LEMONT— The Art Alliance Art Center in Lemont held an opening reception for its “Abstraction Show 2019”, which ran from Nov. 15 to Nov. 24. The turn-out for this show was numerous and the comments were very positive as the patrons strolled and conversed among the paintings.
Before the show actually opened, educator Anne Burgevin, showed her students images of the paintings that were hung in the Art Alliance Center. As their writing and poetry teacher, Bugevin wanted them to get a sense of the paintings and write about their reactions — how each one made them feel. The comments next to the paintings added another dimension and an insight that would not have occurred without the student input.
Renee Macneal wrote a Haiku about the painting “Evolving”:
Mix and blurs of colors
So clear you can feel it
Like ice
Maria Tacconi also wrote about “Evolving”:
Lines, dots, and solids
Black, white, and green
Multi colored spots
Lisa Wang said of the work “Arboretum Abstract,” “The balance between nature and man-made is unbelievable. … It’s amazing how art can affect us without using any words.”
Regarding the work titled, “Space Camp,” Ariana Macneal wrote, “Puzzle fantasy. Like clockwork. Like a compass.”
There were several more students represented in the poems beside the paintings. All had perfected their poems to reflect thoughts and feelings elicited from the artwork. Those included in the art show were: Age 9: Linda Wang and Nyla Wessel; age 12 — Emily Chen and Lorelei Keil; age 13 — Huck Tritsch and Renee Macneal; age 14 — Wyatt Keil, Maia Lindsay and Sylvia Decker; age 16 — Barry Decker and Arian Macneal; and age 17 — Faith Kingsley.
On Nov. 17, local poets read their own poems at at the Art Alliance. At reading, both Burgevin and Lindsay read poems they had composed.
One of the three poems that Lindasy read was “The Earth is Melting” — her response to Charlie O’Neill’s painting titled, “Tears.”
By coincidence, O’Neill attended the reading and she and Lindsay were able to discuss the younger’s poem. O’Neill said Lindsay had captured the theme and intent in her painting. The following is Linday’s poem: “The Earth is Melting” Twenty, fifty Years ago There was A lot more snow And now the earth is melting My eyes They fill with tears When I think Of all the years We knew And didn’t change And now The earth is melting If you listen They will say That everything Is okay But they know that The earth is melting We should all Be filled with fear For danger Is coming near Because The earth is melting.
