Sue Cotter’s ‘Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading’ mixed media assemblage.
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The Capital City Arts Initiative presents work by Sue Cotter and Elaine Parks in the Fable and Myths exhibit.
The exhibit brings together their work as a conversation that reflects on cultural and biological remnants. CCAIs exhibit will be in Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery, Wednesday through Sept. 10.
The gallery is open to the public, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The artists’ reception will take place Wednesday, 5-6:30 p.m.
Parks’ work depicts a cross of desert succulents and marine corals that the Disney fantasies missed. Cotter is a mixed-media artist, letterpress printer, and artist bookmaker.
After earning her art degree (UNR 1983), she went on to study the historic techniques of letterpress printing and bookmaking with Bob Blesse at the University of Nevada, Reno, Black Rock Press.
Cotter has received grants and awards, including a Utah Artist Fellowship and a New Forms Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her work is in numerous libraries’ special collections as well as museums and private collections. She teaches workshops, exhibits, and continues to explore the possibilities of the book form.
Parks is a ceramicist and sculptor. A Los Angeles native, she received her Master of Fine Arts from California State University, Los Angeles.
Parks was recently commissioned to make a series of ceramic sculptures for Deep Time: Sea Dragons of Nevada for the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
Her work has been exhibited at the Northwest Reno Library, Nevada Museum of Art, Oats Park Art Center, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Sierra Arts, and the Holland Project.
Parks taught art for seven years at Great Basin College in Elko and has received the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Award twice. She serves a board member of Double Scoop Art.
Parks has participated three times in Telephone, an international game of art. In 2010, she curated and hosted a pop-up exhibition with 24 artists, music, and performance events called pLAyLAnd.
Nationally and internationally, Parks was part of LA Contraventions in Germany, Cryptographics: a tribute to the Voynich Manuscript at the EXPO Chicago, and designed sets and costumes for Cabaret Revoltaire: 100 Years of Dada.
Parks has exhibited her work in Los Angeles at LA Artcore, Far Bazaar, Angels Gate Cultural Center, L2Kontemporary, Antebellum Gallery, Beyond Baroque, Ronald Silverman Gallery, Cal State LA, and Neo LA Gallery.
For information, go to ccainv.org.