HYDE ART GALLERY SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AUG. 27 – SEPT. 12

August 15, 2013 (El Cajon) - The Hyde Art Gallery opens its Fall 2013 Semester with “From This Place” – a Sculpture and Installation Exhibition featuring the work of Stephanie Bedwell.

“From This Place” is a study in consciousness that calls us to notice the material world and the paths we take through it. The exhibition includes diminutive objects, such as bones, bees and hearts fashioned from beeswax and clay, which sound a personal and vulnerable note. We are reminded of our human frailties, emotional and otherwise, by the organic forms nestled carefully into Brown Valise. Larger installations of stick and wool-tied boats, such as Predicting Vulnerability, or hammocks knitted from silken fibers, such as Turmeric Hammock, encourage contemplation of individual or collective narratives. It may prove difficult for a viewer to traverse this exhibit without moments of self-reflection. Ms. Bedwell’s concern with themes of life and rebirth will intuitively register with the viewer.

Stephanie Bedwell is a prolific fiber and mixed media artist with an extensive background as an art educator. Ms. Bedwell includes among her recent exhibiting credits the first one woman show at the newly renovated art gallery at Mesa College, and a Sculpture Installation commissioned by Chaffey College for the atrium of their new Center for the Arts building. Her solo exhibitions include Body and Spirit, San Diego State University, Archetypes, J. Dewers Gallery, and imago mundi: Reflections on the Whole, Mesa College Gallery.  Ms. Bedwell was a former director and co-founder of The Art School at the San Diego Museum of Art, and is currently the Art Program Coordinator at Mt. Helix Academy in La Mesa.  She has taught at Grossmont College since 2004, and was honored with the Teaching Excellence Award in 2012.

An opening event will be on Tuesday, August 27 – 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and the exhibition is on view through September 12.  The Gallery hours are:  Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Gallery is CLOSED Friday to Sunday and legal Holidays.  Admission is free.   Parking is available during the exhibition with the purchase of a permit from the vending machine in lot #1F.  Complimentary parking is available ONLY on the evening of the opening in lot #1.  Vehicles must be parked in designated parking stalls.  The Gallery is located at Cuyamaca College, 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon, in Building 25 across Café 200.