A Short Retrospective through a Long Eye
22sep(sep 22)12:00 pm10nov(nov 10)4:00 pm
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Viiu Niiler is the consummate artist: a lifelong painter, glassmaker, tapestry weaver, fashion designer, gourmet cook, master gardener, and musician. She braids all the facets of her life together to form a single creative expression that moves forward with a curated harmony.
In practice Niiler draws on a location that inspires her. She creates dozens of drawings, exploring changing light, shifting perspectives, and emphasizing different textures of the scene before her. Back in the studio, she translates these studies into painting on large, thick pieces of watercolor paper. Often these studies become multiple paintings creating a series that addresses her communication with the natural environment.
Viiu Niiler celebrates the idea of community existing among diverse species. She believes that the elements of the environment utilize a complex network of signals to communicate with one another. Through her work we can sense a dialogue happening—whether that is the surf crashing against a dark, rough shoreline, a school of fish moving as one, or the spring ferns pushing through the craggy, dry lava fields. Consilience—the unity of knowledge achieved by connecting art with science, time with space—is evident in her work. Her paintings invite us to see the world as a pulse of cause and effect; a world akin to the rich dialogue that is Viiu Niiler’s remarkable multifaceted life as an artist.
Adelaide Murphy
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