Sublime Narratives in May

 

Original works by

ELLEN WISHNETSKY-MUELLER

CHRISTIAN BURCHARD

MARY IJICHI

ELLEN WISHNETSKY-MUELLER

Born in New York City and raised in Detroit, artist Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller started painting and when she was just 10 years old. A professional artist forover three three decades, she says, ''The nature of my work for the past dozen years has revolved around subtle modulations in color, texture, and pattern.'' Her latest process involves adding metal and felt to layers of sheer fabric to create intimate geometric works.

CHRISTIAN BURCHARD   

 Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1955, Ashland, Oregon artist Christian Burchard has been living in the United States since 1978. Starting out as a furniture maker's apprenticeship in Germany in the mid-seventies, he studied sculpture and drawing at the Museum School in Boston and the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver B.C. In 1982 he opened Cold Mountain Studio in Southern Oregon. His early focus was on furniture and interiors, but gradually he shifted to woodturning and sculpture. His work has been included in most of the major turning related exhibits of the last ten years, and is exhibited widely throughout the U.S. His current pieces include wall sculptures and freestanding sculptural objects.

MARY IJICHI

With a desire to address dichotomies in language and communication through her art, Mary Ijichi uses string and thread the way a writer uses a pen. Her extruded mixed-media drawings look different depending on the distance and angle they are viewed from. ''When I began the series,'' she says, ''I used horizontal lines to represent script.'' As in a page of text, the "words" were the positive space and the white background the negative. Step away, however, and the information is reversed-the white bands of string become the positive space while the "lettering" recedes into a speckled backdrop. ''As the work evolved,'' she says, ''I sought to reconcile the positive and negative aspects of our ability to rationalize.'' 

 

Sublime Narratives runs through June. There will be an artist reception during the First Friday Artwalk on May 7th, featuring wine by Liquid Assets.