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Bobbie Rieger Febrary 2010 Artist of the Month
Bobbie Rieger
1958, Bobbie Rieger received an A.A.D. from William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri. She attended Washburn University of Topeka, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Teacher Education Degree in 1964.
“Art has always been a part of my life from childhood to an adult. Art is life, life is art.” Bobbie says. Not limiting herself to any one media, she works in watercolor, oil, pastels, ink and acrylic. Combining sometimes several media in her paintings. She has been honored with various awards and has had her work accepted in numerous juried shows in Kansas.
Artists Association – Rural Urban Show – Winner
Artist Collection, Topeka, KS
Collective Art Gallery, Topeka, KS
Framewoods Gallery, Topeka, KS
Grace Episcopal Church – Cloister Gallery – Topeka
Historic Columbian Theatre, Wamego, KS
Kansas Post Card Series XXII
Pittsburg Art Council – Pittsburg, KS – One Woman Show(45 items)
Topeka Art Guild – Summer Show – Honorable Mention
Topeka Art Guild Fall Show – Second Place
Topeka Art Guild – Winter Show
The Art Guild Topeka Public Library Show
Topeka Public Library – Honorable Mention
Topeka Urban Art Show – Artists Association – Judges Award
Charles Benton Artist of the Month Jan. 2010
Truth be told, I really wanted to express my creativity through drawing and painting. I remember the
ads to “draw this” and send it in to see if you had the talent for an correspondence art class. I could
copy what someone else had drawn if given enough time, but my six year old grandson can draw
better now than I ever could or will.
After reviewing pictures of our first vacation through the Rocky Mountain states and the southwest I
discovered that I could express myself creatively through the medium of photography. I began to pour
through photography magazines and got my first 35mm camera.
Sometime around 1978 I purchased a book by Freeman Patterson, Photography for the Joy of It. I
later added his other books to my collection: Photography and the Art of Seeing and Photography of
Natural Things and over 25 years later these three taken together comprise my photography bible. I
learned from his books how to “make pictures” not just “take” pictures. In that first book he wrote, “You
become involved with what you’re photographing, and because you’re involved, you think a lot about
what you’re doing. You want to express the subject and your feelings about it accurately. So you care
about your workmanship. Caring and joy go together. In photography as in anything else, you’ll seldom
find one without the other.”
Patterson taught me to simplify, to look closely, to see things in a different way (what he calls “thinking
sideways”). And so, included among the pictures I’ve made are a picture of salt patterns on the garage
floor left after melted snow evaporated, and pictures of patterns in pond ice.
The first thing for me is to make pictures that I like. Sometimes that desire gets in the way of making
pictures that are possibly more marketable. Sure, it’s always nice when someone likes a picture
Connie English Artist of the Month Dec. 2009
Honors, Awards, & Recognition-My work has been displayed often in New York City, most notably at the John McEnroe Gallery. Three of my paintings
Some awards I have been the recipient of include: Best Watercolor Monetary Award, Taos, NM;Kansas Watercolor Society Award, Wichita, KS; 1
Topeka, KS; and 5 Monetary Awards, International Show, Minneapolis, MN.
In addition to being a member of TAG, I am affiliated with the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, The Artist Associated and a signature member of the Kansas Watercolor Society.
st Place Display Award, Brookwood Shopping Center,
were hung in the World Trade Center and 3 other painting appeared in the window of the AT &T building on Broadway Street in New York City. Throughout my adult life my work has been shown at well-known galleries in Taos, New Mexico and for 5 years has been on display at the Blumenshine Museum Gift shop in Taos.
