Brandon Schnur creates ceramic in the form of confined or obstructed animals as an attempt to comment on his need for humanities accountability concerning our environment and our world. Humanity has a tendency to claim nature as its own. These selfish and short-sited actions are the starting points for his work. Shiyuan Xu draws her inspirations from nature, which has created an inexhaustible wealth of wondrous forms, particularly at the microscopic level. Viewing through the lens fascinates her. It is an unusual experience to observe the diversity of the spectacular hidden world. Clay allows Yoonjee Kwak to tell the story of her memories that are left behind from diverse and unpredictable relationships between others and herself. Her memories are expressed by using precarious and fragile forms. These memories can be represented in her work through exploration of the duality between weakness and strength.
Keith Young’s canvases use an array of mixed media to rearrange the world as it is presented to him; he crosses boundaries of materials, genres, subject matter, and themes to discover life through an ever-expanding collection of images and techniques; collage, drawing, over-painting, applique, and embellishments. Sean O’Connell is a potter. He believes in the beauty of handmade objects. Making pots is a deliberate attempt at slowing down, connecting to something deeper, and taking time to appreciate the pleasure of labor. Over the years, Terry Dixon enhanced his techniques on canvas by combining my photographic images with acrylic paint, oil pastels, and ink. During Terry Dixon’s years of experimenting with digital technology, he has found and interesting marriage between traditional studio techniques and digital media.
In his compositions Travis Porter layers color and cropped pieces of patterns to create secondary images. At the same time, he is building secondary colors he is splitting the patterns into smaller facets. Each intersection is a story of syncretism. He wants to show the relationships between the primary forms and the unpredictable beauty they create when combined. Mike Stumbras’ work explores the beauty and horror of our existential uncertainties as creatures seeking meaning in a microcosm. These pots combine inspirations from historical production ceramics with contemporary studio art practices in wheel thrown and soda fired cone 11 porcelain. Alice Ballard’s art is a reflection of her relationship with natural forms. These forms come to her on walks, while Ballard works in her garden, or appear as gifts from friends who share her fascination with the beauty inherent in Nature’s abundant variety of forms. It is often the metamorphosis of nature’s forms, as they change from season to season, that attracts her.
Other artists featured in our Winter Salon II include Akio Takamori, Kensuke Yamada, Angie Jennings, Thayer Bray, Harris Deller, Kyungmin Park, Melanie Sherman, Mariko Paterson, Dirk Reinartz, Nat Finkelstein, Thomas Florschuetz, Kerry Smith, Tyler Lotz, Ken Price, Jamie Bates Slone, Keira Norton, Kwok Pong “Bobby” Tso, Steven Young Lee, Kimberly LaVonne, Brady McLearan, Bob Schultz, Rain Harris, Joey Watson, Samantha McPherson, Carly Slade, Shannon Deatrick, David Bolton Kate Schroeder, Mitchell Spain, Daniela Abel, Ron English, Jean Tinguely, Hans Hartung, Tamara Walker, Jen Watson, Jen Wilkenson, Cydney Ross, Randee Pollarine and many more.
As usual we’ll have chilled background tunes coming from our very own DJ Deep House Cat and will be serving libations and snacks. Our doors will open at 4pm, so make sure you’ll stop by!