Where Earth Meets Sky – Shared Inspiration

Marcia R. Wise and Mimi Howard

October 31 – November 25, 2018

First Friday Reception: November 2, 6–8pm,
with music by the Ed Wise Duo

Where Earth Meets Sky–Shared Inspiration highlights the power and inspiration of nature’s essential elements. This exhibition of oil paintings by Marcia R Wise and sculptural-ceramics by Mimi Howard is a pairing of emotion and response. Wise's reaction to the landscape is visually expressed on canvas through her passionate work with and through color. Howard's unique forms in clay are her physical expression to the ever-changing events found in the landscape. This pairing of art forms represents the power, boldness, and joy of their shared inspiration.

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Mimi Howard, Earth Ribbon #19, glazed stoneware, 20x15x10

Mimi Howard, Eclipsed Globe, unglazed stoneware, 20x12x11

Mimi Howard, Waves, Inside/Out, glazed stoneware, 20x18x15

Mimi Howard, Low Bowl, River Series #34, unglazed stoneware, 19x7x6

Mimi Howard, Metallic Globe #6, glazed stoneware, 20x17x15

Mimi Howard, Textured Globe #5, glazed stoneware, 22x17x15

Mimi Howard, Low Bowl, River Series #19, glazed stoneware, 20x6x3

Marcia Wise, Acceso, Oil, 30x24

Marcia Wise, Aspetto, Oil, 36x60

Marcia Wise, Canyon Song, Oil, 30x24

Marcia Wise, Fermata, Oil, 40x30

Marcia Wise, Into the Light, Oil, 24x48

Marcia Wise, Landscape of Dreams, Oil, 12x12

Marcia Wise, Light My Way Home, Oil, 24x30

Marcia Wise, Light Promenade, Oil, 30x24

Marcia Wise, Lilt, Oil, 12x18

Marcia Wise, Luminoso, Oil, 24x24

Marcia Wise, Magico, Oil, 18x18

Marcia Wise, Marsh 1, Oil, 16x20

Marcia Wise, My World, Oil, 16x20

Marcia Wise, Reaching, Oil, 12x12

Marcia Wise, Sacred Ceremony, Oil, 30x40

Marcia Wise, Scena, Oil, 24x24

Marcia Wise, Tuscan Landscape, Oil, 48x38

Marcia Wise, Tuscan Sunset, Oil, 24x24

Marcia Wise, Ultraterrena, Oil, 24x18

Marcia Wise, Where Earth Meets Sky, Oil, 48x36

The essence of Mimi Howard’s work is inspired by a fascination with the magic and beauty found in nature, especially in the garden. Working in clay that can be stretched, pushed, and pulled into amazing beautiful forms allows her to share her experience of the world with those around her. Each vessel is a unique combination of hand-built and wheel-thrown parts that are then fired multiple times in a kiln. Howard’s sculptures have a tactile quality that allows those who see and touch them to readily experience the fluid movement, natural edges, turns, and hidden crevices.

Artist statement

Artist biography

Marcia Wise’s abstracted landscape paintings reflect the powerful emotional reactions that aspects of nature stir within her, an honest peek into the artist’s inner relationship with the world. The paintings in this series, rich with intense color,represent a turning point in her artistic development; this new work turns emphatically in a freer, more abstract direction. Wise is passionate about color placement, color relationships, light effects, introspection, form and pattern manipulation, and textural play.