Kellogg Community College will exhibit more than three dozen works by father/son artists Martin and John Hubbard in the campus art gallery starting Oct. 27.
The exhibit, titled “How We See It: Martin & John Hubbard,” will run through Dec. 4 in the Davidson Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek.
The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular gallery hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays.
An opening reception with the artists – also free and open to the public – will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the gallery.
“How We See It” includes 39 pieces ranging from oil and gouache paintings to pastel drawings, woodcut prints and photographs. Subjects include landscapes, portraiture, still life and more.
“We are related but approach visual art in different ways,” Martin Hubbard, John Hubbard’s father, said. “Our life experiences, interests and how we see the world differ. This is apparent even when we work with similar subject matter.”
Martin studied art history in Belgium and Holland through a Fulbright scholarship and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in studio art and printmaking at Indiana University. He also studied photography at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and taught art classes at Kellogg Community College from 1969 to 2007 and for one year at the University of Olivet.
“The subjects that interest me tend to range from landscape to humans’ effect upon the environment. I enjoy and search for quiet beauty in the woodland, stream or lake as well as the creativity, craftsmanship, kitsch and irony of our bustling, man-made world,” he said in an artist’s statement. “The media I work with includes oil painting and photography, and being a member of the Southwest Michigan Printmakers keeps me involved with my interest in relief prints.”
John Hubbard graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Language and Literature and from the University of Illinois with a Master of Business Administration. He worked for Ford Motor Company for 20 years, including assignments in Japan, Germany and Mexico, and currently works as a baker at Zingerman’s Bakehouse, an artisanal bakery in Ann Arbor.
“Ukiyo-e prints are probably my greatest artistic influence, especially Meiji-era and Shin-hanga artists such as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kawase Hasui and Yoshida Hiroshi,” John Hubbard said in an artist’s statement. “My landscape paintings are primarily an attempt to capture a fleeting moment of interest: a sunrise or sunset, a spray of fall color or maybe a snow squall up north. In my figurative pictures I try to achieve through gouache an image similar to what one might see in a Japanese woodblock print.”
For more information about KCC’s “How We See It” exhibit or other KCC arts events and initiatives, contact KCC’s Arts and Communication Office at 269-965-4126.
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