Foundations: Materials and Method

Foundations explores the common threads of five artists who bring an expansive approach to fine art and craft through their materials and methods.

These artists incorporate a foundation of their practice, whether through hand or machine, their love of materials, a format, and a desire to explore new possibilities in their work. All observe their surroundings closely, transforming what they notice into elevated visions. Themes of light, color, and texture are shared, but each artist pushes the boundaries of what art and craft can mean. In their practice, materials serve as a vehicle, and their methods are grounded in what they know. 

Featured Artists: Beth Dorsey, Susan Hensel, Ingrid Restemayer and Mary Sannerud.

From Donovan: FOUNDATIONS - MATERIALS & METHODS. This show includes artists who share a common interest in art making, but, more importantly, each utilizes a modernization of historic techniques and explores artistic processes that expand beyond traditional concepts of craft into something new and exciting. 

• Beth Dorsey’s monotypes are all about process. The printing press is just a step to create layers, forms, and a grid to play with, multiple times. 
• Susan Hensel takes ‘the feminine’ craft of lacemaking and recreates intricate patterns that tell a more poignant story of the shadowy side of politics. 
• Ingrid Restemayer's prints include a myriad of pattern and geometry that complement her fine and immaculate stitches on paper. 
• Mary Sannerud takes the tradition of felted rugs and brings them to the wall as pieces of sculpture that include an air of nostalgia with incorporated materials inherited from family members. 

Donovan presents this work alongside her handmade, plant-sourced pigment works on paper. Each artist incorporates an element of craft, a long considered gendered role of women’s work, and expands. The craft presents stories, ingenuity, and a newfound presentation of art that rivals previous constructs with future possibilities.

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Fridays and Saturdays - noon to 4pm and by appointment.