SUSURRATIONS
Pegan Brooke, Grace Potter, Solange Roberdeau – Opening Celebration

The three artists featured in SUSURRATIONS work at the intersections of core natural elements, creating, from intangible forces, grounding forms that express a deep connection to place. Across mediums, their artworks give shape to dynamic energies by bringing them into dialogue.

Mendocino-based artist Solange Roberdeau’s suminagashi series engages the Japanese art of marbling, wherein black sumi ink dances on paper in reaction to gusts across the water’s surface, capturing serendipitous moments of collaboration between the artist and the wind. Bolinas-based artist Pegan Brooke’s monochromatic oil paintings are studies of mist––water that is neither fully liquid nor air––which acts as both an occupant of space and a medium through which space becomes perceptible, material, and opaque. Grace Potter’s ceramic works, crafted with clays sourced locally to her studio and home in Mendocino, give shape to sensorial ephemera, such as the sound of water dripping into a cavernous vessel, and the passage of time, with sand slipping through a ceramic funnel. All three artists’ works conjure the phenomenon of susurration–– whispering, rustling, murmuring––as echoes of the natural world that inspires them.