BPA Gallery March First Friday Art Walk: “From Sea to Tree...”
BPA Gallery First Friday Art Walk: “From Sea to Tree with Mountains in Between”
Abstract Mixed Media by Thendara Kida-Gee
First Friday Art Walk March 6 @ 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
Exhibit Continues through March 30 at Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA)
Join us in the BPA Gallery March 6 for the First Friday Art Walk and an enjoyable evening of art and friends. The March exhibit features abstract mixed media with a dominating force of recycled photography by Thendara Kida-Gee. Growing up in the relative flat of Buffalo, New York, Thendara is entranced by the Puget Sound’s positioning – in between mountain ranges. Such placement yields an added ability to locate oneself that is rare in other places – a defining of space where land tells us where we are and what to do as opposed to man. Thendara obsesses over the mountains and the feeling of freedom they inspire as she contemplates her own “speck-like nature compared to the vastness of it all.”
With these mountains comes a beautiful blanket of trees and lapping of seas. Having lived a good portion of her life in cities, Thendara’s move to Washington was like “coming home to a place I never knew as home. The trees are my people and the sea a disenchanted friend. Their nature and nurture give life what I had been missing, really with no idea.”
The works in this exhibit are mixed media, but the majority of them are what Thendara calls her recycled landscapes – abstract images cut “meditation-ally” and methodically by transforming something old or discarded, and hand-creating something new. The exhibit continues through March 30 in the BPA Gallery.
The BPA Gallery showcases regional artists in revolving exhibits in the C. Keith Birkenfeld Lobby and regularly participates in the First Friday Art Walk from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Gallery hours are 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Wednesday – Friday plus one hour prior to each performance. Admission is free, and information is available online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206.842.8569 or in person at BPA, 200 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island. Please check with the BPA Box Office for specific exhibit dates, as the length of each show varies.
BPA is supported, in part, by Bainbridge Community Foundation, Bainbridge Island Ace Hardware, Bainbridge Island Magazine, the City of Bainbridge Island, One Call for All, and Town & Country Markets. Bainbridge Performing Arts is pleased to offer an “Open Doors” program. Free and reduced-cost tickets to most events are available to community members in need through our partner Helpline House thanks to a grant from the Mabee Family Foundation. Please contact the BPA Box Office at 206.842.8569 or Helpline House to reserve tickets today.
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