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Carol Milne
Glass Slippers
Ann Vandervelde
Juxtaposition
August 7 - August 31, 2008
Opening reception Thursday, August 7, 6 - 8pm
Glass Slippers
Gallery IMA is pleased to present new work by Seattle artist Carol Milne. She works mostly with glass, metal, concrete and found objects but also with wood, plants, and fiber.
Her most recent body of work is part of a three-part “shoe series”, featuring skillfully crafted and distinctive kiln cast glass shoe sculpture. Glass Slippers is the second of the series,with which Carol cleverly translates the “Cinderella myth, in other words, the glass slipper that catches you a prince and removes you from the drudgery and cares of everyday life” into tangible cast glass shoes. “The moral here is to pay less attention to the bow and more to the package. Choose wisely and with care”.
Milne studied sculpture at the University of Iowa, and kiln casting at the Pratt Fine Arts Center of Seattle as well as the Penland School of Crafts. She received the GAP award in 2007 and has exhibited work not only in Washington, as well as Oregon, California and Texas.
Carol Milne
Margarita
Kiln Cast Lead Crystal
9x6x17
Juxtapositions – A Way to View the World
Ann Vandervelde’s newest series of work involve rich, mixed media and acrylic on canvas paintings and collages. Similarly to the experience of daily life, her paintings are complex conglomerations of layered fragments, often reminiscent of striking landscapes.
About her work, “I have always believed that paintings are a form of language”, Says Vandervelde. “An image elicits immediate dialogue between itself and the viewer and it is not essential (sometimes counterintuitive) to understand what the artist was thinking at the time of creation. A painting becomes personal and significant when I can draw upon the viewer’s experiences, and lives beyond the artist’s brush”.
Nature and science play a large role in her creative process.“We tend to take for granted so much of what we see and we usually see images as large whole compositions. Like a scientist or naturalist I think it’s important to take something apart, break it down into pieces and then bit by bit reshape it.”
Ann Vandervelde
Egypt #4
Acrylic Collage
12x12
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