Zebra in Nairobi National Park (2019) Undefeated by Rain (2020) Marine Circus (2020) The Story Goes On… (2019) Nanako is a graduate student at Yale School of the Environment (2023-2025). Her lifework revolves around environmental issues and she has been working in this field for over ten years. Nanako uses a reduction woodcut printing, a technique which she learned while living […]
NATALIE CHRISTENSEN ARTIST STATEMENT Shadows and psychological metaphors are favored photographic subjects for me.My work as a psychotherapist for over 25 years called upon me to explore what ishidden from view, those aspects of the self or the environment that we want toturn away from or simply avoid. I was particularly influenced by the work of depthpsychologist Carl Jung and […]
JEFF CORWIN ARTIST STATEMENT Before I started to devote myself full time to my personal work, I spent 40 years inthe world of commercial photography. The majority of my clients were ad agenciesand graphic design firms. My photographic focus was on corporate offices,factories, oil refineries and aerospace companies with dark busy manufacturingfacilities. I learned that my job title was not […]
Bette Ridgeway is best known for her large-scale, luminous poured canvases that push the boundaries of light, color and design. Her youth spent in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and her extensive global travel have informed her colorful palette. For the past two decades, the high desert light of Santa Fe, NM has fueled Ridgeway’s art practice.
The purpose of my artwork is to invoke an awakening of the sensual. Stimulating a perceptual, internal, and intellectual response for the viewer: a visual that speaks to life’s experiences. Creating symbols of universal connection underscores the relationship that one has to another and to nature.
Morphologies emerge in variable ways,
Protruding through space and time,
Yielding multifarious mazes.
Frozen in a burnt copper substrate, surrounded
With whorls and tides of a creature’s past, a steadfast
Four slats of discolored wood possess salmon streaks and steel
On July 23rd, 2018, I witnessed a 10’ flash flood tear past my Santa Fe home. A tsunami in a quiet valley, washing downstream animals, debris, and tumbling boulders, leaving behind a raw and reordered landscape.
Today’s itinerary: visit Earth Room, where a layer of soil, two feet thick, has occupied a gallery in SoHo since 1977.
I’ve dropped my broom