Capital City Arts Initiative

Artist’s Reception: Friday, September 26, 2014, 5 – 7pm
Exhibition Dates: September 22, 2014 – January 22, 2015
Exhibition Venue: CCAI Courthouse Gallery 885 E Musser Street, Carson City, Nevada

Silk & Sinew
Exhibition at CCAI Courthouse Gallery

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] announces its exhibition, Silk & Sinew, by artist Paula Chung at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery from September 22, 2014 – January 22, 2015. CCAI will host a reception for the artist on Friday, September 26, 5-7pm. The Courthouse is located at 885 E Musser Street, Carson City. The reception and the exhibition are free and the public is cordially invited. The gallery is open to the public Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm.

Silk & Sinew presents art from two separate bodies of work by Paula Chung: embroidered images based on medical MRIs and large floral quilts on hand-dyed silks.

The single floral blossoms present themselves more as large Impressionist paintings than as traditional quilts. It is the aging flower, not the budding petals, that commands this artist’s attention.

When Chung happened to see the MRI of a friend’s skull, she was intrigued by the image’s beauty. She translated the varying grays of the medical film into an extensive array of color that enhance the forms’ anatomy. Full-body images, hands, spines are a few of the images that she uses.

During the exhibition, Ms. Chung will talk about her work with art students and faculty at Carson High School, Dayton High School, and Douglas High School.

Chung’s work has been featured in the Surface Design Association Journal, Quilting Arts and the German Publication, Patchwork Professional and can be seen at http://paulachung.com/. Her solo and group exhibition venues have included Art Quilt NYC, Lake Tahoe Foyer Gallery, Quilt National and the Chester F. Sidell Gallery, of Massachusetts. She lives with her husband at Lake Tahoe.

Artist and writer, Sara Rockinger wrote the exhibition essay, Threads of Life, for Paula’s show; click here to read the essay. Rockinger earned MFA at Colorado State University in 2008 and a BA in International Relations at the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1986. Her art can be seen at http://www.srockinger.net/ She shows her artwork nationally and lives in Lafayette, Colorado.

The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered organization committed to the encouragement and support of artists and the arts and culture of Carson City and the surrounding region. The Initiative is committed to community building for the area’s diverse adult and youth populations through art projects and exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online projects.

CCAI is funded in part by the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, City of Carson City, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Comstock Foundation for History and Culture, and the John and Grace Nauman Foundation.

top image: Paula Chung at the exhibition
second image: Chung discussing her art with Douglas High School art students
third image: Silk & Sinew reception in the CCAI Courthouse Gallery
fourth image: Chung showing her color wheel binder of fabric dyes to Carson High teacher Mike Malley
bottom image: Silk & Sinew flier