Two painters in Southern Oregon with distinctively indefinable styles find rejuvenation and inspiration in a post-pandemic respite. It is rare when artists are afforded the luxury of time and energy to explore new ideas, techniques, and directions. For Laurel and Cody, this arrived during the pandemic, a time in which both of them were making really unusual and interesting work. To read more, please click here.
- Beth Sorenson, Oregon Arts Watch
Inside Look :: Carolyn Hazel Drake
Carolyn's work integrates textiles, ceramics, and domestic objects assembled and layered through traditional craft techniques and collage to evoke familiarity and crypticness. Her collections of handmade objects and readymades are meditations on the ways in which humans are sensitive to the surrounding atmosphere - porous to the invisible things that move through the air, whether they are viruses or wildfire smoke, or spirits and voices of those who have passed. The finished groupings create a gentle dissonance between the sacred and the mundane and lean hard towards the analog world as a tangible means of processing ephemeral, but very real experiences of death and loss.
Artist Talk :: Carolyn Hazel Drake & Rachael Zur
Rachael Zur and Carolyn Hazel Drake discussed the process, thoughts, and feelings that went into At Home with the Dead. Questions like, “why telephones?”, “what is expanded painting?”, and “can we call these altars?” were explored in this lively conversation between two artists. To view the video, click on the image or click here.