MUTTISSE!
Discover Muttisse, where Rebecca Clouse's vibrant watercolors and intricate artworks celebrate nature, animals, and human emotion, while nurturing a collaborative community through art education and creativity.
About the Artist
Rebecca Clouse is a local artist in Iowa City, Iowa. Her first exhibit, at the Hudson River. The gallery consisted of 235 framed portrait sketches hung salon-style, called ‘Homo Sentiens’. Next came small aggregations of portrait sketches for Gallery Walk at Textiles in Iowa City, called ‘If we are friends’, and trying to evoke something on the order of what happens in long-distance train travel: strangers are seated together in the dining car, and face-to-face conversations happen, as if by grace. A second Gallery Walk exhibit was ‘Lost in the Corn’, pastel drawings and acrylic paintings as if from deep within a cornfield. There had been a story from Missouri in August of a farmer who went into his cornfield to take a whiz and was found at last hours later by a police helicopter. Her second exhibit at the Hudson River Gallery, called ‘Gothic Afternoon’, consisted of egg-tempera paintings and digitally manipulated images enhanced with oil pastels. Photos of Gothic architecture, taken during two separate trips to France and Spain, came from Chartres Cathedral and the Augustin Museum in Toulouse, from the Alhambra in Granada, the Great Mosque at Cordoba, a restored Jewish synagogue in Toledo, the Alcazar in Seville, as well as the Cathedral. ‘The Gardener’, again at Gallery Walk and again at Textiles, was a body of egg-tempera paintings of her husband, David Hamilton, at work in his glen, various dogs and cats that have mascots the household, and flowers. Recently turning to watercolor to learn more about color, she made copies of Matisse paintings with dogs added, replacing some objects but mostly nude or semi-clad females. Exhibited at the Times Gallery café in Prairie Lights Bookstore, ‘Mutisse!’ was a stop also on Gallery Walk.
Muttisse creates vibrant art, celebrating nature, emotion, and storytelling taking inspiration from the famous Henri Matisse.
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Muttisse!
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rebecca-clouse@uiowa.edu