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The current exhibition at Hammerfriar Gallery is titled The Edge Knows. The Rock is. This two-person exhibition features the work of Brooke Holve and Catherine Richardson, with a selection of mixed-media work that focuses on the process of creation and making. While their styles, materials and approaches are distinctive, their shared experience as artists in residence in Iceland brought them together to form a collaborative partnership.
Taking inspiration from Iceland’s on-going formation through primal forces and geological time, the focus of their work is on the process of making through texture, composition, and materials. The works are arranged as if in conversation, responding to each other and to the profound experiences of that place.
The Edge Knows. The Rock Is. continues through April 30 at Hammerfriar Gallery, on Mill Street in Healdsburg.
About Brooke Holve:
Brooke lives and works in Sebastopol, CA. A visual artist for three decades, her art practice has taken her through explorations of calligraphy, bookbinding, printmaking, digital technology and poetry. Interested in combining mediums, she draws from each discipline to make mixed media works, installations, constructions, and artist books. She often looks for materials and objects that hold a history. The interplay of materials and methods inform her process; and overtime expose possibilities for shaping form. She often attempts to put together disparate ‘things’ that have come apart, but were once traditional structures used to preserve, protect and hold.
About Catherine Richardson:
Catherine grew up near the Moors and Dales of northern England and attended Art College near London for her BFA. Moving between California, Somerset, London and Austin Texas challenges her sense of belonging yet serves as a portal into the wider human experience of displacement and immigration. Referencing history, particulars of place, time, and the relative stability of geology are her poetic layering of imagery. Her paintings juxtapose influences gleaned from being in the untamed landscapes of California, Peru, England, Ireland, France, and Iceland.
