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Still, agroup exhibit
October 2 to 28, 2012
Reception: Saturday, October 6, 4 to 6 pm
Archer Gallery, Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA 98663
Eric Elliott, James Florschutz, Marie Koetje, Caroline
LeFevre, Erika Leppmann, Joseph Park, Susan Seubert
What is the role or function of the still life in the 21st century? Does the contemporary
still life speak of the rituals of daily life; ask the viewer to contemplate the social,
moral or historical significance of the objects depicted; or simply address the formal
properties of the object?
Each of the artists in this exhibit answers that question in a thought-provoking way.
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Eric Elliott's still life paintings "stem from an interest in the grey area where one object ends
and another begins." He's "interested in the air between objects, in the ability to
compress perspective; bringing the ground up or pushing the foreground back." (Suzanne
Beal, Art Ltd. Sept. 2009)
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James Florschutz's "sculpture has always been a way for (him) to overlay order on his environment and
to make sense of a seemingly chaotic world around (him). Often (his) work uses the
grid as a matrix to express (his) thoughts and feelings." (artist's statement)
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Marie Koetje's "paintings are loosely based on imagined scenarios of ordinary spaces integrated with,
or invaded by, an aggregation of signals, devices, gadgets, and streams of information.
(Koetje) usually begins each piece by constructing a rational pictorial space which
serves as a backdrop for these otherwise immaterial and intangible components to take
shape and become visible..." (artist's statement)
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Caroline LeFevre's photographs use "the archetype of traditional still life imagery to contextualize
the interplay between the digital and the non-digital in art. This series defines
a reaction to the perceived roles of consumer culture and digital technologies in
society." (artist's statement)
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Erika Leppmann’s photographs speak of our idealized views of domiciles. In Leppmann’s work, Monopoly®
houses representing the very small, contained and tidy world of our expectations are
juxtaposed with the ominous, disorienting "real world." |
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Joseph Park's paintings "explore the realm between reality and fiction"; between what has been
observed and what has been reimagined with his "prismatic" effects. In Park's painting's
time and space are at some junctures frozen and at others they flutter wildly. (Joey
Veltkamp, New American Painting Biog, July 8, 2011)
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Susan Seubert's photographs come from her <restraint> series and each "illustrates an idea relating to
restraint in either a symbolic or literal fashion. The (photographs) create a space
where the viewer may contemplate the meanings, implications, and complexities of the
word 'restraint'." (artist's statement) "Each of these photographs in a unique ambrotype,
a wet plate collodian process in which a thin negative image on glass appears as a
positive by mounting it against a black background." (Froelick Gallery PressRelease,
April 2011)
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