TP Totem, mixed media

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1 from 4-7 pm

Meet the Artist/Artist Talk: Sunday, June 23 2-4 pm (talk at 2:45 pm)

Paintings and poems keep company with mixed media sculptures in Rosemary Luckett’s solo exhibition Nature Icons: Masks of the Great Face Behind. She returns her exploration of the ways in which humans try to make unseen forces seen; this time by exploring a kinship with Alaskan Yup’ik masks and storytelling tradition.

Luckett fuses together fragments and materials into mask icons, collages, or paintings. During this process of discovery, she finds the unseen in each art work and titles them accordingly. The artworks in Nature Icons attempt to uncover the creative life force in the living flora and fauna, native to the hardwood forests and waters in her part of this living planet Earth. Like the Yup’ik practices, her sculptures and paintings are prayers of gratitude for life, as well as a summons to restore to the planet what humankind has taken from it.