Four Winds Gallery would like to thank everyone that came out this weekend for the opening of Guardian Spirit!

Mira, Carol and Roxanne each brought us some fantastic pieces, showcasing their immense talent! Special thanks also to Ken and Dan LeDonne for making us some great wooden display stands that really showed off Carol's work! To see the Guardian Spirit pieces, visit our website and check out our Flickr page for more great photos of the event!

Four Winds Gallery is excited to announce the opening of our next exhibition, Guardian Spirit!

New and retrospective works by ceramicist Roxanne Swentzell, woodworker Mira Nakashima, and metalsmith Carol Krena will be presented in our Walnut Street gallery on October 22-23, 2010. The exhibition is a first time collaboration, featuring an assembly of career-spanning pieces. The skills of each artist illuminate the personalities of each piece of wood, metal, stone and bit of clay, letting forms arise in their adept hands. This honoring of material and tradition moves beyond the functional limits of furniture, figural sculpture, and jewelry. We are honored to have the opportunity to share their illuminating work, and hope to see you there!

Meet the Artists:
Friday, October 22
6-8pm
Saturday, October 23
11am-5pm

Rufino Tamayo (1899- 1991) is considered to be the "fourth great" Mexican painter of the twentieth century.  While his contemporaries were utilizing their paintings and murals in the hopes of inspiring radical political change, Tamayo wanted to create an "art for art's sake."  He is known for innovating the technique of the mixograph, which combines relief painting with lithography to create a rich, three dimensional surface.