HCC
exhibit features paintings by Phil Smith
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[January 10, 2015]
NORMAL
- The Joe McCauley Gallery at Heartland Community College is
displaying Phil Smith: Paintings from Monday, January 12 through
Friday, March 6. The gallery is located in room 2507 of the
Instructional Commons Building on Heartland’s Normal campus, 1500 W.
Raab Road.
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An artist talk will take place Wednesday, March 4 at 3:00 p.m. in
room 2805 of the Instructional Commons Building. A reception will
follow from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the gallery.
Phil Smith: Paintings presents the artist's use of direct
observation, color and brushwork to capture scenes of homes, bridges
and roads in rural and urban McLean County. Often painted in one
sitting, the oil paintings reflect how light sculpts natural and
man-made forms. He characterizes this body of work as sparing all
but the most essential details to retain the freshness of a sketch.
About the artist
Phil Smith is an artist and retired art educator based in
Bloomington-Normal. His works have been exhibited widely.
In 2011-12, Smith created the Coffeehouse Portrait Project, which
documented employees and patrons of The Coffeehouse in Uptown
Normal. Collections of Smith’s paintings are on display in offices
of the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System and at Main Gallery
404. Smith began his teaching career in 1989 and taught drawing,
life drawing, painting, art history and art appreciation courses at
colleges and universities, including Heartland, until 2014. He also
served as a gallery facilitator while teaching at Richland Community
College.
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He holds a bachelor’s degree in art education from Eastern
Illinois University, a master’s degree in art education from the
University of Illinois and a Master of Fine Arts degree from
Illinois State University.
About the gallery
Exhibits, events and parking at Heartland’s Joe McCauley Gallery
are free. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
days the College is open.
For more information about this exhibit, contact Danell Dvorak,
gallery coordinator, at danell.dvorak@heartland.edu and (309)
268-8599, or call Heartland’s Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department at (309) 268-8620.
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