Gallery at the Park February Featured Artist Show – Anna Britton, Arlene Custer, Victoria Gravenslund

Join us in February for an exhibition showcasing talented local artists: Anna Britton, Arlene Custer, and Victoria Gravenslund!

Anna Britton is a painter born in Richland – a place mainly known as the home of the Manhattan Project and being the most irradiated place in the United States. Anna grew up with a keen sense of dread and horror at what society is capable of. Channeling some of this existentialism into the visual arts and writing from a young age, she drifted into surrealism and over time developed a love for solitude and simplicity. This naturalistic outlook channeled into an obsession with pre-WWII society, particularly the turn of the century. Always preferring a grounded, realistic approach to life and art alike, Anna seeks to capture the mundane rather than the fantastical in her art.

Arlene Custer is a potter who works with hand-built with soft slab clay.  Starting with a blank slab of flat clay, the piece develops: to stretch, dart, texture, stencil, stamp, carve and more! Custer’s work focuses on the joy of “discovery”.  Each day is another opportunity to try a new shape, glaze combination or surface decoration. Her work stems from a desire to create quirky fun pieces, functional pottery and elegant decorative pieces.

Victoria Gravenslund is a potter whose love developed from the humble beginnings of making mud pies as a child. Now, her work embodies many different techniques, such as Raku – a 16th century Japanese technique with an American twist. Several other examples that will be on display include Sagger techniques, slab building, and the use of organic textures.