TOPAZ ARTS Inc.

TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present an installation by visual artist Avy Claire whose works explore nature and the human interaction within nature. For this installation, large-scale drawings on translucent sheets measuring over eight feet high are suspended throughout the space. Using the physicality of the written word, she transcribes the relentless language of daily news and transforms them into creative energy. Words take form to create a forest environment. In a sense Avy Claire's work demonstrates human attempts at making a mark on nature -- For the Trees illustrates how nature can mend.

"I often listen to news on the radio when working in my studio. A few years ago, I found myself making patterns of marks; something I could do while in the studio listening to what is going on in the world around me. It was a way of passing time; it was a way to cope. The work, mostly on translucent mylar would come in the form of pages and scrolls; objects that record and layer moments, and refer to the passage of time. I was waiting. It occurred to me recently that I should start writing the words I was hearing. I needed to have them pass through me.

Trees have been an important element in my life. I experience trees as guardians and find great solace in the woods. For this installation, I decided to create a forest environment. It seemed that I could give these words to their image as a way to call on them; that they would know what to do, that they could somehow help."

Avy Claire is an artist and landscape designer who divides her time between studios in Maine and New York City. Her work has been exhibited across the nation, from San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia to New York and numerous galleries in Maine. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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