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Todd Behrens

Curator of the Sioux City Art Center
  • "The inner part of the circle represents the "Solar", the exterior is the "Reef", and that's where [Langoussis] started to think about the fact that all…
  • "…When you see this sculpture at this scale, unlike the sculpture outside, you can see some of [Dunbar's] great influences. He loves mechanics, he loves…
  • "One of the things that a sculpture like Sioux City let's us do, because it doesn't represent anything in particular, is that it opens up our imagination…
  • "…We're standing in the atrium looking at this, and at a different part of this same space we have a later sculpture that Ann made called Condemarr……
  • "You are going to be working within traditions, if you choose to be an artist," says Behrens. "… And it's up to you to find those traditions and…
  • "So, this is a lithograph from 1950, but quite honestly it could have been one of the lithographs he would've produced during the 1930s," says Behrens as…
  • "Gate is a really good example of how Terri works. What she's able to see beyond a predictable, mundane subject… the beauty in the colors that are…
  • "A relief etching is something that virtually nobody does. What [Phillip Chen] has done is effectively remove the ink to give us the image," says Behrens.…
  • "In the back of our minds we're thinking, this is something that was created out of two things that neither of which had any special meaning for the…
  • Jerry Uelsmann is a master of the darkroom who, before the creation of image editing software, saw the possibilities of combining photographic images from…