Iowa City artist in Cedar Rapids exhibit

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Paintings by Iowa City artist, Charlie Emmert will be featured in an exhibition opening July 12 at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.

Emmert paints portraits, using oil on paper.  The technique gives her work rich texture and a different surface quality than oil on canvas.  The combination of paint, personality and the artist’s perceptive eye produce evocative, often haunting essays in the portraiture.

The public is invited to a reception for the artist from 5 to 7 p.m. on July 17.  Charlie Emmert: Recent Paintings will remain on view in the museum’s Iowa Gallery through Aug. 24.