If you haven't seen Drawn to the Wall at Gonzaga yet, where have you been? Great exhibition. All interesting and powerful work.
And central to the space is Michael Horswill's mind-blowing stark charcoal "Earth Machines" image, part of ongoing work that will be shown in October at The Art Spirit Gallery.
There is something powerful that happens when a sculptor unleashes form in a two-dimensional way and that potency is exactly what Horswill's work brings. The tension in the line is like finely twisted wire, the density of charcoal is the cool weight of steel in your hand.
Through November 6.
There is more at work here than just color and shape; it feels strangely narrative. What intrigues me about this art--any art in fact--is when it feels like it is more than it appears. By that I mean that the artwork operates on several levels, such as close up versus far away, or both familiar and foreign. I'm drawn to that in-between-ness or sense of otherworldiness in some works, such as this one.
The Chase Gallery is located in City Hall at 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. in Spokane. An artist reception will be held in conjunction with Visual Arts Tour, on Friday, October 1, 5pm to 8pm. Gallery hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
I can still remember when modern furniture--sleek chrome, black leather, monochromatic color schemes--fascinated me. There was something so refined, so pure about the aesthetic. And something so utterly distant from how I actually viewed the world and how, it would turn out, I would shape my world through my art.
That nostalgic fondness for something high-level and utterly modern is what attracts me to Iole Alessandrinin and Ed Mannery's exhibition “As the Camera Sees It” at Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho. They're wizards with technology, literally conjuring form from nowhere using light, camera, and action.
As seen from the Soil Gallery's exhibition, Alessandri also works with narrative, which appeals to me, in the sense that there is an implicit event in her light and magic show. And Mannery is just plain out-here (in a good way) with stellar experience in..stars, actually: he was chief engineer for University of Washington's Apache Point telescope project. How cool does that sound?
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| Iole Alessandrini (SOIL Gallery) |
The Prichard Art Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The gallery is closed Monday. The gallery, an outreach facility of the University of Idaho, is located at 414/416 S. Main St., on the corner of Fifth and Main streets in downtown Moscow.
Admission is free. Additional information is available at www.uidaho.edu/galleries.
Ruth Pratt will be honored by Governor Otter for her longstanding involvement in the North Idaho arts scene, including Idaho Nonprofit Center, the Arts and Culture Alliance of Coeur d'Alene, Spokane Public Radio, Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre and the Downtown Association, as well as numerous "big band" groups, and the Coeur d'Alene Library Foundation.
Click here for the Cda Press article.
This exhibition features short- and long-term resident work from the prestigious Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Here you'll see some of the most interesting and innovative work in contemporary ceramics from mostly emerging and some established artists.
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