Gerri Sayler
creates site-specific installations using fibers as sculptural media.
Her work is inspired by landscapes she has known and loved—grasslands
and wheat fields of Midwest prairies, hills and valleys of north Idaho
where she lives, and most recently, the Pacific Northwest’s seasonal
textures of water and ice.
The artist draws on the tactility of fibers and serial repetition to explore the cycles of nature and the nature of time. Her art making involves labor-intensive handwork, fabricating and/or deconstructing fibrous material, which she assembles into large-scale, tactile environments that materials and space.
site-specific installation by Gerri Sayler — through December
2012 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY
commissioned as temporary public art for Wyoming Sculpture Invitational
monofilament hand drizzled with hot glue dimensions 28 feet width x 33 feet long x 22 feet height
CURRENT: Interstitial: Between Earth and Sky, a site-specific installation commissioned for the Wyoming Sculpture Invitational at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (June 2012—January 2012).
UPCOMING: Evanescent at the Missoula Art Museum (October—April 2013).
PREVIOUS: Whitworth University Bryan Oliver Gallery (2012), Suyama Space in Seattle (2010), Eastern Washington University Art Gallery (2009), Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (2009), Boise Art Museum (2008), Sun Valley Center for the Arts (2008) and the University of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery.
In 2011, she received two artist residency fellowships from the Jentel Foundation in Banner, WY and Brush Creek Foundation in Seratoga, WY. She was recipient of the 2007 Juror’s First Place Award in the Idaho Triennial and has received grant funding and awards from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
She holds a BFA in sculpture from the University of Idaho and a BS in journalism from the University of North Dakota. She also studied art and anthropology at Washington State University and the University of North Dakota. The Minnesota native lives with her husband in north Idaho, where the textures of the rollings Palouse hills inspire her passion for fibers.
viahttp://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2012/07/uw-art-museum-presents-interstitial-between-earth-and-sky.html
The artist draws on the tactility of fibers and serial repetition to explore the cycles of nature and the nature of time. Her art making involves labor-intensive handwork, fabricating and/or deconstructing fibrous material, which she assembles into large-scale, tactile environments that materials and space.
site-specific installation by Gerri Sayler — through December
2012 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY
commissioned as temporary public art for Wyoming Sculpture Invitational
monofilament hand drizzled with hot glue dimensions 28 feet width x 33 feet long x 22 feet height
CURRENT: Interstitial: Between Earth and Sky, a site-specific installation commissioned for the Wyoming Sculpture Invitational at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (June 2012—January 2012).
UPCOMING: Evanescent at the Missoula Art Museum (October—April 2013).
PREVIOUS: Whitworth University Bryan Oliver Gallery (2012), Suyama Space in Seattle (2010), Eastern Washington University Art Gallery (2009), Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (2009), Boise Art Museum (2008), Sun Valley Center for the Arts (2008) and the University of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery.
In 2011, she received two artist residency fellowships from the Jentel Foundation in Banner, WY and Brush Creek Foundation in Seratoga, WY. She was recipient of the 2007 Juror’s First Place Award in the Idaho Triennial and has received grant funding and awards from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
She holds a BFA in sculpture from the University of Idaho and a BS in journalism from the University of North Dakota. She also studied art and anthropology at Washington State University and the University of North Dakota. The Minnesota native lives with her husband in north Idaho, where the textures of the rollings Palouse hills inspire her passion for fibers.
viahttp://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2012/07/uw-art-museum-presents-interstitial-between-earth-and-sky.html
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