Exhibiting at River Gallery this month are Janet Eskridge and Courtenay James. With their show, “Treasured Impact,” both artists invite viewers to take a look within.
Eskridge, a mixed-media artist from Nebraska, creates collages and assemblages inside old boxes.
“I am fascinated by their untold histories, their scents and the way they look and feel,” the artist explains in her statement.
The spaces within each box become a little world that the viewer is invited to enter and explore. Eskridge fills her boxes with items such as old paper, handmade books, maps and old photographs. Each piece is enhanced with encaustic wax.
“Themes in my work are birth, rebirth, death, transformation and the struggle to make meaning of the journey,” she said.