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December 2011:Time Enough/ Revealed- CassNevada and Adele Eustis

Time Enough / Revealed       

        December 1 through December 17, 2011


    

     Opening First Thursday  December 1  5-8 pm

     Shift hours: Friday & Saturday 12-5 pm

     or by appointment:  info@shiftstudio.org


     
 Cass Nevada

“I wanted to partner with nature. I wanted the plants, time and seasons to somehow be embedded in my work, part of the thing itself, not separate from it. The bundled books in this show are weathered by time and elements, tough yet light enough to catch a breeze--the sort of partnership I sought."
Cass Nevada is a mixed media artist with specific interest in plant pigments and time-intensive processes to create unexpected surfaces. The art books involve pieces of these surfaces, along with story, dream fragments, and interaction with unexpected patterns, lines, shadows and shapes that are embedded in the surfaces. You can see a preview of the process and books here or at http://gallery.me.com/cass.v2/100090
Nevada has studied at the Universities of Washington, Wisconsin, Seattle Art Institute and Pratt; she exhibits throughout the region.


Adele Eustis

“I found a 1930-something Webster dictionary at a junk sale years ago. The pages are filled with marvelous illustrations on tissue thin paper. Many of the words once so useful are gone from our vernacular or their meanings have changed. The outmoded format echoes a deep creative need to re-invent.”
Adele Eustis exhibits a series of pieces using ink and wax on old dictionary pages. Pen and ink lines and bold brush strokes in a black field hide and reveal the printed definitions. The pages are mounted using wax on thin rice paper and hung in translucent vertical panels. The process recognizes her interest in the organic, shifting nature of language.
Eustis is a Seattle artist who works with paint, paper, pigment and a variety of traditional and not-so traditional art materials. She studied ceramics and linguistics and received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

 

                                                                                     
              Shift is a collaborative artist’s studio that opened in the fall of 2004 in the renovated Tashiro Kaplan Arts Complex. 
         Shift was established as an artist-run space with the primary goal of supporting emergent,  practicing Northwest artists. 
    For more information, visit www.shiftstudio.org, find us on Facebook at Shift Collaborative Studio or e-mail: info@shiftstudio.org