The message in a bottle… A message from Garcia… Text message… On message… Subliminal message…
Stick to the message… Deliver the message… Mixed message… Off message… The medium is the message…
Hidden message… Send the right/wrong message… Take a message…
Get the message…Don’t shoot the messenger… Instant message…
Stick to the message… Deliver the message… Mixed message… Off message… The medium is the message…
Hidden message… Send the right/wrong message… Take a message…
Get the message…Don’t shoot the messenger… Instant message…
…the possibilities are endless, as are the contents of each message. Where does each begin? How does a message take form in us? Perhaps with an overheard phrase, or a visual memory, a passage in a book, or an uncomfortable confrontation. Our impulse is to respond, to have a view, a thought, an opinion, a concern. And then we want to send it out, don’t we? Isn’t this why we have studios, work in a certain medium, offer our work (our message) on the gallery walls?
After a year of sequestering, most of us going regularly to our studios during Covid for solace and for a sense of “keeping at work,” we have some things to offer, some…messages. And as Mieko Yamazaki, one of our family of artists at Homewood Studios, recently observed, the first message is from the work of art to us as we begin work on it. If we listen, the work acquires unexpected dimension, exposes deeper questions, makes our ways of seeing mor clear. And if we, instead, ignore that first message, believing we know, already, what the piece of art wants to be, we will have missed an opportunity to grow, change, see.
There seems a larger message here than one intended just for artists. Couldn’t we all be more curious, more attentive to the messages all around us, especially to those messages we tend to miss simply by not tuning our awareness in their direction? Thus, we invite you to visit our gallery, appreciate and enjoy the work we have here displayed for you. And if you wish, take a moment while standing before one or the other of the pieces to ask the question, “What is the message?”
After a year of sequestering, most of us going regularly to our studios during Covid for solace and for a sense of “keeping at work,” we have some things to offer, some…messages. And as Mieko Yamazaki, one of our family of artists at Homewood Studios, recently observed, the first message is from the work of art to us as we begin work on it. If we listen, the work acquires unexpected dimension, exposes deeper questions, makes our ways of seeing mor clear. And if we, instead, ignore that first message, believing we know, already, what the piece of art wants to be, we will have missed an opportunity to grow, change, see.
There seems a larger message here than one intended just for artists. Couldn’t we all be more curious, more attentive to the messages all around us, especially to those messages we tend to miss simply by not tuning our awareness in their direction? Thus, we invite you to visit our gallery, appreciate and enjoy the work we have here displayed for you. And if you wish, take a moment while standing before one or the other of the pieces to ask the question, “What is the message?”
MESSAGES
Homewood Studios 10th Annual Resident Artist Show
November 5th to November 24th 2021
Opening Reception Friday November 5th 5 to 9pm
Zoom Gallery Talk Thursday November 11th 7pm
Zoom meeting link:
https://umn.zoom.us/j/99964528386?pwd=TE90VTVkUzR0Y2RxMzlpWHlRV2FmQT09
(you may have to cut and paste the link into your browser)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday 5-9pm, Wednesday and Friday 1-6pm, Saturday 1-4pm
Masks are required in our gallery for all public events.
Homewood Studios 10th Annual Resident Artist Show
November 5th to November 24th 2021
Opening Reception Friday November 5th 5 to 9pm
Zoom Gallery Talk Thursday November 11th 7pm
Zoom meeting link:
https://umn.zoom.us/j/99964528386?pwd=TE90VTVkUzR0Y2RxMzlpWHlRV2FmQT09
(you may have to cut and paste the link into your browser)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday 5-9pm, Wednesday and Friday 1-6pm, Saturday 1-4pm
Masks are required in our gallery for all public events.
Studio A: Laura DuFrane Murphy: murfyblue@gmail.com and Julie Landsman: jlandsman@goldengate.net
Studio B: Bill Jeter, b_jeter@hotmail.com and Linda Maylish, mylsh5@aol.com
Studio C: Mieko Yamazaki, mieko@homewoodstudios.com
Studio B: Bill Jeter, b_jeter@hotmail.com and Linda Maylish, mylsh5@aol.com
Studio C: Mieko Yamazaki, mieko@homewoodstudios.com
Studio D: Jack Mader, jack@jackmader.com and Kristen Treuting, kristen.treuting@gmail.com
Studio E: George Roberts, george@homewoodstudios.com
Studio E: George Roberts, george@homewoodstudios.com