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NWCS Members Spring 2024 Exhibit

"Objects of Desire"

Fogue Studios & Gallery
5519 Airport Way South, Seattle, Washington

Jeannine Romero The Gold Coast Merit Award
Sharon Gottula We Ought to Wonder Where They are
Judy Bjorling Flowers and Sunsets
Ann Naumann Time's Arrow
Marilee Clarke Object(s) of Desire
Gina Hanzsek Time Travel
Gina Hanzsek Beach House
John Arbuckle Can't Hide From Us
John Arbuckle Out for the Day
Marcia Meckelson Miller Orange You Glad
Marcia Meckelson Miller Lemons, Limes and Oranges
Christie Coxley Signs of Life: Spring Sakura
Tonna Bailey Desire Peace
Susan Cook Dance Party
Louise Pietrafesa Water for All
Louise Pietrafesa Peace
Colleen Foye Bollen Time and Money
Judith Heim In the Basement of the Louvre: Grail Search III
Nancy Meldahl Go Higher
Andrea Lewicki My Heart Erupted in Thunderous Applause Merit Award
Andrea Lewicki Every Jolt Was a Hit of Joyous Candy for an Absent Tongue
Lisa Alden We Own the Night
Michele Unger Yearning for Spring
Sharon Greenberg World on Fire
Sharon Greenberg My Beating Heart
Sharon Greenberg Hidden Feelings Peggy Tuttle Award
Colleen Monette One Night Only
Lynne Conrad Marvet Russian Jewel Box
Lynne Conrad Marvet The Allure of Dreams
Lynn Skordal Ivory with Cracks NW Collage Society Spring Award 2024
Lynn Skordal This is the Story
Diane Howard Picture Perfect Bouquet
Diane Howard Distination Canada
Cheryl Chudyk Savoy NW Collage Society Award
Cheryl Chudyk At the Corner of South Lucille and Airport Way
Cheryl Chudyk Across the Street from Staple and Fancy
Cathy Tanasse Ferns
Peggy Ostrander How Much Privacy?
Nicole Mertes Path to Desired Objects
Tricia Schug Life is But a Dream
Elsa Bouman The Blue Dress
Elsa Bouman Cadillac. 1977-El Dorado
Elsa Bouman Sanctuary
Charmi Shah Joy Burst
Suzanne Bailie Desert Night Sky
Stella Gausman Abstract Garden
Susan Sanders Things to Look For
Susan Sanders Things We Don't Know We Want
Connie Glinsmann Behind Closed Doors
Susan Weihrich Pearls are a Girl's Best Friend
Cornelia Huellstrunk What Are You Saying?
Andy Pletz The Beauty Below Us
Andy Pletz Tolstoy's Legacy
Yael Zahavy-Mittelman Looking Through the Open Gate
Yael Zahavy-Mittelman Praying to the Moon
Sarah Banks Alhambra Dreams Merit Award
Gail Fligstein Spring Fever in February
Debbie Smith Birds and Butterflies
Karin Mueller Emerging from Winter
Judith Sander The Pretender
Judith Sander The Silent Exchange Merit Award
Kathy Parker Self-Weeding Garden
Lynette Hensley The Trouble with Houseboats
Lynette Hensley Bird House
Susan Wilson Jewels
Kathryn Kim Key to Success
Kathryn Kim Key to Freedom
Susan Akers-Smith Garden Song
Torea Frey Running From, Running Toward
Torea Frey Nature Calls
Crystal Davis Tracks
Crystal Davis Crabby
Crystal Davis Buzz
Dawn Emerick Home Eleanor Wolters Smith Award
Robert Stockton Chance Encounter
Susie Arnold Hera and her Children
Susie Arnold Seasons at the Lake
Nan Harty Organically Yours
Nan Harty History is for All of Us
Carol Nielsen Consider the Options
Carol Nielsen Silver Lining
Meryl Alcabes Handbag
MJ Davison Mme.Plantes
MJ Davison Mme.Meubles
MJ Davison Mme.Bijoux
Janet Atlas Suds and Origami

Evan Horback

Juror

Evan Horback

Evan Horback grew up in New Jersey and entered college pursuing a fine arts degree with an emphasis on photography and film. After two years, he opted to leave school to pursue a monastic life. He lived, studied and served for five years in several ashrams in NYC and India and later returned to art studies, graduating from State University of New York with degrees in visual arts and education.

After receiving a Masters in education, Evan taught for 10 years in NYC, Philadelphia & New Hampshire. He worked with college-aged students all the way down to pre-school. In the fall of 2013, he moved with his family to Olympia, Washington. He has focused much of his artistic energy on developing a body of work investigating cultural identification and marginality.

About this NWCS show Evan wrote "As paper-based artists, we often find joy and surprise in the materials we use. The visual mutability we experience in the collage process is a feature that is perhaps unique to our art discipline. We pair print material, photographic images, and found objects with letters, textures, and all sorts of detritus along the path of creation. We add layers (using select adhesives) and then we remove some things and then add more things until we feel like we hit it just right! Or perhaps, just "right enough"... Anyway, in so doing, we engage wholeheartedly in the complexity of overlapping modes of visual expression and I appreciate the sophistication in this group's submissions. Our collage language is as endless as our desires and I hope that this show celebrates that vastness. Three cheers to the NW College Society! May we celebrate our shared successes and continue to invite others to discover the power of old-school, cut-and-paste collage. "


Juror
Artist Statement

I rarely begin a piece with a decisive theme in mind. Gleaning through imagery is a way to center myself & get into a creative, reflective space. There is comfort & nostalgia in browsing through old images & searching for some archetypal image or a guttural response to a found texture or striking color. That response seems more real than the image & thus becomes a catalyst for review.

The process of cutting, tearing, adding or subtracting to these discoveries complicates them and changes their history, making it meaningful & genuine to me. David Foster Wallace stated, “What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of any given instant.” My work has been a constructive effort to give some visual form to one tiny little part of the socio-cultural complexity of my marginal viewpoint.


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