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Southwest Textiles
Awakening from the
2001
Link to Previous Shows:
(subject to change)
2000
Currently Showing:
The Fourth Dimension
Work from four
Mendocino County
Ceramic Sculptors
February 5 - May 28
Contemporary Art
Navajo and
Rio Grande Rugs
From the Collection of
San Francisco Bay Area
Resident Ruth Belikove
June 10 - October 15
19th Century
California Dream:
Environmental History
Historical Events, Social
and Economic Forces
Driving California's
Current Environmental
Crisis
Oct. 25th - Dec. 17
Travel Exhibit Organized
by the Oakland Museum
Votes for Women:
Unfinished Business
A CERA Traveling Exhibit
by the Huntington Library
tracing the History of the
Women's Suffrage
Movement
January 13 - March 10
History 1848 - 1920
Sculpture for the New Millenium
February 5 through May 28, 2000
A dynamic mixed-media show featuring contemorary sculpture by Ivan Anderson, Linda Dipman, Daphne Gillen and David Lucero. Created individually and collaboratively, exhibited works range from whimsical anthropomorphic animal figures to garden statues fabricated in concrete, ceramics, welded steel, and bronze.
Anderson, Dipman, Gillen and Lucero met at Mendocino Community College in Ukiah, where they were persuing courses in studio art. The four became friends and eventually collaborated on a variety of projects. Inspired by their results, and by the work of an ever-growing circle of local artists, they talked of a New Millenium to applaud what they feel is a creative renaissance in the Mendocino County area. The party evolved instead into the current exhibition where, in part, the four celebrate their individual and related artistic journeys. However, they also pay tribute to the fourth dimension inherent in their three-dimensional works: that of community and shared creativity. They hope these ideals are emphasized in the thousand years to come.
L to R: Daphne Gillan, Ivan Anderson
Linda Dipman, David Lucero
Photo: Evan Johnson
Individually, the artists are diverse in their media, style, and subject matter. Ivan Anderson is well known in the local ceramics community through his teaching and support work at the ceramics studio at Mendocino College. For this exhibit, Ivan broke away from ceramics, focusing instead on larger forms using concrete and found objects. Some of his resulting monumental garden sculptures are functional, serving as bird baths, feeders, fountains, and outdoor lighting.
Linda Dipman recently reduced her hours as a registered nurse to devote more time to her art. She is best known for her series of sculptures contrasting the primitive power of an alligator with the vulnerability of a woman. In this exhibit, however, Dipman too charts new creative territory, displaying exciting works fashioned from a variety of media, including airy woven boats suspended from the ceiling, baskets woven from nettles and poison oak, a containers of woven tule.
Daphne Gillen comes from a family of artisis, and has shown her ceramic and bronze sculptures at nationally recognized exhibitions in New York and Chicago. Her work features wry observations on human nature via anthropomorphic animal portraits and vignettes, many of them richly detailed and textured. In this show, her recent work includes a series of wall-mounted platters featuring interactions between her alter ego (a friendly anteater) and other creatures.
What began in 1986 as an avocation has turned into a true vocation for David Lucero. David's sculptural works in ceramic and bronze often draw on his dreams and real life experiences for their beginnings. His goal is to creat pieces that seem technically impossible to produce. For this show he has completed a welded steel fish aquarium that he says promises to surpass everything he's done before. Like each of the other artists, he has collaborated on several pieces for the show itself.
Collectively, Anderson, Dipman, Gillen and Lucero will exhibit their column project: individual columns which were produced by each artist in seclusion, and unseen by the others until completion. The resulting pieces give a sense of their individual outlooks as well as their communal spirit. They invite you to come to the Grace Hudson Museum and share in their Millenium Party.
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