Art Opening: Alexis Terry Bouchard / Art of Recycling
October 24 @ 5:30 pm
Visual Arts Committee Presents:
Featured Artist:
Alexis Terry Bouchard
Community Show: Art of Recycling
Installation Day: Wednesday, October 22nd; from 10:15am – 12pm
Art Opening and Fashion Show: Friday, October 24th; 5:30pm – 7pm
On Display: October 24th – November 16th
Pickup: Monday, November 17th
The Visual Arts Committee (VAC) welcomes wall art, 3-dimensional work, and wearable fashion made from discarded or found materials for this community show! There will be a fashion show on opening night. More information to follow!
Community shows are open to ALL island artists, beginning and experienced alike. The purpose is to showcase island art and celebrate our creative neighbors! To exhibit in a community show, an artist needs to come on the Installation Day (for this show, October 22nd) with their artwork ready to be displayed or hung.
On Installation Day, the artist will fill out two labels including title, artist name, the medium, and the price, (or denoted NFS). One label will be attached to the artwork, the second will be given to the committee. The artist will also fill out an Artist Agreement and Sales Information Sheet if she or he does not already have one on file. All placement and hanging of the art will be done by the VAC.
Artists are urged to attend and contribute hors d’oeuvres for the Artist Reception on Friday, October 24th.
To learn more about exhibiting your art, commission structures, and upcoming shows, please visit: www.OrcasCenter.org/VAC
Featured Artist: Alexis Terry Bouchard
Alexis Terry Bouchard is a professionally trained painter and Ikebana artist who grows her own flowers and creates clay vessels, sculptures, and paintings. Her work is inspired by the beauty and bounty of Orcas Island. Alexis offers one-of-a-kind floral arrangements, hand-formed ceramics, and colorful floral paintings, prints and cards for sale through her garden studio, Flower Moon Floral.
Artist Statement:
“I paint and make art to connect to and show my appreciation and curiosity of the natural world using color, shape and meaning. My art is a dance between what is seen and unseen, conscious and subconscious, the past and the present, and the relationship between our physical and spiritual experience. The ways in which memory, history, emotion and perception can inform the present moment continue to drive my desire to create. A painting can synthesize and mark this complexity in a unique and surprising way. And while I may control the start of a painting I am often surprised by the end result. Early in my career I was influenced by children, untrained artists and differently abled thinkers as these makers had an immediacy and rawness to their art making I found honest and limitless. Continuously inspired by the beauty and magic within our natural world I often find meaning and complexity in the simplest natural forms.”