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site-specific installations using fibers as sculptural media

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Peek-a-boo DVD with poem

May 27, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

Day Day Five: Intertwined had a soft opening today at the Method Gallery noon to 5 pm. Everything came together exactly at 11:55 am.  Signage—check. Floor swept—check. Artist statement framed—check. The getting-ready energy flowed beautifully […]

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Intertwined—textile landscape comes to life

May 26, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

Day Four: What glorious feeling! After weeks of finger-looping over 12 miles of twine and trying to imagine how the work might take shape, it happened. Today, my “imaginary geography” […]

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Disaster averted, just barely

May 25, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

Day Three: Not in my worst nightmare could I have predicted the collapse of Intertwined during its making. But it happened, without warning. I was speechless. The suspended mass of twine ripped from […]

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Intertwined—sloped and contoured

May 24, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

Day Two:  It might look like chaos.  However, what I created in the far corner yesterday presented me with clarity this morning.  I knew instantly that I wanted to go off book. Rather than suspending […]

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Intertwined—the far corner

May 23, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

Day One: Empty gallery. I started with the far corner. It offered the perfect sightline for articulating a sense of distance. Perfect—except for the bench. My first order of business was to […]

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Unloading the goods

May 22, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

Day Zero:  Sunday in the heart of Pioneer Square — yea — free parking right smack in front of Method Gallery. Not bad. I’m stunned that I was able to […]

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Twine beasty takes over studio

April 27, 2016by Gerri Sayler Artist

There’s no space to go at my house—except in my head. Twine has invaded every nook and cranny of my studio, the guest bedroom, and now the living room is endangered, too.    

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Art exhibit of 20,000 pipe cleaners being installed at Sun Valley Center for the Arts

Billowing art installation in utero

September 20, 2014by Gerri Sayler Artist

It pleases me to return to view artwork in utero — before it becomes art. Before I create an installation, the art is simply material incubating in an empty gallery. Here is how Billow came […]

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art installation Billow of 20,000 pipe cleaners

Art gallery billows with 20,000 pipe cleaners

September 20, 2014by Gerri Sayler Artist

This post could easily start with a Q & A: Question—How did I spend my summer? Answer—Hand crimping pipe cleaners. I was invited to create a site-responsive installation for the Sun Valley Center for the […]

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title view of Terra Ignis by Gerri Sayler at Nicolaysen Art Museum

Art museum ablaze in landscape of molten lava

February 6, 2014by Gerri Sayler Artist 1 Comment

Two weeks ago, I opened a new site-specific installation at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, WY. I was invited to respond to the Wyoming landscape for “The Nature of […]

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ceiling view of Terra Ignis art installation by Gerri Sayler at Nicolaysen Art Museum

Then came red, my shining line of fire

February 6, 2014by Gerri Sayler Artist

Once the black mesh was in place, I had a second bout of stage fright. Aesthetically, Terra Ignis could easily stand on its own. Without the red! The realization unsettled me for […]

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black mesh and detail of swirling red lines of Terra Ignis art installation by Gerri Sayler at the Nicolaysen Art Mueum

In the beginning, emptiness, then came black

February 5, 2014by Gerri Sayler Artist 1 Comment

Oh, how my knees quaked and spine shivered when I first walked into the gallery at the Nicolaysen Art Museum! It is gargantuan space. I had create a plan for Terra Ignis based […]

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University student dancing in performance with backdrop of Numinous hot glue installation by Gerri Sayler at Spurgeon Art Gallery

DOWN, DOWN, DANCING THE ART DOWN

November 1, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

Numinous came to an artistic demise on Halloween. Destruction as art? As ceremony? Never gave it a thought. Until yesterday. I received a call from the Spurgeon Art Gallery, with a request […]

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It glows in the dark

October 4, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

I almost forgot this weirdly beautiful image of hot glue from my installation of Numinous at Central Washington University. Before leaving campus, I played with a black light the administrative […]

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GALLERY ENMESHED IN HOT GLUE

October 4, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

Here is a gallery of images from my hot glue installation, Numinous, now showing at Central Washington University Spurgeon Art Gallery. Opened October 2 and will run through the end […]

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entrance view of hot glue installation titled Numinous by Gerri Sayler

LESS LIGHTING, MORE MOOD

October 2, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

Today is the day. In eight hours, I will stand at a podium speaking from my heart about Numinous. Do I tell the audience about my 11th hour epiphany? I […]

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Gerri Sayler working on lift to install hot glue exhibit titled Numinous at Spurgeon Art Gallery

Making waves, the rise and fall of art

September 30, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

I’m one of those people who speak with their hands.  That makes it tricky to work on a lift, while explaining my art installation at the same time. But thinking […]

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image of painting by Brian Pickering titled Great Missoula Flood

Visualizing gargantuan glacial floods

September 25, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

Numinous is the most recent in a series of art installations inspired by the Northwest’s catastrophic geologic history. It’s a spectacular story that includes megaflooding flooding of Glacial Lake Missoula […]

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Art student views shadow play of hot glue installation titled Numinous by Gerri Sayler at Spurgeon Art Gallery

Hot glue art installation in progress

September 23, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

Lucky me — my assistant and gallery attendant — Holly Hawton is a CWU senior majoring in art. Her genuine delight with the artwork’s wall shadows lifted my spirits. She […]

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gallery view of empty Spurgeon Art Gallery

EMPTY GALLERY, QUEASY GUT

September 19, 2013by Gerri Sayler Artist

I snapped pix this morning while walking across campus to the Spurgeon Art Gallery from the conference center where I’m staying. The stillness on campus is deceiving—the calm before the […]

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