Mixed Media Marriage

by Wewer & Steve Keohane

This exhibition celebrates local favorites, Wewer and Steve, and will showcase ceramic, painted, and mixed media works of art. Mixed Media Marriage will be on display at the CCC Gallery January 9th - 30th, 2021

Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10 am 5 pm

WEWER KEOHANE

Artist Statement
 "My quest is to make the invisible visible."
Through dreams, meditation and journaling, I explore the subconscious for
divine intervention and ideas that represent my authentic voice. I allow
myself an eclectic range and although my galleries often don't appreciate
it, that voice changes as I change and the concepts that are given to me become
stepping stones in my conscious evolution.

Biography
Wewer, raised in Europe, worked in New York and D.C., moved to Carbondale, Colorado in 1981 to pursue art and dream work. Wewer is the author of Artful Dreaming, holds Ph.D.’s in Creative Arts & Psychology of Dreaming, and is an avid art collector, animal lover, and yogi.

Wewer’s art is in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Brooklyn Library, Musee L’Eventail (Paris), Powers Collection, universities, corporations, and libraries.  Her mixed media, book art, and sculptural pieces are represented and collected internationally and included in many publications. A body of music, inspired by Wewer's Tea Ceremony, was composed and performed by ArsNova in Denver in 2016. She is also an Inaugural Fellow of the Aspen Art Museum.

www.wewerart.com

STEVE KEOHANE

Artist Statement
I have had a life-long fascination with the perception of reality, and the conveyance of the same. Where this intersects with our humanity as an expression becomes art in all its sensory spectrum. I have followed the rise of man from paleoanthropology through modern history. Throughout there is an urge to express something numinous, to convey the rapture one experiences, either through personal or collective imagery in a way that transcends time and space to touch another, to let them experience the electric current that is what was and yet to be, to be human.

Biography
As a teen, I got to play in a dark room, not a parental sensory deprivation, rather, for photography. Likewise, I learned the basics of silver-soldering under more lighted conditions. I can narrowly label my interests as anthropology and physics. Dropping out of college and working for two start-up Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing companies, and ending up at Hewlett Packard at 28. I found my photography and prior IC manufacturing experiences lent me an edge in the photolithography aspect of IC production. It was considered a Black Art, was presented as a theory in engineering classrooms, and was something one had to do to understand the interactive variables. My previous experiences had me showing the engineers how to better aspects of the process, ultimately I was able to get the world's first 32-bit CPU to yield substantially. I made a computer draw a Garfield cartoon cat on a plotter by definition of mathematical formulas before we had graphics software. Aside from this esoteric manipulation of silicon, I've turned it's native forms into arrowheads and knives. I carve wood, make jewelry, ceramics, and like integrating different materials together into objects. Perhaps the longest evolving, collaborative piece of work is our homemade with artist wife Wewer and our furry children.