Material Meanings: Stripped, Splintered, Stacked, First Friday

June 2 – July 22

First Friday Opening Reception June 2, 6-8pm

Works in wood and print by Kathy Puzey & Sara Tabbert

These artists use wood for carving sculptural objects and as a matrix block to print from onto paper.   Their work in art-making is, in essence, to deconstruct this “once living” material, and then reconstruct the life force of the universal tree via their images and embedded meanings.   Carved panels, prints, and installation lead us through their creative actions onto raw material – actions that can be seen as violent, necessary, ritualized, and even reverent.