Tokheim drawings featured at gallery

Southwest Minnesota Arts Council has announced a Gallery Exhibit and Reception featuring the drawings of Lucy Tokheim at the SMAC Gallery in Marshall. The artist reception is from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, November 9.

The drawings of Lucy Tokheim will be shown at the SMAC Gallery from November 9 through December 21.

The public is invited and special music will be provided by John an David Rabaey during the reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Lucy works as an artist/designer with her husband Gene Tokheim at Tokheim Stoneware studio pottery.

Lucy studied art at Southwest State University, textile studies in Rauland, Norway and has taken painting and drawing workshops in Grand Marais, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Gene’s wheel-thrown pottery with Lucy’s applied design resonates strongly with the Scandinavian immigrant communities of western Minnesota and throughout the upper Midwest. In 2002, they received the Prairie Star Award given by the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council.

This series of drawings is titled “GLACIAL RIVER TRAILS” and her artistic vision of the series is described by Tokheim as such: “In early January of 2015, I was restless with a brown landscape and snowless blizzards, longing to ski in fresh snow and cold air. Six inches of snow arrived and I headed for nearby Lac qui Parle State Park.”

“That day I began a series of drawings about my ski trail, focusing on tracks of animals and cars with rapt attention. The patterns in snow and ice had fascinating information for me,” said Lucy Tokheim.

“The silence of the park encouraged contemplation of geologic forces. They appear as elements that map layers to include my present day experience with snow cover,” she said.

Regular gallery hours to visit the exhibit are M-F 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-4:30 p.m.