slant. pause. (repeat)

artists: Sheri Simons

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Gallery IMA is pleased to present slant. pause. (repeat), an exhibit featuring Sheri Simons’ site-specific installation of wood, light, and sound.

In 2006, Simons received a six-month fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission that allowed her to travel and research the use of portable shrines and festivals throughout Japan. This was a pivotal experience that shifted her thinking and building processes relative to the performative and participatory potential of sculpture. Seeing festivals’ spectacular use of the gigantic and miniature objects to transmit culture invigorated her search for the embedded language within materials.

The works in the show, slant. pause. (repeat), include wooden fabrications that refer to maps, lost-ness, and the continuum of human wandering. These works are arranged with consideration to scale relationships between landscape and sky, cuing the observer to note the choreography of their body in space.  A light bulb piece, mommy, works out a notion of a cloyingly invoked over-love with the accompaniment of a looped sound recording. A group of seventy-three small drawings, 73 walks from Tochigi, are made by hacking small, motorized objects and fitting them to hold graphite. They are personal maps of daily walks taken from a rural village in Japan to various destinations throughout the country. 

Sheri Simons received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, and has since exhibited widely both nationally and abroad including exhibits at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in San Francisco, the Detroit Institute of Art, the University of Alaska Museum, and the Alaska State Museum among many others. She was awarded the Visual Artist Fellowship Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2008 was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Grant. Her public commissions include the Sacramento Central Library, the Carmichael Library in Sacramento and Juvenile Court Area of the Kent County Justice Center through the Seattle Arts Commission. Simons has been featured in several publications such as NYArts Magazine, FIBERARTS Magazine, and Artweek.

May 06, 2010 — May 30, 2010

categories: contemporary, multimedia, painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, mixed-media, installation

Gallery IMA September Exhibition

artists: Carol Milne and Rickie Wolfe

Gallery IMA is pleased to present our September Exhibition featuring works
by Carol Milne and Rickie Wolfe Opening Reception:
Thursday September 2nd 6-8pm.
Exhibit continues through Sunday, October 3rd.

Carol Milne: Standing Tall:  Towers in Glass

Milne voices her opinion concerning social and political issues through her construction of various glass sculptures. Beginning with her kiln cast grenades she exploits her view on the Iraq war and the role assumed by the American Administration. Feeling as though America viewed the war as a positive undertaking she plays with the idea of a grenade being a gift.

Milne isn't afraid to take risks in her work allowing the viewer to
question the significance behind each piece. Milne has also explored metaphors for the fragility of society in her knitted glass works. These elegant portrayals of society stand above traditional glasswork being done today. Her works make large statements both literally and figuratively.

Carol Milne received a degree in Landscape Architecture from the
University of Gueleph (Ontario, Canada) in 1985, but realized in her senior year that she was more interested in sculpture than in landscape. She has been working as a sculptor ever since.  Since 2000, she has been working and experimenting primarily with glass.  Her professional affiliations include: the American Craft Council, Artist Trust, the Glass Art Society, Northwest Designer Craftsmen and Pratt Fine Art Center.  She teaches at Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle and shows regularly in the Pacific Northwest.

Rickie Wolfe: An Introduction

Local Cornish graduate, Rickie uses mixed media on canvas, to compose a unique layering construction. She explores the ambiguous area between figuration and abstraction in her works reliant on the human form. Through her works Rickie causes the viewer to question the identity and meaning of the composition. These pieces create a whimsical presence that when in view can transpose thought. Of her work Ricky states, “My focus is on the
human form and how to make work that is personal and unique but also resonates in the broader context of the world and time that we all share." In relation to the observer she says, "It is when the viewer is in question that the piece comes alive."

A Washington native, Wolfe earned her bachelor of fine arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 2000. She has widely exhibited her work at the Pratt Fine Art Center, Alexis Hotel, The Painting Center in New York, and Seattle Art Museum.
 

Sep 02, 2010 — Oct 03, 2010

categories: glass, mixed-media