Hello all, Art In Ecology will celebrate solo shows by four artists, Mary McCann, Lois Beck, Davis Noah Giles, Tom Boucher with a Friday 12/07/2018 reception, noon to 2 PM, at the Ecology Headquarters building in Lacey, just north from Olympia. Please feel welcome to view the work and meet the artists! Refreshments provided. Ecology is at 300 Desmond Drive Lacey WA 98504 *************************************************************************************************************************************************************** November 26, 2018 By Kim Collins, Ecology Art Committee Next week, the Ecology Art Committee will host a reception for four artists whose works are now showing on the first, second and third floor gallery hallways and in the small and large dining rooms in the Lacey Building. The event will be held from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. on Friday, December 7, in our main lobby. Light refreshments will be served. It's a wonderful way to meet the artists to thank them for enlivening our lives. Here is more information about their creations, in their own words: Mary McCann (Lacey main dining room gallery) Ocean floors spread. Tectonic plates move. Continents collide. Subduction thrusts up great mountains. Huge landmasses slide past one another. One side drops. Another side rises. Unimaginable heat and pressure squeeze rock and rearrange crystalline structure. Volcanos erupt. Ash and molten rock spew out to reform the landscape. Millions of years pass-the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Transformation after transformation requiring time humans cannot comprehend. Oddly enough, I find this story comforting. There is beauty in the new structure, beauty in the rock, beauty in the fact that we are on this ever-changing Earth. And we have no say in how She decides to keep on moving. In this body of work I am exploring outcomes of events in the geologic story of our planet. Lois Beck (First floor gallery) I came late to making art and am pouring it on to make up time! After taking various community college courses for 30 years, I decided I wanted a degree, which I completed in 1996 at The Evergreen State College with a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities. During my last quarter at TESC, I took my first art class - printmaking. I have been hooked since then. My artwork explores the many fascinating processes of printmaking with my current focus being monoprint. My prints include woodcuts, etchings, linocuts, solar plates and rubber blocks as well as monotypes, with each technique producing a different result. Recently, I have become interested in collage and combining collage with my prints is producing exciting results. I have begun printing my own papers to use in collage with my monoprints as backgrounds. My work has been shown throughout Western Washington. I am a member of several art groups in Olympia including Arts Olympia and Olympia Art League. David Noah Giles (second floor gallery and in the small café dining room) My painting is rooted in my early life experience, amidst the sights and sounds of New York City. Absorbing the loud rhythmic symphony of the subway and the constant construction and destruction of buildings. Moving through diverse crowds that interplay global cultures. The excited sounds of Jazz, Rock and Latin music permeate my being and to this day I carry these influences within me and express them into my art. My Non-Figurative Paintings employ a methodology that is determined by past breakthroughs, discoveries and successes. I have developed my own lexicon of calligraphy, broken geometric forms, spatial relationships as well as line and color. During the past several years I have added paper collage, sometimes I use a thicker cotton watercolor paper but I also use printed fine art paper from India, Japan and China. I'm looking for pattern and raised carved-like forms that I then partially reveal. My process is a continuation that allows growth. I add elements from infinite possibilities. My aspirations as a painter are to produce new works that convey power, subtlety and beauty. Tom Boucher (Third floor gallery) Ecology employee Tom Boucher is showing two wildly different types of work. What's the common denominator? Intricacy, curiosity, and interest in overlooked items. On one hand, he takes apart what were (once) everyday objects-film cameras, clocks, tape recorders, etc.-and transforms their parts into collages that have been likened to museum displays of butterflies. The collages reveal that even the smallest parts of mechanisms have sophisticated designs that are too often invisible and ignored. On the other hand, his maps of Olympia and Seattle do the same for the often unnoticed minutiae of our neighborhoods. The maps are dense and personal puzzles that catalog yard sculptures, cat friendliness, interesting plants, hidden sitting nooks, cast-offs ranging from baby pacifiers to overstuffed chairs, and much more. Both are meant to invite you into the beautiful mazes of the everyday. Please join us on December 7 from noon - 2 p.m. in the main lobby of the Lacey Building. Kim [cid:image011.png@01D48715.85DAF7D0] Kim Collins<mailto:kcol461@ecy.wa.gov> WQ FMS Records Department of Ecology<http://ecy.wa.gov/>/Water Quality Program Office (360) 407-6203 Fax (360) 407-7151 This communication is public record and may be subject to disclosure as per the Washington State Public Records Act, RCW 42.56. [2018Nov26ArtReceptionMcCannFull.jpg] Mary McCann [2018NovArtReceptionBeckFull.jpg] Lois Beck [2018NovArtReceptionGilesFull.jpg] David Noah Giles [2018NovArtReceptionBoucherFULL.jpg] Tom Boucher