Kauff, Fedje, & VanDyke | Art at the Airport - Quad City Arts

Art at the Airport

SHOWCASING CULTURAL VIBRANCY OF OUR COMMUNITY
TO THE NEARLY ONE MILLION VISITORS EVERY YEAR

ART AT THE AIRPORT

KAUFF, FEDJE, & VAN DYKE

July 2 - August 30, 2021

ANNE KAUFF
Paintings

Anne Kauff presents Rooted in Place: Farms, Barns, and Bungalows, a series born out of residencies through the Fields Project in Oregon IL, that embedded artists in the everyday life of farm families. This residency deeply impacted her work. She was drawn to the simple shapes of barns, and how firmly they were rooted in their environment. With the advent of the pandemic her subject matter broadened. She set about taking long walks in her neighborhood as a way of dealing with stress. As she walked, she noticed a similar sense of rootedness in the small ranch houses and bungalows that she passed. Through a combination of plein air painting and painting from photographs, Kauff focuses on the relationship between land, sky, and the structures people call home. Kauff states that, “The paintings that succeed allow the viewer to step into a place that is both particular, and at the same time universal.”

KARA FEDJE
Textiles

Kara Fedje creates colorful handwoven tapestries inspired by environmental landscapes. Fedje explains, “I draw with yarn to create hand woven tapestries on my loom. My inspirations, often derived from my feelings towards nature, are re-imagined into a drawing, and then a weaving.”

Having worked in museums and studied art history, she is compelled by contemporary conversations about art, but also colorful works by German Expressionists, Franz Marc, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, and her good friend and former professor Rowen Schussheim-Anderson.

WILL VAN DYKE
Ceramics

Will Van Dyke is a painter and ceramic artist who has an abiding interest and delight in the visual, whether it is wooden barns, corn cribs, steel bridges, ceramic bowls, concrete silos, or a rusted piece of metal in the street that catches his eye as he walks to work.

Most recently he has incorporated water tower, corn crib and silo sculptures into his ceramic work, echoing his delight in these urban and rural structures, many of which are being lost forever, as corn cribs collapse under their own weight after years of neglect, and water towers, especially in Chicago, which are eliminated as the buildings they stood on are demolished to make way for new, taller buildings.

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Anne Kauff, Neighborhood Barn

Anne Kauff, Three Barns

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Kara Fedje, Family Series I

Anne Kauff, Granary

Anne Kauff, Red Gate

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Anne Kauff, Brown Cow

Will Van Dyke, Neenah Foundry, Vase 2

Will Van Dyke, Midwest Corn Crib 2

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Will Van Dyke, Water Tower Jar with Red Top

Will Van Dyke, Water Tower Jar with Blue Top

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Kara Fedje, River III

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Kara Fedje, Maclay Gardens

Anne Kauff, Cathedral

Will Van Dyke, Barn with Round Ends 1

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Anne Kauff, A New Day

Will Van Dyke, APVD104, Neenah Foundry, Vase 1

Anne Kauff, Furrows

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Anne Kauff, House on Frederick

Will Van Dyke, White Water Tower

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Kara Fedje, Family Series II

Anne Kauff, Home

Anne Kauff, Wisconsin Barn

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Will Van Dyke, Midwest Grain Elevator-Yellow

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Will Van Dyke, Midwest Corn Crib 1

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Will Van Dyke, Agrarian Structure 3

Anne Kauff, 7 A.M

Anne Kauff, Barn Geometry

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Anne Kauff, Yellow Dress

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Anne Kauff, Affinity for Red

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Anne Kauff, Eventide

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Will Van Dyke, Checkerboard Water Tower

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Kara Fedje, Family Series III

Will Van Dyke, Midwest Corn Crib 3

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Will Van Dyke, Ode to a Chicago Water Tower

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Kara Fedje, Napa Valley

Will Van Dyke, Midwest Grain Elevator, Green

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Will Van Dyke, Agrarian Structure 2

Anne Kauff, Ajar

Anne Kauff, Big Red Barn

Anne Kauff, Smoke and Rose

Kara Fedje, West Glacier

Will Van Dyke, Water Tower Jar with Round Bottom

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Will Van Dyke, Ode to Navy Pier Lighthouse

Will Van Dyke, Agrarian Structure 1

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Will Van Dyke, Yellow Silo

Anne Kauff, Alleyway

Will Van Dyke, Midwest Grain Elevator

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Will Van Dyke, Neenah Foundry, Vase 3

Anne Kauff, Portal

Anne Kauff, Remnants

Anne Kauff, Singing the Blues

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Will Van Dyke, Barn with Round Ends 2

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Kara Fedje, Williamette Valley

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Anne Kauff, Midwest Daydream

Anne Kauff, No One Home

Will Van Dyke, Water Tower Jar with Yellow Top

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Will Van Dyke, Checkerboard Silo

Will Van Dyke, Butler Silo

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ABOUT Art at the Airport

The Quad City International Airport gallery space, also known as Art at the Airport, is a formal contemporary gallery that has more than 1,600 sq. ft. of exhibition space in floor-to-ceiling glass cases. Nearly one million visitors view this space annually. This gallery is located in the front of the main arrival/departure seating area. Exhibits in this space are bi-monthly and showcase artists living within 250 miles of the Quad City area.

For more information, visit the Quad City International Airport website.

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