Opening Thursday, July 25, 2019 in the Atrium Gallery at the Bloomington Center for the Arts in Bloomington, Minnesota, “Ways of Seeing: Bog Tapestries” will feature the work of artist Elizabeth Blair.
The exhibition details complex, layered images of water and trees in bog pools. The pools present the attentive observer with endless variations on the colorful bog world that surrounds them. Blair captures these abstract images using a macro lens and focusing on only a few square inches of the water surface.
Impressionist artist Claude Monet described his Water Lilies paintings as “a study of water and how it reflects light and the world above it.” Elizabeth Blair’s photographic series performs a similar study in a northern cedar bog.
“One day, as I walked past a small pool in a northern Minnesota black spruce, cedar, and tamarack bog, I noticed the reflections in it. I keep looking into the pool as I passed it that summer and found that the view was never the same twice,” expressed artist Blair.
This exhibition at Artistry will be her first solo show in the Twin Cities. There will be an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
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Artistry is a producing theater and visual arts nonprofit serving a regional audience of more than 82,000 people through stage productions, exhibitions, lifelong arts learning, and arts-centered community development. In pursuit of artistic excellence, we engage our region’s most talented artists in work that welcomes and develops audiences and opens hearts and minds. More at: https://artistrymn.org.