Crossing Over the Bridge
We have initiated a demanding and exciting project at Pottery Northwest. Crossing Over the Bridge is an undertaking made possible with the support of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Rick and Peg Young Foundation and many of our valued patrons. In the next few months we will be hosting guest artists in our studio who do not ordinarily work with clay. We will provide them with technical assistance and a stipend to accomplish a project or work piece. We hope to create a cauldron for dialog among artists, in particular our resident artists and the guests, but also drop in visitors, students, anyone interested in exciting work that crosses disciplinary boundaries. That is why we chose Crossing Over the Bridge as a title for the project. We choose to ignore the boundaries of a particular medium and instead build connections between artists. We have a strong belief that artists in any discipline have common ground and knowledge to share, both formal concerns and that intangible intuitive that comes from years of work. It is already rewarding.
First Step . . .
January - May, 2010 |
Next Steps . . .
May 6-10, 2010 |
And the Next . . .
May 21, 2010 |
And the Next . . . Anne Grgich
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1961, Annemarie Grgich began making spontaneous art at the age of fifteen, mostly by clandestinely painting in her family’s books, or making junk constructions. She first introduced collage into her work around 1988, but took it to a higher level in 1997 during a period of illness. When she had recovered, later that year she began to produce collage paintings – images of people encountered over time in the street and in mind journeys that manifest themselves and recombine, according to her mood, in the process of creation. Collage helps to effect an almost alchemical transformation in the works, through its function as sign, to its active involvement in the dialogue between paint, drawing and resin. Anne’s works rarely include text, yet they are narrative-driven, reaching a kind of apogee in her magnificent handmade books, in which image and physicality combine as analogues of living experience.
May 17-21, 2010
As with John Grade and the fabulous de la Torre brothers, Anne immediately jumped into a frenzy of creativity amidst a flood of friends and visitors. Take a look!
