WHEN
APR 21 — MAY 24, 2023
Open Daily 10 AM ― 4 PM
San Juan Artists
WHERE
ArtSpring
100 Jackson Avenue
WHAT
Opening Reception
APR 21 | 5:00 ― 7:00 PM
Artist Panel 1
APR 22 | 10:30 AM
SALT SPRING ARTS
APR 14 – APR 30, 2023
Open Daily 10 AM – 5PM
Mahon Hall
Southern Gulf Island Artists
Artist Panel 2
APR 22 | 2:00 PM
Archipelago ⏤ Contemporary Art of the Salish Sea
A cultural exchange between the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada, and the San Juan Islands of Washington State, USA. In collaboration with the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, and Salt Spring Arts.
Artist ⏤ RaVae Luckhart
Sensing my way with an inner eye, I explore the forms to expose the universal mystery through metaphor and image to reveal the stories which communicate what is generally visible and often inexpressible. Touching on the divine, stories invite a kind of vision, giving form even to the invisible, clothing the metaphors, and throwing color into the shadows. My work speaks of love, terror, grief, relationships, conflict, faith, and redemption. Ultimately, I am expressing the human condition. Objects such as flesh and bone assume cultural and spiritual significance reflecting values and beliefs. Attempting to unearth the mystery, I represent the story with the mark, the color, and the composition with deer as the metaphor. It is then, when I merge with the painting, that I understand what I am about. The result is often open-ended ambiguity, mysteriously inviting room for the viewer’s interpretation.
“This work is not about a deer on a hook.” RaVae Luckhart
Mirror Mirror, 2017 – 2021
Mixed Media on Rives BFK
52″ x 36″
White Tails in Sunset, 2017 – 2021
Oil on canvas
48″ x 48″
Gone, October’s Breath, 2017 – 2021
Mixed Media on Arches Cover
49″ x 42″
Descending, 2017 – 2021
Oil on canvas
48″ x 48″
Night Dance, 2017 – 2021
Mixed Media on Rives BFK
42″ x 30″
A Place to Store Grief, 2017 – 2021
Oil on canvas
42″ x 42″
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
RaVae is a painter, printmaker, and ultimate instructor of visual art, exhibiting paintings, drawings, and fine art prints and creating numerous large-scale murals in South Dakota. As the founder of the Art Program at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota she was a full professor of art for 16 years, and in 1987 she created the first Fine Art Gallery in an engineering university. With the close proximity of Rapid City to Mt Rushmore which exemplifies freedom, the gallery featured an installation of two segments of the original Berlin Wall, tank traps, a submarine, and 109 photographs of that period in Germany. Paintings from Yugoslavia, an extensive collection of Navajo rugs, New Guinea sculpture & artifacts, Muslim paintings, and spiritual artifacts, and the work of outstanding American two and three-dimensional studio artists educated the student body and the Rapid City community.
As a Master Printer, owner, and operator of L ‘Atelier du Papier, a custom job printmaking studio, RaVae prints etchings, engravings, and lithographs for herself and accepts commissions to print for other artists. Her studio work was expanded to the Pacific Northwest when she built L’Atelier du Papier Ouest, an additional painting studio/home on San Juan Island. Currently working in both studio locations, cohesive bodies of work created over several five-year periods have been shared in numerous solo and group exhibitions which are available to view at ravaeluckhart.com. In addition to being a founding member of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, RaVae served on the exhibition committee, instrumental in the creation of numerous SJIMA exhibitions.
RaVae holds a BFA in Painting, from the University of Illinois, an MFA in Studio Art, from the University of Arizona, and was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Award.
