Its not just sticks and stones and dirt and rock in North Seattle artist Betty Hagemans Soil Horizons/Personal Horizons, though this mixed-media installation might seem so at first. Hageman combines earth-stained canvas and Plexiglass vitrines filled with natural, gathered materials to suggest how her internal processes reflect and parallel the Earths own processes of accrual. She compares soil horizonsi.e., layers of rock and dirtto strata from her own life. Hageman created her own personal horizons with family photos integrated with boulders and parent rock. Other materials include compost, soil, charcoal, and acrylic paint. Hagemans work is a reminder that life, like the planet’s geology, is formed under pressure of time. And time, along with memory, is layered into her art. KAT CHOW
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12-7 p.m. Starts: Jan. 13. Continues through Feb. 26, 2011