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Artist talks: August/September exhibitions
August 27, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Free
Learn about the August-September featured artists and their artwork at this informal artist talk.
Artists include: Scott McCarney, Margaret Buchanan, and Carol Meese.
Artists include: Scott McCarney, Margaret Buchanan, and Carol Meese.
Scott McCarney presents photography and artists books in his exhibition, Table to Wall. Artist books have been the main focus of McCarney’s art practice since 1980. He feels the book is the perfect form to combine his academic background in photography and design with his love for the “corporeality of craft and philosophic possibilities of sculpture.” He states, “The interpretive space of the book and the interaction of a reader engage my interest in communication as process and form.”
McCarney’s decision to make artists books is for both practical and formal reasons: they are easy to transport, access, and share; their history is socially and culturally saturated; and everyone has some relationship with a book. According to McCarney, “a book’s materiality and proximity to the reader offer a unique experience for expressing ideas quietly and with purpose.”
Margaret Buchanan’s oil paintings will be displayed in her exhibition, The Quiet. For Buchanan, painting is “a place of agitation and excitement mixed with utter calm and joy.” Buchanan responds to composition, light, color, space, and texture, and how those elements orchestrate our everyday moments. Her paintings suggest the presence of figures that do not appear in the composition, referenced by a space where “someone is about to enter or has just left, the liminal spaces between people, the aftermath of human activity.” The Quiet articulates a dynamic space, one that negotiates many states of being to create a sense of place.
A book artist, painter, and designer, Margaret Buchanan divides her working life between painting and her graphic design business, Buchanan Design. She studied graphic design and painting at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Virginia, where she earned a BFA with honors.
The mystery of unspoken words, unconscious thoughts, and unheard prayers emerge in Carol Meese’s exhibition of paintings, Prayer Books. Meese’s previous career in psychology provides her with an “understanding of what motivates others,” how to relate on an emotional level, and of the importance of the subconscious and unconscious helping (her) to communicate on a subliminal level. Saying things that have no words.”
During our pandemic time was spent reading and thinking about solitude. Buried in these paintings are words from Theodore Rilke’s poem “Solitude.” and personal prayers. A pentimento effect is created with paint, plaster, ink and graphite. Thoughts about solitude are inscribed then obscured as if by smoke or fog or ignored thoughts or speech. The meaning is obscured, left to the viewer to complete.
Artist Talks: Saturday, August 27, 2pm
Exhibition Dates: August 26-September 17, 2022