Snowmelt examines a moment of transition from deep winter into the earliest moment of spring’s promise – from a near sensory deprivation to the burgeoning of life and growth. In waiting for this inevitable transformation, one witnesses the death of the natural world and endures the monotony of the season, tinged with the sense of purity of a world blanketed in white. These aspects of winter dictate a turn inward, creating space for contemplation of universal principles and a return to more elemental truths.
Snowmelt presents works from a diverse group of artists working in painting, ceramics, woodblock prints, drawing, and fiber, to explore the possibilities created by certain absences and studied juxtapositions of form and material. Working in languages of minimalism and abstraction, these artists encourage a variety of non-narrative experiences, akin to arriving at the precipice of the snowmelt.
