Tugboat Gallery is located at 116 N. 14th Street, Lincoln, NE - second story above Gomez Art supply. Elevator entrance at 1410 'O' Street. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 10-6 and Saturday 12-5. Questions answered by Gomez Art Supply at 402-477-6200.
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“Shift” captures the state of in-between: micro-macro, indoor-outdoor, organic-architectural. Intentional shadow, color, and placement create familiar moments imbedded in foreign landscapes that continuously shift from a domesticated space to an outdoor scene. Each artist relies on sculpture and mark-making to manipulate materials such as clay, paint, plastic sheeting, and foam to both stabilize the setting with realistic objects and to skew your perceptions of reality.
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Anna Koenig's work is an investigation of personal interaction with the natural world: what we take from nature, what we give to it, how we attempt to tame it, its resiliency and steadiness and mystery. Materials used fluctuate through experimentation, most often oil, acrylic, or ink on paper and canvas.
http://www.annakoenigart.com/
Michael Ian Larsen is an artist from Lincoln, Nebraska. He has an MFA in Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and had his first solo show at Peregrine Program (Chicago) in 2013. He has completed residencies at the Lux Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Art Farm. He currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University, also working as an electrical apprentice and art handler/preparator at several local institutions.
http://www.dargerhq.org/michael-ian-larsen/
Shalya Marsh received a BFA from SUNY New Paltz in 1999 and an MFA from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2016. She is currently the Post Graduate Teaching Resident at West Virginia University Ceramic Production Facility. She has exhibited extensively, taught in the community, and participated in various residencies.
http://www.shalyamarsh.com/
Hilary Nelson received her BFA in painting from Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa in 2013. She went on to attend the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, and graduated with an MFA in painting in May of 2017. This fall she will begin a year long teaching residency at Maharishi University.
http://www.hilary-nelson.com/
Michael Villarreal was born in Austin, TX. In 2013, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas State University, and in May 2017 a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has exhibited his work at Art Palace Contemporary Art Gallery and Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, TX, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, LA Artcore: Brewery Annex Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and Art + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI. He has been in several publications, online and in print, such as Huffington Post for a group exhibition in Los Angeles and in Issue No. 126 of New American Paintings which was release in October 2016. This year, he was awarded with the 39th Mayor’s Arts Awards in Lincoln, NE, the Francis William Vreeland Scholarship Award, and attended the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City as an artist-in-residence.
http://www.michaelvillarrealart.com/