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Charlene's Fall Finale: Traeton Garl & Laura Yost Manthey
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Artist's
Reception Saturday, September 24, from 5 - 7 PM
GILLS ROCK, WI - More
than willing to risk bringing forth the unusual, Charlene Berg's final exhibit in Gills Rock will complete the
2005 Gallery Ten art season… not with a whimper, but a bang! Two outstandingly distinctive artists, Traeton Garl and Laura Yost Manthey will display
a feast for the connoisseur in search of a fresh and challenging display of personal artistic expression.
Garl and Manthey have nothing in common artistically besides their confidence and maturity, as evident in their
consistent, strong and very personal styles. Mathey uses pen and ink. Garl blends his stunning classical photographic
nudes with portions of the human form cast in three dimensions. Both artists deliver platefuls of food for thought.
Garl entitles his portion of the exhibit, "Figure & Form, an Exploration of Dimension." He explains
that he has chosen the female nude as his subject matter because he finds that the female figure has a "timeless
elegance and beauty… a degree of honesty and purity not available in the clothed figure."
But Garl adds a dramatic layer of tension with the inclusion of three-dimensional
human forms that present each of the framed two-dimensional nudes. The sculptural hands capture real light and
display shadows in a changing atmosphere while the photos capture and freeze a specific moment in time. Garl provokes
you to reflect on what all of this means in regard to the erotic nature of his subject matter.
Laura Yost Manthey speaks in black and white, presenting the results of a lifetime devoted to expressive journaling,
using words and images in a seamless fusion.
"As an artist and a thinker, I have spent countless hours in my
journals. There is companionship there," she confesses, "and a sense of time and place."
With over twenty five years spent perfecting her form of personal expression
and more than a decade teaching those skills to students as a middle school and high school English teacher, Laura
Yost Manthey's work is sparked full of life.
She was honored as the Minnesota Teacher of the Year in 1997, and taught
Survival Arts between 1996 and 2001. Manthey attended Sancta Sophia Seminary in 1996-97, taking courses in spiritual
studies, which further influenced her journal writings and drawings.
Charlene Berg invites you to meet both of these artists in person at a reception on Saturday,
September 24 from 5 - 7 PM for the opening of her latest exhibit.
See their work on display at Gallery Ten in Gills Rock through October 28.
Charlene's Gallery Ten represents over 100 artists in a gallery
collection that is contemporary, original and eclectic. GT Coffee, complements the gallery, serving espresso drinks
and Door County cherry pie by-the-slice daily from 8 AM to 5 PM. The gallery is open daily from 10 AM to 5 PM at
12625 Hwy. 42 in Gills Rock, Wisconsin. Telephone 920.854.9907 for further information of visit on-line at www.GalleryTen.com.
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