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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.

  • "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…