The exhibit at Beaverton City Hall will be up until the end of August.  We’ll be taking it down on the 31st.  If you haven’t had a chance to get there yet, it’s a great reason to go to City Hall!

 

I made my second deadline for the two art exhibits I’ll be in this month.   This one is:

Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries: Oregon Women’s Caucus for Art Member Art Exhibition, Beaverton City Hall, 4755 Southwest Griffith Drive, Beaverton, OR.

There is no official opening planned, but the art is on display Monday through Friday, 8am- 5pm, in 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd floor hallway galleries from Wednesday, July 6^th through Wednesday, August 31^st.

In this exhibition, OWCA members were encouraged to push their personal boundaries to explore new ground, content, materials, and methods.

My art will be on the third floor with the fabric and mixed media art.  It’s a beautiful building, full of light.  It’s wonderful that the city hall provides such a great space for art.  The OWCA has added a wonderful range of art work to browse through.

I have three pieces in this show.  I am showing an older piece, The Reader, a fabric sculpture.  She sits on a pillow reading a  handmade book.

I made a new Wheelchair Mermaid, part of a series I make that explores the challenged body, using mythology, whimsy and color.  This is a fabric sculpture and mixed media piece.  This is called Muriel – The Wiser Mermaid.

I wrote up a little story to go along with her and attached it to the back of the chair:

I believe I’m breaking boundaries by working in fabric and pushing the limits of it’s sculptural aspects.  The third piece I made is a high-relief fabric and paper wallhanging.  It’s called Unfolding.  I made a surreal figure out of wire crochet and cloth, a determined figure with starry beads for eyes.  She is undoing the wire, letting out crumpled bits of her self.  They unfold and refold into origami birds.  I used another head and hand to show the transformation made by letting things go.  It’s really hard to photograph, but I did the best I could.

We took the pieces down to Beaverton City Hall this morning and were delighted by sight of so much artwork being hung.  The OWCA has artists from the very young to the very seasoned, working in many mediums.  All the art work is for sale.  It’s really worth a trip there.  Later in the month I’ll go back and take a few pictures and post them here.

Here are the sculptures on their plexiglass pedestal.  They look happy!