ARTS + CULTURE
DISCOVERING CONNECTION Trove Gallery | Debra Fritts
Allowing the earth to feed her information to inspire her works of sculpture is how Fritts describes her artistic process. She explains that she spent hours playing in the mud as a child and still relies on her deep and motivating connection to the earth today. Fritts works intuitively from pounds of wet red clay as her forms and stories evolve and transform. Using thick coils, her captivating sculptures are hand-built and fired three to five times depending on the color and surface she’s looking for. She approaches her beautiful use of color on the clay as a painter, using a transformative combination of oxides, slips, underglazes and glazes giving her sculptures a natural, earthy spontaneity and appeal.
“NIGHT AND DAY” BY DEBRA FRITTS - TROVE GALLERY
FINDING REFUGE
A Gallery | Royden Card Card reports that drawing and then painting the desert landscape has now been his primary focus for over 50 years. Though he reveres the more typical scenes of slick rocks and towering red cliffs, he also seeks out the lesserknown views that can often get overlooked. He describes his long-lasting motivation as a combination of love of the desert, refuge, contemplation, and an ongoing search for beauty. His alluring oil paintings and woodcuts of the landscape clearly reveal a lifelong reverence and love affair with the West.
“MIDDAY - DEATH VALLEY” BY ROYDEN CARD - A GALLERY
SUMMER/FALL 2022
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