September 08 Clothesline Show

Our Clothesline Art Show will host their next art exhibit on September 12, 13 and 14. The show will be at a new location, the home of Michael and Maria Cardillo located at 4401 St Elmo Ave.

This will be the fourth show for the group of women who are photographers, painters, printmakers, and collage artists. The fourteen women exhibiting in September include several new artists. Welcomed into this exhibit are Ellen Franklin, Valerie Gibson, Elizabeth Gray-Earl, Carrie Pendergrass, and Heidi Vasterling. These women will be showing paintings, photographs, and collage pieces contributing to the already wonderful quality of fine art that will be on display. Returning to exhibit her distinctively composed local industrial landscapes is photographer Maria Cardillo. Collage and painting artists Amber Cooley and Kristine Simpson each will display works created with collected papers and designed with distinction. Cat Collier continues to develop her jewel-like modern tree images that elegantly combine painting, collage and drawing. Katie Ward Knutson is focusing upon her Jefferson Heights neighborhood in watercolors paintings of local buildings as forms impacted by lighting conditions. Lauren Leutwiler’s current series of relief prints are each produced upon old book pages, meshing contemporary and historical printmaking. Sarah Nichols’ art involves her expert use of silkscreen technique in compositions based upon family, several in combination with tiny scale installations. Sarah’s perfectly crafted pieces engage in humor and exquisite use of color. Linda Thomas is emphasizing local wild birds in a series of drawings with watercolor, as always beautifully drawn with a sensitive eye and hand.

The Opening Reception is Friday September 12 from 6-9pm. Saturday September 13 hours are 11am-5pm. Sunday September 14 hours are 1-5pm. The artists will be available most of the weekend. Plenty of parking is available on side streets near the St Elmo and West 44th Street location.

Clothesline Art Show Opens Tonight!

We open tonight! Come on by for the Opening Reception tonight from 6pm-9pm! Look for our posters around St. Elmo pointing to the Sessions House at 113 Ochs Hwy. Feel free to email us at ourclothesline@gmail.com for questions, directions, etc.

Remember to stop by Saturday 11am-7pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm if you can't make it tonight!

Bring your Mom!

Prayer for Our Own

Kristine Zacharias (soon to be Simpson) is one of our newer members. She took on the brave task of joining us a week or so before her wedding to Mr. John Simpson. So in the midst of planning a wedding she is getting some collages ready for the Clothesline Art Show. She contacted me yesterday to say that among other business, she contracted a mean stomach bug that put her in the hospital! Let's go to God in prayer that Kristine will be 100% really soon and be able to return to John and the Clothesline group. We are excited to see her work join ours, whether she was able to produce everything she wanted to or not. Our Ladies of the Clothesline are above all else encouraging and supportive of our fellow artists in their joys and in their trials. We have celebrated new babies, new homes, new jobs, and future plans. We have been with each other as we said goodbye to loved ones, sending them home to Jesus. Can't wait to see what the future holds. Congrats Kristine on your upcoming marriage and we will pray with and for you that all ends will be tied up and that the Lord would heal you completely.

Poster

Artist Statements: Part 4

Linda Thomas
There is an elegant beauty in trivial objects and bits of nature and this is reflected in my work. I love the unpredictability of intaglio printmaking and I use different techniques to achieve textures and values. My subjects are often selected because they seem forgotten or simply evoke memories. I am intrigued by the Dutch still life paintings and I've begun to paint with oil on paper to visually explore tactile and light qualities without striving for photo-realism.

Kate Treick
Painting has been a wonderful creative outlet for me since my grandmother gave me my first set of oil paints when I was eleven. My work includes detailed mixed-media pieces that explore the play of light and shadow on flower petals and abstract acrylic paintings that explore color and texture. In both types of work I am inspired by light and color and in my flower paintings I celebrate the beauty of God's creation.

Kristine Zacharias
I am constantly absorbed in the act of looking, whether at something exquisite or mundane. Art is for me a way of combining these two while connecting with the people around me. Using found images and my own photographs, my collages and paintings illustrate a reality like that of memories-a combination of recollection, stories, memorabilia and photo albums-exploring the tension between history and myth, representation and abstraction, public and personal images and their collective meanings.

Artist Statements: Part Three

Lauren Leutwiler

I have painted two icons in the traditional manner in the past two years. I am amazed by the process and meaning of painting icons. Currently my artworks blend my desire to better understand icons with my desire to make prints. The richness of the mark-making and the strong graphic imagery of a carved and printed plate are wonderful. I love that the process of making a series of final artworks from one plate allows for many people to be able to afford an original piece of art.

Suzanne Moore

Color photography has embedded itself into my daily life, as I now see the world as I do through my viewfinder. Capturing a moment on paper is one thing, being in control of color using light in the darkroom is humbly exhilerating. I intentionally get lost driving in search to bring back my bizarre findings. I look to create a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. Being a painter initially, I use light on paper like paint on canvas, manipulating it until satisfied with the composition.

Diane Reed

My work is a response to the sights and circumstances I find in my life or as I travel halfway fascinating frameworks halfway around the world. Recently as I have been developing sketches from the "Palio" in Sienna, Italy and those from the Massai in Kenya, I am reminded of the contrasts of how we invest our lives, our precious moments given on the same God given sun.

Artist Statements: Part two

Lauren Cox
Through my work I wish to show the beauty of the body using traditional mediums. I love how intricately we have been made and I hate how the media touches women up, putting unrealistic standards on girls today. I don't want to make a forceful statement, but I do hope that my studies of the human body shown in its natural state has some effect.

Jennifer Kring
I strive to create compositions that provide a window into a story...a story of a life lived or a dream imagined. These works beckon the viewer to envision the possibilities of our own everyday as well as fantastic worlds we lived in as children. The process of creating this kind of enviroment requires the use of a variety of mediums, so I use what best suites the subject, which are then applied to canvas with beeswax.

Katie Ward Knutson
Light is one of the fundamental elements that make images attractive in art. I have loved experimenting with portraying light and how it interacts with our memory and senses. I love seeing how the camera captures light. In my Metro series, I have found photographs that capture the light as it dominates a dark, urban space and I replicate them with paint on canvas.

I have been really enjoying celebrating the little things in creation. Birds and rabbits are easily overlooked, or never seen. Through the eyes of my little children I have rediscovered these creatures and how lovely and special they are. The shapes of these animals lend themselves to study and experimentation. I have a very special place for sharing art with everyone, and being able to create tasteful and decorative pieces of art. I hope these small pieces can bring smiles to young and old, the new art patron and the seasoned collector