Zootown Arts Community Center

Main Gallery-Katrina Ruhmland and Gail Trenfield

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The ZACC is thrilled to be hosting 'Earth & Life: Discussions’, works by Katrina Ruhmland and Gail Trenfield, in our Main Gallery for the month of August 2023.

The Gallery Opening is free and open to all, with works available for purchase.

‘Earth & Life: Discussions’ is a culmination of eight years of discussions between Katrina Ruhmland and Gail Trenfield, two artists and friends about their vastly different approaches to art. Katrina a mixed media weaver and Gail a painter have found surprising common ground in their work and are excited to share it with the Missoula community.

Katrina works with fiber – finding it in natural places, cleaning, carding, spinning, dying, and finally, weaving. The work takes time and patience. It is direct and tactile. She starts with an idea, an emotion, and stays open to allowing the work to have voice in the process – bringing together history, background, location, ideas, the nature of the materials and process into the final work. Each piece is rich with the stories that brought it into being.

Gail’s work with oil, pastel and watercolor is more immediate – often starting as plein air work, coming out of deep appreciation of what is simply before her, and working to bring it to life again in a new form. The light she chases is ephemeral, but the result of that chase is a solid, more permanent object ... a memorial of a few passing moments.

ABOUT THE SHOW
In their own words, "We have a shared studio space and are learning from each other's ideas and processes. Our discussions continue and deepen. What we have found in common is reverence for humanity’s time on this beautiful earth – for all the stories and all the moments that have brought us to the brink of destroying that world. We hope to evoke discussions from our viewers, with the possibilities of shared solutions, moving from grief to hope. This show will include new works by both of us – including weavings, beadwork, oils, pastels, drawings, watercolors, and mixed media sculptures. The examples of the work that we are sharing are about humanity and the relationships with the land we use to survive. We intend to expose the plight we see and create a call to action."

Before: Mission Fall

$400

Gail Trenfield – 17" x 20" – Oil

Requiem, Water’s Edge

$600

Gail Trenfield – Oil – 25" x 31"

Before: Ocean of Grass

$400

Gail Trenfield – 17" x 20" – Oil

Before: Snowberries

$400

Gail Trenfield – 17" x 20" – Oil

Before: Rattlesnake Summer

$400

Gail Trenfield – 17" x 20" – Oil

Requiem, Streamed

$500

Gail Trenfield – 21" x 25" – Oil

Requiem, Forest Underwater

$500

Gail Trenfield – 21" x 25" – Oil

Requiem, Burn

$600

Gail Trenfield – 22" x 30" – Oil

Requiem, After the Flood

$1,000

Gail Trenfield – Oil – 42" x 60"

Requiem, Wild Stump

$500

Gail Trenfield – Oil – 26" x 35"

Requiem, Reflections, and Shadows

$500

Gail Trenfield – Oil – 21" x 25"

Osprey

$1,025

Katrina Ruhmland All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 16" x 4" x 4" – 2016

Trumpeter Swans

$1,160

Katrina Ruhmland – All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 14" x 3" x 3" – 2018

Canada Goose

$1,150

Katrina Ruhmland – All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 17.5" x 4" x 4" – 2014

Flicker

$1,025

Katrina Ruhmland – All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 13" x 3" x 3" – 2017

Golden Eagle

$1,190

Katrina Ruhmland – All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 17" x 4" x 4" – 2018

Feeder Birds

$1,075

Katrina Ruhmland – All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 13" x 3" x 3" – 2018

Multicolor rectangles

$725

Katrina Ruhmland – Icelandic wool, washed, spun, and dyed by hand. Woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle Bergman Countermarch Loom.

Red Striped

$825

Katrina Ruhmland – Icelandic wool, washed, spun, and dyed by hand. Woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle Bergman Countermarch Loom.

Cornflower Blue

$750

Katrina Ruhmland – Icelandic wool, washed, spun, and dyed by hand. Woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle Bergman Countermarch Loom.

Grey with purple-blue

$775

Katrina Ruhmland – Icelandic wool, washed, spun, and dyed by hand. Woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle Bergman Countermarch Loom.

Recurrence

$2,295

Katrina Ruhmland – Seed beads, conveyor belt chain, deer rawhide, Dogbane cordage, my mom’s old mink stole. – 29" x 26" x 4" – 2016

In The Quiet

$4,895

Katrina Ruhmland – 14” flat-stitched diameter circle with seed beads, surrounded by Mountain Goat hair, mounted on a 24” metal stave. – 24" x 25" x 3" – 2020 – 2023

Sweet Memory Keeper

$1,475

Katrina Ruhmland – Buffalo and mountain goat hair, buckskin, peyote stitched seed beads on apple branches from my yard, metal staves, found farm implement. – 21" x 23" – 2018

We Are All One

$2,450

Katrina Ruhmland – Wool panels woven on a hand built Navajo style loom, copper, up-cycled oak flooring from an old bar in St Ignatius. – 28" x 57" – 2017

Despicable Control

$4,775

Katrina Ruhmland – Weaving is 38 x 58. Icelandic wool - hand washed, spun, dyed and woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle, Bergman Countermarch Loom, conveyor belt chain. – 48" x 58" – 2023

Accordion

$5,475

Katrina Ruhmland – Romney wool - hand washed, carded, spun, dyed and woven on a Kesinich 4 harness jack loom, gifted bunk bed ladder. – 64" x 63" – 2020-2023

Refuge

$5,215

Katrina Ruhmland – Mountain goat hair, seriously hand collected in the Montana mountains over four summers, washed, spun, and woven on a table loom. Copper. – 15" x 28" – 2018-2023

Garment Of The Soul

$2,275

Katrina Ruhmland – Wool, mountain goat hair, buffalo rawhide, gunny sack, re-bar. – 47" x 57" – 2016

Memoriam: Death’s In The Desert

$3,760

Katrina Ruhmland – Hand washed, dyed, carded and spun Romney wool, seed beads, branches from cherry trees in my yard, assorted larger beads, deer buckskin, Milagros and charms. Woven on a hand built Navajo style loom. – 35" x 60" x 4" – 2019

It’s A Very Fine Line

$2,960

Katrina Ruhmland – Wool hand washed, carded, dyed, and spun. Woven on a hand built Weighted Warp Loom. Found bullribs that had reportedly been chewed on by a Grizzly Bear (it was long gone when I collected them!) – 35" x 63" – 2023

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