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March 21 through April 11, 2008
Artists' Reception: Friday, March 21, 2008 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
what I thought I saw |
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Artists Challenge How We Look at People
Art Access Gallery is pleased to host what I thought I saw, an exhibition based on a book project, which challenges the way "we look at things because maybe we just don¹t know." This exhibit will hang from March 21through April 11. The exhibit will open on Friday, March 21, from 6 to 9 PM during the March Gallery Stroll.
The project artists are Kim Silcox and Sasha Polak, photographers; Peta Owens-Liston and Amy Albo, writers. According to Kim Silcox, "On most days, we view an image and instantly draw a conclusion about its meaning. We quickly move on with our lives, secure in our understanding of what we saw. What I Thought I Saw challenges its audience to stop for a moment and question such certainty. As the stories unravel the complicated and unexpected lives behind the images, the reader must deconstruct the layers of misconceptions and biases behind that initial glance."
The exhibition will consist of ten large scaled photographic portraits of a variety of people and the stories of whom they really are. Subjects will include: an ex-Playboy Bunny with an amazing heart; a blind Native American sculptor who can make a feather look like its blowing in the wind with his hands; an artist with severe physical disability who is often approached as if he is mentally disabled; a transgendered man/woman/man; and a woman who lives two realities now a 125 pound woman, recently 350 pounds. Several of the book subjects are from Utah.
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Access II Gallery
Sarinda Jones
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Minimalist Approach to Glass Illuminates Simple Beauty
Art Access Gallery is pleased to host "Emerging Light", an installation of Sarinda Jones' kiln-formed glass, from March 21 through April 11. The exhibit will open on Friday, March 21, from 6 to 9 PM during the March Gallery Stroll.
Sarinda Jones, a member of the Glass Art Guild of Utah, says that she often uses the phrase "left of center" to describe details of her work. She also uses the phrase to describe the relationships of the visual line and emotional motivations.
She says, "Much of my work is a manifestation of the emotions and events surrounding my son¹s hospital stay, early in his life. We all experience a time in our lives when we have been uncertain of an outcome and recall that moment when time stands still the tipping point."
Jones attempts to capture that moment in her work with glass and condenses those elements to their essence. She strives to achieve a sense of space that has a concentration of spirit, character and physical presence.
Sarinda Jones was admitted to Pilchuck in 2003. She has studied kiln-formed and casting techniques at San Jose University, Pratt Fine Art Center and Bullseye Glass Company, all on the west coast.
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