Fertile Ground - New Work by Karen Fenley

In July Partners is showing new mixed media artwork of Karen Fenley. She describes her work as "an exploration of the fertile ground that keeps me connected to the earth beneath my feet. This ground can be any substance or idea that lights the spark that becomes the vision that gets a new work going." Materials collected over time, such as pressed plants from years of constant gardening, now obsolete papers and pigments, wood grain in panels along with the influence of the still life works of early modernists painters are some of the ingredients that make up her recent work. As in seventeenth century vanitas, she sees this work as a celebration of temporality and the limited time before all living things transition to become fertile ground. 

The show opens July 10 and continues through August 4.

There is a Second Saturday Meet the Artists July 12, 5-7pm.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm.

The gallery is located at 45062 Ukiah St in Mendocino.