Town Talk with curator Cassandra C Jones
Sunday, December 1, 4:30-6 pm
“In the Realm of Spiders” invites you to suspend your phobias about arachnids. It is a gesture to ignite wonder and interest in these tiny creatures as a positive force in nature.
Curiosity, over fear, compelled six local artists to create work about spiders. Some explored the geometry of their webs and pondered their unique personalities. Others thought abut their powerful contributions to humans as pest control and pollinators. All looked for the good in them as a species. Each acknowledged, in their own way, something special about who spiders are and what they accomplish. By doing so, they urge us to reexamine our view of them, and acknowledge their importance to all life on earth.
Artists include:
Joel Fox
Rosemary Holliday Hall
Cassandra C. Jones
Jeff Mann
Steve Sprinkle
Jamie Stratford
Special Thanks:
Louise Sandhaus
Jennifer Jordan Day
Jennie Prebor
Mikael Jorgensen
Olga and Trent Jones
Joel Fox
Web Reveal 1-5
photographs on aluminum
24"x36"
$2,300 each
Cassandra C. Jones
Sweet Peacock
Archival Digital Collage on Cotton Paper
11"x14"
$1,200
Ascii Spider
Archival Digital Collage on Cotton Paper
11"x14"
$1,200
Wet Web
Archival Digital Collage on Cotton Paper
32"x40"
$4,000
Detail of Wet Web
Rosemary Holliday Hall
Thought Lines
Fifteen ceramic tablets
Spider webs, iron oxide, and porcelain
5” x 8”
$200 Each
Swarm
Car windows, porcelain clay, steel structure
11’ x 11’ x 7’
Not for Sale
Jeff Mann
Amorphophallus Titanum
Graphite on D'Arches 260lb Hot Press Rag Paper
26.5" W x 40" H
Not for Sale
Courtesy of Shelley Scott
Jamie Stratford
Five Animated Videos
Busy Spider
Appendage Washing
Sweetheart Spiders
Breakdancing Black Widow
Black Widow Ballet
Steve Sprinkel
Tiny Arachnid
Spider, floating in quiet blue space,
a mote of vagrant dust
spinning in thermal waters.
How many lost hours
have you been holding your breath,
unfazed by dark calamity, waiting for me
to lift you into life, and crawl up the brick wall?
Now, crawl forward, tiny arachnid step by merciless step,
to your foreordained destiny beyond these shallow pools,
where one day you will serve the whole nation
as the Minister of the Environment,
a legitimate authority over all wild things.
This last stepping-stone to the presidency
will establish your place in the hearts of the people
who you will enrapture because of your dexterity
with the World Wide Web, and the bold slogan
no sane person ever would challenge:
Vote For The Spider.
She’ll do away with the flies.
By Steve Sprinkel
From the 2016 Collection
Not Putting Zapata Back on the Ten