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this month’s Featured Art Exhibit:
The Hillsborough Gallery of Arts presents MAKE ROOM FOR JOY, a show of new work by Susan Hope, Alice Levinson and Jude Lobe.
[RE-CON-STRUC-TION]: the process of reassembling after a thing has been deconstructed or broken down. That is what Susan Hope has done in creating the artworks for this show. “I’ve broken pieces of colored glass and fired them together to become sheets that are then broken up, sorted and fired again to become images with depth and beauty that one layer alone can never achieve. In the heat of the kiln, under the pressure of gravity the broken glass becomes again a beautiful and stable structure.
In making these pieces I was reminded that brokenness is not an ending if there is a willingness to learn, yield and change. It isn’t an odd technique really, it is how Life changes us. Applied to our personal lives or to our world at large, we can be encouraged that the brokenness, pressure, and sifting we encounter will produce a glorious transformation if we trust in the process with an open heart and make room for Joy.”
Textile artist Alice Levinson says about the work she’s presenting in the current show: “In 2010 I returned to art-making after a two year hiatus following a house fire which destroyed my home and studio. With that first work I reclaimed the joy I experience when creative curiosity marries with the work of my hands, when my inner world is freed to ‘speak’ through my art-making. I think of my work as ‘sewn poems’, as narrative and feeling find a voice in cloth. The work presented here is based on that earlier work. Several of the pieces are built from the remnants of others. The juxtaposition of positive and negative spaces, shadow and form, signify the experience of loss and re-equilibration, transition and change, which are constants in our human experience.”
Jude Lobe says the “with all the negatives of the last two years, rather than dwelling on what we are missing, we need to Make Room For Joy. My joy is beginning each day with a cup of coffee in the morning listening to the birds singing. Once I am fully awake, I head to the studio that is filled with my toys; Enameling kiln, pottery kiln, copper, clay, potters wheel paints, encaustics, things I find on walks, and that’s just some of the toys that awaken my inspiration. When I get to the studio, some of the items call out to me. That’s when I set to work. I may or may not have an idea right away, so I begin playing around with the items that scream the loudest that day. If we should begin to concentrate on the joy by surrounding ourselves with people, events and things that make us happy, my studio and all that is in it is one of my favorite joys.”
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