When language fails to explain the nuances of material intimacy, clay provides a platform for understanding humankind’s deep emotional history with our environment and the objects we surround ourselves with.” Rachael Marne Jones, The Seed Collector Series: No.
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In her Seed Collector Series and a related installation piece, Rachael Jones reveals the “archeological quality of clay that compels the forms and the interactions that they evoke. Paintings on aluminum by Kasarian Dane, Birdsong Professor in the Arts, investigate form and the “complexities of color through hard-edged, geometric divisions” to explore “the possibility of reductive painting to open up a space for contemplation, clarity, remembrance, and beauty.” Kasarian Dane, Untitled (Yellow Corner) acrylic on aluminum, 2020Īmy Hauber, whose “conceptual interests have always originated from personal life experiences and interest in popular and media cultures,” presents “small sculptural works, process drawings/paintings, as well as a personal, wearable ‘flag’ that questions contemporary notions of uncertainty and surrender.” Amy Hauber, Experimental Happy Object #1 (detail), ceramic sculpture
Velma Bolyard, detritus, botanical contact-printed silk fabric folios and poem, 2021 Their work establishes contemporary art’s relationship to traditional materials and how these known materials create new visions and processes of seeing and communicating visually.Īrtists’ books grow out of Velma Bolyard’s absorption of and interaction with the processes of making paper from foraged fibers or natural fiber cloth making dyes, paints, or pigments from plants and minerals she finds or is given spinning and weaving fibers and paper into pages and covers for her books and the poems or stories that emerge through the interaction of skilled hands, open heart, mindfulness, and the felt companionship with the natural world. Each artist’s process reconsiders the form and function of her or his preferred medium(s).
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Lawrence University Studio Art Faculty provides an opportunity for students and others to see faculty outside the classroom as professional artists in their own right. Monday, February 20, at 4:30 P.M., Rachael Jones, Liza Paige, Melissa Schulenberg Monday, February 6, at 4:30 P.M., Velma Bolyard, Kasarian Dane, Sarah Knobel, Raymond Whalen.Melissa Schulenberg, lost and found, woodcut, 2016-2022
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