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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 5 From Lead To Gold
July 2nd, 2009 - Dixon, IL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
CCAQ Coordinator:
Lisa Higby LeFevre
2020 Lowell Park Road
Dixon, IL 61021
815.285.0014
ccaq@comcast.net
CRYSTAL CORK ART QUARTERLY No. 5
Presents: Sydni Reubin: “from Lead to Gold”
DIXON – The Crystal Cork Art Quarterly presents its fifth quarterly show, “from Lead to Gold” featuring the most recent body of paintings by former Dixon High School graduate and 2009 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design graduate, Sydni Reubin. Opening reception is Friday, August 7, 2009 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, located at 219 West First Street, in downtown Dixon, IL, 815-285-3496. The show runs August 7 – October 31, 2009.
Sydni Reubin was born in Dixon, IL and lives in Milwaukee, WI. She graduated from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in May 2009. She has produced several portrait commissions for prominent Milwaukee citizens, including, Mike Jones, VP, Miller Brewing Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Willie G. Davidson of Harley Davidson, Co. In May of 2009, she participated in fundraiser, Creative Fusion, for the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design to raise funds for the school student scholarship fund. After a bidding war, she agreed to do two portraits instead of one, raising $11,000 for the school. Aside from her accomplishments at MIAD, Reubin has also done commissioned courtroom sketching for the Lou Dobbs Tonight show on CNN. She has worked for them in Milwaukee as well as Chicago. When asked about Reubin's ability, CNN producer Chris Murphey said, "Sydni Reubin is talented. She can sketch fast and sketch well in what can be a very difficult environment to capture a scene. Imagine what she can do on a project that doesn't come with a breakneck-speed deadline of a news organization."
“From Lead to Gold” includes large-scale watercolor portraits of prominent male figures in the artist’s life. Reubin is working with the idea of alchemy; the ancient chemistry in which it was believed that lead could be transferred into gold. On a broader scale, it is taking an ordinary thing and making it extraordinary. For Reubin, alchemy happens within the act of watercolor painting and it is then that her subjects become transformed.
Using exceptional technical skill and color sensibility, Reubin is able to create larger-than-life images that draw the viewer in and invite them to take a closer look. She has found a way to coalesce incredible accuracy with expressive and emotive mark-making, and that coalescence is where the extraordinary starts to happen.
“The life of the work exists within the medium; the handling of the paint introduces the subject under new lights. I am employing bold brushwork, the spontaneity of water, as well as the sensuous, unforgiving nature of the pigment to give an intense clarity to each piece.” -excerpt from Reubin’s artist statement
The Crystal Cork Art Quarterly is a cooperative endeavor between the people at The Crystal Cork, Trein’s Jewelry and Distinctive Gardens. With a strong historical community tradition supporting the arts, we add to the existing culture by providing a visual arts venue offering quarterly exhibitions of area and regional artists. Information online at: www.distinctivegardensinc.com/ccaq.html