Join us for a night of art from Ginger Knowlton. Enjoy light fare, incredible discussion, and beautiful art at the Boulder JCC's Messinger Gallery.

Ginger Knowlton is an artist with paintings and drawings in private collections across the United States and in New Zealand. She teaches writing and creativity and mindfulness at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She lives with her three children, partner, border collie, and cat in Boulder, Colorado.

Artist Statement

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been captivated by the fall of light on grasses, by sweeping ocean mist, by clouds suspended over mountains... as well as with the minutiae of plants, pebbles, raindrops. I fell in love long ago with the luminosity of oil paint, though recently I’ve begun working in new media, including natural pigments and inks that my children and I have made from Colorado plants and marble dust saved by a sculptor friend. For a number of years, my paintings were rooted more directly in landscape, but over time, I’ve been far more drawn to abstract painting, for the way it moves away from direct representation and language and linear thinking. I love the potential and energy and layered poetry of abstract painting. Most recently, I have been delighted to experience the world alongside my three children, who have taught me to see and experience the world in ways I might never have imagined, and at a pace that I’d almost forgotten. For the past decade and a half, nearly all of my creative energy has turned to raising my children, and now that I’m returning to painting, I see how aligned motherhood and artistic practice really are – the ebb and flow, the need for patience, listening, rhythm, waiting, and rushes of movement and joy. So far as I can see, my painting will always draw from experience with the world outside of buildings, though now with some greater awareness of how deeply connected we are and how inseparable, on so many levels, we are from place and from one another.

Thursday, March 5 | 5:30 - 7 pm | FREE

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