ELEMENTS: EARTH, AIR, FIRE & WATER is here to celebrate and reflect on earth, air, fire, and water in all their forms. The fragile ecosystem of our planet is in a delicate state. Everything happening in the world now sets an imprint on our future and livelihood. Our relationship with the elements is complex. It sustains our life and is a source of beauty and wonder. Breathe in the elegance, power, fragility, and wonder of our planet and all of its ELEMENTS.

ELEMENTS

Best of Show- Rescue

Director’s Choice- Woodland

Director’s Choice- Fires of 2014

AIR

Sea Plastic

Blue Planet

The Measure of Time

Elemental Crisis

Caddo Lake in November
Debbie McCulliss
photography
Greenwood Village, Colorado

Meteorologica

S.T.E.V.E., The Big Dipper & The Northern Lights

my heart is in the water

How We Live

Goodell Creek Cedar

Passions: Hiking

Neosublime 16 Stuck on Highway 80

DC_007

Volition

Half Moon Caye

Leanin' On The Wind

Gold rain
Francesca Borgo
mixed media- acrylics, rocks, sand, paper on canvassed board
Treviso, Italy

Branches VII

Across Neat Soil

Crashing on the Shore

Stars

Noontide

Dispersion
Margaret Colarelli
graphite
Chicago, Illinois

Elements in Glass
Laurie Tompkins
kiln-sculptured glass
Laupahoehoe, Hawaii

Tierra

Hunt Series 11.21

Las Ramas
Thomas Crawford
digital
Brooklyn, New York

Reflection- Shells

Hybrid #13

earth's flow of life
Erin Starr
oil, acrylic, ink, spray paint, and gold powder on linen
Kansas City, Missouri

churn

Water's Edge

Land's End
Karen Rothman
oil monotype collage
Newton, Massachusetts

Secret Woods

Planet in Peril: WATER

Pour out Your Spirit** Water all the Earth I

Western Dharma

Lac De Reves

Wonderfully Windswept

Ragged Rock, Silver Mist
Karen Kurka Jensen
sumi-e: ink and watercolor on ricepaper
North Liberty, Iowa

The Glaciers Are Melting
Adriana Prat
mixed media - acrylic, and acrylic and ink pen on cardboard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Burn

Pyrophytic Growth
Elizabeth Pena
stoneware and porcelain
Cranston, Rhode Island

The Silent Bellow 2
Tao Chen
digital
Glastonbury, Connecticut

Fire and a Movie

Take Shelter

The River
Carlos Ponce
acrylic, beach sand, pebbles, and sea water on canvas
Teaticket, Massachusetts

Pulse

UNNATURAL BOUNDARIES

Elemental

Reflections, var. 3

Fire
Ayelet Lindenstrauss Larsen
silk, linen, and cotton threads on cotton canvas
Bloomington, Indiana

Slant Rocks

SAND X STONE

Euphoria
Jean Kaplan
weaving
Graham, North Carolina

Seaweed
Craig Lacko
seaweed, paint
Palm Springs, California

Refraction
Diana Kogos
photography
Cortlandt Manor, New York

Inferno

Grown Too Soon: The Boys of the Mines
Patty Kennedy-Zafred
textile-hand silkscreened images on hand dyed fabric, image transfer of text, fusing, machine pieced and quilted
Murrysville, Pennsylvania
Man has dug deep into the surface of the earth for centuries, seeking the precious, hidden treasures lying beneath the visible landscape. Compelling photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine during the early 1900’s of the young boys working in the coal mines as breakers and colliers inspired this piece. The working day for these boys was long, dangerous and dark; the only glimpse of daylight was typically during a brief lunch break before heading back down the shaft once again, into the darkness underground. For these boys, unless injured or killed in the mines, it was the beginning of a life’s work, into the depths of the earth beneath their feet.
(Original images courtesy Library of Congress.)

The Fifth Element

Now and Forever

Skyscape

Nature Memory

Turmoil Threatens

Falling Skies

Once Upon A Time In California

Spirits of the Deep

A Soft Voice in a Noisy World

Forest Bathing

Whirlpool

Staying the Course

Eye of the Sky

A Blustery Day
Beth Smith
hand painted, hand dyed, machine stitched, cotton fabric
San Diego, California

Fallen Leaves

Glacial Tears

Anger Like the North Wind

Surface Tension

West of the Ocean

Labyrinthine

As Above, So Below

Airborne Traveler: Spirits 2
Rosemary Cohen
monotype
Oregon City, Oregon

Infrastructure
