April's exhibit features:
Elizabeth Halfacre
Elizabeth is a Seattle artist that teaches at Shorline Community College and works with mixed media and pastels.
Artist's Statement
Texture is the subject of my work and inspires it. My collage process is one of discovery; constructing and deconstructing, layering and removing to see what new surface I can reveal. I’m intrigued by evidence of past lives and cultures found in artifacts.
The abstract pieces integrate my study of graphic design and my physical environment:
I align letterforms, graffiti, urban debris and elements of advertising to an underlying grid structure attempting to find order in disorder. Recently I’ve been using natural objects, contrasting and balancing geometric with organic shapes.
The portrait series reflects my life experiences and emotional responses: being raised Catholic, losing my mother to mental illness, bearing children, going through a divorce, surviving breast cancer then losing my second husband to a brain tumor.
My artwork allows me to combine images of my former experiences to create new images not known by experience; to bring into being new things of value. The challenge lies in being intensely conscious yet still in touch with unconscious sources.
