Three Ways Different

Dona Berotti, Rob McClurg & Cristina Viscu

December 5 - 26, 2009

Twist Art Gallery

Seven Questions

Sarah Shearer

December 5 - 26, 2009

Twist 58

Shearer received her BFA from Belhaven College in 1999. Her current body of work is born from a consideration of beauty and expectations. She has consistently exhibited her work throughout the southern United States for the past decade. It is included in multiple private art collections.

Artist's Statement:
I hope to reflect ideas through my work. What I have been creating has stemmed from hundreds of questions flying around in my head. Some of these questions are: What is meaningful? What is superficial? What makes me happy, and why? What is beauty? Why are some things that are beautiful labeled superficial? Does beauty equal weakness in your eyes?

In exhibiting my work I am not attempting to present answers, rather hoping to reflect my questions. My pieces are typically a mix of medias (spray paint, acrylic, colored pencil) on canvas. Most of all, I love the intensity and texture of oil paint.

Gregg Schlanger: BWR (basic water requirements)

Monica Quattrochio: H2O

November 7 - 28, 2009

Twist Art Gallery

Gregg Schlanger is a professor of art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He works primarily in installations and community public art. He is interested in exploring through his projects the potential of creating a better “sense of place” (leading to a respect for that place and the environment). Gregg believes this can happen through community involvement and the educational aspects that occur when dealing with the various concepts of his work.

He explains, “My piece for Twist Gallery is a continuation of the installation I created in Potsdam, Germany in 2007 and now on display at the Bank of America Plaza in Charlotte, North Carolina. There will be 48 one-gallon glass bottles. They will be displayed on a wooden shelf attached to the gallery walls. Each bottle represents a different country and indicates the amount of water used per person per day in each country. There will be 14 small houses made of ice. The icehouses will melt each day. The amount of water used to create the icehouses each day will be 50 liters. The houses are to represent the domestic use of water around the world.”

Basic Water Requirements (BWR) refers to domestic water usage per person per day and includes water for: drinking, human hygiene, sanitation services and food preparation. It has been established that the Basic Water Requirements (BWR) per person is 50 liters of water each day for basic human needs. Unfortunately 20% of the world's population only uses around 5 liters each day. More than 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water and do not have access to the BWR of 50 liters per day.

“It is my intention to bring awareness about this global crisis through this piece. As a global community, we should guarantee that every person has access and the right to at least 50 liters of clean water everyday,” Schlanger explains.

Monica Quattrochio is a fine art photographer working in Clarksville, Tennessee.  “My photographs are a study on water and its essential purpose for the function of the human body in relation to the symbolic meanings that quench the spirit. Water is a symbol of life, fertility, purification and healing.  It can evoke feelings of calmness and serenity but also conjure up strength and power.  This exhibit uses literal and abstract images of water to express the ambiguity of the definition of Life.”