Contact: srockriver@gmail.com

ABOUT THE GLASS BLOWING STUDIO: Use the above links for class information.

ABOUT THE ARTIST goto: www.sallyrockriver.com:

Rockriver’s work takes us to another world where new geological formations are revealed.
We can enter the high temperature moment at which these phenomena were created and
marvel at the explosive interior of a crystalline birth.

YEAR ROUND: to purchase artwork: visit Gallery C in Raleigh NC:

http://www.galleryc.net/sally-resnik-rockriver.htm

Winter Themes:

ABSTRACT SNOW GLOBES-GLACIAL EXCAVATIONS- LIGHT CATCHERS

RECENT EXHIBIT

Mothers of Abstraction: Glass Artist Sally Resnik Rockriver shows with Painter Diane Patton.

Opening Reception: 7:00-9:00pm October 22, 2010, Gallery C.
In partnership with Raleigh Arts Commission
For images scroll down at these links:
http://www.galleryc.net/artistoftomorrowscholarship.htm
http://www.galleryc.net/sally-resnik-rockriver.htm

Mothers of Abstraction, will be on display October 22 through November 20, 2010.
Gallery C is located at 3532 Wade Avenue in the Ridgewood Shopping Center and is easy to find for both locals and out-of-towners. We are across the street from Meredith College and in the same shopping center as Whole Foods. Parking in the Ridgewood Shopping Center parking lot is free, well-lit, safe and very convenient to the gallery.

Sally Resnik Rockriver has redefined the aesthetic parameters of her medium by allowing geological laws to determine the content of her work. Rockriver arrives at a new form that she refers to as Geochemical Sculpture, in which compositions become planetary formations. Rockriver arrives at a new form that she refers to as Geochemical Sculpture, in which compositions become planetary formations. She creates a narrative landscape by combining her multiple approaches: glass columns with a crystalline core, calcite cave formations, crystal glazed slabs, salt-blown spheres, ceramic blown glass vessels, and sandcast rocks. Exploring Ms. Rockrivers works is like visiting another world where new geological formations are revealed.

NARRATIVE: From a sandcast ground erupts a ceramic glaze which fuses, melts, and crystallizes inside of a blown glass vessel. Hot rocks fume under the crater’s silica lake and release a salt gas that causes the liquid surface to swell into a dome of sparkling glass.

BIOGRAPHY: Prior to establishing her studio and school in North Carolina, she taught as Head of Ceramics at Moorhead State University, in Moorhead Minnesota. Ms. Rockriver received an MFA from Hunter College, a BFA from UNC-Chapel Hill, and has studied Glass and Ceramics at Penland and Corning. She has conducted seminars on the intersection of art and science and her work is internationally published, featuring this pioneering combination of science and art.

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