Pottery, prints and paintings share gallery space

NEWS RELEASE

ALBERTA HOUSE GALLERY

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Two award winning artists from last winter’s Northern Exposure XXII, the UP wide annual juried exhibition at the Bonifas Art Gallery in Escanaba, share the Olive Craig Gallery in Alberta House Arts Center during October. 

The hand-pulled, wood block, color prints of Marquette artist Ben Bohnsack (http://www.sandriverart.com/) line the walls of the gallery, and the wheel thrown, ironstone vessels of Iron River artist Pat Black occupy the pedestals on the floor. 

Both artists use their abilities to reflect the beauties of the UP—Bohnsack through his images and Black by incorporating bits of driftwood, birch bark and pebbles into her vessels.

Paintings by LSSU art teacher Lloyd Eddy are in the Mini Gallery. Eddy is working on what he calls rearranged, deconstructed images—bright, colorful and sharply detailed. 

The artist, who has been in the news lately because of his large mural on the wall of the Pingatore Cleaners building, currently has a painting in Grand Rapid’s ARTPRIZE competition. Read more about him on his website:  https://lloydeddy.com/.

The public is cordially invited to meet the artists at a reception in Alberta House on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m.  The exhibits will be in place through Oct. 29. 

Alberta House is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 217 Ferris Street and admission is free of charge. See more about the exhibits in the October “Alberta House News”, available as a free download at www.saultarts.org.

For more information call Alberta House at 906-635-1312 or e-mail:  [email protected].

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