Ian Carey’s solo show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art features large mixed-media figures with elements of collage. More painted figures than figure paintings, they’ve been clipped like paper dolls from their original surroundings and re-assembled free-floating on the wall. Carey’s scrappy style veers from painstaking to deliberately de-skilled, sometimes careening giddily in the […]
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More than three decades in, veteran glass artist and Arcata resident George Bucquet isn’t done with his medium yet. Arcata Artisans Gallery hosts works by Bucquet and Jim Lowry this month, where the former is unveiling a new edition of works in hot cast glass — a technique in which forms are made by pouring […]
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Katy Warner and Madelyn Covey Geek Out at the Sanctuary
“This is about otaku-dom: intense, obsessive fandom,” Katy Warner said, using the Japanese word that fans worldwide have adopted to describe obsession. She was referring to the screenprints and collages she is showing at the Sanctuary in Arcata through Sept. 6, dense with snippets of text, “based on the plot of the Japanese role-playing game […]