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ELISA BOUGHNER, LUCA CRUZAT,
& LORI RODERICK

November 3, 2021 - January 3, 2022

Quad City Arts’ Art at the Airport presents oil paintings by Elisa Boughner of Glenview, IL, collagraphs by Luca Cruzat of Carbondale, IL, and ceramic sculpture by Lori Roderick of Rock Island, IL.

Elisa Boughner
Oil Paintings

Elisa Boughner was born in the United States, raised in Mexico and studied art in America and Europe. Her work reflects the influence of each of these cultures. She says, “Color holds an emotional bond for the viewer and the artist alike. My work is about emotion, and I believe color and composition can create an undeniable joyful emotion when looking at it.” Her still lifes are Expressionist in style, but incorporate the bright color palette characteristic of Mexican painting.

Luca Cruzat
Collagraphs

Luca Cruzat is an artist and educator based in Southern Illinois. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her work comes from close, personal observation and engagement with the ordinary. Cruzat states “an unknown mother kept a daughter’s garments in a box. This found material inspired these prints. The result is a fragmented portrait of a woman that is and becomes at the same time. The garment itself intends to transmute past into present. Reflecting on my own process of growing up, from time to time I come back to the box to generate another work, as an unfinished process.”

LORI RODERICK
CERAMIC Sculpture

The vessels in this exhibit were created as a reaction to and/or escape from the global pandemic. Some are light and hopeful; some are darker reflecting the many moods we all have experienced in the last 18 months. They are made using the very simple and old hand building techniques of pinching and coiling. Coils of terracotta (low fire) clay are added to each other, building each hollow piece from the bottom up. During and after the building process, they are paddled, carved or otherwise manipulated by hand until they have their final shape and surface. Finally, they are glazed and fired several times until they have the depth of color you see hear.

Some of the pieces share whimsical abstract imagery that’s not quite flora or fauna and mostly made up the moment I pick up a tool or brush in the studio. There is one exception in the exhibit - a piece full of line drawings of women. “Girlfriends” was made to honor all the women friend networks out there. In the midst of political, personal and global upheaval for so many, this celebrates women friends everywhere who support each other in good times and in crisis.
I received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Art from Augustana College and a Masters of Fine Arts in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Iowa. I exhibited work regularly before moving into part-time teaching, then full time arts management, and for the last 14 years, higher education grant writing and fundraising.

I am happy to be back at the stage of life where there is time in the margins to create and put some art out into a world that desperate for joy and healing.

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Art at the Airport

ELISA BOUGHNER, LUCA CRUZAT,​& ​LORI RODERICK​

Elisa Boughner​Oil Paintings

Luca CruzatCollagraphs

LORI RODERICK​CERAMIC Sculpture

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Lori Roderick, Snail Trail

Luca Cruzat, Neither Bee nor Cicada

Lori Roderick, Brownfield

Elisa Boughner, On Your Way

Lori Roderick, Up in Arms

Luca Cruzat, Mariana of the Many Talents

Lori Roderick, Appropriately Accessorized

Lori Roderick, Strata

Elisa Boughner, Light of Your Attention

Luca Cruzat, ABC's

Lori Roderick, Autumnal Equinox

Luca Cruzat, LCAP103, Portrayal of a Woman

Lori Roderick, If Summer Wore a Frock

Elisa Boughner, Edge of Time

Lori Roderick, Atmospheric Phenomena

Elisa Boughner, React To The Influence

Lori Roderick, Bare Necessities

Luca Cruzat, Antipodal: I am South and North

Lori Roderick, Opposites Attract

Elisa Boughner, Needful Things

Lori Roderick, A Whirling Unfurling

Luca Cruzat, Stiff Pose

Lori Roderick, She Wore Her Fancy Buttons Well

Lori Roderick, Sweet Offering

Lori Roderick, Transient Flora

Elisa Boughner, Intermingle

Lori Roderick, Forget Me Not

Elisa Boughner, It's The Small Things

Lori Roderick, Lexeme

Lori Roderick, Girlfriends

Luca Cruzat, Dressed to Comply

Elisa Boughner, Moving On

Lori Roderick, Unfathomable

Elisa Boughner, Reflecting Back

Lori Roderick, Polka Dot Power

Luca Cruzat, Âge Insouciant

Lori Roderick, Signed with an XO

Elisa Boughner, In The Blue Room

Lori Roderick, Modern Tracery

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ELISA BOUGHNER, LUCA CRUZAT,
& LORI RODERICK

Elisa Boughner
Oil Paintings

Luca Cruzat
Collagraphs

LORI RODERICK
CERAMIC Sculpture

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