Craft Alliance in the Kranzberg Arts Center: Friday, 1 February 2013
ANN CODDINGTON RAST: FLOCK
at Craft Alliance in Grand Center
Opening reception: Friday, February 1 from 6 - 9 pm.
Show runs through May 26, 2013.
The evening will begin with Ann Coddington Rast, a well-known fiber artist, giving an Artist Talk at 6pm. The gallery space is filled with 1,100 birds in flight. These slipcast ceramic birds are suspended in the air above the viewers' heads, creating a powerful atmosphere of tension.
Coddington Rast states, "I continue to be fascinated by the complex, metaphoric language of birds. I have often used birds to represent an ultimate point of freedom, symbiotic relationships, and the dichotomy of life and death. Birds are mysterious, intriguing creatures with long literary histories - from Poe's 'The Raven,' to nursery rhymes like 4 and 20 Blackbirds, to Angelou's 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.' Another mesmerizing feature is their tendency to move in groups with a seeming collective consciousness. They respond to each other, and to waves of air, changing direction with no visible outward communication. They are at once individuals and part of a whole that seems to embody a gestalt philosophy."
Craft Alliance in the Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand
St. Louis, MO 63103
http://www.craftalliance.org/exhibitions/currentgc.htm
at Craft Alliance in Grand Center
Opening reception: Friday, February 1 from 6 - 9 pm.
Show runs through May 26, 2013.
The evening will begin with Ann Coddington Rast, a well-known fiber artist, giving an Artist Talk at 6pm. The gallery space is filled with 1,100 birds in flight. These slipcast ceramic birds are suspended in the air above the viewers' heads, creating a powerful atmosphere of tension.
Coddington Rast states, "I continue to be fascinated by the complex, metaphoric language of birds. I have often used birds to represent an ultimate point of freedom, symbiotic relationships, and the dichotomy of life and death. Birds are mysterious, intriguing creatures with long literary histories - from Poe's 'The Raven,' to nursery rhymes like 4 and 20 Blackbirds, to Angelou's 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.' Another mesmerizing feature is their tendency to move in groups with a seeming collective consciousness. They respond to each other, and to waves of air, changing direction with no visible outward communication. They are at once individuals and part of a whole that seems to embody a gestalt philosophy."
Craft Alliance in the Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand
St. Louis, MO 63103
http://www.craftalliance.org/exhibitions/currentgc.htm
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