Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present new wall sculptures, drawings and prints by Christine Bourdette that are inspired by geologic phenomena. Through dynamic material investigations Bourdette mimics the shapes, colors and tactile details of the accretions and erosions of earth’s metamorphosis. She considers concepts of geologic time analogous to our relatively shorter time experience as human beings. In this body of work Bourdette says she was interested in the “cumulative distortions, upheavals, erratic shifting of terrain, which seem to me metaphors for this era we inhabit, for a sense of surviving instability through instability. These reflections of and on land mirror a precarious, tactile world, as well as a capacity for transformation and resilience.”
Christine Bourdette is a visual artist whose practice includes sculptures, drawings and installation. Her meticulously crafted artworks comment on social, political, or human predicaments through a three-dimensional vocabulary that incorporates a wide repertoire of materials. Bourdette received her BA from Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR) and has exhibited in the United States and France, including solo exhibitions at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University (Marylhurst, OR), The Tyler Museum of Art (Tyler, TX), Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL), The Alexandria Museum, (Alexandria, LA), and Galerie L’Aire du Verseau (Paris, France). Her sculpture and drawings are in many public and private collections nationwide and her art has been featured in Sculpture magazine and reviewed in Art in America, Artweek, and Visions Quarterly. She has been featured in three Oregon biennial exhibitions and has permanent public artworks in Portland, OR, Tempe, AZ, Seattle, WA and many other locations. Bourdette was the first recipient of the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award in 1992.
Also on view is Julia Mangold’s new series of geometric graphite drawings featuring the remarkable complexity and restraint of her image-making process. Mangold is a Munich-born minimalist sculptor whose works on paper are created through precise technique and image construction. Her interest in formalism is evident throughout the series of hazy grey squares and rectangles, their edges forming a linear maze of negative space between them. Even the most subtle gradations of Mangold’s marks transmit volume, depth and softly glowing effects that resonate with physicality.
Julia Mangold is a minimalist sculptor whose work explores shape, form and materiality. Her sculpture and works on paper are at once rigorous and formal, yet also very sensual. Mangold has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is included in the collections of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Yale University Art Museum (New Haven, CT), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and the Deutscher Bundestag (Berlin, Germany). In 2015, Mangold was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Mies van der Rohe Haus in Berlin, Germany.
Website: https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions
Visitor information: Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30am-5:30pm
Cost: Free
Venue Type: Gallery
Event Type: Exhibition
Diversity: Women/Femme
Accessibility: Emotional Support Animals Allowed, Sensory Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible
Additional notes: Learn more about each exhibition in the Online Viewing Rooms at https://www.elizabethleach.com/viewing-room
Mantle/Dismantle, Christine Bourdette
Julia Mangold, Works on Paper