Place.
Suzanne Bocanegra, Mary Hambleton, Robin Hill, Sharon Horvath

December 8 through January 26, 1997
Artist Reception January 9 at 4:30pm
 

  Sharon Hovarth, Map and Land, oil on panel

This exhibition explores the idea of place as expressed in the works of its participating artists - private, shared, imaginary, or real.
 

Suzanne Bocanegra's collections of mismatched objects find their ordered place through an approximation in space and uniformity of color. Their diversity is reconciled in the present by their evocation of timelessness.

Mary Hambleton's expansive paintings search outward in their manifestation of place within the storm of the cosmos.

Robin Hill, to whom we owe the idea of this exhibition, explores the space between drawing and sculpture. Materials are arranged on the floor depicting types of places (harbor, common, hub, womb). The startling aspect of her work relates to its scale and approximation to the viewer. For while the work occupies the three-dimensional space of sculpture it is at our feet, so to speak, its fragile nature challenging intrusion.

Sharon Horvath's paintings, often intimate in size, seem to chart out imaginary places, perhaps in response to memories of ancient maps.

-Sandra Erickson, Director
 

  Mary Hambleton
  After Copernicus
  oil and wax on linen
  mounted to panel