SIDE BY SIDE 2024
September 9 - October 26
Openning reception September 13, 5:30-7:30pm
DEPOT ART GALLERY
2069 W. POWERS AVE, LITTLETON
303-795-0781
TUESDAY - SUN 11-4 | CLOSED MONDAY
© Jacqueline Shuler, "Morning Song"
Serendipitous parallel thought process unite Jackie Shuler’s “Morning Song” and my paper weaving “Solovіy” (соловiй - nightingale). Jackie’s deep understanding of philosophy combined with spiritual wisdom depicted in her art resonates with me and inspires me to create with more though and meaning.
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“The common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is considered the best bird singer in the world. It usually sings in dense vegetation near water where it lives and breeds. Its amazing song can often be heard even during the night. Not many birds can sing so loudly and persistently as a male nightingale. His concert is a true master's performance because he has a wide variety of chirping, tweeting and shrieking sounds in his repertoire. Enjoy the world's most beautiful bird song! “ by Lukáš Pich
Couple of years ago I created color pencil series of illustrations based on the Persian tale of “The Nightingale and the Rose” accompanied by the verses from the The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam and other Persian mystical poets and philosophers like Hafez and Rumi.
The Nightingale & the Rose (Persian tale) It is told that long ago, the Nightingale could not sing, he simply chirped and squawked. Then one day, he saw a beautiful white rose with whom he fell instantly in love. From that day forth he was inspired to sing and it is believed that the flower would only open from her bud when she heard the Nightingale ‘s song. The pair were so in love that one day the Nightingale became so enamoured he grasped the white rose to his breast. He held her so tightly that a thorn pierced his heart. His blood coloured the rose, turning her white petals red, and so she would stay for the rest of her days.” “The rose symbolized perfection, beauty, and elegance, and the bird (nightingale) represented the human spirit in Persian mysticism. Together the pair stood as a metaphor for the loved and the beloved, entwined in either an earthly or divine union.”
Oscar Wilde’s story “The Nightingale and the Rose” was also inspired by Persian literature.
If you’d like to read the translated version of The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, click here. This is the link to multiple translated in English and interpreted versions of it with one by FitzGerald being my favorite.
Here is the first quatrain:
"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of Light".
And here is Link to the beautifully illustrated by Anne Harriet Fish The Rubaiyat book being provided by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
SIDE BY SIDE 2023
September 12 - October 28
Openning reception September 15, 5:30-7:30pm
DEPOT ART GALLERY
2069 W. POWERS AVE, LITTLETON
303-795-0781
TUESDAY - SUN 11-4 | CLOSED MONDAY
© Jacqueline Shuler, "Hovering"
Side by Side is an art show that is focused on interpretation of another artist's work.
I admire Jackie Shuler’s artwork for its esthetics, skills, meaning and possibilities.
Descending triangular forms of “Hovering’ arranged into a body floating among ethereal wing-like shapes transformed in my interpretation into a vessel-like sculpture. “Growing” an Earthly and Celestial garden or a reflection of it in each other.
For more of Jackie's work go to her website: https://jacqueline-shuler.pixels.com/
"Reflection" is a fiber sculpture and interpretation that's created in appreciation for Jackie Shuler’s artwork with its esthetics, skills, meaning & possibilities.
Descending triangular forms of “Hovering” arranged into a body floating among ethereal wing-like shapes transformed in my interpretation into a vessel-like sculpture. “Growing” an Earthly & Celestial garden or a reflection of it in each other.
SIDE BY SIDE 2022
August 30 - October 9th
Openning reception September 2, 5-7pm
DEPOT ART GALLERY
2069 W. POWERS AVE, LITTLETON
303-795-0781
TUESDAY - SUN 11-4 | CLOSED MONDAY
Side by Side is an art show that is focused on interpretation of another artist's work. Two artworks were done in admiration of the master-artist and self-taught Colorado photographer Joe Bonita’s work, Tarantula Onion.
Joe has been taking pictures for most of his life by covering most of the Earth’ continents. His natural gift for elegant composition, impeccable craftsmanship and style define his work. His ability to see and then share his world with the viewer makes one come back to his work again and again.
For more of Joe's work go to his website: https://joe-bonita.pixels.com
It was incredibly challenging to recreate something so polished, effortlessly elegant and simple as his work. My aim was to define the original with color and composition while using different media and design. This interpretive work is a mixed media fiber sculpture. It uses coiled and molded paper, thread and paper wrapped wire, reflective mylar to imitate the reflection, fabric; and it's mounted on the wooden platform.
And that's how Delicately was created.
Second artwork is an interpretation 2.0 and is a mixed media fiber sculpture (recycled photography catalogs, photo paper, photo advertisement, plastic wrapping, knitted wire, beads) suspended on the stand - Deconstructed. It's not in this show and displayed on the website only.
This piece is more of a departure from the original and designed to give a bow to Joe’s photography background. Papers used in my sculpture came from recycled photography advertising, photo paper, translucent, opaque and iridescent paper. The layers of the onion is like the multiple layers of the Photoshop that can get messy sometimes unless organized and labeled.
