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| Monotype with Plate - Red. Monotype, water base ink on 2 layers of plexi. Irene Yesley |
Irene
Yesley
Patterns on Plexi
New
Work
October 2 –31, 2015
Artist’s Reception
First Friday, October 2nd, 6-8 pm
In concert:
Ranger and the Re-Arrangers
Bainbridge Island’s Own Gypsy Jazz Band
About the Artist: Irene Yesley
of Bainbridge Island describes herself as a geometric abstract minimalist,
designing flat, hard-edge patterns against a relatively flat background. Physical
textures, such as brush strokes, play a minimal role to the interplay of
positive and negative shapes, and the emotional impact of color.
I earned an MFA in
printmaking from Arizona State University. After graduation, I bought two floor
looms and started making rugs and tapestries. Eventually I grew frustrated with
the restraints of weaving, the warp and the weft and sold my looms. Freed
from fiber, I have explored pencil, pastel and oil stick on paper, done
reverse painting on Plexiglas, acrylics on wooden panels, gesso board and
canvas.
The outdoors is the biggest
influence on my work. The first landscape I knew was Spokane, Washington, where
I grew up. That was followed by the cactus of Arizona for 5 years, the
urbanscapes of Boston and Washington, DC, the chaparral of Topanga Canyon, and
22 years in the desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico. For six years until 2004,
we had a condo in Kas, Turkey, on the Turquoise Coast of the Mediterranean,
where I spent six months a year.
Now I live on an island across
the sound from Seattle in a temperate rainforest. Without even being aware of
what was happening, each new location has changed the shapes and colors in my
work.
The Island Gallery is pleased to announce that Irene was
awarded 1st Prize, 2D Artwork, at the Annual Statewide Juried
Competition and Show at Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, Washington. She has also recently won an award for her work
at the exhibition The Printmaker's Hand III, Northwind Arts Center, Port
Townsend, Washington, and at the Women Painters of Washington Fall Members
Show, 2010, First Place; Juror Barbara Shaiman, Director of SAM Gallery,
Seattle, Washington. Her work will also
appear in a winter 2015-16 show at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
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| White on Blue. Acrylic paint on 3 layers of plexi. Irene Yesley |
About the Band: Bainbridge Island’s Ranger and the Re-Arrangers play gypsy jazz or “hot jazz,” an upbeat
jazz style created in the 1930s by Django Reinhardt and other European stringplayers evoking the spirit
of a Paris cafe and the raucous energy of a Gypsy campsite. “At the heart of their sound is Ranger Sciacca's
sweet violin playing… his sense of melody and daring improvisations”
(World Rhythm). The band’s repertoire includes swing standards,
traditional Gypsy melodies, the music of Django Reinhardt, and Ranger's
unique originals.
Ranger Sciacca’s
performances and compositions reflect his extensive studies in classical, jazz,
and folk music. Ranger also studied folk and dance music for seven years with
renowned Seattle fiddler Stuart Williams. Ranger’s main influences include
guitarist Django Reinhardt and jazz violin greats Stuff Smith, Claude Williams
and Stephane Grappelli. Ranger studied jazz theory and history at Whitman
College.
Michael Sciacca, Ranger’s dad, has been his rhythm guitarist for many years; they have performed as a swing jazz duo since 2001.
Percussionist Jeffrey Moose has a 30-year career in both music and fine art. His collaborations and band projects include work with Joined at the Head, Heliotroupe, Dog Superior, Stiff Kitty, Atoke, Zayah Emmanuel, and Sam Andrews, founder of Big Brother and the Holding Company. He is currently director of Jeffrey Moose Gallery in Seattle.
Mandolin player Dave Stewart is a classically-trained
pianist.
~oOo~
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