Parks Anderson | Black & Blue

With this exhibition, Black & Blue, Anderson returns to his studio and art making practice after a 33 year hiatus. Anderson carefully balances his reductive, modern and geometric methodologies as he combines wood, glass, and vibrant colors to explore the duality between his ability to control and accepting what nature has presented. He says of this work, "Covid and time ended my 33-year working for Dale Chihuly, wherein all my creative focus was on his work and the arc of his success. I had allowed myself to become fallow as an artist without my own challenges. Now, with time, I have built a studio and started working for myself again. Over the past two years, I was drawn to several assortments of distinctive wood that had been discards given to me. These were remnants left from harvesting trees, from the rough cutting of lumber, from building construction, and from the making of fine furniture. These discards were saved by others because of their shape and their textures. They expressed the character of the wood determined by weather, cut, fire and decay and were a kind of diary of time. Within these gifted savings of others, I began finding myself, as measured by this work." Please join us for the opening reception and celebration of Parks Anderson's return on Thursday, November 7th from 5:00–8:00 pm. The show will be on view through Dec 21st. If you're interested in viewing or acquiring artwork before the opening, please contact us at [email protected] or 206-587-6501.

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