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Muse Gallery will be hosting a joint Pop Up Show @ Muse Gallery Hilton Head- February 15-28, 2018, featuring wall hanging and free standing sculptural work by artists Debra Fritts, Signe Stuart, Sue Cavanaugh and Char Norman. Cavanaugh and Norman will be in attendance for the show to meet and discuss the work. Opening Reception will be held on Friday February 16th from 5-8 pm and a Private Brunch with the artists will be held on Saturday February 17th from 11-1 pm. We hope you can join us!
"I am interested in gathering: assembling, collecting, hoarding . . . and the process of taking needle to cloth and creating folds. The stitching has grown out of the ancient art of patterning cloth for kimono, and most names reference the original stitches, even though I’ve transformed those stitches over time. The “Ori-Kume” series combines ori-nui, stitches done on the fold with mokume running stitches. “Ori-maki-kume” describes a combination of mokume running stitches and ori-maki-nui stitches, an original hybrid stitch that creates a density I’ve grown to love...Cloth challenges notions of traditional art. At the same time, fabric is universally accessible and comforting. I’m particularly attracted to dichotomies, to yin/yang, attraction/repulsion, black/white, and the vastness of the gray area in between. All my work begins with a drawing, a plan. But the surprises that develop along the way delight and challenge me. These surprises inform future works."
Cavanaugh works by hand with cloth, cord, dye, paint and occasionally wood and wire. She does this by hand and without assistants. Her work has been seen in national and international exhibits at the Columbus Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Springfield Museum of Art (Ohio), Ross Museum of Art, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum of Art, Ohio Craft Museum and Zanesville Museum of Art. Awards include Best of Show, Shibori Cut Loose exhibit, Textile Center, Minneapolis; Ruth Lantz Fiber Award; Janet Long Memorial Award for Excellence in Fiber; Ohio Arts Council Professional Award; and the Lynn Goodwin Borgman Award for Surface Design.
In 2012 she was selected by the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Free State of Saxony for an artist residency in Dresden, Germany. She worked in a studio at Geh8 Kunstraum und Ateliers for 80 days culminating in a two-person exhibit with Rotterdam painter Marielle Buitendijk.
Cavanaugh's work is in collections of the Hilton Columbus Downtown and the Ohio Arts Council and private collections in Ohio, New Mexico, California, New York, Chattanooga, and West Seattle. She is represented by Muse Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, and gráficas gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts. She lives in downtown Columbus, Ohio, and has a studio in the 400 West Rich artist community.
"As a child, I had dirt under my fingernails and spent hours playing in the mud. Today I continue to allow the earth to feed me information for my art. Working intuitively from pounds of wet red clay, forms appear and stories develop. I may be questioning an occurrence or celebrating a relationship or just being aware of the precious environment. The search continues until I reach the core: the spiritual level of the sculpture. Then the work can speak. At the present, I am exploring new territory in Abiquiu, New Mexico while embracing my southern heritage. Often symbols are used in the work such as the color red or three dots to honor my mother or the raven as a symbol for my new life in the west. I am “touching ground”, getting to the basics, listening and learning. Each sculpture is hand built, using thick coils, and fired three to five times depending on the color and surface I am trying to achieve. I approach the color on the clay as a painter. My palette is a combination of oxides, slips, underglazes, and glazes. The form of the piece informs the type of surface treatment."
Debra Fritts considers herself a narrative artist allowing her work to tell stories of daily life and events. Her works are influenced by her time in New Mexico exploring the west while embracing her southern heritage.
“I hand build each sculpture, primarily using thick coils, and fire three to five times depending on the color and surface I am trying to achieve. I approach color on clay as a painter. My palette is a combination of oxides, slips, underglazes, and glazes. The form of the piece informs how I should approach the surface.”
Debra has been published in books such as: Artists Homes and Studios, Ashley Rooney, Schiffer Publishing. Contemporary Ceramics, E. Cooper, Ceramic Figures, Lark Books, and 500 Figures, Leslie Ferrin, Lark Books. Museum Collections include: Fuller Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts and Georgia Southern University, Saunders Georgia Artist Museum. Professional and Teaching Experience includes Director of Art Center West, Roswell, Georgia 1995-2011, Beatrice Wood Center, workshop, Ojai, California, and Surface National Clay Conference, San Diego, California.
"The work I am engaged in stems from a deep-rooted connection to natural objects and environmental issues while examining the relationship between man and nature. Reverential attitudes and nurturing acts contrast with the destruction of nature. The pod forms I use are both a type of shroud for natural relics and a womb or cradle for rebirth. This dichotomy of ideas is further expressed by the mending of natural objects through the violent act of stitching and fastening parts together. I find it fascinating and somewhat meditative to achieve a whole through the slow and gradual building up of small elements. Weaving is based on this principle and my drawing technique mirrors this idea as I layer graphite and colored pencil to create the image. Even the fibers in my handmade paper echo the idea of small units building to become a whole. Manipulation of materials and the use of traditional techniques in surprising or nontraditional ways are challenging and engage me in problem solving. The engineering necessary to create a three-dimensional piece on a loom intended for two-dimensional processes and the use of soft materials to form substantial objects is of particular interest. As I continue to explore natural relics as icons, votives, or objects of reverence, I hope to engage the viewer in a way of seeing that may lead to a respect and appreciation for the environment. Future plans call for returning my sculptures to the location from where the natural object was taken. In this way I give back and let the elements take their natural course in the cycle of life."
Char Norman is an accomplished fiber artist specializing in papermaking and fiber sculpture. She received a Master of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Art from Scripps College. She has lectured and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has developed and conducted workshops for all ages, worked as a consultant to area schools and community arts organizations, held the positions of Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at Columbus College of Art & Design and has recently returned to the studio as a full time professional artist.
"Observations and questions about mysteries of the universe, life and consciousness are sources of visual ideas for my paintings and constructions. Making these works is an ongoing process of experimentation and negotiation between ideas and materials. I want my artworks to resonate with viewers and move them toward seeing this is that: everything as a consequence of endless shape-shifting, combining and recombining."
Signe Stuart's professional history spans over fifty years, beginning in the early 1960's. Her approach to art making relies on experimentation with painting materials and forms, often breaking from the standard rectangle and concepts of framing. Stuart has lived and worked in diverse regions of the United States: East Coast, Pacific Northwest, Northern Plains, and Southwest: residing now in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Since 1972, Signe Stuart has had 18 solo museum exhibitions including those at the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD and the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. Her work has also been included in many museum group exhibitions, among them the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
Public Collections include: American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN, Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, Blanden Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, Cedar Rapids Puiblic Library, Cedar Rapids, IA, Dahl Art Center, Rapid City, SD, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, Miami Airport, Miami, FL, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, New Mexico State Capitol Art Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, Sioux Falls Airport, Sioux Falls, SD, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD, Southwest Minnnesota State University Museum, Marshall, MN, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD.
Artist Spotlight, Lynne Riding →
Muse Gallery is pleased to introduce new artist to the gallery, Lynne Riding. Riding’s work will be presented in an introductory show at Muse Gallery Hilton Head-January 8-31, 2018 and included in a group show with Muse Gallery Columbus @ Hilton Columbus Downtown- February 2018.
Lynne Riding is a visual artist living and working in Charleston, SC.
She received an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, a BFA in Fashion and Textiles from Manchester College of Art, UK and a 2 year Art Foundation from Hereford School of Art & Design, UK.
In addition to practicing as a professional artist, she has been an art educator at university level, currently serving as a faculty member at the Art institute of Charleston, SC.
Riding has exhibited extensively throughout the country in states such as SC, CA, FL, NM, AZ, and OK. Highlights include invitational exhibits such as: “Abstract Art in SC, 1949-2012”, State Museum, Columbia, SC. “30th Parallel- a Convergence of Contemporary Painting”, 2005, JMOMA, Jacksonville, FL, and “CYMK”, 2005, Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco, CA.
A childhood spent in Mid Wales instilled, a love of landscape and certain awe for the power and fluctuations of the elements. As an inveterate traveler of both land and sea, she draws on these experiences in her work. Many of the physical and mental experiences from her past sailing and competitive windsurfing experiences, together with memories of hiking in the hills of home, to current daily walking, find their way into her work.
Initially a representational artist, her work was originally concerned with both the landscape and the figure, the two combining at times. During 2002 Riding’s work took a turn, this due to the wish to instill more inner depth and felt meaning to each piece, and so, her focus turned to abstraction.
“Major components in my work are the issues of impermanence, shifting perspectives, and loss, aligned with the dichotomy of enduring hope, that which drives us on. Although my work is of an abstract nature, it always stems from the place and surroundings in which I find myself, from color observed, a line seen in space, or the found object. My interests lie in the subtle undercurrents, the not so blatant, crude or obvious, in other words, a case of paying attention to what happens between the obvious. My work shifts in scale and medium, sometimes combining media. For example, from observational drawn studies made in the landscape to encaustic pieces, to ink on paper, to large scale, oils on canvas, to 3D pieces. I continue to develop a reductive painting process, involving what to bury and what to reveal and consider my art practice to be a constant learning curve if I am open to all and pay attention. I enjoy the experimental aspect and the constant surprises one receives. I aim to involve the viewer and hopefully bring them into the piece. I believe that there is a validity and a need for the poetic in today’s world.” -Lynne Riding
“Tease Series” Oil on Canvas
This body of work is minimalist abstraction, yet informed by the found object. I use drawings made of natural form or found objects in my paintings, that act as metaphors. My work deals with human frailty and impermanence. Peaceful with an undercurrent of tension that holds things together, this body of work glows with an inner luminosity – a transparency that both fulfills and empties at the same time.
“CB - Concerning Being” Acrylic on Canvas
I have always had a love of landscape and have found much of inspiration from the nature and landscape, in which I find myself. Initially working in the landscape, I then work in a solitary fashion in the studio, needing quiet time and reflection. My drawings made out in the landscape are based on a very focused practice, as I use ink and minimal marks.
My paintings are simplistic in form that reinforces the importance of line and space. By taking the work to the simplest form I hope to capture it’s true essence. This body of work is minimalist abstraction yet informed by the found object or form that I have discovered in the landscape and deals with issues of human frailty and impermanence.
“Tea & Ash"
As a result of a residency during the summer of 2009, when I endeavored to find a way to incorporate more of a sense of place into the work that I was making, I have experimented with the use of some natural material in my work. This recent work includes selected natural material specific to place. My work is concerned with the ephemeral nature of what we call reality, aligned with the dichotomy of enduring hope, that, which drives humankind on...I believe that there is a validity or need for the poetic in today's world.