To be present, aware and curious. To discover through process and direct engagement.

This exhibition features work by Granite Calimpong and Katherine Toler; two artists whose work touches on ideas of human perception and the emotional impact of color and material.

Granite Calimpong is a multi-media sculptor working primarily in ceramics and glass. His recent amorphous glass pieces are heavily invested in material exploration, contrasting gritty, textural surfaces with clean, pristine optical components. 

Katherine Toler is a nonrepresentational painter. Her softly colored images are subtle and inexplicable, suggesting bodily sensations and the moments just before perception.

GRANITE CALIMPONG

Artist Information   |  Studio artist; education: MFA University of Washington (WA), BFA University of California, San Diego (CA); teaching: Penland (NC), Pottery Northwest (WA), Pilchuck Glass School (WA), University of Washington (WA), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Schack Art Center (WA), Pittsburgh Glass Center (PA); exhibitions: Traver Gallery (WA), Pottery Northwest (WA), Capital One Headquarters (VA), Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington (WA), Morgan Contemporary (PA), Schack Arts Center (WA), Museo Gallery (WA), Bainbridge Museum of Arts and Crafts (WA), Hodge Gallery (PA), Morris Graves Museum of Art (CA), Muskegon Museum of Art (MI), Bellevue Art Museum (WA); residencies: Pilchuck Glass School (WA), Pottery Northwest (WA), Museum of Glass (WA), North Lands Creative Glass (Scotland), Pittsburgh Glass Center (PA), Public Glass (CA)

Artist Statement | I often deal with issues of perception in an attempt to expose blind spots within the way I experience the world. What can an optical illusion tell me about how my perceptive system can “misinterpret” the information before me? How can color make me feel one way in a given context, and totally different in another? And what do these facts expose about the limits of my attention and perceptive faculties? 

The human experience is a varied and complicated one. I strive to create work that interrogates these complexities while exhibiting my love for materials, my interests in the emotional impact of color, and my individual sense of balance and form.

KATHERINE TOLER

Artist Information   |  Studio artist; education: BFA University of Central Arkansas; exhibitions: Artists & Craftsman Gallery (MO), Baum Gallery of Fine Art (AR), Goodyear Arts (NC), Appalachian State University (NC), Arkansas Arts Center (AR), PetersValley School of Craft (NJ), Maryland Federation of Art (MD); residencies: The Jentel Foundation (WY)

Artist Bio   |  Katherine Toler is a painter from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her work conveys meticulous observation of the world and a sensitivity to color and materials. She has been a resident artist at the Jentel Foundation and is a former Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft.