| WAUKESHA – Sculptor and ceramicist Rick Hintze will exhibit some of his work in the Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha March 9 through April 19. The gallery is open from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and during special events, such as performances of the dramatic production the evenings of March 9, 10, 16 and 17, and Sunday afternoon, March 11. For a private viewing at a more convenient time, phone (262) 521-5445. Admission is free, and the public is welcome.
Hintze enjoys investigating the world he experiences in the art he creates. Working sources from his studies into the life that he knows, he uses Egyptian, Medieval, and Greek architecture, relates architectural facades with human confrontations, finds awe in the stillness of religious art, and enters negative space as depicted by windows, portals, gates, passageways, and other openings. Long fascinated with his native Midwestern landscape, the sometimes sun-dazzled or snow-covered rural scenes often strewn with aging fencing or worn tools, he sees in the geometric play of light and shadow and of organic and deteriorating the eternal “battle we wage in our own lives between order and chaos.”
A 1966 graduate of Knox College, Galesburg, IL, with a master’s degree in art history from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and MFA in ceramics from the University of Notre Dame, IN, Hintze has been teaching art at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA, since 1991. He spent last year on a professional development leave teaching at UW-Whitewater. In the 1970’s and 1980’s he had taught at Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL, Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, IL, and Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND.
Primarily a Midwestern exhibitor, he has shown his work also in California, Louisiana, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, and Tennessee. He captured the best-of-show award at the Lincoln Arts Center (Lincoln, CA) Feats of Clay exhibit in 1989 and has earned other exhibition awards as well. In 1999 he did a residency at Artists Invite Artists at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, MN. His work appears in a number of collections including that of the Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, WI. |
