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Sculpture Gallery
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Virginia Harrison
Karen Ryer
Virginia Harrison
I was raised at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, where the history and lore of the gold and silver mines game me an early understanding of metal. Over the past 17 years, I've been refining a technique combining the ignitive force of casting with the delicacy of weaving to create woven bronze sculptures that evoke both literal and emotional interpretation. Combining bronze casting and weaving connects me to some of the most ancient human activities, and offers a way of lending grace and movement to bronze. Visit Virginia at www.wovenbronze.com.
Karen began her journey into the heart of stone in 1999, creating mostly from Oregon soapstone, which is plentiful, inexpensive, easy to work with, and incredibly beautiful when finished. Her passion for her stone and the lack of galleries that give adequate attention to stone sculpture these days, she had to open her own gallery. Thus, Withywindle Gallery in Guerneville, opened in November 2004. After nearly thirty years as a practicing lawyer in California, Karen retired to pursue stone sculpture. She studied art as an avocation, painted, dabbled in clay, wood, found objects, metal, and finally met her first stone. It was love at first slice. She has since never met a stone she didn't like. See some of Karen’s sculptures in the “Sculpture Gallery” of this website, or visit here at www.withywindlegallery.com.
Jud Smith
Jud Smith
The impetus for my sculpture making is a reverence for entropy, decay, dilapidation, corrosion and rust. My work has evolved from a fascination with urban ruins, graveyards of technology, industrial archeology, obsolete machinery, abandoned buildings, ghost towns and shipwrecks. These influences are tempered by my recent years of living in the woods, which have introduced organic elements of the cycle of life and death, natural, human and animal forms. For more about Jud, visit his site at www.arkeonart.com.
