An Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Photography, and Installations Inspired by Rivers
January 9 – March 25, 2008
Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle
The idea for this exhibit began with a small personal experience — a desire by artist Jacqueline Barnett to capture her impressions and feelings of the Henry’s Fork River in Idaho.
It grew into a collaborative exhibit of ten Northwest artists who explore the physical and psychological power of River:
As a swimmer, as an observer, an artist, I am in these works. The gestures of flow, movement, entanglement, intimacy are all part of river. Jacqueline Barnett
We are wild as rivers: we take, transform and dissolve ideas into artworks that live for a moment in our studio. Linda Beaumont
The convoluted process of how I got my idea is as meandering as the flow of a river... Margi Beyers
The waterfalls feeding the sound seemed to come from the purest sources on earth... Jill Bullitt
These places are familiar, yet other, with their own rules and logic. Sue Cook
I thought to use scale and unexpected materials to capture the attention of this particular audience. Tina Hoggatt
Decidedly enigmatic, a sign for nothing really, this piece reverberates with word and image associations. Jeffry Mitchell
I love the Columbia, the Mississippi, the Tagus, and the dredged and battered Duwamish! I long to see the Yangtze! Gene Gentry McMahon
The River is force, weight, torrent, flood, shape, pool, immersion, path, movement, transport, eddy, vortex, green, brown, black, cold, wet, transparent, murky, light, dark, mystery, answer, god, life, death. Virginia Paquette
... the river is not only a source of inspiration or a metaphor, but quite literally a place where I immerse myself or at least my camera. Eva Sköld Westerlind
With support from 4Culture and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle
