April 9 - July 2, 2022
CHERYL MEDOW: Envisioning Habitat: An Altered Reality
ROBERT MILNES: Sea What I Think
Artist Reception
Saturday, April 9, 2022 from 5 - 8 pm
(both artists will be present)
PDNB Gallery is featuring two solo exhibitions in their Spring calendar. The exhibitions celebrate new work by photographer and birder, Cheryl Medow, and ceramic artist, Robert Milnes.
This is Cheryl Medow’s first solo exhibition in the gallery. In the summer of 2020, PDNB presented an online exhibition for Cheryl, and she has been featured in several PDNB group exhibitions.
Medow travels to locations local and international to photograph many species of birds. Her birds are placed in an imagined landscape. None of these feathered friends find themselves in their true environment in Cheryl’s final composition.
For example, a beautiful sleeping great egret is found with tropical trees in the background under a dramatic night sky with the starry Milky Way. In another photograph, a crowned crane is seen perched on a snarled tree stump, seemingly focused on calling to its mate. The misty background of grassy shores of what looks to be a river under a blue sky contrasts mightily with the crane's vivid black, white and red feathers.
Cheryl Medow’s photographs have been exhibited in the Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA, The Wildling Museum, Solvang, CA, and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL.
An exhibition catalog is available.
Robert Milnes Robert Milnes was also featured in an online exhibition with PDNB in 2020. His upcoming solo show will feature work he has created this past year. Robert’s inspiration for this body of work was kindled on his 2021 trip to the Yucatan peninsula. He found pieces of dead coral on the beach which had an organic, modular form that intrigued him.
With this, Robert engaged with the Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, incorporating his seven propositions, sometimes using those propositions as titles to his ceramic sculptures. Wittgenstein discusses language as a picture. But, philosophy aside, these ceramic works are wondrous objects to behold.
Robert Milnes has exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions throughout his career, including Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA, the Northwest Craft Center, Seattle, WA and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, His works are in included in the collections of the Arizona State University, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ, and the Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA and other private, corporate, and public collections.
He is Dean Emeritus of the College of Visual Arts and Design at University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. Robert Milnes currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, working in his Arbitrary Forms Studio.
Both Cheryl Medow and Robert Milnes will be present for the opening reception, Saturday, April 9, 2022, from 5 – 8 PM.
