Ƶ Professor of Art and Design David Platter received first prize at the Sioux City Art Center’s Local Perspectives exhibition for Myself and Other, a stainless-steel and cedar sculpture exploring themes of identity and reflection.
Ƶ Professor of Art and Design David Platter received first prize at the Sioux City Art Center’s “” exhibition, a juried show that celebrates the creativity and talent of artists living within a 75-mile radius of Sioux City, Iowa.
“Local Perspectives” highlights artists from northwest Iowa, northeast Nebraska, and southeast South Dakota whose work reflects the diversity and vitality of the regional arts community. Selected from more than 250 submissions by 100 artists, the exhibit features paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs, and more—all united by a shared sense of place and purpose.
Platter’s winning piece, titled “Myself and Other,” is a cast and polished stainless-steel sculpture set atop stacked cedar cribbing.
“‘Myself and Other’ comes out of a series of portraits that began back in 2010 and have fueled an ongoing body of work engaging various aspects of identity, perception, and other attributes of phenomenology,” Platter says. “The experience of seeing ourselves in the art is playful but also revealing. The mirror-like surface brings the whole world to the stainless portrait, and the cedar cribbing bears it all.”
Platter, who teaches sculpture, 3D design, and other studio courses at Dordt, describes the piece as “a tactile illusion celebrating the malleability of both our perceptual and physical realms.”
The “Local Perspectives” exhibit emphasizes the important role regional artists play. As the Sioux City Art Center notes, “These artists are our neighbors, teachers, and friends—all of whom contribute to the creative economy of our Siouxland region in ways both seen and unseen.”
The exhibition is open to the public at the Sioux City Art Center through February 8, 2026.
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