ERIN WIERSMA, IRERI TOPETE & NUNK SAURET, KAREN STEEN

OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 12, 2015

ERIN WIERSMA seeks to discover a confluence of the spiritual and material. Her works are created through a meditative process of tracing, eliminating, finding, and forging drawn lines on the surface of the paper. These accumulated marks become intertwined layers and untraceable histories of past, present and future.

IRERI TOPETE AND NUNIK SAURET, Artists-in-Residence in October, will be creating modular, expandable works, investigating variations of Japanese printmaking techniques and approaching a variety of mediums including the printed image, ceramics, and book-making. Sauret just finished a very busy 2014 with an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Luis Potosi. Topete is the head of La Raya, the Graphic Arts Workshop at the Cultural Center in Puerto Vallarta, and working with artist collective “La Malagua.”

KAREN STEEN‘s work is about organic forms and their relationships. She references the intricate and dynamic nature of life – its small parts, interconnections, diversity, rhythms, cycles, and energy. The notion that civilization is damaging the balance of nature’s elaborate systems fuels her interest in the aesthetic qualities of biology and the small-scale world, where forms are either invisible to the naked eye, or can be seen only through close examination.