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Pattern Play

Artworks by Patsy Cox, Yuriko Etue, Melanie Rothschild and Jerrin Wagstaff

August 11 – September 28, 2007

Saturday, August 11th:

Meet the Artists 4-5 pm
Reception 5-7 pm

Patsy Cox Patsy Cox earned her master of fine arts in ceramics at the University of Delaware. Currently an associate professor in the Department of Art at California State University Northridge, she has exhibited her work throughout the United States and been included in numerous traveling museum exhibitions. Her work was most recently on view in the exhibition “Echoes: Women Inspired by Nature” curated by Betty Ann Brown and Linda Vallejo for the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. In 2003, Cox’s work was featured in the catalog for the World Ceramic Biennale, Korea. Cox’s installations take ceramic forms inspired by the natural world into a sculptural and conceptual realm. In her current work, thousands of hand formed and kiln fired pieces are combined, creating an undulating whole symbolic of the sprawling city of Los Angeles with its diverse communities and subtle boundaries. A palette of primary colors—blue, yellow and red— symbolizes the elemental aspects of our city and ourselves, but also suggests the promise of integration, transformation and growth. To learn more about Patsy Cox’s work visit www.csun.edu/art/05/faculty/cox/bio.html	Patsy Cox Urban Rebutia clay and engobe

Yuriko Etue Yuriko Etue earned her bachelors degree in scenography and display from the prestigious Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Etue was the master scenic artist at the Seattle Opera and has won awards for her scenes and sets. Since relocating to Los Angeles, Etue has completed numerous commissioned public art works, including murals and mosaics at elementary schools, hospitals, and parks. In recent years Etue began working in the more personal and smaller scale printmaking and collage mediums. This body of work is inspired by rasen, the Japanese word for spiral—according to the artist, “the mother shape of all life and nature. It is a shape that has a life-force. For me, rasen represents the essential, original form of nature. I am studying spirals to understand and explore life. To better understand nature and myself.” Etue is an active member of the Silverlake Arts Collective. To learn more about Yuriko Etue’s work visit www.yurikoart.com	Yuriko Etue Rinnetensho (Reincarnation) 9” x 6”, etching with oil paint

Melanie Rothschild Melanie Rothschild earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology with an emphasis in the arts at UCLA. She began her artistic career as a textile designer but her interest in texture, color, and materials inevitably led to a more expansive body of work. Her functional works of art, including boxes and tables, have been sold in galleries and museums shops across the country such as the Smithsonian and American Craft Museums. Over the last several years Rothschild has been devoting time to purely non-functional artworks. Experimenting with materials like paint, mirror, felt, and paper, Rothschild has created an array of intricate and whimsical art objects, each with an emphasis on color and pattern. For the artist, the act of creation is as important as the work of art: “Following my own hunches and doing things my own way is more meaningful than the visual images [created]. I like to think of my work as an homage to the spirit of carving one’s own way.” To learn more about Melanie Rothschild’s work visit www.melanierothschild.com	Melanie Rothschild Image #33 15" x 45" x 2”, acrylic on wood

Jerrin Wagstaff Jerrin Wagstaff earned his master of fine arts from California State University Long Beach and his bachelor of fine arts from Brigham Young University. Wagstaff has been exhibiting actively in Southern California since his relocation here in 2003. Wagstaff works in both painting and drawing, combining a variety of visual sources from popular culture the modern landscape and the history of art to create his open-ended allegories that, in his own words, “point toward humor, hope, and quiet celebration.” His current body of work explores the impossibility of translating Southern California’s monumental, machine-made architecture into intimate, hand-made paintings. To learn more about Jerrin Wagstaff's work visit www.jerrinwagstaff.com.	Jerrin Wagstaff Conduit 14" x 18”, oil on canvas

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