By Miles Hilton
Pearl City Clay House in downtown Jamestown (202 East 2nd Street, 716-488-2529) will host the opening reception of “Natural Selection”, this Saturday, September 9, at 7pm. “Natural Selection”, “a tribute to the interconnectedness of nature and the human experience”, features local, women artists whose work is inspired by wilderness and the outdoors.
Angela Caley, painter and small-business owner, creates work in “a mix of stylized realism and surrealism with a heavy emphasis on symbolism”. Her work often meshes areas of simple, inked lines with zones of bold color to create dynamic landscapes, self-portraits, and symbolic scenes. Ash Pickering works in many media, including watercolor, acrylic paint, and pen. “Ash’s style is a mixture of realistic ideas with abstract colors, shapes, and composition”, and she draws consistent inspiration from “being deep in nature”. Her series “Minutiae” will be on view at the exhibition.
Sarah Brown-Millspaw, watercolor artist and textile designer, is another participating artist. Her style tends towards illustrative and fresh, with bright, contrasting colors, a simplicity of form and shading, and energetic compositions and subjects.
Jennifer Bittner, who worked for several years as a photojournalist, will be showing her photographs of natural subjects.
The free event will include short speeches by three “local biology and sustainable living experts”. “Natural Selection” will be on view through the end of this year.