main gallery | free
With a different approach each artist explores the edges and tensions inherent in the spaces we occupy.
Lynn Benson’s paintings and collages focus on rivers and waterways, creating abstracted images from google map views. The rivers she chooses often represent areas of conflict: trade routes, oil spills, pollution, areas where the access to resources is contested. Bubp’s work uses walking as an act of insurgency, portraying the collisions between public and private space. Using etched steel, video, and interactive installations, Bubp asks us to consider the right to occupy these grey areas and how it feels to travel within other people’s spaces. Stone questions our experiences of space through surreal interiors and imagined landscapes. His paintings and collages hint at the familiar, yet remain undefinable, creating feelings of tension and anxiety that reflect our current unsure times.
Lynn Benson | San Joaquin / Sundarbans (Diptych) | 2018 | Oil on canvas | 36” x 84”
Robert Bubp | Geo Logic: Spatial Disruptions, Mexico City Metro, June 2017 | 2018 | Acrylic, tar, acid etch, transfer, pencil on steel. | 68" w x 95"
Tim Stone | Invented Landscape #59 | 2019 | Collage on bristol | 24” x 38”
Special Programming:
Artist talk with lynn benson
7 pm, November 4 | FREE on Facebook Live
Lunch and learn with Robert Bubp
12 pm, November 18 | FREE on Facebook Live
Tim stone Workshop - Collaging and Processes
Postponed until Spring
Collaging and Processes is all about exploration. How can we repurpose found materials and convert them into thought-provoking, colorful masterpieces? Tim Stone shows students how to explore their ideas using various collaging and color techniques. The content of work created can range from poignant and purposeful to abstract and formal. Magazines, old prints and photographs are all materials we or someone we know has in abundance. Meld materials with tape, spray-paint, and oil pastels to create fresh, contemporary artwork.
Tim Stone graduated from Wichita State University in 2012 with a BFA in Painting. He was accepted to the New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in 2014 where he participated in the summer drawing marathon program with Graham Nickson. Stone has served as faculty at Bethany College and Wichita State, where he currently teaches drawing and design, and has taught classes at Mark Arts since 2014.
The Spaces Between is underwritten by John & Debbie Divine and Rob & Kelli Exline.
Salina Art Center is a nonprofit contemporary art and education center founded in 1978 in Salina, Kansas. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1991, the Art Center’s mission is “to create exchanges among art, artists, and audiences that reveal life.” Supporters include artists, educators, and community members who envision a center to engage people in art experiences of quality, relevance, and significance to our global community. A heartfelt thank you to our patrons, sustainers, advocates, and benefactors for their generosity.
Salina Art Center is supported in part by donors, members, underwriters, foundations, the City of Salina, the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.