Siskiyou Arts Museum held a reception for the opening of Finley Fryer and Jayne Bruck-Fryer’s exhibit “Waste Knot,” this month’s 2nd Saturday art show sponsored by Dunsmuirian Peter Arth.
This husband and wife artist duo have lived in the City of Dunsmuir since 1993.
Finley has his studio on Sacramento Avenue where he mostly paints with oils and works with other mediums like tile sculpture work which he has on display in the gallery. Painting since he was a young child, through the years he has worked with lots of mediums. He is known for his large Burning Man sculpture.
He says, “Theory, narrative, and a medium to work with until you get them balanced.” “Obsessive” is what he calls it. “A type of misconstrued realism.” Sometimes he sits in nature, them to work he goes at his studio to continue.
“Abstract/realism: For 40 years I keep going back with some humor and realism. I try to do something local but not your scrapbook type.” He points to his painting on canvas of Castle Craigs. “I like things that can look like something else. My pictures are like kids; can’t just pick me one kind.”
He starts a painting and puts it aside to work on it periodically. He points to his painting called “Message from Beyond: and says that it took him over 6 months to complete.
“Sometimes I just have to stop and leave it alone to continue at a later date. Painting, sculpture, film: They have all been efforts to hold onto what is right in front of me before it vanishes to forge my own artistic path. To walk this trail where cobwebs stretch unbroken.”
Finley has 9 oil paintings on canvas and a couple of tile mosaic sculptures in this show.
Jayne’s studio is called Ruddle Cottage which is at their home. She got into recycling while teaching special education at the elementary school from 2004 to 2010 and turned it into wall-hanging sculptures. She started making her wire sculptures flat but over time, they are now 3-dimentional. She, like her husband, Finley, works on a sculpture periodically, setting one aside and then going back to it over time. She is now working with tiles making mosaics. Her last show was in Gold Beach.
“Sculptures from recycled metal; mostly copper plumber’s floats, electric copper wire, and conduit, basically anything that is copper or metal that was recycled or donated. ‘Waste not want not’ and this philosophy still remains today. Repurposing of found objects feeds my soul and creativity.”
The show which opened September 14th will run through till November 2nd.
For information about Siskiyou Arts Museum go to www.SISKIYOUARTSMUSEUM.ORG
or call (530) 235-4711
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