Christ in Shadow, silver gelatin print, 7″ x 6″ framed to 20″ x 16″, ©Joan Bowers 2004, $150.00
Joan Bowers is a Seattle based photogapher and we will have two of her photographic prints as part of the Out of Darkness (Into Light) exhibit. This image was photographed at a church in Guanajuato, Mexico. Joan can be contacted at her email address: jebbo101@comcast.net
| December 11, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Where: Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore (map)
The CR Gallery at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer celebrates the opening of its new art exhibit “Out of Darkness (Into Light)” with an artist reception.
The reception is from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM on Thursday, December 11th. Come for wine, cheese, music, and a chance to meet some of the many artists whose work is on display.
“Out of Darkness (Into Light)” will be on display from December 6th 2008 through February 6th 2009. If you’d like to visit the gallery during the week, please call (425) 486-3777 or email office@redeemer-kenmore.org
click on images to see larger versionsOur own Matthew Terry completed principal photography on his independent film production Daylight Savings Time on September 21, 2008. Congratulations, Matt!
Daylight Savings Time home page
Watch the trailer:
Our gallery is seeking artwork expressing the theme “Out of Darkness (Into Light)”, a juried art exhibit that will be on view December 7th, 2008–February 6th, 2009, with an artists’ reception planned for the evening of December 11th. All genres and media considered. Artwork needs to be 2-dimensional–it can extend into the third dimension, but it must be able to be hung on a wall.
Where: CR Gallery, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, WA
When: December 7th, 2008–February 6th, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 11th, 6:30– 8:30pm
How: Submit up to 3 jpegs via e-mail to arts@redeemer-kenmore.org. Please include your name, contact information, and a few words about your work. Also include title, medium, framed dimensions, and retail price of each image submitted. Submission deadline is November 4th, 2008. The work will then be juried and acceptance notifications and delivery instructions will be sent out via e-mail by Saturday, November 8th.
Entry fee: $15 (USD) for up to 3 images, payable via PayPal. This needs to be paid before work can be submitted to the jury. Simply click on the Pay Now button below.
Please take note of the following:
•Artwork must be ready to hang, preferably from a wire. Photographs and artwork on paper must be framed with a wire attached for hanging. Canvases do not need to be framed, but the sides should be painted, either a solid color or as a continuation of the image, in order to give a neat, professional appearance, and must have a wire attached to the stretchers for hanging purposes.
•For work that is shipped, all shipping costs will be the responsibility of the artist.
•Artwork can be for sale. The gallery will direct buyers directly to the artist and takes no commission.
•The gallery will take care of advertising and publicity, and artists with accepted work will receive postcard announcements to distribute themselves.
•In addition to being displayed in the nave gallery, accepted artists will also be featured on the church’s website.
•For ease of transport, and so we get to meet you, we are especially seeking artists in the Puget Sound area, but this call is open to all artists over 18.
•If you have any questions, please email Angela at arts@redeemer-kenmore.org.
I’ve received a lot of notices recently from artists who have exhibited in our gallery in the past (and hopefully will again) about their current exhibits and I thought I’d share them with you.
Matthew Whitney’s latest show begins Friday, April 4th with an opening reception from 6pm–9pm at the Orange Splot Gallery in Fremont, and will be on display throughout April.
Bridgette Guerzon Mills hung a show this week entitled “Moments of Quiet and Stillness” at Cugini’s Cafe, 5306 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle (in Ballard) which will also be on display throughout April.
Three pieces of Jane Emens’ work will be part of a show at the ArtXchange Gallery called, “What Does Compassion Look Like?” in conjuction with the Dalai Lama’s visit. The show opens on April 11th with a reception from 5pm–8pm, and continues until May 30th.
Jessica Figueroa has a show of new paintings entitled “A Fish Out of Water” hanging at Cafe Lulu, 6417 Latona Avenue NE, Seattle (near Green Lake) that will be up through April 30th.
These are all very talented artists so go and take a look! I know I will.
-Angela
I hope everybody had a very joyful Easter Sunday. I know I did. This is my third Easter season at Church of the Redeemer, and the second Easter altarpiece I’ve designed (you can see last year’s altarpiece here and here). This year we (the arts committee) decided to add some color to the paper lace design using tissue paper. Turned out to be a very frustrating process, but once the art was installed, it turned out to be so worth all the aggravation.
There were other frustrations as well, largely due to the unusually early appearance of Easter this year. But the biggest frustration was actually me. I had been suffering through some big time burnout issues in regards to my role in the arts committee for months, and was beginning to question whether I’d be able to go on with it once this liturgical year came to an end. This was making me cranky, to put it mildly, and made completing the Easter art that much more difficult. Lent passed with me barely noting it, and Holy Week ended up feeling like such a chore, instead of being the powerfully spiritual journey that I know it can be.
But I’m very happy to report that the Holy Spirit was definitely moving at our Easter Vigil on Saturday night, and I feel all sorts of refreshed now. I feel truly inspired (to breathe life into) and I’ve got all sorts of ideas for next liturgical year’s art. Thanks be to God!
In a few weeks we’ll be starting on art for Pentecost and I’m really looking forward to it. :)
Happy Easter!
-Angela
The Arts Committee is hard at work making the altarpiece for Pascha, also known as Easter. As always, it will be cut paper - though this year, colored tissue paper will be an element.
Here are a couple of photos of the work-in-progress on Flickr:
Christmas 2007: Hanging the altarpiece
Originally uploaded by Church of the Redeemer.
This year’s altarpiece was designed by the wildly talented Seattle artist Matt Whitney, who also came in on a Saturday and helped the Ecclesiastical Arts Committee paint it.
The result is lovely.
The piece will be on display over the altar at Redeemer through the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany.
Matt’s Web site: www.mattsbasement.com
“Red Sky in Morning”, watercolor on paper, ©Denis Wogan
Denis is an artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He say this about his work:
I was raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on the rocky New England coast. I know that much of my inspiration to paint comes from the vast ocean that, as a boy, I saw almost every day. I no longer live there but it is still a delight for me to look out over the water, to imagine the continents that exist on the other side, to see that big sky. This is a place where I truly feel the presence of God.
“Red Sky in Morning” is one of a series of abstract horizon paintings. The title comes from the sailor’s adage: Red sky in morning, sailors take warning; Red sky at night, sailors delight. For me this painting represents calm while facing the unknown.
In my paintings I take the simple, essential forms of a landscape, a sky, a storm, and translate my observation to paper or canvas. But, honestly; I have no agenda, no story to tell, I have no drive to steer the viewer to see something in a certain way, no reason to paint other than a deep passion for my own creative process.
You can see more of Denis’ work at www.wogan.us and he can be contacted at deniswogan@yahoo.com
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