Gallery Route One exhibits: Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Sukey Bryan, and Kellie Flint

Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Place Markers

Center Gallery

Sukey Bryan: Glacier Visions

Project Space

Kellie Flint: From My Failure to Ours

Annex

May 13 – June 19, 2016

Reception: May 15, Sunday, 3-5 pm - Artist Talks 2:30 pm

Salon: Sunday, June 19, 4-5 pm

Mary Mountcastle Eubank

Place Markers      

In Place Markers, Mary Mountcastle Eubank makes images that speak to the meaning of place: the way we mark it through time and the visual narratives we create to explain it. 

Down through the ages, human beings have marked their place on the earth. Eubank’s paintings are inspired by the ways that places have been marked throughout history and prehistory, specifically for ritual observance and memorialization of significant events. This work explores a sensuous relationship to the natural world and the relationship between nature and culture. Taking colors, forms and textures from nature, Eubank combines acrylic paint with organic materials such as sand, decomposed granite and wood ash to create abstracted replicas of landscapes. Paper casts are incorporated into the paint to reflect a specific site. 

In addition to painting, Eubank’s background as an artist includes sculpture, printmaking, papermaking and collaborative performance. She also serves as an art administrator and curator.       

Glacier Visions: Paintings and Prints by Sukey Bryan

The exhibition will feature large oil paintings and monotype prints from glacier environments, including ice cliffs, icebergs, icemelt and waterfalls. These pieces were created in the artist’s studio from a distillation of memory, notes, photographs, and sketches from materials gathered as artist-in-residence in Denali National Park and Preserve and from Prince William Sound in Alaska. This selective program allowed the artist to live and work in an isolated cabin in the middle of the wilderness of the park. The transformative experience of working within a landscape of such boundless scale is the inspiration for this work which celebrates the beauty, power, and delicacy of glacier ice: intersection of water and climate.

Bryan works with images that explore the interaction and transformation of elements propelled by natural forces which are increasingly disrupted by climate change.  “I am interested in nature's contradictory delicacy and power, the phases of existence and the various ways the promise of life is fulfilled,” says Bryan. “The simultaneously regenerative and destructive cycles of nature evoke awe and exultation in their beauty and the suggestion of causality and order within chaotic and complex systems.”

Bryan is a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient and has exhibited nationally in galleries, non-profit spaces, colleges and museums and abroad through the State Department Art in the Embassies program. Her work is held in many Californian collections.  Bryan has an MFA from the Maryland Institute and a BA (Fine Arts and English) from Yale University. Bryan’s professional experience also includes directing special creative projects with high school and college students.

Kellie Flint

From My Failure to Ours

Serving as a bridge between two bodies of work, From My Failure to Ours features Kellie Flint's contemplations of failure both past and present.

The "paintings" in 3D – comprised of found material – are the first stage of a representation of an amnesic failure. Those ideas dissipate as an emphasis on process and form rise to the surface.

The works on the wall address environmental failures conceptually.  By focusing on the geological and hydrological attributes of the Arctic, she explores how “our” failure presents itself in these distinct ecosystems. Flint creates experimental paintings of ice, icebergs, and tundra using bleach as paint. The bleach as a pure agent—and how it acts as a material—parallels melting ice and evaporating water. Appearing, disappearing, evaporation, invisibility.  

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