Alive with Possibility
Featuring
Marie Arcand
Sangito Bigelow
Robert Bigelow
May 4 - June 12, 2024
Headbones Gallery
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Alive with
Possibility, Evolving Devolving
Marie Arcand, Sangito Bigelow,
Robert Bigelow
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May 4
- June 12,
2024
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- There is wabi-sabi
intonation in the clay works and works on paper made
in this last year by Marie Arcand. Japanese
philosophy is pertinent.
She has made over fifty
small clay bowls. Each can be held in the hand and
while supported in the palm can receive liquid, an
intimate drinking cup. But place the curved bottom
on a flat surface and it will tip, roll, and likely
spill before eventually coming to rest.
The ink drawings are
equally difficult to pin down with energetic pen,
brush and pencil marks that are flowing and
expressive yet determined like cursive script.
The black and white
drawings have a sense of immediacy to them like the
pages of an artist journal where diaristic sketching
overtakes time. The larger watercolor works maintain
this feeling of record keeping, partially secretive
and yet shared, left open to meaning, so that the
reading is many leveled, poetic. Her landscapes are
evocative, misty vistas, sublime settings, sky
ghosting land, storms brewing as clouds part. Humans
exist as auras, pulsing connections. A black
scribble that nears obliteration was inspired by a
dead duck. The works - wabi-sabi.-
Marie leads but her back
is covered. Works of the late Robert Bigelow and
their son, Sangito Bigelow, are exhibited alongside.
The late Robert Bigelow
is well known in the valley as having been a
prolific and accomplished artist. He was drawing and
painting until his last day. Alongside Arcand, and
in honor of their thirty-three-year marriage with
its ground swell of art, the latest works of Robert
Bigelow show a creativity that explored the
potential of greatness in overlooked details.
Deconstructing older works, and reassembling the
pieces, these drawings combined with collage became
shallow reliefs, a combination of architectonic and
organic shapes using rich Veronese colors, The
Bigelow touch lives on.
Sangito Bigelow is the
apple that fell near, into his generation, one where
wabi-sabi is explored through Grunge, Pop, graffiti,
street murals and tattoos. Practicing the visual
arts in a manner that evolved away from the
modernist white cube and onto any surface that was
available, including one's body - his imagery
sharply, wittily and critically attests to the
cornucopia of daily experience.
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