FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 6/2/11
Morgan Arts Council
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ARTISTS OF THE GRID AT ICE HOUSE


BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV -- "Artists of the Grid," gallery exhibit opens 
at the Ice House Gallery in Berkeley Springs on Friday, June 17 at 
7:30pm. First stop on the Friday night Artwalk is Mountain Laurel 
Gallery at 5pm. The art exhibit hangs at the Ice House through August 
7 with gallery hours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 5pm.

Fifteen artists hailing from an area stretching from California to 
Boston are assembled by curator Rebecca Jones to reflect on the theme 
of the grid as the basis for their creations. The variety of 
assembled work ranges in media from metal and silk to jewelry, 
clothing and painting. "Artists have created work based on the grid 
since the beginning of western civilization," says Jones. She 
explains it gives a design or a piece of work unity, balance and 
structure. "When the rules are broken and there is a deliberate 
restructuring of shape and visual balance of grid design elements, 
there is a change in the dynamics." Work using both the structured 
and the restructured method are included.

Jones, a Hagerstown native, comes from a family of artists and created 
her first book of illustrated poetry in the second grade. Her work in 
the show represents her continued interest in the combination of word 
and image. Her mixed media collages are created primarily from painted 
and manipulated paper.
Other artists include Joy Bridy, a ceramicist from Shenandoah Junction 
who built her own bourry box wood kiln. Doug Kinnett's art is 
abstract, organic and geometric with bold colors and imaginative 
patterns. Woodworker Judy Rand took herself off the grid more than 30 
years ago when she made the transformation from PhD psychologist to 
master woodworker. Joining these artists are four from Berkeley 
Springs: fiber artists, Jane Frenke and Kim Potter and artists Jan and 
Sandy Heath.

The curated gallery exhibit produced by the Morgan Arts Council is 
funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the West Virginia 
Commission on the Arts and hotel/motel tax revenues. The Ice House is 
located on the corner of Independence and Mercer. Gallery hours are 
Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 5pm. For more information 
call 258-2300 or check online atwww.macicehouse.org.