Seldom Seen Silks & Newly Fired Ceramics
by David W Riccio
(907) 780-6122
www.lemoncreekdigital.com
david@lemoncreekdigital.com

Artist Resume / Statement
Growing up on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota, fishing, hunting, boating, and hiking in the natural beauty of the out-of-doors, left a profound imprint on his view of life and the things he values. David attended the University of Minnesota where he studied the sciences and earned a degree in Chemistry and Mathematics (1971). It was there that he developed an interest and love of the visual arts. Courses in Photography and Painting lead to his involvement with the arts as an amateur painter and a semi-professional photographer. Since then he has continued his involvement in the arts by studying printmaking, photography, computer graphics, and digital photography. He had the opportunity to work with some of the very early digital photographic images while writing computer software to process some of first publicly available satellite imagery (1971-1975). It was then that he developed an interest in the possible uses of computer/digital technologies in the making of images.

In 1975 he moved to Alaska, where at the University of Alaska, Southeast (UAS) he continued his study and involvement in the arts. At UAS he has been actively participating in fine art classes since 1975. He has studied Serigraphic, Intaglio and Relief Printmaking, Painting, Batik, Silk Painting, Photography, Digital Art, Drawing, and Paper Making. He has maintained an ongoing relationship with UAS as a Student, a Consultant, and an Instructor, primarily in the arts and computer sciences. He has also experimented in metalworking, stone carving, jewelry making, gemology, lapidary, photography, digital art, ceramics and collage.

Art has become a primary activity in his daily life. David has participated in a number of juried and non-juried local art shows and received a number of local awards for his printmaking. He also has contributed artwork to a number of publications including UAS’s literary journal and the cover artwork for the humorous Alaskan wildlife guidebook "Hot on the Trail". David’s work has been shown in a number of local art shows and he also has shown his work on a semi-regular basis in a number of Juneau galleries.

David is actively involved in the use of computers as a media for artistic works and the use of computer (digital) techniques to help produce traditional painting, printmaking, photography, and design. He is the owner of Lemon Creek Digital www.lemoncreekdigital.com where he produces his own artwork and reproduces (prints) artwork for a number of other Alaskan artists.

David’s artistic style is intentionally eclectic in format and subject. He enjoys experimenting with technique and materials. "Art is my play time, a time for the other side of my brain to get its chance be creative". He has been influenced to a considerable degree by traditional Japanese and Chinese art, in specific, the wonderful Japanese wood block printers, and more recently the painters Kandinsky and Marc. David’s work ranges in style and media from pure abstraction to digital realism. Recent work has centered on abstractions derived from thinking about the nature and implications of water and streams. These musings have resulted in a series called Stream Dreams, which has about 50 images so far. These images combine the techniques of traditional printmaking, painting, and digital technology in their creation.

Recent Shows:

2002 (May) Big Picture Gallery, Juneau, AK: Organized/Featured in a 5-person show.
2004 (February) Wearable Art 2004, Juneau, AK: Opening piece in the show.
2004 (Spring) Empire Gallery, Juneau, AK: Featured Artist in a three-person show.
2004 (October) Juneau Artists Gallery, Juneau, AK: Featured Artist
2005 (Winter) City Museum, Juneau, AK: A reprise of 2004 Wearable Art piece.
2005 (August) KTOO, Juneau, AK: One-Person show.
2008 (June) the Canvas, Juneau, AK: One person Show of recent works.
2009 (March) the Canvas, Juneau, AK: Part of a Group Show.
2009 (May) JAHC, Juneau, AK: Part of a Group Show.
2009 (June-Sept) Bentwood and Bead Gallery, Juneau, AK: Featured Artist

Humanity and Nature II
by Jackie Manning
www.jmanningstudio.com

Artist Statement
The greatest adventures and the most astounding moments lie within nature. My paintings are an interpretation of these moments. It is my belief that all living things have a soul. These souls run parallel, and at moments collide and interconnect. This visceral experience of connecting is what I draw inspiration from and is rooted in the places we inhabit. In an attempt to capture these places I endlessly collect material, searching for the remnants of having existed in a single place at a single moment.

My intent is to draw the consciousness of the viewer to the figure's relationship with their environment. This is done by intertwining the figure and nature to where the form of one is lost in connection with the form of the other. In turn displacing the boundaries we create between nature and ourselves. The viewer is invited to vicariously experience the transference of energy between souls; an adventure of our senses in communication with nature as a pulsing organism instead of a nonentity.

Working with found objects and organic materials, my intention is to weave a dialogue of media into a single message. By using mixed media, not only the image, but also its tactile quality evokes a tangibility for the viewer, empowering sensory memory. By manipulating the materials to mimic the parts of the whole, the materials work concurrently with their own objectivity and that of the image to create an exchange.

I paint the figure's relationship with nature to transform responsibilities into a tangible experience, reminding the viewer of the relationship we are in with nature, what we are a part of, and answerable to.