Main Gallery
The Confluence’s primary exhibition space, showcasing
local and regional art since 1988.
April 15 - May 31
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19, 5 - 7 p.m.
Object Lessons
Swede Albert
We are surrounded by stuff – consumer goods, historical artifacts, impulse purchases. But stuff breaks. It goes out of fashion or becomes obsolete. And it usually comes wrapped in layers of excess packaging. Object Lessons will explore how ordinary items, discards, leftovers, and unearthed treasures can inspire creativity and find new life as art.
The Confluence: Art in Twisp is presenting Object Lessons, a show that will enlighten viewers by exploring our relationship to consumption, waste, and decay. All works in this show incorporate reused or repurposed materials. Those materials include everyday consumer items, industrial equipment and supplies, discoveries from the natural world, and many other repurposed items that the artists find inspiring.
Curator: Robin Doggett, Betsy Fetherston
EXHIBIT SPONSORS:
ArtsWA • Blue Star Coffee Roasters • D*Signs • Icicle Fund • KTRT The Root Radio • Methow Valley Lumber • Methow Reservations • mitchellimage • National Endowment for the Arts • Okanogan County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee •
Mixed media on shipping tube
27 x 3.25 x 1.5”