"Safe Passage"
Photograph on Canvas
34"x22"
In her February
2014 "Safe Passage" exhibition at the Arts Club of Washington, Bonnie
Ferguson Butler employs metallic ink photographs, photos on canvas, and
pastels
to explore various means of transportation, transition, and movement in
Italy, both the figurative and the literal. Images vary from the tiny
boat and mysterious alley in the photo entitled "Safe Passage," to the
unseen breeze and religious connotation in the pastel, "Vatican
Illuminated."
Some of these images of Northern, Central, and
Southern Italy will demonstrate double entrendre like these, but the
primary focus relates to an implied sense of movement - windows, doors,
water taxis, laundry in the sunny wind, and scooters - which is
caught before, during or after the action.
Like
each of her previous exhibits, this series demonstrates Butler's love
of travel and curiosity about how locations influence art. A Missouri
native raised in South Carolina who resides in Northern Virginia, Butler
joined the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia, in 2009 and
enjoys regular exhibits in Gallery 902. A published biochemist, her art
training began as an awakening during a required liberal arts class
outside her science majors at Wofford College; her graduate studies were
in Humanities and Art History at the University of Richmond. She has
pursued many studio classes and workshops since, studying most recently
with Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Jack Pardue, and Maggie
Price. Butler is founder and president of the Pastel Society of
Virginia and a member of Pastel Society of America. Her blog is available at bfbutler.blogspot.com.
February 2 - March 2, 2014
Opening February 7, 6-9 PM
Arts Club of Washington
Monroe House
2017 I St NW
Washington, DC 20006
