ARTIST TALK
Join J. Rinehart Gallery, Lauren Boilini, and Melinda Hurst Frye for an in-person Artist Talk. Discover the artists inspirations, creative processes, and use of materials behind exhibition, As Above, So Below.
This in-person event will take place at J. Rinehart Gallery located at 319 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104. Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
While not an attempt to ignore the dark realities of contemporary culture, the work exhibited in As Above, So Below offers the viewer a lens in which to experience and understand the microcosm of human beings and the macrocosm of the greater universe. The artists work in this exhibition presents the truths of our natural world and the value in recognizing the intrinsic importance of so many disparate ecosystems (be it environment, plants, animals, or mineral) to our humanity. The work in this exhibition asks the viewer to consider these fundamental truths of human nature and the nature of the universe.
Lauren Boilini’s maximalist paintings explore ideas of excess, bringing together the battles forged among species in the animal kingdom, which echo our own human behavior. Her imagery of birds, insects, snakes and other animals are piled up in frenzied, often violent conflict, become so intertwined that the individuals become indistinguishable and fall completely into the realm of pattern.
Melinda Hurst Frye’s photographic practice celebrates the ecology of the understory within the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The artist digs deep into the earth to witness and capture visual evidence of the natural cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration through her unconventional photographic process. Her field work bridges the poetry of art with biological sciences and reveals the similarities of this undergrowth to the life cycles of humanity, and to the philosophical life cycle of the cosmos.
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