AMY KLIGMAN, ELIZABETH MORISETTE, ERIC NICHOLS
DECEMBER 9 2011 - JANUARY 20, 2012
AMY KLIGMAN The new works in Here We Are are “thinking places” or spaces where “things play out”. Kligman’s works are often studies of situations were emotions are heightened. This in turn creates dramatic and complicated imagery that is deceptively pretty and sweet. When the viewer looks beyond the bright colors, one senses a subtle world of anxiety, shame and shyness. In her current works Kligman is taking us to a place where one can consider people, decisions, what happened before and what happens next.
ELIZABETH MORISETTE The everyday object is the focus of Morisette’s work, and this theme is very much present in her new works in Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Morisette utilizes the art of “upcycling” or literally turning everyday items and trash into creative artworks. Her work often takes mundane and ordinary objects, and by incorporating them via traditional techniques, creates works that show off the base material and form in a new light. Utilizing items gathered throughout lifetimes, Morisette invites the viewer to remember a time, place or person that they once knew.
ERIC NICHOLS A Kansas City Art Institute graduate, Nichols’ body of work is rooted in process and experimentation. His fascination with the manipulation of material and found forms has led to his current body of work. Eric was awarded a grant in 2005 from the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program to study at the ceramics studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. During his travels, a cultivation of new ideas and worldly views began to influence his works. In his current body of work, imagery is unplanned and discovered through the layering process of shape, line, form and color. Nichols work is ultimately striving for the continuity of spontaneity, control and chance.
