News and Events
Artists · 24th February 2009
Webstaff
Exhibition Dates: March 6 – March 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
In the Main Gallery:
Curious Nature
Robin Germany and Dorothy McGuinness
The works represented in Curious Nature, this March at Gallery One Visual Arts Center, reflect the passions and explorations of two diverse artists, Robin Germany and Dorothy McGuinness. Both draw inspiration from natural forms and express their passion through the use of loud, boisterous color.
Germany’s grouping of digital prints represent the complexity of nature and our impenetrable relationship to it. She sees nature as something that worries us, something we try to control, and something we inevitably try to separate ourselves from. Through her photography, she is examining our disjointed kinship with nature and the inevitable insoluble connections.
McGuinness examines natural forms and the history of Native American basket weaving in her work. Traditionally, basket weaving relied on nature for source material. Cedar, cherry bark, sweet grass, spruce roots and bamboo were all utilized to make beautiful and useful containers. However, after studying traditional techniques, McGuinness’ medium of choice for weaving has become paper. What attracts her most is the ability it affords her to play with color and pattern, which she utilizes in abundance.
Robin Germany teaches photography and digital imaging at Texas Tech in Lubbock where she has lived with her family for the past twelve years. She studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Tulane College and subsequently earned an MFA from the University of North Texas.Dorothy McGuinness has taken over 200 classes and workshops with local, national, and international basket and fiber teachers. She received her certificate in Fiber Arts from the University of Washington Extension in 2008, and currently lives in Everett, WA.
On the Mezzanine:
Little Boxes
Sarah Haven explores her role as a female and the idea of home as the stereotypical context for the assertion of feminine values. Through her ceramic work, she searches for the meaning of identity, examines her longings for domesticity, and questions how a woman’s role fits into a world of rising expectations and cultural influences. Sarah Haven is an artist and head lecturer of Ceramics at Central Washington University. She was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio State University. She moved to Ellensburg in 2003 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts, which she received from Central Washington University in 2006. In addition to teaching, Sarah is also Vice President of the Ellesnburg Film Festival.
Perseverate
Sandra Farmer uses ceramics as a medium to express themes of relation, conception, fertility and motherhood. Just as a child acts out grown-up behaviors through dolls, Farmer uses her ceramic figures to work through emotions she is trying to understand or longs to experience. The psychological preparation for motherhood and associated hopes, stereotypes and realities all play an important role in her creative process as well as the imagery in her work. Sandra Farmer earned her BFA in crafts with a focus in ceramics and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Pre-Art Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University. Farmer has taught at the Children’s Museum of Richmond and the Children’s Museum in Seattle, and is currently teaching at the Seattle Art Museum, Kirkland Arts Center and Pottery Northwest.
In the Eveleth Green Gallery:
Memory in Multiples: Ceramic Works by CWU Students
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
In the Main Gallery:
Curious Nature
Robin Germany and Dorothy McGuinness
The works represented in Curious Nature, this March at Gallery One Visual Arts Center, reflect the passions and explorations of two diverse artists, Robin Germany and Dorothy McGuinness. Both draw inspiration from natural forms and express their passion through the use of loud, boisterous color.
Germany’s grouping of digital prints represent the complexity of nature and our impenetrable relationship to it. She sees nature as something that worries us, something we try to control, and something we inevitably try to separate ourselves from. Through her photography, she is examining our disjointed kinship with nature and the inevitable insoluble connections.
McGuinness examines natural forms and the history of Native American basket weaving in her work. Traditionally, basket weaving relied on nature for source material. Cedar, cherry bark, sweet grass, spruce roots and bamboo were all utilized to make beautiful and useful containers. However, after studying traditional techniques, McGuinness’ medium of choice for weaving has become paper. What attracts her most is the ability it affords her to play with color and pattern, which she utilizes in abundance.
Robin Germany teaches photography and digital imaging at Texas Tech in Lubbock where she has lived with her family for the past twelve years. She studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Tulane College and subsequently earned an MFA from the University of North Texas.Dorothy McGuinness has taken over 200 classes and workshops with local, national, and international basket and fiber teachers. She received her certificate in Fiber Arts from the University of Washington Extension in 2008, and currently lives in Everett, WA.
On the Mezzanine:
Little Boxes
Sarah Haven explores her role as a female and the idea of home as the stereotypical context for the assertion of feminine values. Through her ceramic work, she searches for the meaning of identity, examines her longings for domesticity, and questions how a woman’s role fits into a world of rising expectations and cultural influences. Sarah Haven is an artist and head lecturer of Ceramics at Central Washington University. She was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio State University. She moved to Ellensburg in 2003 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts, which she received from Central Washington University in 2006. In addition to teaching, Sarah is also Vice President of the Ellesnburg Film Festival.
Perseverate
Sandra Farmer uses ceramics as a medium to express themes of relation, conception, fertility and motherhood. Just as a child acts out grown-up behaviors through dolls, Farmer uses her ceramic figures to work through emotions she is trying to understand or longs to experience. The psychological preparation for motherhood and associated hopes, stereotypes and realities all play an important role in her creative process as well as the imagery in her work. Sandra Farmer earned her BFA in crafts with a focus in ceramics and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Pre-Art Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University. Farmer has taught at the Children’s Museum of Richmond and the Children’s Museum in Seattle, and is currently teaching at the Seattle Art Museum, Kirkland Arts Center and Pottery Northwest.
In the Eveleth Green Gallery:
Memory in Multiples: Ceramic Works by CWU Students