Dear friend of AKG,
The works today explore the idea of "deconstruction and reconstruction of nature," which Michael Kessler said best while explaining his process, across multiple mediums and dimension. These artists all combine ancient wisdom and natural elements to create their work.
Amy Laugesen explores her fascination with horses across the history of humans, letting their form emerge from clay in her mixed-media sculptures. She honors ancient mythology in her Sun and Moon sculpture, creating a modern-day-relic, and the decorated history of horses in the American West in the ornate and modern style of Western Pleasure. Michael Kessler explores nature by using its elements in his work – paper, wash, ink, wind, water, and gravity – to create unexpected results, which he then reconstructs into his mixed-media layered images. Michael Wisner quite literally creates art from nature, hand-digging his own clay to create coiled pots in the traditional technique of his mentor and Mexican ceramicist, Juan Quezada, and pressing patterns informed by nature's architecture into the surface.
See a selection of works from these artists below, and be sure to view Changing Course, featuring Andy Taylor and Peter Campbell, on view through March 25.
Warm regards,
Sue Edmonds
Gallery Director
(970) 927-9668 |
