Friday, February 11th, 2005, 6pm to 9pm

"Lately I have taken shards of words, planted them under bared roots: souvenirs of the light within a time of darkness."
--Walking Through: Meditations on the Ordinary

 

Walking Through is a collaboration between an artist (Judy Anderson) and a poet (Ginny Hoyle) who share an interest in the symbiotic power of images and words.

The installation joins images and text created over a five-year period, creating a meditative space filled with inter-woven prints, mixed-media paintings, artist books, haiku and longer poems. The exhibit is anchored by a handcrafted book of images and poems, its pages spilling out to form a single 36-foot wing that floats in the center of the gallery, surrounded by words, images and objects that celebrate the power of language, the solace of the natural world, and the opportunity to live consciously.

This is a second collaboration between Ms. Anderson and Ms. Hoyle, following Tokyo Press Check: Making Face, (1986) a small-edition artist book that playfully explores the differences between eastern and western business cultures.

Judy Anderson is an artist and teacher who moved to Denver from Seattle in 2002. She has taught at universities in Washington, Colorado and California and is now executive director of PlatteForum, a Denver nonprofit artist residency center that connects artists and under-served youth. Her artist books have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, Japan, England, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Soviet Union, and are part of major national collections in the US and Germany. Her work in this exhibition draws upon images created during artist residencies at Centrum Arts Colony, Port Townsend, Washington, and Rome, Italy.

Ginny Hoyle is a poet with roots in journalism and copywriting, whose commercial work has earned more than 85 awards over the years. Her poems have appeared in Wazee Journal, a Denver-based online literary journal, and she was the featured poet in the journal’s Spring 2003 edition. Her poem “In Case of War” is part of the Napkin Project, a limited edition work by Seattle artist Ellen Sollod (in the tradition of the Mail Art movement of the 60s and 70s), presented to 60 national leaders in 2003 and 2004. Through prior collaboration with Judy Anderson, Ms. Hoyle’s poetry has been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, New York, and Germany, is in private and public collections, and published in émigré, a fine arts periodical.