Brooke Holve & Catherine Richardson
The Edge Knows
The Rock Is
Artist Reception: Saturday, Feb 1, 4-7p
February 1st - April 30th
“There is something captivating about the earth’s ancient, primal forces. Geological phenomena, with all of its unexpected upheavals, serves as a gateway to a deeper connection and engagement with the earth”
Richardson / Holve
Brooke Holve
Brooke lives and works in Sebastopol, CA. A visual artist for three decades, her art practice has taken her through explorations of calligraphy, bookbinding, printmaking, digital technology and poetry. Interested in combining mediums, she draws from each discipline to make mixed media works, installations, constructions, and artist books. She often looks for materials and objects that hold a history. The interplay of materials and methods inform her process; and overtime expose possibilities for shaping form. She often attempts to put together disparate ‘things’ that have come apart, but were once traditional structures used to preserve, protect and hold.
Catherine Richardson
Catherine grew up near the Moors and Dales of northern England and attended Art College near London for her BFA.
Moving between California, Somerset, London and Austin Texas challenges her sense of belonging yet serves as a portal into the wider human experience of displacement and immigration.
Referencing history, particulars of place, time, and the relative stability of geology are her poetic layering of imagery. Her paintings juxtapose influences gleaned from being in the untamed landscapes of California, Peru, England, Ireland, France, and Iceland.
