I was really excited to see my high school friend Jane Gordon's work on display at the Northern Clay Center last night. This year, Jane was chosen to receive one of the Jerome fellowships, and she has been working on Gather/Disperse I and Gather/Disperse II for the last year. Today she leaves for Arizona where she's going to grad school.
Jane's work in recent years has predominantly been outdoor installations. A couple years ago she had a neato piece on Lake Calhoun called Migration which consisted of small ceramic objects assembled together in a pattern on top of the frozen lake. She's done other similar outdoor work as well, incorporating her ceramic work into the plant and animal life of the outdoors. 
When I spoke to Jane yesterday, she said since she had the opportunity to present at a gallery through the Jerome Fellowship, she wanted to embrace the opportunity, and decided to create an indoor/outdoor exhibit. So outside of the Center you can see Jane's ceramic buds and flowers attached to the trees. Inside, along the walls, with the same color palette, there are fungal spore looking growths along the walls, and then large blossoms hanging from the ceilings. The blossoms themselves, gigantic and beautiful, seem to be the end of the progression started by the buds on the trees outside. Jane said that originally she thought the walls were going to be white, but when she learned they would be green, she adjusted the color scheme of the entire piece to blend into the gallery space. I think I might go back today to take another look at the outdoor portion of the piece, since it was a bit hard to see last night.
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