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‘Formations: Patterns in Nature’
Where: Spruill Gallery
4681 Ashford Dunwoody Rd. N.E., Atlanta, GA. 30338
Phone: 770-394-4019
When: Now through April 13.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Closed on Sunday.
Admission/Parking: Free
One of Waterhouse’s mixed-media pieces, “Unfolding: Women’s
Work,” intrigued Temme Barkin-Leeds ofBuckhead.
“It looks like crochet, very traditionally female,” she said.
“Unfolding” includes parts of doilies Waterhouse said she inherit
ed and some she collected from around the world. She said working
on the piece has helped her reconnect at a deeper level with her roots
and pay a tribute to past generations of women in her family who were
known for making elaborate doilies.
Waterhouse, who was born and raised in Sweden, is quick to point
out that, unlike her ancestors, she was never interested in sewing.
“My friends and I didn’t want to learn handmade crafts because
we considered it ‘women’s work’ and, thus, not important,” she said.
“As I matured, got married and moved
away from my homeland, I began to re
alize that the women in my family and
those in the community where I grew
up were talented and their creative work
in crochet, embroidery and sewing was
significant.”
She emphasized that “everything is
connected through a network, whether
in nature or in life.”
Waterhouse’s appreciation for her
roots resonated with King, who said
she fondly recalls her grandmother sew
ing quilts, making her own jelly and de
veloping friendships with other neigh
bors in the Appalachian Mountains.
“The joy derived from the community
of women getting together to do some
of the work in fellowship was invalu
able,” she said.
Consistent with the underpinning
theme of the exhibition — connecting
with the past through nature — Cook’s
work shows her expertise in silverpoint,
a painstaking medieval drawing tech
nique dating back to the 8th century.
DeRamus specializes in encaustic, a
painting process dating to the 4th cen
tury B.C., in which pigments are fused
with wax. DeRamus likes to immerse
herself in her paintings and said she ex
periences encaustic as a “form of medi
tation about the passage of time.”
In a hurried world saturated with
technology, the artists in this exhibit
are seeking to touch upon a more intro
spective way of life.
“I have learned acceptance and the
art of staying in the moment, as the re
sult of working with this medium,” De
Ramus said.
MARTHA NODAR
Mona Waterhouse, left, and
Linda King, right, discuss one of Waterhouse’s works
at the Spruill Gallery in Dunwoody.
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