Exhibition Dates: March 10 – April 8, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10, 4 - 7 pm
Preview: http://www.travergallery.com/artists/jl_preview.html

Jeremy Lepisto: A Place in Between

The William Traver Gallery is pleased to present A Place in Between, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Portland artist Jeremy Lepisto. Presenting over 20 new pieces, the show celebrates the heroic everyday actions of ordinary people – the small steps, and leaps of faith, we take in each moment in an effort to change and improve our lives.

The simple forms of Lepisto’s sculptures balance and accentuate the intricate, exquisitely rendered imagery which is suspended within them on layers of fused sheet glass. The smooth, transparent blocks that make up these pieces can be seen as individual moments in time, with details and actions frozen in place.

“I am intrigued by the overlapping of effort and the density of details that get combined to create a singular moment or structure,” says Lepisto. “In my work, I try to highlight the simple and ordinary workings of these situations to capture the complex in the common.”

While much of the imagery in Lepisto’s recent work centers on the familiar themes of industry and daily experience, the pieces included in A Place Between explore a deeper connection between process and product. Lepisto’s work captures the ambiguous relationship between idea, or desire, and its manifestation as object or occurrence.

Jeremy Lepisto received a BFA in glass and metal from Alfred University. He has shown his work internationally and has been a visiting artist and glass instructor in Australia, and the United Kingdom, as well as throughout the United States. Lepisto and his wife Mel George, who is also a glass artist, co-own and operate Studio Ramp in Portland, OR, which they founded in 2001 to specialize in the fabrication of artists’ and architects’ designs in glass.

Located on the Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway adjacent to the Museum of Glass, the William Traver Gallery is among the country’s premier exhibition spaces for contemporary studio glass, painting, sculpture, and installation art. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 6 and Sunday 12 – 5. For more information, please call (253) 383-3685 or visit our website at www.travergallery.com.