Announcing June Saranac Art Projects Exhibitions through June 27

We are excited to announce our June exhibitions. Mark your calendars for our opening reception on June 7th, between 4:00 - 8:00 PM.  Gallery hours after the opening reception are Fridays, and Saturdays from 12:00 - 8:00PM, until June 27th, 2024.

East Gallery - Madeline McGuinn

Madeine McGinn is a Spokane based multidisciplinary artist.  She received her BFA in printmaking and drawing from Eastern Washington University and her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Through her work, she continues to push identity through public vs private, layering memory and understanding fraught relationships with the body. It’s a field guide to getting lost and finding the way back through the organized chaos.

 

My work has taken on an intimate public sphere for the viewer. What does it mean to have a residue of people passing through? More recently, I have been scaling up in drawings to implicate the viewer within these fixed, bodily memories. I want the viewer to be able to imagine their bodies within these large-scale pieces - to place themselves with these lost moments. I grew up in a large family that thrived off of an archive of shared memory and that archive spills into the communities that surround me. Within these communities, there is a nature of metaphysical connection and the intertwining of people as we grow together. We carry love, connection and trauma in our bodies and my work continues to grow on these ideas.

Image at left: myheartbeatslikeadrum, 2024.  Oil pastel and charcoal on paper, 40 x 41 inches

 

West Gallery - The Hive® Artists at the SAP 

Noelle Bowden, Lesley Crane, Amalia Fisch, Erica Schisler, Julie Smetana; curated by Eva Silverstone

 

Curator’s Statement, Eva Silverstone

The artists selected for this show have completed residencies at The Hive®. They all share a love of form and gesture that is reflected in their work presented in this show. All of the artists combine large physicality with refinement for precise details in seeking their final works. Noelle’s large oil and pastel work is influenced by poetry and the flow of full body mark making. Julie’s ceramics involve full-body mark making but in 3D. She slams slabs of clay against a work surface to stretch them out and then carves them to

refine their forms. Amalia, Erica and Lesley all use printmaking as part of their process. Amalia’s are Gelli-printed using many layers to create depth and luminous color. She then has sewn the pieces together to create an artistic quilt. Erica started her residency making handmade paper from discarded textiles and then silk-screened forms onto the paper. Lesley used a monoprint process to create delicate details within larger shapes.  She is influenced by her grandmother’s doll collection and broken parts that can bemade whole again through placement and printing. 

 The Hive® is a non-traditional library that is part of Spokane Public Library. It doesn’t have any books or computers but is filled with spaces. Meeting room spaces that the public can borrow with their library card and art studios that are awarded to artists through a competitive application process. The Hive opened in August 2021 and has hosted over 30 visual artists and a handful of writers for residencies.

 

Saranac Art Projects
 - a contemporary, co-op art gallery -
25 W. Main St. • Spokane, Washington