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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Daphne
Srinivasan, Hannah Glasston or Terry Etherton
Temple Gallery
330 S.
Scott Avenue
Tucson, AZ
85701
(520) 624-7370
info@ethertongallery.com
JULIE SASSE
EXHIBITION DEBUTS IN DECEMBER AT TEMPLE GALLERY
TUCSON, Ariz. (Sept. 29, 2008) - Opening
December 5, 2008, Julie Sasse will be featured in a one-woman show, Julie
Sasse: Mixed Media at the Temple Gallery in downtown Tucson. The exhibition
runs through January 13, 2009.
Rooted in the collage and assemblage traditions of the
Surrealist and West Coast Neo-Dada artists, Sasse's insightful work reveals a
fascination with the symbolic content of found objects and appropriated images.
The artist - also Tucson Museum of Art Chief Curator - says that in her work
she tries to, "express the human awareness of life and death, the selective
memories of our past, and our existential need to mark our place within
society."
Sasse's recent mixed media work highlights the relationship
between her use of castoff materials such as rusted metal, printed paper and
crumbling mirrors, and painting and drawing. Works such as Area of Refuge (2002) set up a series of oppositional gestures
between the use of simple geometric forms and uneven pools of paint, and
between the flat surface of the support and the three dimensionality of the
broken wooden stick. These complex material juxtapositions, replete with
references to the history and theory of art, function as intellectual and
emotional metaphors for states of being. The accidental discovery of a
discarded object, like a broken wooden stick, is for Sasse, a metaphor for a
memory lost and rediscovered. However, she is aware that viewers bring their
unique experiences, perceptions and expectations that will produce divergent
and even contradictory readings of her work. Area of Refuge is just one example of the way in which Julie Sasse
builds a complete visual, sensorial and emotional moment in her subtly charged
images.
Please join us at the Temple Gallery for the artist
reception on Friday, December 5th from 5:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m. to celebrate the
opening of Julie Sasse: Mixed Media and meet
the photographer.
Julie Sasse: Mixed Media runs from December 5th,
2008 through January 13, 2009 at the Temple Gallery located at the Temple of
Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Avenue in downtown Tucson. An artist reception will
be held at the gallery on opening night, Friday, December 5, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.
For more information please contact Etherton Gallery, which manages the Temple
Gallery, at (520) 624-7370 or info@ethertongallery.com.
Represented in Tucson by Etherton Gallery, Julie Sasse is
available for interviews upon request. Please contact the gallery at
520-624-7370 or info@ethertongallery.com
to schedule an interview or obtain more information about her work.
About Julie Sasse: Julie
Sasse is the Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the
Tucson Museum of Art. She obtained her
BA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1973 and her MFA from
Arizona State University in 1976. She is the recent recipient of two
prestigious fellowships: the Clark Fellowship awarded by the Sterling and
Francine Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA in Summer, 2008; and a fellowship
awarded by the Smithsonian Latino Center, Latino Museum Studies Program in
Washington, D.C. in Summer, 2007. Her work has been exhibited throughout the
state of Arizona, including the Tucson Museum of Art, the University of Arizona
Museum of Art, Tucson; Arizona State University, Tempe, the State Capitol in
Phoenix; the Phoenix Art Museum and the Mesa Art Center. Her work is in the
permanent collection of the University Art Museum at New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces; Arizona State University and numerous private and
corporate collections.
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