Sidney earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pittsburg State University in 1963. In January 1967 Sidney received a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Iowa at Iowa City with a major in Painting and a minor in Drawing.
He ran an art gallery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1975 to 1986. When the art gallery business began to wane he taught art in Iowa and followed with 16 years of teaching art in Kansas City. In 2002, after retiring from the Kansas City Missouri School District, he rented studio space and began painting daily, finally getting back to that personal art form that he had longed for over many years.
Sidney’s first one man show since 1970 was at the Roeland Park City Hall in 2005.
In January 2006 his work was featured in the "Nature's Abstractions" Show at the Apex Gallery in the Crossroads district.
October 8 2006 through November 30 Sidney exhibited thirty two paintings at the Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, Missouri.
For the month of May a show of his paintings is scheduled at the Unity Church on the Plaza, 707 w 47th St, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Sidney has a studio at the Arts Incubator in the Kansas City crossroads district and regularly participates in the Open Studios on First Fridays. He has been a featured artist in several shows in the exhibition gallery at the Incubator.
More about Sidney's art:
Spirit.Space
Spirit and space are akin and intertwined. The ethereal has been captivating and attracting my energies and output since the early 1980's. There is so much more out there than meets the eye. I revel in those opportunities to poetically fashion a peep-hole for viewing another dimensional aspect of the spirit or its relatedness to space and heavenly bodies. What is the difference between your physical body and the planet Jupiter? Jupiter is certainly the larger heavenly body. Both bodies are alive to live their own life-span. Both were created by some natural phenomenon. Both have atoms with neutrons and protons; electricity. There is an essence that permeates all that is and it is tremendously rewarding to feel a molecular and spiritual kinship with the ALL.
Creating is a most responsible endeavor. It teaches a chain of order and an acceptance of intermingling forces that aid in the creative process. The results are feelings of connectedness and elation.
It is fun and entertaining when I sometimes stumble haphazardly upon a form I had been trying so hard and thoughtfully to create. There is no dictate for the revelation or undulation of approaching creative inspiration. I sometimes burst into laughter and marvel at how the universe presents a form to the psyche while one is diligently struggling to uncover how-to-secrets. This is the way of life. This is the way of art and this is the way of creating and of painting.
It is joyous to paint a subject who’s forms have not been made visible. Finding that combination of paint and spirit to depict and render an ethereal concept produces elation and thankfulness within me.
I am blessed.
Sidney Cothran
He ran an art gallery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1975 to 1986. When the art gallery business began to wane he taught art in Iowa and followed with 16 years of teaching art in Kansas City. In 2002, after retiring from the Kansas City Missouri School District, he rented studio space and began painting daily, finally getting back to that personal art form that he had longed for over many years.
Sidney’s first one man show since 1970 was at the Roeland Park City Hall in 2005.
In January 2006 his work was featured in the "Nature's Abstractions" Show at the Apex Gallery in the Crossroads district.
October 8 2006 through November 30 Sidney exhibited thirty two paintings at the Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, Missouri.
For the month of May a show of his paintings is scheduled at the Unity Church on the Plaza, 707 w 47th St, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Sidney has a studio at the Arts Incubator in the Kansas City crossroads district and regularly participates in the Open Studios on First Fridays. He has been a featured artist in several shows in the exhibition gallery at the Incubator.
More about Sidney's art:
Spirit.Space
Spirit and space are akin and intertwined. The ethereal has been captivating and attracting my energies and output since the early 1980's. There is so much more out there than meets the eye. I revel in those opportunities to poetically fashion a peep-hole for viewing another dimensional aspect of the spirit or its relatedness to space and heavenly bodies. What is the difference between your physical body and the planet Jupiter? Jupiter is certainly the larger heavenly body. Both bodies are alive to live their own life-span. Both were created by some natural phenomenon. Both have atoms with neutrons and protons; electricity. There is an essence that permeates all that is and it is tremendously rewarding to feel a molecular and spiritual kinship with the ALL.
Creating is a most responsible endeavor. It teaches a chain of order and an acceptance of intermingling forces that aid in the creative process. The results are feelings of connectedness and elation.
It is fun and entertaining when I sometimes stumble haphazardly upon a form I had been trying so hard and thoughtfully to create. There is no dictate for the revelation or undulation of approaching creative inspiration. I sometimes burst into laughter and marvel at how the universe presents a form to the psyche while one is diligently struggling to uncover how-to-secrets. This is the way of life. This is the way of art and this is the way of creating and of painting.
It is joyous to paint a subject who’s forms have not been made visible. Finding that combination of paint and spirit to depict and render an ethereal concept produces elation and thankfulness within me.
I am blessed.
Sidney Cothran