Elsewhere Accepted into 7th Annual ANJE Exhibition at the Wausau Museum

 

Featured image: Elsewhere

I am delighted to announce the acceptance of 4 of my works, Along The Shore, Elsewhere, Sacred Places and As the Wind Blows, into the 7th Annual ANJE Exhibition at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art. I have never exhibited my work in this museum, so I am honored to be part of the exhibition. I have always admired the gumption and talent of David Hummer, for putting this museum for contemporary art in the Wausau area. Not an easy thing to do to put a museum together and not an easy thing to do in our current social and economic environments.

The vision of the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art is to inspire generations of North Central Wisconsin residents and visitors from throughout the nation to understand and appreciate the art of our time. Our goal is to unleash our region’s creative energy and to engage a broad and diverse audience in conversation about how art connects us, allowing us to grow and thrive as a community.”

The Museum is located in the historic Wausau Club at 309 McClellan Street in the heart of Wausau’s vibrant downtown, featuring works by nationally & internationally established artists. Our goal is to unleash our region’s creative energy and to engage a broad and diverse audience in conversation about how art connects us, allowing us to grow and thrive as a community.

The exhibition dates are: November 4 – Dec 30, 2023.

~Christine Alfery, American Contemporary Artist

Unseen

 Featured image: Sowing the Seeds of Change

In this world 

the unseen has

power.

Apache Wisdom

The Quest

 Featured image: Roller Coaster Ride

“It is not the agony of the quest, but the rapture of the revelation” Joseph Campbell

Truth

 Featured image: Leap of Faith

“Truths never change, only their historical context.”

James Nathan Muir

Your and Yours Alone

 Featured image: Bottlebrush Waterlily

You as a person must do your thinking, learning and development of a system you can live by.  For me, it is a system of how I relate to nature. And, in turn, how this thinking translates into who I am and how I think and create as an artist.  

It’s hard work and many would rather not do the work, but you cannot be you until you do.

The way you think, learn, and develop should be yours and yours alone.

No Trace

 Featured image: Eagle's Nest, River and Terns

Watching two 

birds soar

within the energy of an

air current.

Their movement is

wonderful, delightful, 

so glorious.  And

the beauty of it all

is that their

movement leaves

no trace.  

Join us for the Northwoods Art Tour October 6-8, 2023

 

Tiny Lapis Ribbon

Watermedia on clayboard

30x30

$1500

“Lapis Ribbon”

 blue as the sky

tiny lapis ribbon

                tied around her neck

inspires her, gives her courage,

magnifies  her creativity

                awakens her senses

gives her peace

 

From the Earth

Watermedia on clayboard

30x60

$2200

I love to look into a geode that has been cracked and opened and look into its beautiful center of glory, its hidden crystal gemstones. You know we are all like a geode. We have a center of glory that are our hidden gemstones. 

Always allow others to see your magnificent gleaming crystals. And let them tell your story.

This painting “From the Earth,” is of a cliff wall of quartz, solid quartz in northern Canada. It is all about the wonderful. The earth is filled with so many magnificent layers.  This work is about the layer of quartz and its crystals and crystal formations that rose to the top layer. I felt so special to be able to touch it and walk on it.  Behind this beautiful wall was a field of wild, edible mushroom-colored gooseberries.  The solid quartz wall and the field of delicate squish-able berries historically tell a story of time and what we have all done and felt now and in the past that tell our story and the story of the earth and change.