Artists create beauty from hurricane wreckage
Shelter, by Bethany Quillin (steel, wood).
Mary Ann Wangler
The Signal Staff
The Art Alliance Center at Clear Lake, located at 2000 NASA Parkway, is currently hosting “Flotsam & Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike.”
“To encourage creative interpretation of the theme and to diversify the art and the materials used to make it, we have tilted our August exhibition about Hurricane Ike, Flotsam & Jetsam,” said curator Debra Kendrick.
Flotsam is debris found floating or that has washed ashore, and jetsam is cargo cast overboard to lighten the load. Artists had the choice to use the hurricane as the theme or subject of their work, or they could use the “flotsam churned up by the storm or the jetsam cast off by its victims to create something fresh form all the devastation,” Kendrick stated.
Looking Up, by Che-Hwa Wang (dry plum leaves). The artist is a UHCL student.
“The invitational aspect of the show will include both; as well as works by Galveston artists and other coastal area artists who suffered particularly at the hands of Ike.”
Kendrick also said that several of the works on display are by current and former University of Houston-Clear Lake students.
The “Flotsam & Jetsam” exhibit will be on display through Oct. 8, 2009. The gallery is open to the public Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and accepts donations.
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