Kim Cridler: Artist Talk

Field Study 15: Bur Oak (detail), 2011

Women, Nature, Science
Kim Cridler: The Descriptive Line
March 13-June 5, 2016
Artist Talk: Friday, May 27, 2016 at 1:30 pm. This event is free.

Trained as a metalsmith, Kim Cridler creates works that utilize the history, making, and meaning of objects of utility and ornamentation. Cridler uses drawing as a practice of "noticing," and this directly informs her recent work, in which the steel wire or rod becomes a line of inquiry into form, content, and the potential of narrative. The works on display at Lynden include "Field Study 15: Bur Oak" (2011), a large-scale sculpture of a branch draped across an architectural steel vessel that occupies much of the gallery floor. At the end farthest from the vessel, the branch continues to shed its paper-thin bronze leaves. "Field Study 16: Felled Mulberry" (2012), stands outside the entrance to the gallery, and again examines the relationship between the natural and the man-made. These and the other urns and bowls in the exhibition--formed from intersecting lines of steel--signal function but, with their wide open spaces, steadfastly avoid it. Hidden among the smaller objects and vessels are butterflies, bees, snakes, berries and flowers fabricated in a variety of materials that call attention to their narrative and ornamental functions.

More information: http://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/women-nature-science-kim-cridler-descriptive-line