SJI Museum of Art reveals new showing

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The San Juan Islands Museum of Art is proud to present three Internationally respected ceramic artists for it’s Spring
Exhibition. The artists bring their personal aesthetic to highlight different approaches to ceramics.

Patti Warashina, A World Apart

Please come experience The Smithsonian’s Visionary Artist Award winner, Patti Warashina’s never before seen, new exhibition. In The World Upside Down the use of the body gives affirmation to Warashina’s own daily existence, and serves as the subject of her own “visual diary” which, is a reminder, reflection, and observation of personal time and the civilization in which she lives. Warashina is inspired from her daily life and her interest in the foibles of human
behavior, in which her figures have become actors in her introspective narratives.

Geoffrey Pagen, Drakkar

Reed College retired ceramics professor, Geoffrey Pagen presents a 46 year retrospective in The Portland Years. Geoffrey’s work pulls from memory, science, the natural world, color and light. His work inhabits the world between painting and sculpture. He manipulates materials which are inherently complex and dynamic. On display are ceramic and enamel/steel “paintings” that elicit the balance and tension between two and three dimensional perception.

George Rodriguez El Zodiac Familiar

Multinational award winning George Rodriguez’s artwork is in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian, National Museum Sweden, and National Museum Mexico, among others. In El Zodíaco Familiar – the fifth iteration of George Rodriquez’s Mexican Zodiac series, invites 13 Mexican and Chicanx/Chicane artists of various disciplines to respond to Rodriguez’s animal sculptures with the forms, tools, and aesthetics of their own artistic practices. Each artist has imbued their collaboratively-imagined sculpture–corresponding to the zodiac animal of their birth year–with personal perspective, folk tradition, and an intimate feeling of celebration. While each sculpture is as distinct as its maker, taken together, the twelve pieces vibrate with the deep resonances of the familiar.

Don’t miss this world class exhibition open to the public Friday – Monday until May 29, 2023. Admission is $10. Mondays are Pay What You Like Days. 18 and under are always free.