These works are made slowly, one mark at a time. Stitch by stitch. Ink and tide. Resin poured and cured in patient layers. Glass worn smooth by years of water. A photographer returns to the same shoreline until the light is exactly right. Each piece here is the record of a process: patient, deliberate, and open to what the materials — and the moment — decide.
This is work that rewards the viewer who lingers, because it was made by artists who know how to wait. Thread accumulates into image. Ink finds its own path through coastal air. Resin holds a piece of shoreline suspended mid-pour, one layer waiting on the next to set. The sea spends years on a piece of glass so a jeweler can spend hours on a setting. A stone is chosen because it is exactly right — not almost right, but exactly. Process is not just how these things were made. It is what they are about.
Exhibition runs August 20 - September 14. Gallery is open Thursday - Monday, 11am - 5pm
Artists: Alain Fastre · Angelica Arras · Beth Oehlert · Daniel Haniger · Drew Campbell · Jo Fry · Jodi Paley · Marni Sloves · Meyla Ruwin · Sherri Hanna · Sibyl Felts