Jillian Moore’s Figurative features sculpture, photography and mixed media work. The artist’s show dates run through March 20 in the Student Business Services lobby.
The artist writes, “I seek to create works that give the viewer a unique sense of intimacy with the human subject, using the exterior body as a vessel for illuminating an intangible internal essence. Through my sculpture and photographs I emphasize the unique formal elements involved in working with the figure … and explore the interplay between rigid industrial materials and soft feminine materials. In doing so, I am able to simultaneously investigate universal ideas of beauty, femininity, body image, and identity, but also to examine my own relationship with these issues.”
In the University Center’s Karshner Lounge, artist Donna Nelson-Lutje presents painting and mixed media in The Consistency of Impermanence.
“I seek to explore the elements of the physical and natural world around me,” Nelson-Lutje writes. “Using abstracted form, collage and figurative elements, I seek to reveal a personal glimpse of that world. I feel that physics and art share many commonalities. Each has a unique language structure. Binding the physical world with the poetic expression of my art.”
Finally, the Foyer Gallery, located on the second floor of the Art building, hosts How to Re-Enchant the World, print and mixed-media by artist Elizabeth Poock.
“How do you re-enchant the world?” This is a question printmaker Elizabeth Poock deals with in the majority of her work. “There is so much magic in the world that gets overlooked and forgotten; the songs and stories that make up our heritage, the nature all around us fighting back against the pavement, and of course the boundless sea of the imagination.”
In her art, Poock works both with the way she sees the world and with all the ways she re-imagines it. She evokes myths and stories such as Grimm’s Fairytales and Greek mythologies, the transformative power of nature, as well as the everyday magic of buttons and eggplants or simply putting on a mask.
Poock works with many printmaking processes including woodcuts, etchings, collagraphs, silk screens, and lithography. Also represented is a selection of watercolor and mixed media pieces, as well as a few masks.
Student Access Gallery’s spring show runs through March 20, with receptions held during Arts! Arcata on March 13 from 6 to 9 p.m.