2008 Woodie Awards
Campus bursting with aesthetic art
Kocher exhibit and Kirkwood Student Art exhibit provide many styles of art for viewing
Alison Heims
Issue date: 4/12/07 Section: A&E
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The month of April brings two new art exhibits to Kirkwood Community College. Both the Bob Kocher exhibit, located on the third floor of Nielsen Hall and the Kirkwood student art exhibit, located in the Iowa Hall Gallery, feature many different art media.
Many of the pieces that make up the Bob Kocher exhibit were created by using the usual gift for fathers - neck ties. Five of the nine pieces of hanging art include ties. The first piece one would see coming up the stairs to the third floor is "Fly Tie," created by Kocher between 1987 to 1990. The background is filled with a pyramid shape and the neck tie is attached to the top of the canvas. The tie is in a crescent shape, just like one would look if it was being blown by the wind.
Another painting that uses the tie in a unique way is "Four-in-Hand." This piece was created by Kocher in 1990 and includes four different designs that could be found on any neck tie. The first design is a desert theme, complete with a cactus and sombrero. A beach scene with palm trees makes up the second tie design and the face of a woman with a cigarette poking out of her voluptuous lips fills up the third red tie. The final design is a light blue tie with a paint palette and paint brush near the bottom.
In addition to artwork with ties, the Kocher exhibit features other pieces as well. In the piece "Moonscape," Kocher created a sphere shape in shades of gray and black. Over two-thirds of this sphere is covered with a sheer netting, painted with dark blues and black. This netting adds texture to the piece, which makes people want to reach out and touch it.
The third floor of Nielsen Hall is also filled with sculptures created by Kirkwood students, as part of the Kirkwood Student Art Exhibit. Many of the sculptures incorporate the use of wire in some way. One of the sculptures on display, created by Bobby Tulk, is a large wooden spool used as a base with a person made out of tin foil climbing up a wire ladder.
Many of the pieces that make up the Bob Kocher exhibit were created by using the usual gift for fathers - neck ties. Five of the nine pieces of hanging art include ties. The first piece one would see coming up the stairs to the third floor is "Fly Tie," created by Kocher between 1987 to 1990. The background is filled with a pyramid shape and the neck tie is attached to the top of the canvas. The tie is in a crescent shape, just like one would look if it was being blown by the wind.
Another painting that uses the tie in a unique way is "Four-in-Hand." This piece was created by Kocher in 1990 and includes four different designs that could be found on any neck tie. The first design is a desert theme, complete with a cactus and sombrero. A beach scene with palm trees makes up the second tie design and the face of a woman with a cigarette poking out of her voluptuous lips fills up the third red tie. The final design is a light blue tie with a paint palette and paint brush near the bottom.
In addition to artwork with ties, the Kocher exhibit features other pieces as well. In the piece "Moonscape," Kocher created a sphere shape in shades of gray and black. Over two-thirds of this sphere is covered with a sheer netting, painted with dark blues and black. This netting adds texture to the piece, which makes people want to reach out and touch it.
The third floor of Nielsen Hall is also filled with sculptures created by Kirkwood students, as part of the Kirkwood Student Art Exhibit. Many of the sculptures incorporate the use of wire in some way. One of the sculptures on display, created by Bobby Tulk, is a large wooden spool used as a base with a person made out of tin foil climbing up a wire ladder.
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