A Change in Scene – Shifting Perspectives
The September Show at ACGOW
Open Now through September 28th
Featured Artists: John Fast and Nina Briggs
Meet the artists at the Opening Reception on Friday, September 5th from 5 – 8 PM.
In “A Change of Scene“, work by featured artists John Fast and Nina Briggs, reflects shifting seasons as well as perspectives. Visitors are invited to meet the artists at the show’s Opening Reception on Friday, September 5, from 5 to 8 PM.
Featured artist Nina Briggs creates stoneware and hollow porcelain pendants embellished with lustrous glazes and lyrical images sculpted with precious metal clay. Work on display includes ivory and camelian glazed pendants traced with intricate floral imagery. Daily walks in nature inspire and energize the artist, whose work and artistic process reflects nature’s slowly shifting rhythms, forms, and colors. She savors the seasons’ gradual changes, says Ms. Briggs, “slowly moving from the dark tree trunks of winter to the feathery greens of spring. Then to the large and dark green leaves, a change so slow, it’s barely noticed. Moving into autumn, the leaves become lacy again, but from loss, not growth. And, in a way, that is how I work. Lots of slow, deliberate moves before any change is visible.”
More on Nina Briggs:
Ms. Briggs’ work has been featured in juried shows and galleries all over the Northeast, and her memberships include the Providence Art Club, the Courthouse Center of the Arts, the Precious Metal Clay (PMC) Guild, a national association of artists, teaching and developing the use of precious metal clay, and the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly. Also an expert of the dragonfly, the artist is currently illustrating “The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Rhode Island,” to be published by the RI Department of Environmental Management. Ms. Briggs pioneered using a hydraulic press and developed mold making for production of certain elements in jewelry design. The artist teaches workshops to artists on technical and artistic uses of precious metal clay in various applications. She lives and works in Wakefield, RI.
The Artists Cooperative of Westerly
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