Join us Friday, November 18 th from 5 - 8 pm at Locals Farm Market

Exhibition will be on view until the end of December.

A Sense of Place.  Where do we come from and where do we find belonging?  The word, place, signifies a container for the landscape of our lives.  The landscapes of our inner lives and the lands that hold us are the focus of both of these artists' work.

Kim Yourick observes the changing seasons of the landscape of her home through a lens of abstraction and juxtaposition of color, texture and shape.  The essence of this land is revealed in a color field of emotion and energy.   Her intention is to create images that bring one into presence in the moment while opening up to a vastness of time and place.   Her landscapes are timeless, yet her marks are unique and hold the human touch.

Ann Neslen explores memory, time, loss and family rituals in her work. Often using the book structure as a container for these narratives, Neslen weaves themes of potent family memories.  Her personal exploration is a quest for understanding of how meaning attaches itself to home.  The artist moves from the book to the wall in pieces like Threadbare and Latent Time, to express deep concerns of what it means to be human in a chaotic world.  In Lost in Translation, a book made of paper clay and elements from the natural world, she dives into symbols and materials from a world long gone, yet wired into our beings.   Ann combines materials and forms from the natural world and from the domestic space weaving  fabric, paper and thread.  She holds up traditional women's work as sublime works of art, making the ordinary, extraordinary.

Waters run deep through all these works, carrying us as viewers through time, personal experience and contemporary life.  Shown together, the conversations between these works pull us between the natural world and domesticated spaces we humans must traverse and inhabit.   Here, in this show, the viewer finds a space to contemplate the natural landscape of the Ag Reserve in concert with the domesticated spaces where we rest, gather and love.  A particular sense of place we can all recognize and hold.

Pam Heemskerk

Executive Director

Riverworks Art Center