CCAI exhibition "Glyphs and Houses"
The Capital City Arts Initiative announces its exhibition, Glyphs and Houses, with artwork by Amelia Currier in the Community Center’s Sierra Room, 851 E William Street, Carson City. The free exhibition is available to the public from November 16, 2016 through February 24, 2017.
As a youngster growing up in the suburban 60’s, Amelia Currier said, “My ultimate, secret fantasy was to be a cave woman. Just me, my leopard skin jumper, a campfire, and some critters to keep me company.” She says that perhaps her long dormant fantasy has revealed itself in her recent work; seeking a continuum between herself and artists from the very distant past.
On "Glyphs and Houses," Currier views the house as our first and most primordial symbol, the first image we draw in kindergarten and the seat of our desire for wholeness. These images represent her interest in our ability to shade our memories between reality and fantasy.
As inspiration, Currier researched Etruscan tomb carvings and Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew characters that represent the door/home symbol or glyph. She sees these letters as visual forms and has altered them into her own personal vocabulary of glyphs and doorways.
Artist Paula Roland describers the encaustic monotype as: “… an innovative, freeing process and a painterly approach to printmaking. Encaustic (pigmented wax) is used in stick-form to draw upon a heated metal plate. The wax melts instantly and may be further manipulated with brushes or tools. The molten image is transferred from plate to paper by absorption and gentle hand pressure. Works may be over-printed, combined with other media, collaged, over-painted with encaustic, ....” www.paularoland.com www.rolandworkshops.com
Currier has been a painter and printmaker for thirty years. She received her BFA in Intaglio Printmaking at Wayne State University, attended the Instituto Allende, Mexico, and The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. She is a member of the International Encaustic Artists, The Print Center, and The Encaustic Art Institute, and has exhibited in numerous national and international juried shows. She lives and creates her art in Reno. www.ameliacurrier.com
The Sierra Room is open to the public every Friday, noon – 5pm, and during the City’s official public meetings. For Sierra Room access, call 775.283.7421 or check meeting schedules online at www.carson.org/government/meetings-and-events
The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered organization committed to the encouragement and support of artists and the arts and culture of Carson City and the surrounding region. The Initiative is committed to community building for the area's diverse adult and youth populations through art projects and exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and its online projects.
CCAI is funded in part by Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, City of Carson City, Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, U.S. Bank Foundation, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and John and Grace Nauman Foundation.
For additional information, please visit CCAI’s website at www.arts-initiative.org.
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