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Sunday Series: Exhibition Walk Through with Judith Lloyd Klauba

Sunday Series: Exhibition Walk Through with Judith Lloyd Klauba

• Location: ISM Lockport Gallery, Lockport
• Date: Sunday, February 01, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

On Sunday, February 1, 2009, visitors to the Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery will be treated to an informative guided tour of the exhibition The Grammar of Landscape: Eleven Photographic Visions of Illinois.  The tour begins at 2:00 PM and will be given by the exhibition’s curator Judith Lloyd Klauba, Associate Curator for Fine Arts, ISM Chicago Gallery.  This tour offers a unique opportunity to experience the exhibition via the curator’s perspective.  Refreshments will be offered after the tour.  This event is part of the ISM Lockport Gallery’s First Sunday Series and is free and open to the public.

The exhibition The Grammar of Landscape evolved over a two-year period and brought together several areas of Judith Lloyd Klauba's personal interests, including a love of photography, an interest in nature, a concern for the environment, and a belief in the importance of education. She pursued photography as an art form for almost twenty years, photographing, among other subjects, swamps and marshes of the Midwest, her adopted home, and the south, the home of her early years. According to Lloyd Klauba, "In the mid-eighties, I began combining my photographs with writing as I become concerned with the environment and our cavalier treatment of our wonderful earth. During the development of this exhibit, I have found exciting landscape photographers all over Illinois who are also concerned with the environment and the landscape and was able to pursue research into philosophical and anthropological approaches to the environment taken by scientists and environmentalists, information which was then distilled into educational labels within the exhibition." Judith Lloyd Klauba has been a curator with the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery since 1989 and has curated several important exhibitions. She is a former teacher and writes novels in her spare time.              

The Grammar of Landscape looks at wetlands, prairies, forest, plains, agriculture, the lake, the city, and industry.  In a healthy environment these “units” function symbiotically to create a viable ecobiotic system in much the same way that parts of speech combine to create effective language for communication.  This exhibition maps the terrain of our state through the eyes of eleven artists with unique visions.  Included are late photographers David Avison and Art Sinsabaugh, one of the masters whose iconic panoramas changed Midwestern photography; mature mid-career artists Barbara Crane, Gary Kolb, Rhondal McKinney, and Bob Thall; a newer generation including Michelle Keim, Jin Lee, Michael McGuire, and Bill Sosin; and influential performance artist Joan Dickinson—each of whom has made a commitment to the landscape through their work.  The Grammar of Landscape continues through March 27, 2009.

The Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery is located on the first floor of the historic Norton Building at 201 West 10^th Street in Lockport, Illinois, and is fully accessible to all physically challenged individuals.  Museum hours are noon until 5:00 pm on Sunday and 9:00 am until 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.  The Museum is closed Saturdays and State Holidays including January 19 (Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday), February 12 (Lincoln’s Birthday), and February 16 (President’s Day).  Admission is free.  For information on exhibitions and related programs, becoming a member of the Friends of the Lockport Gallery, directions to the museum, or to schedule a group tour of ten or more, please contact museum staff at (815) 838-7400 or visit the museum online at https://www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/lockport/.  The Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery is part of the Illinois State Museum system, including sites in Springfield, Rend Lake, Chicago, and Lewistown.

One of our Sunday Series

For several years the ISM Lockport Gallery has been offering popular informal presentations on selected Sundays about the exhibitions on view. Offered free of charge to the general public, the programs are designed to increase appreciation and bring a fresh approach to visitors' understanding of specific objects or exhibition themes.