Sculpture Retrospective on Exhibit at City Hall

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 28, 2009

For more information, please contact:
Miah Michaelsen, Assistant Director of Economic Development for the Arts, City of Bloomington, 349-3534
Danny Lopez, Communications Director, City of Bloomington, 349-CITY, lopezd@bloomington.in.gov

Bloomington, IN - The City of Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) will showcase a retrospective of sculpture and models by Jerald Jacquard in the City Hall Atrium February 2 - 28, 2009. The models constitute a tiny fraction of a substantial body of work created over a span of four decades by [image:4477,right]Jacquard, a Professor Emeritus of Sculpture at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. The exhibit is free to the public during City Hall's regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday.

An opening reception for the exhibit will be Friday, February 6 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. to coincide with the first GalleryWalk of 2009. The public is invited to attend and meet the artist. Refreshments will be served.

In his career as a sculptor, Jacquard has elevated model-making from a mere step in the process from artistic vision to final completion of a full-scale work, to an end unto itself, where the model is the completed vision. His works reflect an ongoing conversation on balance and proportion, color and shape, size and scale.

As Jacquard himself puts it, "Models give the artist a creative insight and freedom from the everyday world...they allow me to compare ideas and they show me which ideas not to make larger. Having the advantage of previewing unknown ideas, I feel models have an exponential stimulating affect on the creative mind."

Jacquard received a Guggenheim Fellowship for monumental sculpture and a Fulbright Scholarship to study bronze casting in Florence. He has staged over a dozen one-man exhibitions over his 40-year career, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

[image:4478,left]His piece Space Junction of Energy was the first specially created artwork designed for and installed in a Chicago Transit Authority rail station. The site-specific sculpture was integrated with the system of ramps and stairs that links the station house with the platforms, and was an excellent example of the successful integration of public art with the design of a transit space. Today, art installations are included in nearly all the Transit Authority's construction and renovation projects.

The City of Bloomington is committed to providing opportunities for Bloomington and area artists to exhibit artwork in City Hall Atrium. For more information, contact Miah Michaelsen, the Assistant Economic and Sustainable Development Director for the Arts, at michaelm@bloomington.in.gov or (812) 349-3534.

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