OPENING:
Friday
July
11
from
7
-
10pm
Gardens
of
Love
and
Fire
Light
into
Object,
Poetry
into
Number,
Thought
into
Landscape
The
title
for
this
show
comes
from
the
title
of
a
work
in
the
Netherlands
by
the
architect
Daniel
Libeskind.
In
his
book
The
Space
of
Encounter
he
describes
the
work:
"The
shape,
function,
mechanism,
and
character
of
the
garden
seek
to
reveal
that
we
are
surrounded
by
a
world
full
of
amazing
and
powerful
signs,
the
laws
of
which
are
intimated
but
cannot
be
unraveled.
The
meanings
that
reach
us
are
those
of
an
accidental
encounter
with
fragments
of
our
own
awareness."
Inspired
by
what
I
see
around
me
in
my
travels
and
in
my
everyday
life,
a
grove
of
aspens
in
Santa
Fe,
sandpipers
flitting
along
in
a
line
along
the
water's
edge
in
Pacific
Grove,
a
juxtaposition
of
color
in
the
garden,
or
even
in
another
work
of
art,
I
convert
my
responses
to
formalisms
in
color
and
line.
Color
and
line
are
most
important
to
me,
and
working
in
both
traditional
and
digital
media,
I
enjoy
the
tensions
created
using
freehand
vs
ruled
lines,
or
line
over
atmospheric
painterliness,
or
the
delicacy
of
japanese
paper
next
to
encaustic
on
wood.
For
me
the
title
Gardens
of
Love
and
Fire
is
a
metaphor
for
these
tensions
--
and
as
Daniel
Libeskind
states,
"for
the
invisible
conversions
of
light
into
object,
poetry
into
number,
and
thought
into
landscape..."
Artist's
Bio:
Michelle
A.
Hegyi's
abstractions
of
color
and
light
have
been
described
by
one
reviewer
as
"landscapes
of
the
soul".
An
award-winning
artist
who
has
exhibited
in
numerous
juried
shows,
she
is
a
co-owner
of
the
artist-owned
WSG
Gallery
in
Ann
Arbor,
and
is
a
member
of
Ann
Arbor
Women
Artists,
Ann
Arbor's
Art
and
Design
Junto,
and
a
founding
member
of
the
digital
artists'
collective
The
Art
Alchemists
of
southeast
Michigan.
She
has
also
served
on
the
jury
of
the
Ann
Arbor
Street
Art
Fair.
One
of
her
solo
shows
"Spaces
of
Encounter"
was
selected
by
dialogue,
a
midwestern
visual
arts
magazine,
as
"Best
of
the
Midwest".
A
painter
and
colorist,
she
uses
the
computer
extensively
in
her
studio,
alone
and
in
combination
with
a
variety
of
other
media,
and
is
currently
enjoying
the
luminous
qualities
of
encaustic.
THROUGH:
June
24
-
Aug
10,
2008
Regular
gallery
hours
are:
Tues.-
Wed.
12-6,
Thurs,
Fri.
and
Sat.
12-10,
Sun.
12-5
306
S.
MAIN.
Ann
Arbor,
734-761-2287
