Myra Clark Artist Talk: Sunday, October 20, 2:00pm
OCTOBER 2–NOVEMBER 2 • MAIN GALLERY
Then. Now. Future.
Don Bailey
Don Bailey — Nineteen, Mixed Media, 60" x 48"
Born on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Northern California, Bailey is a Native American artist who creates complex, richly colorful compositions.
The paintings, mixed media pieces, and sculptures in Then. Now. Future. offer elements of the stories by and about his people as well as stories from different traditions and wider paths—all stories worthy of arcing from the past into the future. Our future.
In the words of the artist:
I paint our ancestors
so today people will know our past
to tell our stories in the future
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GALLERY 2
Elemental
Benjamin Mefford
Benjamin Mefford — Ember, Stone (alabaster), 11" x 4" x 3"
Returning to essential forms, Mefford sculpts stone in harmony with the rhythmic structures of nature. These works are most easily interpreted as three-dimensional poems about the fundamental elements of earth, air, water, and fire.
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JAMES HIBBARD GALLERY
Love Notes from the End of the World
Myra Clark
Myra Clark — Mended Not Mended (detail), Gesso, acrylic paint on drop cloth, 48" x 70"
In Love Notes from the End of the World, Clark experiments with her materials to express an emotional response to her recent expedition to the Antarctic. The landscape overtakes the senses there – humpback whales fluke against a background of towering mountains blanketed in aquamarine snow, massive crystalline icebergs calve with resounding thunderclaps, and penguins leap through the water with abandon, completely disregarding any human presence. All this conspired to inspire Clark to offer this body of work. She hopes this exhibition will open hearts to the wonder of what is often called “the end of the world,” a place that is in reality essential to all life on Earth. Rather than being at the end of the world, Antarctica is at its very center.