Our two guest artists arrive from the north (Salem) and the south (Sacramento) just in time for Spring.
Lisa Culjis of Sacramento talks about her process:
"From start to finish, I delight in making collages and assemblages. I religiously search thrift stores, estate and rummage sales in search of interesting vintage ephemera and photographs, paper scraps, small found objects (bones, feathers, game pieces, discarded bits)—rusty, dusty, broken, nostalgic little things. I am especially drawn to antique botanical and scientific themed ephemera, Asian imagery, and black and white photos from days gone by. I think of myself as a creative scavenger."
"In the studio I sift, select, cut, arrange, rearrange and finally attach elements to create a new narrative. I want the final pieces to be a poetic mix of layered imagery. Many of these collages are intended to suggest the inner life of the subject."
About the making of art, Bonnie Hull of Salem, Oregon has this to say:
"My work uses the elements of line, pattern, process, image and narrative in a variety of recombinations. In the course of my working life I have used painting, drawing, collage, embroidery and quilting to examine and re-examine these elements, but it always begins with drawing."
"The stories I tell, the images, the lines and patterns are ways of interpreting the life I have led, and continue to lead. For me the process of reinterpretation often becomes powerful, electric. Like a magpie I seem to gather images, phrases, colors, patterns which simply are channeled into the work I make."
