This show is a result of living in isolation during the Covid quarantine. Both artists had different responses to this experience. Marcia could not paint and Hazel had to paint to maintain sanity. So Marcia read constantly and Hazel challenged herself by painting the intensely-observed, classical floral still life. This developed into a conversation between the two artists and the post-modern concept of Juxtaposition became the subject. Marcia, a colorist and abstract painter, started responding to Hazel’s works using the same palette and deconstructing the imagery. Each diptych became one work, a square and a rectangle, observational and abstract, glazing and impasto and two entirely different expressions by two very different painters. An exhibition catalog with an essay by Sheila Regan is available for purchase in person and online in the link below.

Hazel Belvo (b. 1934, Ohio) has been an exhibiting painter for sixty years and has works in many private and public collections. From southern Ohio, she went to the New School for Social Research in New York City. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Harvard, went to the University of Minnesota, was a WARM Gallery member, taught at St. Paul Academy and Summit Schools, U of MN and then the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where she is a Professor Emerita. For many years she mentored artists at the Grand Marais Art Colony. Her current body of work is a series of large-scale paintings with an interest in history, nature, humanity and justice. Recently a monograph of her life and work was written by Julia l’Enfant and published by the Afton Press titled Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art.

Marcia Casey Cushmore (b. 1940, Kansas) is a painter, photographer, sculptor, and printmaker. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Paris and Argentina. Educated at Kansas University and the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen in Scotland she was a philosophy professor and a fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In the 1990’s she turned back to art after a full academic career and attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design to follow her love and interest in art. A “colorist” she places emphasis on texture, pattern, movement and the richness and wisdom of nature.

Saturday, April 8 - Saturday, May 13, 2023
Juxtaposition: Two Artists - Two Stories
Paintings by Hazel Belvo and Marcia Casey Cushmore