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In November 2016, artist Barbara Bryn-Klare was artist-in-residence at the Icelandic Textile Centre in Blönduós, Iceland. Blönduós is a small town in northwestern Iceland where the glacial river Blanda meets the Arctic Sea. She brings to us her study of hues of blue from this residency. The show will be held at the Underground Gallery, Art Works Downtown, 1337 4th Street, San Rafael, CA. The show runs from February 10-March 4. The opening reception was Friday February 10, 5 – 8 pm.
This show is my love affair with a family of blue hues I collectively call Iceland blue: streaming into my studio in the long sunrise, in the underwater lights at a community swimming pool, in a window in a house as I walked in one night in Akureryi, and in the first snow and ice. I came to Iceland looking for one blue, and found many, and many times over.
I C E L A N D :: blue is the story of chasing down an elusive blue I had seen in a photograph of Iceland. This blue represented everything I wanted–being still, frozen, and pure. I had never been to Iceland, and I had never been that far north in my life. I not only found the blue I was searching for, right in the studio one morning, but many other rich and deep soul-fulfilling blues. Barbara Byrn Klare
