EUGENE, ORE. – The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present GEOMETRY OF HOPE, featuring New York based artist Jeanne Heifetz.
Jeanne works in various fiber based materials to create intricate layered images using light, layers and reflections.
The Geometry of Hope series pays tribute to the group of postwar Latin-American artists whose work was shown together under that title, and in particular to the interplay of object and shadow in Gego's "Drawings without Paper." Where Gego used elaborate wire constructions to "draw" on the wall, here delicate strands of glass cast the shadows that reduce the work's surface image to pure line. Multiple sources of light produce an intricate doubling or tripling of the image in black-and-white form.
"My process in this series derives from traditional textile practice, reinterpreted in non-traditional industrial materials: stainless steel, glass, and wire. The linear structures draw on the random geometry of cultivated fields, Korean bojagi cloth, and the cracked-ice motif of traditional Chinese woodwork, as well as the natural geometry of soap bubbles and mineral formations. The two-layered pieces deconstruct an image and challenge the eye to reassemble it; the three-layered pieces give the illusion of peering into the structure of a crystal or a highly magnified cell.
Although I establish geometric rules for each piece, within those rules each piece is an improvisation, starting with a single line of glass and building outward, never sketched in advance. The process of constructing the work, line by line, stands in for the perennial human search – whether a child's inquiry or formal scientific investigation — for comprehensible pattern in the natural world."
The show runs from April 28 to May 22. There will be an artist lecture on Thursday, May 1 at 3:00 pm with a reception immediately following. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.
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