BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.zootownarts.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:9ca22c9e-d2c8-4b37-b7dc-487b3b65e60d X-WR-CALDESC:In-person Gallery Opening on Friday\, November 6\, 5-8 PM\nVir tual Gallery Opening on Tuesday\, November 10\nShow will exhibit at the ZA CC through the month of November\, and online after the Virtual Opening\n \nThe ZACC is delighted to exhibit work by Tim Thornton and Shalene Valenz uela in a collaborative show titled 'After Image/Broken Image' in our Main Gallery throughout the month of November\, with an in-person gallery open ing on November 6\, from 5-8 PM\, and a virtual opening on our website on November 10.\n\nTIM THORNTON\nARTIST STATEMENT\nThe subjects I choose to p aint are emblematic of popular themes in American media and pop culture\; I want my paintings to read at a glance like a billboard or a traffic sign .\n\nI was raised in a Sunday church-going family\, and as a youngster\, I had little tolerance for the inevitable weekly service. In a desperate bi d to quiet an unruly child\, my mother seized on a reliable fallback\, and provided me with a pencil and paper\; I covered the religious pamphlets w ith my scribbling\, and happily\, this diversion proved to be successful. It has been working ever since. Making art continues to have a pacifying e ffect on my psyche.\n\nI also have an unshakable tendency to identify with the character(s) from novels\, the stage\, and/or the movie screen. As a child\, this process of identification lasted long after the book was clos ed\, the curtain drawn\, or the end credits rolled. In the film\, “Being T here”\, the character of Chance the gardener says\, “I like to watch.” I find that it’s neither accident nor chance event\, that I too like to watc h.\n\nTIM THORNTON BIOGRAPHY\nIn 1984\, Tim T. Thornton received his Bache lor’s degree from the California College of the Arts\, in Oakland. Upon leaving art school\, he found full time employment as a scenic artist in H ollywood\, painting sets for film\, television\, and theater. He was later hired by the University of California at Berkeley\, as the charge scenic artist for the Performing Arts Program. In 2005\, he relocated to Montana\ , with his wife\, Patricia\, where they have made a home in the supportive and lively community that is Missoula. \n\nHis large-scale paintings are in several collections\, and have been included in both the Missoula\, and the Yellowstone Art Museum’s annual auctions.\n\nTim's work has been feat ured in various community fundraisers for the Zootown Arts Community Cente r\, as well as the annual Potsketch event for the Clay Studio of Missoula. \n\nSHALENE VALENZUELA\nARTIST STATEMENT\nMy ceramic sculptures reflect up on a variety of issues with a thoughtful\, yet humorous and ironic tone. I reproduce everyday common objects primarily through slip casting\, and il lustrate the surfaces with hand painted imagery. The narratives I create r eference fairytales\, urban mythologies\, consumer culture\, societal expe ctations\, etiquette\, politics\, and environmental issues. Stylistically\ , my imagery is pulled from somewhat dated sources that represent an ideal ized time in society and advertising. Beneath the shiny veneer of these re lics hides a complex and sometimes contradicting truth of what things seem to appear as upon first glance.\n\nMy works are essentially a form of tro mpe l’oeil with a twist. In using clay to reinvent everyday objects\, I pl ay with the notion that things are not what they initially seem to be. The object being referenced remains recognizable while the illustrations are imperative in creating the narratives that weave various dialogues and sta tements within and about the physical object. \n\nExploring issues focusin g on women is important to me for many reasons\, most notably in examining my own personal history and how I evolved into who I am today. However\, my investigations speak to a greater issue of how women in general perceiv e themselves and are seen in society\, historically and today. My explorat ion of self-perception and expectations address how assumptions of charact er based on societal biases leads to a precarious and unbalanced state of humankind.\n\nSHALENE VALENZUELA BIOGRAPHY\nShalene Valenzuela was born an d raised in Santa Barbara\, California. She received a BA in Art Practice at the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Ceramics from Ca lifornia College of Arts and Crafts\, and spent several years developing h er studio practice in Oakland\, California. She currently resides and main tains a studio in Missoula\, Montana and is the executive director at The Clay Studio of Missoula.\n\nShalene has participated in artist residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation (2006)\, The Clay Studio of Missoula (2007- 2009)\, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (2004\, 2011)\, and the LH P roject (2016). She has taught a variety of classes at Flathead Valley Comm unity College\, University of Montana\, Oregon College of Art and Craft\, The Clay Studio of Missoula\, Missoula Art Museum\, Richmond Art Center\, ASUC Studios at UC Berkeley\, and CCA Extended Education. Shalene has been a guest artist and speaker at a number of art centers\, colleges\, and un iversities\, and was the recipient of the Jessie Wilber and Frances Senska Individual Artist’s Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council in 201 3. Her work has been featured in several group and solo exhibitions nation ally and is in a number of private and public collections. X-WR-RELCALID:3e3e7156cd9300e2707b739a00805c6d X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20211107T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20210314T020000 RDATE:20220313T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25c0d327-f399-499c-a8a9-a4aaef7631e2 DTSTAMP:20261106T021546Z DESCRIPTION:In-person Gallery Opening on Friday\, November 6\, 5-8 PM\nVirt ual Gallery Opening on Tuesday\, November 10\nShow will exhibit at the ZAC C through the month of November\, and online after the Virtual Opening\n\n The ZACC is delighted to exhibit work by Tim Thornton and Shalene Valenzue la in a collaborative show titled 'After Image/Broken Image' in our Main G allery throughout the month of November\, with an in-person gallery openin g on November 6\, from 5-8 PM\, and a virtual opening on our website on No vember 10.\n\nTIM THORNTON\nARTIST STATEMENT\nThe subjects I choose to pai nt are emblematic of popular themes in American media and pop culture\; I want my paintings to read at a glance like a billboard or a traffic sign. \n\nI was raised in a Sunday church-going family\, and as a youngster\, I had little tolerance for the inevitable weekly service. In a desperate bid to quiet an unruly child\, my mother seized on a reliable fallback\, and provided me with a pencil and paper\; I covered the religious pamphlets wi th my scribbling\, and happily\, this diversion proved to be successful. I t has been working ever since. Making art continues to have a pacifying ef fect on my psyche.\n\nI also have an unshakable tendency to identify with the character(s) from novels\, the stage\, and/or the movie screen. As a c hild\, this process of identification lasted long after the book was close d\, the curtain drawn\, or the end credits rolled. In the film\, “Being Th ere”\, the character of Chance the gardener says\, “I like to watch.” I f ind that it’s neither accident nor chance event\, that I too like to watch .\n\nTIM THORNTON BIOGRAPHY\nIn 1984\, Tim T. Thornton received his Bachel or’s degree from the California College of the Arts\, in Oakland. Upon l eaving art school\, he found full time employment as a scenic artist in Ho llywood\, painting sets for film\, television\, and theater. He was later hired by the University of California at Berkeley\, as the charge scenic a rtist for the Performing Arts Program. In 2005\, he relocated to Montana\, with his wife\, Patricia\, where they have made a home in the supportive and lively community that is Missoula. \n\nHis large-scale paintings are i n several collections\, and have been included in both the Missoula\, and the Yellowstone Art Museum’s annual auctions.\n\nTim's work has been featu red in various community fundraisers for the Zootown Arts Community Center \, as well as the annual Potsketch event for the Clay Studio of Missoula. \n\nSHALENE VALENZUELA\nARTIST STATEMENT\nMy ceramic sculptures reflect up on a variety of issues with a thoughtful\, yet humorous and ironic tone. I reproduce everyday common objects primarily through slip casting\, and il lustrate the surfaces with hand painted imagery. The narratives I create r eference fairytales\, urban mythologies\, consumer culture\, societal expe ctations\, etiquette\, politics\, and environmental issues. Stylistically\ , my imagery is pulled from somewhat dated sources that represent an ideal ized time in society and advertising. Beneath the shiny veneer of these re lics hides a complex and sometimes contradicting truth of what things seem to appear as upon first glance.\n\nMy works are essentially a form of tro mpe l’oeil with a twist. In using clay to reinvent everyday objects\, I pl ay with the notion that things are not what they initially seem to be. The object being referenced remains recognizable while the illustrations are imperative in creating the narratives that weave various dialogues and sta tements within and about the physical object. \n\nExploring issues focusin g on women is important to me for many reasons\, most notably in examining my own personal history and how I evolved into who I am today. However\, my investigations speak to a greater issue of how women in general perceiv e themselves and are seen in society\, historically and today. My explorat ion of self-perception and expectations address how assumptions of charact er based on societal biases leads to a precarious and unbalanced state of humankind.\n\nSHALENE VALENZUELA BIOGRAPHY\nShalene Valenzuela was born an d raised in Santa Barbara\, California. She received a BA in Art Practice at the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Ceramics from Ca lifornia College of Arts and Crafts\, and spent several years developing h er studio practice in Oakland\, California. She currently resides and main tains a studio in Missoula\, Montana and is the executive director at The Clay Studio of Missoula.\n\nShalene has participated in artist residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation (2006)\, The Clay Studio of Missoula (2007- 2009)\, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (2004\, 2011)\, and the LH P roject (2016). She has taught a variety of classes at Flathead Valley Comm unity College\, University of Montana\, Oregon College of Art and Craft\, The Clay Studio of Missoula\, Missoula Art Museum\, Richmond Art Center\, ASUC Studios at UC Berkeley\, and CCA Extended Education. Shalene has been a guest artist and speaker at a number of art centers\, colleges\, and un iversities\, and was the recipient of the Jessie Wilber and Frances Senska Individual Artist’s Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council in 201 3. Her work has been featured in several group and solo exhibitions nation ally and is in a number of private and public collections. DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20201106T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20201128T180000 LOCATION:Gallery Opening on November 6\, 5-8 PM SUMMARY:After Image/Broken Image: Tim Thornton & Shalene Valenzuela in the Main Gallery END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR