by Ruby Brady | Staff Writer
Sarah Thompson Moore, a resident of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and an artist who has art pieces throughout the city of Spokane, was inspired by The Seeking Place in Riverfront Park for her next exhibit at Whitworth’s Bryan Oliver Gallery. Moore came with a new piece for the gallery made for Bryan Oliver Gallery’s walls. She also has another piece on Whitworth University’s campus in the theology department titled Ex Vetere.
Moore called this exhibit Outside-In. “This show has provided me an opportunity to shift focus and study the themes of my work beneath an alternate lens: that of the pristine gallery setting,” said Moore. Moore is an artist who likes to blend her work into the environment, so this was new to her.
“Through methods of refection and filtration, Outside-In explores new territories within my life and work, ultimately revealing what floats to the surface,” said Moore. She also reused things leftover from other public works she had made for this project.
“It’s hard to know what the students are going to think,” said Lance Sinnema, a Whitworth senior lecturer and director of the Bryan Oliver Gallery. But Sinnema believes that Whitworth students would be attracted to the big piece seen when investigating the gallery. Since this exhibit is very reflective, shiny and detailed, it catches students’ eyes.
“There’s just real subtle and interesting things to do with light and shadow that I think students might [like]. If they take the time to look at them closely, [they] can be pretty intriguing,” said Sinnema. Some of the other pieces in the gallery play with light, dark, matte and more stony pieces as well.
Sarah Thompson Moore’s pieces were in the Bryan Oliver Gallery until March 22.