Art Exhibit at Shoreline City Hall opens July 29

The Art Gallery at Shoreline City Hall

PRESENTS

“Lost Documents”

A Group Exhibition Featuring:

Yadesa Bojia, painting

Nicole Brauch, mixed media

Cathy Fields, painting

Terra Holcomb, photography

Karen Mahardy, glass

July 29 - October 23, 2015

Reception / Open House with Artists in Attendance

During Arts al Fresco Celebration

Grand Opening of Piano Time, Artscape, and the City Hall Gallery:

Thursday, August 6, 6 – 8pm

1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd floors, Shoreline City Hall. 17500 Midvale Ave. N     

Regular Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 9 - 5

The world can be a fleeting place. We hear the latest news and even last week’s events fade away like a lost document. These artists unearth some of the lost documents before they completely disappear, from Holcomb’s ephemeral outfits in the outdoors, to Mahardy’s abstracted forms distilled out of the feeling of vast landscapes, to Fields’ places that tell us more than maps or photographs, to Brauch’s personal memories, to Bojia’s invitation to see what is easily ignored.

Yadesa Bojia, untitled acrylic

Yadesa Bojia

Yadesa uses art to document, cherish and celebrate life, and to address the pressing issues like moral values, economical challenges, class, health and racial inequalities.

Born in Ethiopia, Yadesa remembers murals often found in Ethiopian Orthodox churches. These murals used line drawings filled with bold, vibrant colors. In Seattle, he’s come to study and also appreciate the diverse art of the Northwest as well as Western art in general. In 2010, Yadesa’s design was chosen for the African Union Flag. (Shoreline artist designs bright symbol for African Union flag).

Nicole Brauch, Cities and the Dead (Argia)
acrylic, paper, encaustic, glass, cork, verathane, paprika

Nicole Brauch

Nicole’s work is derived from personal history - either told or uncovered. She documents the memories of people, things and moments, and merges the personal with the historical. Her work evokes the mystical, absence and melancholy and the passage of time. Eggs become symbols of life, renewal and waiting. Faceless or obscured figures hint at the universality of human nature.

Nicole earned her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, and has exhibited internationally.

Cathy Fields - Treehouse 2 - Acrylics

Cathy Fields

Cathy’s art reflects her appreciation for, and musings about, the world around her. This particular body of work was inspired by influences that shape our communities: the power of a place, climate, resource supply, and the strength of the residents’ combined cultural past. To stretch her awareness about our times and culture, Cathy continually tests out theories, researches new information, or expands on previous ideas. Cathy’s works blends the real world with imagined worlds. 

In addition to art exhibiting her art, Cathy has received public commissions for portable works and murals, created illustrations and had her work included on movie sets.

Terra Holcomb - She Speaks for the Trees - photograph

Terra Holcomb

Terra is a Pacific Northwest environmental artist who uses photography to capture her ephemeral creations made from natural materials. Her works are meditations on life cycles, transformations and our changing climate. She has refashioned mussel shells into an elaborate gown, flower petals and garden insects into mandalas. 

She has given talks about her artistic process at Town Hall in Seattle, received awards for her wearable art and was highlighted in a 2015 Trend Guide in Germany. She can be found in the Olympic rainforest, the Yakima canyons or the Methow Valley forests. Fittingly, she was named Terra for being born on the first Earth Day.

Karen Mahardy - Phantom - glass

Karen Mahardy 

Karen is a Seattle based Glass artist who uses folded glass to express relationships between places, events and people. In her work she explores capturing the essence and energy of a specific place, experience, or relationship. She does this by focusing on the point where the work is in a state of becoming and contains action, as if movement were frozen in time. She captures, in the simplest manner, the energy of a long rolling wave crashing on the beach, the feeling of land jutting out into the sea, or the expanse of the open ocean as it breaks land.

Karen received the 2012 Bullseye Glass EMERGE Best Newcomer and Academic awards. She completed her MFA in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology and exhibited with Bullseye Gallery at SOFA Chicago. 

The opening reception is part of “Arts al Fresco” which also celebrates the opening of "Piano Time" (artist enhanced pianos) and Artscape Sculpture Installations on city hall grounds and park.

Shoreline City Hall is located at 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133. For more information contact David Francis, Public Art Coordinator, 206-801-2661; and the Arts Council at 206-417- 4645. Artist statements and biographies available online.

Photo credits by individual artists.