New Guest Artists @ High Desert Gallery

High Desert Gallery

10 NW Minnesota Avenue (541) 388-8964

High Desert Gallery is excited to announce Pacific Northwest guest artists, Jeremy Newman and Allison Ciancibelli, August 19 to October 12, 2011. “Rhythms of Nature” exhibition is featured at High Desert Gallery, located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon.

Jeremy Newman and Allison Ciancibelli are a husband and wife, they collaboratively design and create blown glass sculpture. Jeremy has been blowing glass since 1997, learning the skills of the craft through a traditional apprenticeship with Garth Mudge. Allison has been working with glass since opening the studio in 2001.

In order to create each one of a kind piece, Jeremy and Allison incorporate traditional glassblowing skills together with woodworking and metalworking. Their simple, earthy forms serve as blank slates for their abstract, narrative imagery created by layering colors of glass and adding frit, powdered glass, and steel fibers. Finally, the surface is acid-etched, giving the finished piece its soft, matte finish and stone-like appearance. In their new mixed media sculptures, Jeremy and Allison introduce found objects, reclaimed steel, and wood. According to the artists, “We use cultural artifacts as a way of exploring our relationship with the land and to remind us of our interconnection with nature, with each other, and with our collective past.”