Women Who Know Alaska

A sampling from Women Who Know Alaska

October 24 ~ November 29, 2014

Artists, Robby Mohatt, Mary Beth Michaels, Linda Payne and Eloise Larson commiserated for a combination of 100+ years as wives, mothers, and teachers in the extremes of Fairbanks, Alaska.

Together, they faced an environment that shaped a very male art atmosphere dominated by the landscape. Alone in their studios they make the only kind of art that they can, Fashioned by personal experience and spirit.

Pursuing many forms and mediums, their work expresses what they needed to communicate and taught them what they needed to learn as women of the north.

Eloise Larson

 

Eloise Larson, Sudden and Significant

Eloise Larson, Wide-ranging and Immediate 1 & 2

Eloise Larson, Wide-ranging and Immediate 4 & 5

Linda Payne

Linda Payne, Breaking Through, Upon Reflection, It’s all about the trees

Linda Payne, Silent … Torpid … Still, Harbinger of Spring, Anticipation

Robby Mohatt

Robby Mohatt, Visual Riff Series III, #22 – #43

Mary Beth Michaels

Mary Beth Michaels, Gravel, Lone Lines, The White Spiral, Black Spiral, Arctic Ice

This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Photography by Sharon LoMonaco

One Response

1. Cynthia Henderson says:

   November 17, 2014 at 9:27 am

   WOw … very nice! Sorry I missed the opening; hope to get by to see the show before it closes!