Loeb January’s featured artist at Krempp Gallery

Carol Loeb is the featured artist at the Jasper Art Center’s Krempp Gallery for the month of January.

Inspired by landscapes, the Montreal, Quebec painter works mainly with acrylics on canvas in a fluid, expressive style. The pageantry of colors, shapes and patches of light captivate her imagination. Her work abstracts nature but maintains recognizable subjects: windblown leaves, deep foreboding shadows of northern pine forests or purple-stained wood of pine beetle infestations.  The colors, details, and perspective warp, blending into an expressive interpretation of the natural world.

“My paintings are perceptual studies of how the eyes perceive shapes and colors in the natural world. I focus on one area within the landscape and paint what I see and feel without moving my eyes from the main subject playing with clarity of vision and abstraction. The colors and textures resonate and vibrate within my eyes. I allow the colors, details, and perspective to warp and blend together into an expressive interpretation of the subject, to express my impression of the landscape’s soul,” Loeb stated.

Loeb holds a Fine Art Diploma from Fanshaw College, Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Education, Visual Arts from Brock University. To learn more about the artist, visit her website at, http://www.carolloeb.weebly.com.

Meet the artist and listen to a Gallery Talk at the FiRST THURSDAY Reception at the Krempp Gallery on January 5th, 2017 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Cash bar and refreshments will be served. This is a free, family-friendly evening out.

The Krempp Gallery, located in the Jasper Arts Center adjacent to the VUJC campus, is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., until 7 p.m. on Thursdays, and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. Admission is free and school groups, clubs and students are welcome.

For more information, please call the Arts Center at 812-482-3070. The Jasper Arts Center is managed by the Jasper Community Arts, a department of the City of Jasper. The JCA is supported by the Friends of the Arts, Inc., the Indiana Arts Commission through its regional partner the Vanderburgh Community Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.