Exhibitions
EROSION:
BILL BABER + REBECCA SHORTLE
JULY 5 - 28, 2018
Opening Reception:
Thursday, July 5, 6 - 8pm
BILL BABER is a mixed-media painter and sculptor, who utilizes reclaimed bronze and fused glass to forge fragments into poetic compositions, shaped by discard and destiny.
I press my lids for novel roles, with gray dew morning sight.
I redirect internal shades, with highlights of the day.
I mix a palette's level spread, a fix I do not know.
My patience tempers choice and my play discovers loss.
Midnight roles uncover canopies of rest and reason.
Egos are unearthed.
Distant eyes soothe our walks every day.
Across all the seasons I watch the finch feeding past the window.
Decisions with reserve you flutter, aim colors, and life gets better.
-Bill Baber
"My fascination with the natural world and its laws, forces, patterns, and phenomena has long been a driving force in my life. I have pursued it academically in research science, artistically in painting and sculpture, casually in nonfiction reading and in natural observation, and professionally in chemical and biotech patent law. My years of formal and informal study provide me with a lens through which I view the world; I cannot see shapes and patterns in nature without considering the forces from which they resulted, or without noting ratios and patterns universal to living and non-living things. This fascination informs the subject matter of my paintings as well as the process."
- Rebecca Shortle
Earth is Full
by Bill Baber
glass
15 by 7 by 5 inches
by Bill Baber
acrylic on canvas and panel
18 by 18 by 3 inches
Attrition Additions
by Bill Baber
Bronze
18 by 16 by 11 inches
Downstream
by Bill Baber
glass
22 by 11 by 6 inches
First Frost
by Bill Baber
acrylic on Panel
12 by 12 by 1.5 inches
Condensations Wedge
by Bill Baber
glass
10 by 16 by 4 inches
Path
by Bill Baber
acrylic on Panel
12 by 12 by 1.5 inches
Thrum No. 22
by Rebecca Shortle
mixed media on panel
30 by 30 inches
Thrum No. 18
by Rebecca Shortle
mixed media on panel
16 by 16 inches
Biologic No.13
by Rebecca Shortle
mixed media on panel
24 by 24 inches
Bio/Logic No. 12
by Rebecca Shortle
mixed media on panel
28 by 36 inches
Still Waters No.11 & No. 4
by Rebecca Shortle
mixed media on panel
12 by 12 inches each
