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Art + Radio
Wednesday at 7:42 a.m.

How do visual images work in an aural space? LIke this. Each episode adds to the gallery of the airwaves and connects listeners to the Sioux City Art Center's permanent collection.

  • "Kaneko is based in Omaha, has been there for many many years and is probably the best known artist in Omaha," says Behrens. "And if you go to almost any…
  • "The paintings that Howe did, especially in the 1960s, when being a truly contemporary Native American artist was still a radical thing, you can see how…
  • "Photography has been around for almost a hundred and eighty years, and even now there are still some people who fight against photography being an…
  • "It's a pretty small step sometimes to take something that is basic and make it something more meaningful," says Behrens. "And I think that's what Robert…
  • "…It's just an extraordinary work of how the most simple objects around us, the most basic environmental landscapes you might imagine, holds much more…
  • "Virtually every color you can imagine I think is in this painting. And what it does is it brings added attention to those few desserts that you can…
  • "You end up with just this visual delight. Everything seems unified and connected and everything seems at the same time really varied and disparate and…
  • "There are so many different layers of paint that she uses, and that layering is very important to her…" says Behrens. "…This misty quality that she…
  • "At any one view, you only get a partial glimpse of something. And so, as you move around the sculpture… you start to learn a little bit more about what's…
  • "It's a sculpture that reminds us you can be an experienced artist and still find joy in what you're doing… it connects on many different levels with…