Through depictions of cleaning products, laborers’ garments and various other industrial and domestic forms, Io Palmer’s artworks explore the complex issues of class, capitalism and societal excess. Her exhibit, Knocking on the Veil, in the Adams State University Cloyde Snook Gallery, includes an artist lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, in the Art Building room 227, a closing reception will follow.
Palmer was born on Hydra- a motor-less Greek island off the coast of the Peleponesse. She grew up amongst the donkeys, the fishes, the clear blue Mediterranean Sea and the jazz music her parents listened to.
Trained originally as a ceramicist, Palmer uses a variety of processes and materials including fabric, steel, sound and wood.
Palmer has been featured in several national and international exhibitions including Dakart-International Arts Biennial, Dakar, Senegal; Working History, Reed College, Portland, OR; Hair Follies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec; Inside Out, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD and solo exhibitions at Deluge Contemporary, Victoria, BC; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Oregon and forthcoming York College, CUNY, Jamaica, NY. She has participated in several artist residencies including the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India; the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM; Art Channel, Beijing, China and the Ucross Foundation, Clermont Wyo. Palmer recently received an Idaho Commission on the Arts Grant (2014).
Palmer, an associate professor of fine arts at Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art (Temple University), Philadelphia, and an MFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
For more information visit Io Palmer.
The Adams State Hatfield Gallery will host a Grad Preview 2016, featuring present department graduate students, during the same time frame.
For information call the Art Department Office at 719-587-7823.
