A multi-media dual exhibit is currently on display at the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center in Escanaba. Manifestation of the Sacred, recent works by Ingrid Cline in the Lower Gallery, while The Journey: a River in its Entirety is featured in the Upper Gallery.
Romanian by birth, the Gladstone-based artist received her BFA from the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She uses a variety of media to express her vision, including pieces in the tradition of Byzantine paintings featuring icons in egg tempera paintings and gold leaf; in others she uses paint and/or graphite.
The juxtaposition of materials serves to emphasize Cline’s view of the sacred: that it is always present in our current world, and has been viewed differently through time.
She has been honored with exhibits at the Oasis Gallery in Marquette, Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI, the Finnish American Heritage Center Gallery at Finlandia University in Hancock, and at Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba.
The current exhibit is sponsored by the Village Artisans of Garden, Michigan. There is no fee for admission to the Gallery or the Arts Center. For more information call (906) 786-3833.
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Ingrid Cline, at the night opening of "Manifestation of Sacred"
exhibit, January 6, 2005.
Ingrid Cline believes art should be “useful”.
“I very recently read about art archetypes,” she said. “In the beginning, everything was considered to be sacred, and life was an imitation of the sacred.”
She mentioned dancing to imitate the animal totems whose meat made life possible, and the paintings on cave walls that presaged a successful hunt as illustrations of artistic utility.
“Art has to have a certain definite purpose,” Cline said. “A professor of mine in Romania said that art that contains a general valid truth can be appreciated and identified with. People who see it are attracted to it because of that same truth.”
Icons and shrines, she said, are two kinds of this work.
Because she believes in art for everyone, and believes that the messages in her paintings will find those to whom they are most useful, she has instituted a bidding system for her paintings.
“It helps make the art affordable and available,” said Pasqua Warstler, Gallery Director for the Bonifas Fine Arts Center. “Large, significant works like Ingrid’s are often expensive. This bid system helps make it within the grasp of many more people.”
“People love having a personal connection with the artist, as well as the art,” Warstler said.
Bidders sign up with the Center and bid anonymously; winners will be announced at the end of the show, February 17.
For more information, call the Arts Center at (906) 786-3833, or stop by 700 1st Avenue South in Escanaba. Entrance to the Bonifas, Manifestation of the Sacred, and The Journey is free. Exhibit hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, 10 to 5.
For more of her work, visit artist's web site: www.ICvisualArts.com
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