January 30, 2025 8:00am -
April 30, 2025 5:00pm
Free
Visit the LMH West Campus at 6265 Rock Chalk Drive to admire works by local artist Angie Pickman!
Nature continually calls out to our childlike curiosity, should we choose to stop and listen, and invites us to explore all of its wonders. We are often stuck, running on auto-pilot, in our repetitive day-to-day routines and forget that we live in an enchanting natural world that holds more wonder and beauty than one could ever imagine. Angie Pickman attempts to recreate some of that enchantment through detailed hand-cut paper collages, inspiring the viewer to stop and explore and, hopefully, spark some of the same joy that she finds when she is exploring the natural world.
Artist Biography
Angie Pickman is a nationally recognized cut paper artist who combines the art of traditional paper cutting with collage to create intricately detailed works of art and animations. Her work is heavily inspired by her love of nature and the tranquility of the terrain of rural Kansas.
Pickman has been featured in Midwest Living and Martha Stewart Living magazines, and her animation work appears in Daughters of the Forest, a PBS documentary, in the summer of 2016. In 2018, her first children’s book, Merry Menagerie – Animal Antics from A to Z, was released. She has won numerous awards for her work, including an Independent Music Award for album art. She received her master’s degree in 2004 from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she first learned of the art of silhouette animation artist Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981). Reiniger’s style and technique inspired Pickman to set off on the artistic path she continues today.
“I began cutting paper in 2003 after seeing “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” – a cut paper stop-motion silhouette animation from 1926 by Lotte Reiniger. I had always wanted to be “an artist” – I knew from a very young age that it was my life calling, but it took me a long time to figure out in which medium this would manifest itself. The traditional forms taught in school never felt quite right, but when I saw Lotte’s work, something clicked.”
See more of Angie’s work on Instagram @angiepickman and on her website www.ruralpearl.com
LMH Health West Campus Gallery
6265 Rock Chalk Drive
The gallery is located on the Second Floor near Forward Coffee Shop.
Open for public viewing:
Monday – Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
This collaboration between the Lawrence Arts Center and LMH Health is made possible through a grant provided by the Kansas Creative Arts Industry Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
