Mendocino Art Center
Artists in Residence
in a Special Exhibition at the
Artists' Co-op of Mendocino
April 3 - May 3, 2021
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The Artists’ Co-op of Mendocino is hosting the annual exhibit of work created by six talented artists who have spent this last year living and working at the campus of the Mendocino Art Center. Each year the Artist in Residence program selects artists from around the country, and although the Center has been closed except for online workshops, the artists continued to use the studios.
NOTE: For more about the artists, their work, and contact links, visit their individual websites by clicking on their names or explore their instagram sites. Information about the Artists in Residence program, AIR, is on the Mendocino Art Center website: www.mendocinoartcenter.org |
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Fashion
Travel
Vampire
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Austyn Taylor
@austynaustynaustyn My sculptures illustrate the absurd humor (cognitive dissonance) one has when trying to hold both “realism” and “optimism” as one’s values. I use imagery from mid-century American cartoons, modern art and ancient sculpture to astutely drum home friendly adages like, “everyone is trying their best.” Hand-made sculptures symbolically visualize our collective humanity, give proof for a pro-human doctrine and make valid an optimistic approach to reality. 
Austyn with Creations
The Great Reason
Pony and Rocking Horse
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Grace Khalsa
@gracekhalsa My sculptures aim to bring attention to natural patterns that implicate vast interconnection. In this particular body of work, I am looking specifically at skeletal and geological forms. There are undeniable similarities among skeletal systems that point to common evolution. Shared spines, ribs, teeth and vestigial structures tell a narrative of millions of years of complex relationships among species. Tafoni, a geological term for a weathering pattern specific to sandstone, is reminiscent of honeycomb, bone tissue and scales. In the midst of a global pandemic and climate crisis, it feels important now more than ever to recognize the pervasive entanglement of life. |
Redwood Ecosystem
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Trevi Alohilani Pendro @trevitrove Craft is a constant state of learning, practicing, and problem solving for me. As I fixate on new skills, repetition becomes meditation. I am not inspired solely by the world around me, but rather my full experience of it. Creating jewelry and metal objects is how I honor these idiosyncrasies, including my need for a tactile and tangible existence. Making becomes a space for healing and reflection, bringing me out of my head and into my hands. My work mirrors this exchange from the inside to out, emotional states represented as physical pieces. |
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Miles McCreary
@milesasherpottery My studio practice began as an extension of my previous career as a chef; I simply wanted to make beautiful plates and bowls for people to eat from. I look at my work in clay more broadly now, as a process of learning to make compelling objects that inhabit the spaces where people gather together. Like good food, good pottery nourishes through an honestly of intent. My intent is to make objects that imply community and bring people together, and I don’t limit the means that allow me to arrive at that end. I work with high-fire and mid-range clays fired in wood kilns, gas soda kilns, and electric kilns. I’m motivated by curiosity in the studio and I hope for my work to earnestly reflect active and thoughtful exploration of the medium, rather than a contrived sense of being polished or complete. |
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Headlands 30x40in. True infrared photograph, pigment printed on satin paper, with gloss laminate, mounted to aluminum panel
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Jared Elizares
@thedarkroomarts I’m a photography enthusiast who enjoys working primarily with vintage medium and large format film cameras. Analog photography is a much slower, more thoughtful endeavor. The act of creating an image becomes much more than a mere point and a click, and the process is as rewarding ass the resulting image. Say hi sometime. Tell me about you favorite cameras and your most cherished photographs. I love meeting people who love photography, and am always curious to hear about the things that inspire you. |
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Ian Hazard-Bill
@ihbceramics Pottery serves the relationship between people’s appetites and their station. I firmly believe all people have an appetite for what I call “A Beautiful Moment”: unique, personal , almost indefinable but always just right in place and time. My hope is that over time and continued use a familiarity with each pot can form and the vessels will contain residues of momentous occasions large and small, remembered or not. I love the way a wood-fired kiln paints. The ash, coals, and heat accumulated in the kiln over many days and nights of steady stoking transform the clay into the objects before you. Pieces fired in this way have a depth to them that will still offer a fresh glimpse years later, and a spontaneity that catches you in the same way certain moments do: the perfect blend of surprise and satisfaction of an unknown appetite being fulfilled. |
