A $5 entry is requested. This exhibit is curated by Larry Lapidus. Miller Beach Arts & Creative District is a non-profit organization with a mission of the arts as a catalyst for economic rejuvenation. Opening reception will be held on Friday, October 2, 2020, at the Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts – 540 S. Lake Street, Miller Beach, Gary IN, 6:00-8:00 p.m. CST. A cash bar will be available.
Come journey through landscapes imagined by Constance,
inspired by earthly elements
Constance Volk’s media of choice include artwork, flutes, and voice. She grew up in Seattle, the daughter of an opera singer and a pianist. She began studying music at the age of 5 and enjoyed creating visual art as her hobby. Constance eventually moved to Chicago to attend DePaul University where she earned a degree in flute performance. Still maintaining her interest in visual art, she studied oil painting and 3-dimensional foundations. Constance then joined the artist collective ‘catalyst’, where she met her life partner, Caton. The artist has developed her career in music as a founding member of Ensemble Dal Niente. She also performs with Lookingglass Theatre and the Chicago Wind Project, among many other ensembles. In her tandem painting career, she recently had a blacklight art exhibit of her work at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago. Constance maintains a stream of back-to-back commissions and is totally obsessed with painting. Her other great joy in life is mothering her 2 daughters, Geneva and Sylvia. Visit constancevolk.com to view her paintings, poster art, coloring books and portraits, or to hear clips of her many ensembles.
“I began drawing mazes when I was 8, during the evenings when my father would read to my family. Perfecting this line of work became a goal that led to a desire to experiment with nearly every medium. As I furthered these practices, I also developed a career as a flutist and vocalist, specializing in contemporary works.
Performing within the new music genre generated an interest in learning the trade of piano tuning. I was particularly drawn to the sounds of an ‘out of tune’ piano, resonating with dissonance and flurries of microtonal scales. I started to experience intense imagery while tuning the strings from dissonant intervals to perfect unisons. Sound waves, the harmonic series, sometimes clearly organized, sometimes overlapping into chaos, had me rushing home to reflect these vibrations on canvas. This was the first time the creativity of my two art worlds collided, music and painting, and catalyzed a surge of ideas that have been freely flowing from brain to canvas ever since.”
Constance will be exhibiting 30+ paintings during her exhibition at the Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts, curated by Larry Lapidus.