Sioux City Art Center to celebrate Razzle Dazzle art installation

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The Sioux City Art Center is inviting the community to experience an ambitious art installation Razzle Dazzle premiering from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1.

According to a press release, the Sioux City Art Center began a community-based art that started with an invitation 18 months ago for the community to donate unused fabric and time to help sew artwork. The result will be a temporary public art installation that will cover a large section of the Sioux City Art Center and its Gilchrist Learning Center buildings.

The Razzle Dazzle art installation will be by New York-based artist Amanda Browder.

Razzle Dazzle is a contemporary artwork that is rooted in collaborative folk-art traditions that are not acknowledged art. It is said to challenge assumptions about materials, public art, and museum display.

Browder describes the effort of her work “It’s easy to take buildings for granted, especially when you’re driving past. If you add something that’s visually very bright and eye-catching, it starts making you more aware of what you see on a regular basis. It changes people’s whole concept of their daily environment. When the work is gone, the building’s still there but it seems different—it becomes charged. My bright, colorful pieces energize the buildings even after the work is gone.”

Razzle Dazzle is a project to elevate the scale and impact of fabric, challenging the tight geometry of brick and glass on the Art Center and accentuating the clean contemporary aesthetic of the Gilchrist Learning Center.

The exhibition will remain on display through October 31.

Amanda Browder: Razzle Dazzle is organized by Sioux City Art Center Curator Chistopher Atkins. It is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Gilchrist Foundation, the Iowa Economic Development Authority, the Art Center Association of Sioux City, Charese Yanney, empirical, State Steel, Knoepfler Chevrolet, and Honeysuckle Hollow.

For additional information contact the Sioux City Art Center at (712) 279-6272, ext. 200, the Sioux City Art Center website .

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