Interior Margins is curated by Stephanie Snyder, John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, in collaboration with Lumber Room founder Sarah Miller Meigs.
Eleven artists in Interior Margins, North Pacific American artists by birth or relocation—and all by investment—enact the female body and the work of art toward abstraction's interior visions, swelling forms that appear pressurized to the body's proportions and the surfaces and fabrics that both adorn and reflect its symbolic potential, its mannerisms, while the Northwest's wet, forested clime continues to assert its aqueous pull within the practices of Northwest abstractionists.
Judy Cooke / Léonie Guyer / Victoria Haven / Midori Hirose / Linda Hutchins / Kristan Kennedy / Michelle Ross / Blair Saxon-Hill / Lynne Woods Turner / Nell Warren / Heather Watkins
My conceptual touchstones for this series are varied: the science of sand, platonic solids, XYZ Earth coordinates. Plutarch's etymology on alchemy: Black Earth/Desert Sand. The hourglass represents the passage of time and the opportunity to halt and compact this element of time. Frank Herbert’s Dune. The ancient city of Petra in Jordan. Kids playing in sandboxes. And the folklore figure of the Sandman, who sprinkles magic sand in children’s eyes to make them sleep. Imagine slow, emotive expressions. The balance and coupling of random order within the structure through loose sand in clear cases.