RANCHO BUENA VISTA ADOBE GALLERY
Vista, CA
Jul 17, 2004
"Up the Garden Path" opened on June 30, 2004 at
the Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery and runs
through August 30.
The Artists' Reception is scheduled for August 1, 1 -
3 pm at the Gallery.
Charlotte Bird, Christie Dunning and Jan Schwarz
present a multi-media exhibition called "Up the
Garden Path." Each artist reflects on her
interpretation of the colloquialism in her own style.
Some uses of the phrase "up the garden path"
include "to bamboozle, to hoax, to blarney, to pull
one's leg, to deceive." This exhibition includes
individual and collaborative works, including site-
specific installations. All three artists use the
seduction of beauty as their starting point. The
viewer is invited to examine the works in order to
understand the underlying grim meanings.
Bird, Dunning and Schwarz are accomplished
artists
working in various media including weaving, surface
design, sewing, metal fabrication in textile forms and
beading.
Charlotte Bird interpreted "up the garden
path" to
mean to seduce. In Green Man Transformation the
viewer is seduced by the ancient archetype signifying
irrepressible renewing life. The piece begins with the
original model and asks when seduction becomes a
defilement that precludes renewal.
In You Reap What You Sow Christie Dunning
produced a beautiful silk organza art piece which fills
one wall. From a distance watercolor-like flowers
float on the diaphanous fabric. On closer examination
the petals of the flowers are "patterned" with
headlines from the newspaper collected over six
months.
Jan Schwarz used yarn daisies and strings of
lovely
hand dyed and clipped silk as her seductive image:
the sheer volume of flowers gives form to the military
and collateral deaths of the Iraq war.
The Rancho Buena Vista Adobe Gallery is the
municipal gallery for the City of Vista, California. It is
located at 651 East Vista Way, Vista, CA 92084. For
directions or further information on the gallery, call
(760) 639-6139. For more information on "Up the
Garden Path" call Charlotte Bird at (619) 294-7236 or
Christie Dunning at (858)459-3545.
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