Forest Aliya 'Elemental Beings'
Schedule
Fri Apr 26 2024 at 12:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Location
314 W Main Street, Grass Valley, CA, United States, California 95945 | Grass Valley, CA
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Elemental BeingsFEATURING WORKS BY FOREST ALIYA
acrylic, oil, and clay paint on paper and wood panel
THE GRANUCCI GALLERY AT THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 314 W. MAIN STREET • GRASS VALLEY, CA
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2024 • 5 - 7pm
Live Soundscape: Sunday, May 26, 2024 • 1 - 2:30pm
Exhibition Dates: April 26 - June 1, 2024
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
‘Elemental Beings’ is a collection of stories about the integration of sound and light and how the natural cycles of the elements (fire, water, earth, air) are in harmony by being in a constant state of balancing and rebalancing through symbiotic relationships.
In my good fortune, when I see harmonies of color I hear harmonies of sounds; I have a synesthetic experience. In this series of my work, symphonies of color and sound are expressed with abstract compositions of color, mushrooms, plant life, animals, moon cycles, and figures. I have created places of now, new beginnings, perspectives that embody temporalities and materialities, peace, abundance, communities, paradoxes, and journeys. Color holds narratives we can experience with our naked eye. My soundscapes unifies the work by giving substance to the concepts we cannot readily see or give words to.
ARTIST BIO
Forest Aliya was born in Knoxville, TN 1970-present. Currently she lives in Nevada City, CA with her son. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Pacific Northwest College of the Arts 2019 with the focus on color theory, abstract painting, and soundscapes. 2020-2021 she received a Holographic Sound Healing Certificate from Dr. Paul Hubbert in Austin, TX. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Santa Fe, NM; and Portland, OR. Her work has been published in “Music, Art, Lit” magazine 2020; “Contemporary Artist” 2023 Spring Edition by Jen Tough Gallery; “Art Close Up” December 2023; and “100 Emerging Artworks: Women’s Edition” 2023 by Art to Hearts Project. Her work is held in private collections. To name a few: San Francisco, CA; Cape Town, South Africa; Ashland, OR; Seattle, WA; Grass Valley, CA; and Davis Medical Center Davis, CA. Her public mural art resides in Berkeley, CA; Oakland, CA; Napa, CA; Grass Valley, CA; and Nevada City, CA.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I define my work as a Timescape—a narrative of collective places that I have experienced from within the physical world and the mind’s eye. I bring these places and experiences together to create a portal to a world that has not been fully manifested on earth. To do this, time and space are not relevant, only movement between worlds, expressed through color, line, and form. My art is an expression of time, space, and energy interacting.
The materials/mediums that I work with have chosen me. There are many times I have explored other mediums but I have always circled back to painting. Paper and wooden panels are my preference to paint on because they are from the trees. Trees are our greatest ancestors on this planet and I believe that they are helping me tell their stories as well as mine. I choose paint because of how light creates colors by bending a certain way. By mixing colors I am creating light from within. I choose sound because sound and light creates forms with the energy of the elements. I choose two-dimensional surface because it becomes a portal into imagination.
My original essence creates from a liminal space. Being in a liminal space, a spirit becomes one with the creator of all things. A transformation is empowered by its own essence. When connected to the source of all things there is a time period of inter-reactive formlessness. After a moment has passed, the original essence of the unique spirit comes back together carrying information in a different vibrational sequence. From here the unique spirit will create its next experience.
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Where is it happening?
314 W Main Street, Grass Valley, CA, United States, California 95945Event Location & Nearby Stays:
