Lamplight Gallery in Bountiful offers two very different artists happy to provide that taste with their featured artists for December, photographer Louise R. Shaw and glass artist Cheryl Deis. An open house featuring the artists will be held Nov. 21 from 6-9 p.m., and the art will be on display now through the end of December.
Shaw’s photographs, which have made regular appearances in exhibits throughout the area, are like miniature vacations to far-flung destinations that most of us have only ever heard of. Though a few of the photographs in the exhibit offer impressive mountain-and-forest vistas, Shaw’s most delightful work makes the viewer feel as if they are standing right on a street corner in Rome or looking out over a balcony in Santorini. That perspective allows for an immediate, immersive magic to the photographs that more sweeping vistas couldn’t hope to touch.
“We live in a world of incredible sights, both natural and man-made,” said Shaw. “I am grateful to have been able to capture these sights to savor again and again, and now to share them.
Deis, who uses glass to create everything from jewelry to masks, chooses a different exotic route by evoking the wildness of imagination.
“If I could sculpt and preserve water, I imagine the end result would be similar to what can be created with glass,” said Deis. “Art changes its face to match our perspective, and the versatility and complexity of glass allows me to express the faces of my realities.”
One of the most entrancing parts of her exhibit are the hearts, which Deis has said emerged out of a desire to make more use of glass scraps. The results seem almost like man-made opals, complete with utterly individual hearts of fire.
“If we've lived, our hearts have been lifted, loved, broken, separated, expanded and given away,” said Deis. She sees the hearts as a metaphor for living whole-heartedly. “The pieces are then fused back together by our spirit and our love for life.”
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