Natural Collections

One night – Two exhibits
Tuesday, June 21

Columbia Art Center Galleries
Art Reinvention: A Show featuring works created with organic, found, and recycled materials
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Gallery Talk

Exhibit runs June 9 - June 26.

Artists

Ken Beerbohm

Jeff Bridges

Janice Crum

Richard D'Agostino

Michelle Dunn

Donald Edwards

Monica Herber

Christina McCleary

Emily Michael

Howard Community College Rouse Company Foundation Gallery
Marcia Wolfson Ray: Out of Context
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Gallery Talk

Exhibit runs June 9 - August 7.

For Marcia Wolfson Ray, the sense of mystery at the center of life is echoes in the forms, rhythms and patterns represented in nature. She is influenced not only by beauty but by the physical manifestation -- the geography of place, the season, the temperature, the light. She collects all the materials used in her work in fields, marshes, by the side of the highway and in vacant city lots. After collecting the materials -- bamboo, hibiscus, dog fennel, corn, reeds, grasses, and various other plants -- she allows them to sit in her studio for years so she is able to study them and their presence over time. She tries to minimally impose herself on the materials in her art so that it becomes a true collaboration with nature.

Ray is a Baltimore-based artist who holds an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She shows her work regularly at galleries locally and in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia.