9/22/2023 0 Comments Natural life tapestriesIn keeping with the nature theme are a witty series of photos by Brigitte Cornand called “Fungos Tabulatorum Amoris/My Beloved Mushrooms.” (The photos were part of the previous photography exhibit, but are still hanging.) The photographer/filmmaker was inspired during her mushroom-hunting explorations to use fungi as metaphor, as she explains in her artist’s statement: “Gradually, photographing them made me think of my boyfriends. The last surviving protégée of famed photographer Ansel Adams, Cook clearly has a reverence for the natural world and an ability to impart a sense of majesty to her subjects, such as a Chilmark boulder, which she has captured with a tree shadow creating an interesting vein pattern on the rock.Ĭook’s work can be found in museum collections all over the world, including at such storied institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris. This time around, her landscape work will be on display. Previously A Gallery showed a number of Cook’s portraits. Photographer Mariana Cook focuses on both people and nature in her work. I try to show the beauty that surrounds us every day.” In her artist’s statement Mitchell writes, “ My subjects are from the natural world, and concern the effects of wind, water, light, and shadow over time. Her images often feature trees, plants, marshes and ponds, and, of course, seaweed. Julia Mitchell, like her sister, has always been inspired by the natural world. A series of smaller tapestries depict some of the plant life in the vicinity of the boulder. The large-scale tapestry is a wonderful study in greens and earth tones, and the fiber media allow for lots of texture, imitating the craggy, rough nature of the stone surface. The iconic boulder played a role in Mitchell’s childhood - she and her sister would often climb atop it as children. Her latest piece depicts a moss- and lichen-covered erratic granite boulder called Signal Rock. Her stunning tapestries involve hours and hours of meticulous work - building up blended colors and texture by mixing up a wide variety of threads in various shades and types. Julia Mitchell creates beautiful works of art using a loom and thread the way a painter would use canvas and paint. Lucy Mitchell’s sister, Julia Mitchell, works in a very different medium, although her inspiration mirrors her sister’s. “If I were a poet, I would like this to be the kind of poetry that I would write - these sort of found words.” I’ve cannibalized it for various projects.” Each of the four-page little books represents one letter of the alphabet. “It has these really nice illustrations and printing. She learned how to preserve seaweed from her mother, who taught her the multistage process involving floating the delicately tendrilled plants in water, capturing them on submerged paper, and then pressing them over time.Īlso included in the exhibit at A Gallery are examples from another folded book series called “Dictionary Pages.” “I have this old dictionary that was falling apart,” says Mitchell, explaining her inspiration. Having been born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard, it’s no surprise that the gifts of the ocean have also inspired the artist. Mitchell has for years collected things during her nature walks and travels - everything from bones and eggshells to rocks to sticks and other plant materials.
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