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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gerri Sayler Artist 