ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My Goals

With my art, I explore my psyche and the psyche of society and its environment. A trend that seems to be emerging in our current society is a new type of awareness and self-evaluation. Such issues as the destruction of our environment, the removal of our rain forests, the safety of atomic energy, the stability of our economy, the devastation of AIDS, and countless personal traumas are almost constantly on our minds. With the extensive media coverage of these events coming into our homes, we are living in an age of constant frozen images. Living in this world without making my voice heard through my work would be impossible.

The Great Rebellion of the Back Porches and Balconies My Style

A newspaper article commenting on one of my exhibits described my work as "magic super-realism -- a double-edged art form that can express human empathy or leave you feeling totally shut out." I, however, classify my style as "organic realism." Every object or figure is broken down into swirling patterns of color that serve to create a constant feeling of motion.

Subject Matter of My Art

In my figurative work, I use realistic as well as some distorted/abstracted images to create primarily abstract subject matter. While this is also the case in much of my environmental work, there are many times when I choose a subject solely on its color and/or form. In every case, however, I try to expand what most observers might miss or view only a fraction of.

Chicago Botanic Garden

One Man Exhibit
The Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, Illinois

The Media I Use to Create My Work

The media with which I work have primarily been oil, watercolor, prismacolor, and printing.In my latest works, I also have incorporated three-dimensional construction, which is an abstracted extension of the work and serves as the frame for the piece.Since the end of 1995, I also have been using images created with both watercolor and prismacolor as part of a larger and more complex collage construction, marrying it on multiple physical levels with an oil or varied media background.Using this technique, I am able to express an even more complex thought or situation.

In the last year, due to the acquiring of the marvelous tools of the computer age, I have begun creating digital images. I find the possibilities that exist with this relatively new type of art endless and totally absorbing. Each time I work with this medium, I learn something new and realize the large, ever-growing amount of information that I have yet to learn and explore. With the images that I create on my computer, I am able to dramatically expand my audience as an artist.

Woodcuts are also a new departure from my traditional media that I find enjoyable and therapeutic to. Woodcut prints also allow me to produce art that is more affordable to people interested in collecting my work.

photograph, reality bytes a one man retrospective exhibit, Center for the performing arts, NIAA, Northern Indiana Arts Association, exhibit of art works by Bruce Cegur
"Reality Bytes" a one man retrospective
The Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Munster, Indiana

RESUME

COMMISSIONS Masked Ball, 2006
Poster paintings/designs for the 2004, 2005 & 2006 Annual Galas
Sponsored by Crown Point Community Foundation, INC.
South Shore poster painting, "Madura's Danceland"
Sponsored by: Marcia Madura Kozlowski and Dr. Daniel Kozlowski

South Shore poster painting, "WINNING"
Sponsored by Whiteco Industries Inc.

South Shore poster painting, "Old Lake County Courthouse"

South Shore poster painting, "Windsurfing on Wolf Lake"
Sponsored by the City of Hammond

South Shore poster painting, "Lakefront Park"
Sponsored by the City of Hobart and HIEDC

South Shore poster painting, "Prairie Duneland Trail"
Sponsored by the City of Portage.

South Shore poster painting, "Old Lake County Courthouse"
Sponsored by the Greater Crown Point Chamber of Commerce

South Shore poster painting, "Our County Fair"
Sponsored by the LaPorte County Solid Waste District

PUBLICATIONS
CORRECTIONAL MANAGEMENT Functions, Skills, and Systems
by James Houston

"Reflections of a Corporate Society" - oil, used as front and back cover.
Reflections of a Corporate Society, View Art
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY by Stephen Worchel, Joel Cooper, George R. Goethals, James M. Olson
"Denial"
- oil & "New Arrival" - oil, reproduced both in the Table of Contents and individualy each representing a different Chapte
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EXHIBITS
2006 September - November 63rd Annual Salon Show
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
2006 June 7 - June 30 The Kinsey Institute
1st Annual Juried Erotic Art Show
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
2002 September - November 59th Annual Salon Show
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
"Don
2000 September "@ Around the Coyote"
Gallery 213.com Purveyors of Fine Art
1472 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois
1999 June "South Shore Poster Premier"
Chicago Cultural Center
Group Exhibition
Panic, Oil painting, construction
1999 July "Just Around the Corner"
Center for Visual and Performing Arts,
Munster, Indiana
Group Exhibition
1998 October - January "The 1998 Salon Des Refuses"
Sub Station No. 9
435 Fayette Street, Hammond, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
The Loop Music Crowd, Prismacolor
1998 November "The Invitational An Indoor Art Fair"
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
Denial, Oil painting
1997 November - January "21st Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Art Competition"
Beverly Art Center
Chicago, Illinois
Juried Exhibition
1997 October  "54th Annual Salon Show"
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
Three Sisters, mixed media
1996 October  "53rd Annual Salon Show"
Northern Indiana Arts Association

Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
Who's Looking at Whom?, Oil painting
1996  June - July  "Making Statements"
Valparaiso  University Museum
Valparaiso, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
1996 March - April  "Reality Bytes" A One Man Retrospective
The Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Munster, Indiana
Gender-Go-Round
1995 October "52nd Annual Salon Show"
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
Hats Off, Prismacolor
1995 June - August  NIAA Satellite Exhibit
15 North Franklin Building
Valparaiso, Indiana
Invitational Exhibition
1994 October "51st Annual Salon Show"
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
No Escape from the Labyrinth, Watercolor, Prismacolor
1993  "Coyote"
Chicago, Illinois
Group exhibit
Childhood Demons, Prismacolor
1993 August - September  AIDS Benefit
Buddies
Chicago, Illinois
One man  Exhibit
1993 July  "River Guild Gallery Center/Artist Market"
Douglas/Saugatuck, Michigan
One Man Exhibit
Life's a Beach and then, Prismacolor
1992 October  "49th Annual Salon Show"
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
Locked Out, Woodcut Print
1992 July - September  "Her Art Works"
South Bend Art Center
South Bend, Indiana
National Juried Exhibit
1992 May - June  The Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe, Illinois
One Man Exhibit
Her Tropical Warmth Survives the Cold, Oil Painting
1991 November - December  Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Three Man Exhibit
Then They Worshipped Idols, Prismacolor
1991 January - February  "5th Annual Regional Exhibition"
Gallery Ten
Rockford, Illinois
Juried Exhibit
1991 January - February  "Sixth Annual Greater Midwest International"
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg, Missouri
Juried Exhibit
Man in Washtub, Woodcut Print
1990 October  "47th Annual Salon Show"
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Juried Exhibition
They have to be Carefully Taught, Oil painting
1990 April - June  "Realism 90"
The Parkersburg Art Center
Parkersburg, West Virginia
National Juried Exhibit

Note: Listed are only the exhibitions from 1990 to the present. Bruce Cegur has been exhibiting since 1978.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1989 - Now
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Past Board Member and Exhibit Committee 
  Co-Chair
1995
Illiana Artists
Munster, Indiana
1987 - Now
Chicago Artists' Coalition
Chicago, Illinois
1991 - 1993
Creative Artists Network - President
Munster, Indiana

TEACHING, LECTURING and JUDGING

1997 Junior/Senior High School Show
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster Indiana
Fine Art Judge
1994 - 1996 N.I.A.A. Exhibit Committee
Munster, Indiana
Co-Chair
1996 High School Exhibit
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster Indiana
Fine Art Judge
1996, 1993, & 1989 International Culture Festival
Hammond Public Library & Lacare Art League
Hammond, Indiana
Fine Art Judge
1990 Poster Contest
Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, Indiana
Judge
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