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Artists Jim Ballard and Richard Hestekind team up (again) for joint exhibition.

Eighteen years after creating “Community,” a set of stone sculptures at the Meadowdale Playfields, local artists Jim Ballard and Richard Hestekind are once again combining their creative forces in a collaborative exhibit at the Frances Anderson Center.

Entitled “Impressions – Paper & Stone,” the works will explore both the converse nature and interplay of opposites such as light and dark, hard and soft, positive and negative, and substantive and illusive. The mediums of the presentation are an embodiment of this theme: a mix of works on paper and rock fragments.

Ballard’s “Brush Series” stems from his interest in the use of brush strokes in Chinese calligraphy.

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Also on display are excerpts from a prototype book of embossed images and Braille and English text created for the Louis Braille School in Edmonds. The book, Spineless Critters: A First Book of Invertebrates, provides tactile information about insects such as spiders and scorpions, including anatomically correct embossing and Braille explanations. Samples from the book encourage patron interaction as they explore the embossed images with their fingertips.

The second half of the collaboration is Hestekind’s “Chrysalis” series, which features rock fragments and the study of their composition as a representation of their identity and history. On several of the fragments, Hestekind explores the nature of their identity, leaving his own impressions on the stone as a reflection of the impressions they have made on him.

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The exhibition opens this Thursday, and will be on display through March 15, 2011, available to view during building hours: Monday-Friday 8 am-9 pm, and Saturday 9 am-4 pm. 

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