First Friday - Eleanor Rufty and Craig Wedderspoon

Drawings: Eleanor Rufty - Large Drawings
Bent: Craig Wedderspoon- Large Sculpture

OPENING: Friday, October 6, from 7-10pm
OCTOBER 6 - NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Eleanor Rufty’s large-scale drawings are based on fictional figurative imagery set in an elusive interior space, a motif consistent in Rufty’s work since 1980. Drawing from memory, Rufty explores the nature of visual memory; it is gradual, amorphous and fallible. Rufty’s charcoal drawings emphasize the linear element. Lines are made directly and repeatedly, establishing a mood derived through erasure.

The sculpture of Craig Wedderspoon is a cycle of asking and discovering solutions to a problem. Wedderspoon’s sculpture is activated with the dialogue of visual problem solving. His work represents a visual philosophy, constantly issuing aesthetic challenges toward interpretation, perspective, and approach.

Craig Wedderspoon, Shimmy (above)

Eleanor Rufty, Untitled No. 93 (right)