Indoor Installations

Artists Describing Their Art:

Tia Bley - Painting: My recent work, paintings on canvas with Acrylic paint, is done in a Semiabstract-Style, my way to express feelings and ideas about anything that touches me: a notion, a situation, a vision, places, people, landscapes, dreams, tension, conflicts etc. etc. In order to express my feelings i often use strong, vivid colors and color contrasts as well as simplified, bizarre forms. Often my paintings show a kind of a phantastic landscape or remnants of a landscape. Plastic Plankton Installation: Another kind of my work are recycling-art installations made from plastic waste. Plastic bottles, littering beaches or swimming in the water, inspired my imagination and I started experimenting with the material. In the beginning I found it not very enticing and somewhat unruly. However, after some time of experimenting by cutting, assembling, connecting, folding, molding etc.I liked to work with the PET-material. One day I observed its shadows cast on the wall when exposed to the sunlight. I was fascinated by the sight and imagined to form the plastic, making it look like fragile glass membranes that resembled organic forms. If I could imitate the forming process of glass by heating the plastic that would be ...

Hailey Lowe - My sculptures and installation work focuses on the hidden secrets in our cultural history, as well as our personal concealments today. What makes something worth hiding? Inspired by the notion that our social setting often defines what we consider to be right or wrong, I make work that emphasizes and questions the cultural and social differences we are confronted with today. By reviewing the histories that inform our decisions today, and understanding cultural and social differences, we are better able to make decisions about what we consider taboo and where we place our values....