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Terrestrial Outlines

February 13 - March 23, 2017

Terrestrial Outlines

Published on 2/6/2017.

The College of the Redwoods Creative Arts Gallery presents Terrestrial Outlines, new work by Los Angeles based artists Brooks and Tamara Turner, opening February 13. This exhibition features figurative and landscape-based sculptures that are cast in cement and convey an intimate understanding of specific places and emotions.

A public reception for the artists will be held on Tuesday, February 14, from 3 to 5 p.m. The artists will also give a public lecture on Monday, February 13 at 1:30 p.m. in Creative Arts building room CA 136.

Tamara Turner’s sculptures depict moments of love and brutality in the life of Menachem Begin, a Jewish Resistance Zionist who fought against British-controlled Palestine, and later became Prime Minister of Israel. Through representations of soldiers, military vehicles, bombed homes, as well as tender interactions between mother and child, Turner’s sculptures mine the deeply existential experiences of human life within a de-humanizing world.

Brooks Turner’s sculptures, by contrast, portray placid moments in both real and imagined landscapes. Inspired by Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne’s quote, “The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness,” Turner’s sculptures and reliefs exist as a nexus of material, process, and image. The images depicted in each sculpture, including the woody debris on a forest floor, represent entities embedded within a distinct, intimate world. Turner’s material processes abstract his representations, and move the object away from imitation towards personal interpretation and perception.

Although Turner and Turner’s sculptural practices differ in imagery, they converge on existential expressions of individuality, as well as material relationships of forms, gestures, tool marks, and hand-prints. Both artists focus on intimate and contrasting environments as experienced through the materials of the modern world—materials that could become future fossils of our current place in time.

Originally from Minneapolis and Winnipeg, Brooks and Tamara received their MFAs from UCLA in Sculpture. Brooks received his BA in Art and Art History from Amherst College; Tamara received her BFA in Sculpture from University of Manitoba. They currently reside and work in Los Angeles, California.

The exhibition will run from February 13 through March 23. The gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and by appointment. Admission is free. The Creative Arts Gallery at College of the Redwoods is located on the Eureka Main Campus, North Entrance. The gallery will be closed March 13 through 16 for the academic spring break. For more information, please call the Art Department office at (707) 476-4559.
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