Mya Kerner - "Piercing the Infinite Sky"
October 04, 2017
We are excited to host local Seattle-based artist Mya Kerner in our space this quarter from October through January. The opening reception for her latest new collection, "Piercing the Infinite Sky," will be during October's First Thursday Art Walk on Thursday, October 5th from 5pm - 8pm.
Far, far above,
piercing the infinite sky,
Mont Blanc
appears—still, snowy, and serene;
Its subject
mountains their unearthly forms
Pile around it,
ice and rock; broad vales between
Of frozen floods,
unfathomable deeps,
Blue as the
overhanging heaven, that spread
And wind among the
accumulated steeps;
…
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Show Statement
I regard the
mountains as stoic icons reflected by mortality, records of the movements of
the earth and the torrents of the sky. They represent a collision, or maybe, a collaboration
of the elements and forces of life. Though continuously rising or falling, the
mountains stand, silent, weighing on the shifting fragments of the earth, moving
at an incomprehensible rate.
In these works,
I depict geological disruptions, carved moments and parts within the landscape.
Records of denudation captivate me, as these notes present a segmented image of
the whole. Mountaintops stand crisp against a stark white, reaching for an
infinite sky. Descending are scratched lines, which break through the slopes,
while flecks of white dapple eroded surfaces, recalling cooler seasons. These
finished pieces linger on the threshold of completion, for what memory is
complete upon its conception? The image often disintegrates as it nears the
base of the painting, referencing the deposition of mountain and mythos.
I approached
these white panels with turbulent, yet restrained mark making. Mixing oil paint
above and across graphite marks, I soften or exaggerate the contours of the
landscape. In some areas, the imagery holds, stable, while across the scene, a
moment of textural play denotes action, erosion or sliding, moving away from
the sky, down to the chaotic base. My paintings depict the tranquility of
nature, while whispering of unpredictably and grandeur far beyond human conception
or control.
As the threats
of a changing climate are reawaken our terror of the Sublime, we fear the loss
of human constructs within the false façade of permanence. We are reminded, to
Nature, the individual is irrelevant, lost to the vastness and susceptible to
the ephemerality of being.
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