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00000179-2419-d250-a579-e41d38c20001The Gallery @ NPR Illinois is in the studio complex and facilitates listeners engaging with Illinois art. Additionally, artists works from each exhibit are digitally captured and posted here and shared with other public radio stations.Each exhibit kicks-off with an opening mixer where listeners are invited to attend and refreshments are provided. Each exhibit is open for viewing for a few weeks after the opening during business hours: weekdays 8 AM - 5 PM. Viewing by appointment can also be arranged by contacting Carter Staley. Many newsmakers come through the studios to be interviewed on-air and see the art during an exhibit as do attendees for other events like Live at the Suggs.To participate in a future exhibit or stage one of your own, click here to submit your art exhibit idea.Featured Artists:Bill AblerRL BostonDelinda ChapmanRita DavisColleen "Cookie" FerratierSandra FinneyRich FordCathy J. GanschinietzAneita Atwood GatesGeorge KingRachel LattimoreGinny LeeDouglas Levi (Brackney)Gwen LewisBenjamin LowderMarcia McMahon MastroddiDebbie MegginsonHugh MooreShannon O'BrienMaggie PinkeSheri RamseySue ScaifeMary SelinskiCarolyn Owen SommerJan SorensonElizabeth TroneKate Worman-Becker

100 Expressions: David Brodsky

"Premonition" by David Brodsky

David Brodsky, Springfield

Title: "Premonition"

Medium: Photography

Narrative: The photograph was taken at Bregenz, a small Austrian town, home of the Bregenzer Festspiele, which takes place on and around a stage on Lake Constance. (I later learned that giant pieces of this installation were used as a “backdrop” for a super-contemporary vision of Verdi’s opera “Aida.”) On the rainy, dreary day in October 2010 when I accidentally discovered this place, I had no clue what it was. This view was strikingly surrealistic and extremely disturbing and depressing. Six years later, during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, I “reactivated” this photograph because it was strongly reflecting my emotions. I had a bad feeling about the outcome of the ongoing election, which is why I have named this work “Premonition.”

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