Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Back to basics

‘Northwest Artists Draw’ reveals essential of drawing on paper


By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

“Mt. Rainier from Fairy Pool” (1942) by Helen Loggie. Ink on paper at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum from the Collection of Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Gift of Robert D. Frazier.

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum will open its newest exhibition, "Northwest Artists Draw" on Friday, May 7. The show will continue through Saturday, July 3. The exhibition features drawings of abandoned mines near Butte, Mont. by Eben Goff. In addition, Cat Clifford used actual pigments from the mines in beautiful, spare drawings made with cut paper and ink.

Also on exhibition will be Michael Brophy's Sumi-e ink drawings of river markers and gouache images of landscapes and D. E. May's playful geometric abstractions, often drawn on found scraps of paper. A selection of works on paper by Helen Loggie (1895--1976), for whom drawing was a vital artistic medium throughout her career, will be part of the show as well.

All the exhibition artists share a common Northwest aesthetic rooted in craft and the importance of creating handmade objects depicting the natural world.

"Drawing has long been viewed as a secondary art form—what artists did as preparation for painting," said Courtney Gilbert, The Center's curator of visual arts. "But many artists today are making drawings that are unique artworks in and of themselves."

"Northwest Artists Draw" free exhibition tours are scheduled on Thursday, May 20, and Thursday, June 24, at 5:30 p.m. and on Tuesday, June 15, at 2 p.m. A related exhibition of works on paper by local artists Nate Galpin and Jen Galpin-Mikesh will be on view at The Center, Hailey, from April 30 through June 25. For details, visit sunvalleycenter.org.

"Many of us who live in the Northwest share a sense that nature has a significance in our daily lives it might not if we lived elsewhere," said Gilbert. "The drawings in this exhibition reflect that notion."




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