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Shape of The Sacred

Many thanks to our Exhibit Sponsor, Oregon Arts Commission!
Dates: Jan 12, 2010 to Feb 4, 2010

Participating Artist(s):
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Amy Johnson, 'Shape of Sacred'

This work by Amy Johnson consists of a site specific installation with reoccurring elements in her artwork. She makes printed paper, cast pieces and other elements responding to the requirements of the location.
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Celeste Cooning, 'Shape of Sacred'

Celeste Cooning works primarily with cut paper. In this particular piece she has worked with elements of all three artists, to unify into one artwork.Her iown individual work is full of arabesques
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Julia Freeman, 'Shape of Sacred'

Julia Freeman is fascinated with isolated "islands". She made prints, collages and drawings of her own sculptures. The "island" sculptures on high legs seem to have a very tentative, temporary character, but are surprisingly stable. They are made fast, on the spot, and have their own irrational shadow to accompany them.
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Shape of The Sacred

The Shape of the Sacred highlights and unifies the artists Amy Johnson, Julia Freeman and Celeste Cooning. These artists have all recently graduated from the University of Washington's MFA program and specilized in Creamics, Fiber and Painting.

While at the University of Washington, these artists had notocable connections in their art that surpasses materiality. All three artists come from different visual backgrounds.
Amy Johnson's previous work in Ceramics has led her to a more in depth practice of mold making and casting obsessivly creating individual objects to create an image.
Julia Freeman's interest in Fibers inspired her to take a more conceptual and critical approach to pattern using layered processes in combination with silkscreening.
Extending her materials from painting into the realm of cut paper, Celeste cooning continues to explore the beauiful by not only increasing the scale, but also inculding dimension and form.
Each artists works from the idea of creating something beautiful out of something painful or difficult. As individualsthey work through, on top of, or into materials creating a language that both reveals and hides the orignal subject.
The Shape of Sacred highlights the first group showing and collective endeavor between these artists. They developed a practice of working both seperatly and together to form conceptual and visual ideas in response to the question of hwt is sacred. Although the response to this question remains individual, the exhibition represents a culmination of material and form that creates a visual language reflecting the intangeible sensation of scared that we all share. The exhibit showcases collage and drawings, as well as mixed media installation work.

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