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A provocative show depicting 30 artists’ views of death and bereavement conceived and created by artist-Liz Bishop.
Liz, a member of the Patriot Guard Riders, invited the artists in the show to create pieces that represent the subject of “death” in a variety of mediums.
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Rhea Giffin-"Aquarius Rising Up From the Piscean Sea"
Rhea Giffin-"Pockets of Autism"
Rhea Giffin-"Sacrificial Limb"
Rhea Giffin-"Bobbing For Answers"
Rhea Giffin-"Compartmentalized"
Rhea Giffin-"A Nemesis Barely Worth Mention"
Rhea Giffin-"And the Roots of Rhythm Remain"
Rhea Giffin-"Angel Killers"
Rhea Giffin-"Another One Unsubstantiated"
Rhea Giffin-"Between the Cracks"
Rhea Giffin-"Beyond Me"
Rhea Giffin-"Blanket of Sky"
Rhea Giffin-"Cakes, Quakes and Unclaimed Mistakes"
Rhea Giffin-"Chambre de noir"
Rhea Giffin-"Change in Temperature"
Rhea Gififn-"Collision of the Cores"
Rhea Giffin-"Common and Otherwise"
Rhea Giffin-"Constricted Move"
Rhea Giffin-"Contending with Oneness"
Rhea Giffin-"Cracking The Code"
Rhea Giffin-"Cutting Losses"
Rhea Giffin-"Dangle of Hope"
Rhea Giffin-"Diamonds on their Souls"
Rhea Giffin-"Discombobulated"
Rhea Giffin-"Do Apples Fear Strawberries"
Do apples fear strawberries? Or butterflies? Or leaves? Can a sneeze start a war? Can an orange survive a freeze? Can sense be made? Can love prevail? Can cognizance ever, ever reach beyond the veil?
Rhea Giffin-"Falling Sky Song"
Rhea Giffin-"Fearpumery"
Rhea Giffin-"Fly Butter"
Rhea Giffin-"Gray Gall"
Rhea Giffin-"Homesick"
Rhea Giffin-"Indigesting Family Ties"
Rhea Giffin-"Inner Tide Pool Security Lock"
Rhea Giffin-"It Comes in Waves"
Rhea Giffin-"It Comes in Waves"
Rhea Giffin-"Jury of Whose Peers"
Rhea Giffin-"Kiss,Kiss Mon Nemesis"
Rhea Giffin-"Lark of Meadows and Moons"
Rhea Giffin-"Letters Unwritten But Silently Sent"
Rhea Giffin-"Lost Connections"
Rhea Giffin-"Merry Christmas!"
Rhea Giffin-"Moo Ving Obstacles"
Rhea Giffin-"Multiple View Points"
Rhea Giffin-"Nemesis and the Blue Rabbit Fence"
Rhea Giffin-"New Speak"
Rhea Giffin-"No Place Like Home"
Rhea Giffin-"Nothing Else to Say"
Rhea Giffin-"Off Target"
Rhea Giffin-"One More"
Rhea Giffin-"Opposition"
Rhea Giffin-"Out of C onto Roll"
Rhea Giffin-"Overlapping"
Rhea Giffin-"Pair Rings"
Rhea Giffin-"Pear Ticular Wishes"
Rhea Giffin-"Petit Pois"
Rhea Giffin-"Pie-in-the-Sky"
Rhea Giffin-"Pieces of Possibles"
Rhea Giffin-"Pocket of Desire"
"Rhea Giffin-Pocket of Gratitude"
Rhea Giffin-"Pop Tart"
Rhea Giffin-"Relative Sea"
Rhea Giffin-"Rewind"
Rhea Giffin-"Sacrificial Waste"
Rhea Giffin-"Sanctuary"
Rhea Giffin-"Sensitivity Overload"
77 Artworks based on the word play poem POA
Rhea Giffin "BeCause"
Here is the ICARE-Faces of Hope mask/artwork I created for the 2010 benefit at the Art Spirit Gallery.
Artist’s note: I was facilitating an art project for juvenile detention students many years ago and was touched by a young boy serving time who shared a story that gave him hope. “The Impossible Flyer.” It was based on the idea that aerodynamically, a bumble bee should not be able to defy gravity and fly, but amazingly, it does. This recollection became the base for my inspiration. Playing with the words Bee; Be; Be Cause. Because this is a great Cause to Be For, I crafted a simple poem of reason and Be-ingness to affirm what I imagine is at the heart of FACES of HOPE and what families gain from the ICARE programs. The hand is formed in the American Sign Language symbol for “I Love You.”
Because
You are you
Because
I am me
Because
There exists
Harmony.
–Rhea Giffin 2010
Rhea Giffin-Sacrificial Limb & The Fear Caller's Redemption
Rhea Giffin’s mixed-media artwork featured at the Cheryl Burchell Gallery, 413 1/2 Sherman Avenue, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, October 1- November 7, 2009. Artist reception FRIDAY, October 9th, 5-8 p.m. in conjunction with the downtown Coeurd’Alene Artwalk. (208) 765-2739
Many regional artists have been invited to create work to mark the 70th anniversary of the premier of the move “The Wizard of Oz.” ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, August 7th, 5-9 p.m. TINMAN GALLERY, 811 W. Garland Avenue, Spokane, Washington, (509) 325-1500, http://www.tinmanartworks.com
Here’s a teaser of my piece featuring Dorothy 70 years later. It’s called “Lollipop Guilded Memories.”
Rhea Giffin-Lollipop Guilded Memories (detail)
"Mindful Navigation" - E=mc2 missing!
"Mindful Navigation" from The POA Series by Rhea Giffin
What is it? It’s a haphazard venture into my own personal “pockets of autism” through dimensional “paintings of apples” and other playful papier mache and mixed media sculpture that loosely illustrates my poem or the other way around. As an artist, embracing, questioning, sorting out my sensitiivities, thoughts and observations is what drives me. For this series, Apples serve as a universally symbolic, light-hearted disguised guide for this expedition’s contemplation of complexities of thought, ironies and emotion accompanied by an occasional orange or pear. This exhibition is in collaboration with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s Art @ Work program. Runs January 6 – March 29, 2009, 5-8 pm., Kress Gallery in River Park Square, 808 W. Main Ave., third level, Spokane, Washington, USA. For art rental or purchase information, contact Ryanh@northwestmuseum.org A reception will be held on Friday, February 6th in conjunction with Spokane’s bi-annual Visual Arts Tour. Hope you can attend.
The Poem:
POA (from Mindful Navigation: The POA Series)
Paintings Of Apples
Pockets Of Autism, Alphabets and Apples
Stopping, Chewing, Spitting Out or Swallowing.
Swallowing Pieces, Swallowing Whole.
Pieces Of Allegory, Audacity and Anger
Portals Of Adaptation
Practicalities Of Anxiety, Anonymity and Abnormality.
Why be normal?
Parties Of Aardvarks
Promenade Onto Ark
Feast on Provisions Of Ants
Aunts and Uncles
Provide Pieces Of Apples
Pieces Of Apples and Pretext Of Answers
Pretext Of Answers and Presumption Of Altars
Prayers Of At-one-ness
Pourings Over Ambulances
Postdiluvian Attitudes
Pessimism Of Anarchists
Pornography Of Anatomy
Promises Of Ancients
Priests Obscuring Audacity
Portentousness Of Animism
Apples and Amis. Apples and Enemies.
Poisonous and Sweet. Toxic and Sweet.
Pestilence Of America. Apple Pie and What-not.
Perils Of Angst. Poisons on Articulation. Positions Of Altitude. Perils Of Annihilation, Ambivalence.
Poverty Of Application. Prayers Of Amusements. Poverty Of Artists.
Presence Of Anger. Pockets Of Attitude, Audacity, Abandonment. Pain Of All.
Pachyderms Of Africa and Asia.
Perilous Pretorian Pathways Obstruct. Offering Only Annihilation.
Planetary Pain. Outrageous. Overwhelming. Astounding Apathy.
Predictions Of Avalanches. Pockets Of Pain. Indigestion.
Perplexed, Puzzling, Pondering, Projecting.
Prisoners Of Addiction, Avoidance, Atrocity, Atrophy.
Purging Over-Accumulations, Oppressive Attitudes, Overwhelm, Off-putting Apathy
Possessions Obscuring Action
Pockets Of Articulation, Answers, and Altars.
Pockets Of Autism, Alphabets, and Apples.
Parcels Of Arithmetic. Patterns Of Ambivalence. Peels Of Apples.
Pleas to Openings of Awareness.
Pitiful Offers of Absolution. Pretend Ownership of Autonomy.
Pomegranates Of Awe, Abundance, Amazements.
Pleas to Ponder Poetry Of Apples and Pockets.
Paintings Of Apples and Acronyms.
Paintings Of Apples and Ponderings.
Parings. Pairings. Pear Rings Of Apples.
©2008Rhea Giffin
September 16, 2008 – January 15, 2009, Northern Lights, Inc., Sagle, Idaho, a satellite gallery for Pend Oreille Arts Council (POAC) http://www.artinsandpoint.org Exhibit features the works of Northwest Papier Mache Artists’ Guild members: Sherri Ballman, Lisa Conger, Rhea Giffin, Leata Judd, Judy Minter, Larry Thomas www.rheagiffin.com/nwpmag.htm