Bending Nature to Our Will

Amy Sarner Williams, Jeremy Waak, and Kathran Siegal use various human-made tools to recreate, reference, and interact with nature. Sarner Williams and Siegal cut and carve various wood materials to create abstract representations of nature. Waak’s love for machinery and nature is melded into a fictitious agave flower and machine hybrid.

Kimberly Stemler

24 x 24"

Oil on canvas with block print golden fields

Kimberly Stemler

24 x 36"

Oil on canvas with block print

Jake and His Tractor

Mary Powers Holt

30 x 40"

Acrylic on canvas, framed

Lingering in the Psyche

Mary Powers Holt and Kimberly Stemler produce paintings that evoke memoria tied to a specific natural place, and compare humans' effect on nature with nature’s effect on humans. Powers Holt captures her own memory of a land being developed, while Stemler creates a placeless sense of recollection and nostalgia of nature.