Shannon Weber & Robert Sumner
August 26-September 28
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Shannon Weber works in the field of fiber mix media. She uses both traditional and non-traditional methods of weaving. Her materials are both wild and reclaimed. Webers current works embody the woven form's potential for creating mythologies, holding both space and magic with her hut and boat forms. She creates artifacts from collecting everything around her, often objects found on Oregon Beaches. Her work is intuitive in process. Weber excels in surface layers using limited amount of tools in conjunction with some of the most difficult materials to tame. Cutters, awls, needles, thread, drills and sandpaper add textures to paint, dye, and encaustic medium that smooth surface or aid in clean intricate menagerie of materials. Weber uses both traditional and non-traditional methods of weaving, excelling in random weaving and surface design. Her short list of materials include but is not limited to: wild willow, beaver sticks, bull kelp, grasses, rattan, paint, canvas, wire and wax linen thread. “If it will bend. I will use it.”
Pictured: "Boat" mixed media 
Robert Sumner will be showing his recent abstract Intaglio prints. The imagery in this work builds upon a series of prints called the ‘Dark Garden Series’, which takes Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), the work of the French Symbolist poet Charles Baudelaire, as a jumping off point. The imagery in these prints blurs the boundaries between plant, animal and human, blending both light and dark facets of our experience and relationships. Sumner employs a wide variety of intaglio techniques: the etching, mono-printing, layering and collagraphic processes. To quote Sumner “I was immediately fascinated by the alchemy of transforming coarse materials such as copper, zinc, acid, and asphaltum into a vehicle for producing images that can be graphically strong, while incredibly delicate and sensitive. There is something about a simple etched line that is inherently beautiful that can’t be reproduced with pen and ink, graphite, oil paint, or any other medium.”
Pictured: "Pushing" collagraph print Some images from the show:      
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