloo and vital in the Midwest.
Reverberations takes as its principal inspirations an abstract painting by Brazilian artist and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, a print portfolio by Mexican Zapotec artist and activist Francisco Benjamín López Toledo, and the truck tire sculptures of Haitian artist André Eugène. The imagery, symbols, and motifs that they express fostered other associations within the collection, necessitating a look at objects from India, Pakistan,…