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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.
Follow the link to see some more images, comments and information. http://www.jfthammgallery.blogspot.com/
Rhea Giffin-"Almost Got It" cat-6.25x2.75x7in.
Rhea Giffin-"Erleichda" cat-6.5x5.75x6.25in.
Rhea Giffin-"Intrigued" cat-7x2x8in.
Rhea Giffin-"Grace Anatomy" cat-7x2.5x7in.
Rhea Giffin-"Wants Up" cat-7x2x8in.
Little cat Series
See and purchase the works of professional artists while visiting five artists’ studios located within easy distance of one another in the beautiful Little Spokane River valley, Spokane, WA. Rhea Giffin to join Kris Howell and Gordon Wilson at the studio/home of Victoria Brace. Other artists include: Hulda & Ken Bridgeman, Harold Balazs, Timothy C. Ely, Sheila Evans, Gina Fruen, Cheryl DeGroot, Doug Edmonson, Constance Lee, Katie Patten & Leonard Tinnell, Jill Smith, Collista Bejjani, Maggi Fuhriman, Kaaren Stoner, Patti Osebold, John Blessent, Ira Gardner, Pauline Haas. For complete information & downloadable maps: http://www.littlespokanestudios.com
Featuring the distinct works of Virginia Carter and Rhea Giffin at The Tinman Gallery, 811 W. Garland Avenue, Spokane, Washington, October 30 – November 28, 2009 www.tinmanartworks.com
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)
Students from Central Valley’s Barker High School http://www.cvsd.org/barker went on a field trip to see “A House Divided: The Legacy of Lincoln” and “Mindful Navigation: The POA Series” art exhibits at the Chase and Kress Galleries. I was invited to their classroom the following week to see the papier mache projects they are working on. What a treat! I very much enjoyed meeting these people and talking with them as they worked on their art. I appreciate all the stories, comments and great questions they had for me.
"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
